Best Fashion Design Software for Freelancers
View:
Compare the Top Fashion Design Software for Freelancers as of March 2026
Sort By:
What is Fashion Design Software for Freelancers?
Fashion design software provides fashion companies and designers with the creative tools to plan, design, create, produce and sell fashion products. Compare and read user reviews of the best Fashion Design software for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
-
1
PolyPM
Polygon Software
PolyPM connects creative design with production using an integrated apparel PLM built for fashion brands. Designers and technical teams manage sketches, specs, CAD files, grading, fit details, materials, and revisions inside one platform. Pattern tools, color/fabric matching, and print/cut workflows ensure smooth handoff from design to development and manufacturing. By linking PLM to the apparel ERP, PolyPM keeps teams aligned on fit, quality, cost, and materials throughout the entire product lifecycle.Starting Price: 200$/month/user -
2
Jesta Vision Suite
Jesta I.S.
In business for more than 50 years, Jesta I.S. is a global developer and provider of enterprise software solutions for retailers, e-tailers, wholesalers, and brand manufacturers specializing in apparel, footwear and hard goods. Jesta’s retail and supply chain suites are anchored by our master data foundation, which collects, manages and organizes your business data in a central repository to instantly unify your business and kickstart its digital transformation. The Vision Suite is a leading, organically engineered, cloud-based, end-to-end solution that unifies and optimizes back/front-end and supply chain operations from trade/product/demand management to merchandising ERP, Point of Sale and Order Management /Omnichannel. It eliminates the inefficiencies of disjointed applications, and provides real-time visibility of enterprise inventory, cross-channel orders, and AI-driven CRM data. It accommodates various brands, currencies, and languages. -
3
CorelDRAW
Alludo
Designed with your productivity in mind, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite is trusted by millions of graphics pros and design teams around the globe for endless creativity with no time wasted. This fully-loaded toolkit for professional vector illustration, layout, photo editing, typography, and collaboration is equal parts creative and efficient: the perfect recipe for delivering breathtaking design projects, fast, on Windows, Mac, iPad, web, and mobile. Our latest subscription-only update delivers a reimagined image adjustments workflow, building on a real-time, non-destructive photo editing experience, and new design templates for more creative possibilities. Be successful sooner with an optimized, personalized in-app learning experience, and time-saving tweaks to your favorite features. Affordable and ever-advancing, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is committed to providing ongoing value to subscribers. -
4
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe
Adobe Illustrator is an industry-standard vector graphic design software solution used to create beautiful logos, drawings, icons, typography, and illustrations for web, print, video, and mobile. Purpose-built for photographers, designers, students, and small to medium-size businesses, Adobe Illustrator enables users to create graphic designs for brand corporations, general merchandise packagings, billboards, bus wraps, clothing lines, and virtually any business or industry. The solution comes with thousands of royalty-free stock art and can be integrated with video and animation apps such as Premiere Pro, Animate CC, and After Effects.Starting Price: $9.99/month/user -
5
Digital Fashion Pro
Harper Arrington
Digital Fashion Pro Fashion Design Software is a super easy, complete fashion designing system, consisting of hundreds of customizable clothing templates, hundreds of real digital fabrics, materials & textures, button & zipper templates, apparel effect & stitch simulation templates, fashion graphics, model poses, fast track step by step video training & eGuide, plus includes a free graphics editing program. These features work in harmony, giving you the power and freedom to create! Take your product development to the next level. The DFP Style Blast Edition (25 items) also includes The Official Step by Step Guide to starting your own clothing line + list of over 250 clothing manufacturers/fashion suppliers that can make your clothing. Get Everything You Need to Start Your Clothing Line! Men and Women Vector Clothing Templates Featuring basic fronts and backs of: Pants, Shorts, Tanks, Tees, Polos, etc.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
6
ConceptDraw DIAGRAM
Computer Systems Odessa
It is a powerful vector editor on Mac and PC enriched with professional stencils and icons for creating floor plans, dashboards, flowcharts, graphs, charts and illustrations. Its compatibility with other file formats as PDF, PNG, SVG, EPS, VSDX makes it versatile. Drawing shapes, layers, grids, rulers, connectors along with smart maps, hypernotes, presentation mode can save your time. It sells on a lifetime basis with no annual fees.Starting Price: $199.00/one-time/user -
7
Prodmode
Prodmode Inc.
Prodmode is a fashion ERP developed for the apparel and footwear brands of today. This modern system specializes in style management, streamlined production, integration of multiple sales channels, fulfilment platforms, consignment, warehousing, purchasing & more. We are extremely proud of our responsive client support team. Let Prodmode bring your fashion brand into the 2020s and beyond.Starting Price: $100 /month/user -
8
NedGraphics
NedGraphics Software
NedGraphics™ is the leading provider of textile design and CAD/CAM software solutions for the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and other textile markets. Our products allow designers to exercise unlimited creative freedom while improving efficiency, productivity, time to market, and accuracy to create production-ready artwork. NedGraphics' solutions play an important role in promoting sustainability through digitization by optimizing product development workflows, eliminating design errors, and reducing sampling costs. NedGraphics provides tools for print, woven, and knitted fabric design, carpet and tuft, color management and calibration, virtual product visualization, storyboard presentation, merchandising, and more. The portfolio also includes a collection of professional textile and apparel design plug-ins for Adobe® Illustrator® & Photoshop®, named 'NedGraphics for Adobe®’. NedGraphics is part of FOG Software Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU) -
9
TUKA3D
Tukatech
Fit is analyzed in motion, emulating a real-life virtual fit sessions. Evaluate frame by frame, rotating the model to examine the tightness and looseness of the garment. TUKA3D models “talk” about the comfort of the garment through 3D virtual sampling in 5 visual ways, including stretch, warp, weft, pressure, and x-ray. TUKA3D comes with a fabric and trims library (including buttons with 3D thread) that is frequently updated to reflect new trend developments, as well as access to the Pantone color library. Though applying prints and logos is simple in TUKA3D’s material editor, those who prefer can utilize TUKA3D’s connection with graphic design applications like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to create design layouts to help with 3D virtual sampling. -
10
PatternMaker
PatternMaker Software
PatternMaker is the primary program and is used to create patterns. Once patterns are created they can be exported into digital files that can be shared like any file on the Internet. There are different levels — versions — of PatternMaker. MacroGen is the program that creates the exported files. The exported files are called macros. The macros have the ability to accept different measurements so the pattern can be adjusted to fit. Macros are executed by PatternMaker. (Many computer programs have macros that exist in a digital, sharable format. For example, Microsoft Word and Excel have the ability to export macros for sharing.) So, to run a macro you need the PatternMaker program. Collection Creator combines many different patterns that are in macro form into a collection. A collection might be a group of summer dresses. -
11
Rhino 8
Robert McNeel & Associates
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces and solids, subdivision geometry (SubD), point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware. Uninhibited free-form 3D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. Model any shape you can imagine. Accuracy needed to design, prototype, engineer, analyze, and manufacture anything from an airplane to jewelry. Compatibility with all your other design, drafting, CAM, engineering, analysis, rendering, animation, and illustration software. Read and repair meshes and extremely challenging IGES files. Accessible. So easy to learn and use that you can focus on design and visualization without being distracted by the software. Fast, even on an ordinary laptop computer. No special hardware is needed. Development platform for hundreds of specialty 3D products.Starting Price: $995.00/user -
12
Simplio3D
Digital Artflow
Simplio3D is a flexible, web-based platform that uses a set of modular building blocks to create the right product configurator based on each customer’s specific requirements. Key elements include 2D/3D viewports, a product parameters panel (color, text, image/art upload, size, etc.), an ordering module with integration capabilities (including eCommerce platforms), layout customization to match the website theme, and a dedicated back-office/admin module. By combining and tailoring these elements, Simplio3D enables the creation of a unique product configurator—rather than a standardized, one-size-fits-all solution—at an affordable cost and within a reasonable implementation timeline. It is an ideal choice for medium to large retailers looking for a more flexible and advanced solution.Starting Price: $29 per month -
13
SmartDesigner
Modern HighTech
SmartDesigner™ is an innovative and intelligent design solution for the apparel, textile and related industries. As one of the first ASP based fashion and textile design software, it is considered as one of the most useful CAD software for SPA brands in this fast fashion industries. MHT Fashion&Textile Design CAD software is a joint invention of PrimaVision’s former CTO Wong Fai and Modern HighTech Co., Ltd. It is an innovative and intelligent design CAD for the apparel, textile and related industries, and it is the world’s first fashion and textile CAD software with an Application Service Provider system (ASP). This web-based program allows anyone to use the program anywhere at any time. Also, it is on a pay-per-use basis, meaning there is no burden of an initial investment as long as a monthly fee is paid. We will make your work faster and more efficient!Starting Price: $120 per user per month -
14
Gemini FashionSTUDIO
Gemini CAD Systems
FashionSTUDIO is the flexible CAD solution for fashion industry pros and enthusiasts who seek to handle the garment production puzzle fast, easy, using one complete solution. Gemini FashionSTUDIO knows how to build the patterns you need with just a few clicks. You can start by using the free product library and make alterations. When producing decorated garments with FashionSTUDIO, you can save up to 30% fabric and ink, 40% decorating time, and obtain up to 98% efficiency when cutting difficult print-patterns. All these thanks to all included features and Add Ons. FashionSTUDIO’s eCommerce integrations allow you to develop and visualize production-ready models on a 3D Avatar. Then send them to the your eCommerce platform or straight to the production line. With FashionSTUDIO anybody is able to create new garments without formal training in pattern construction or grading, publish their creations in an online store and bring their collections to life by manufacturing sustainably.Starting Price: $39 per user per month -
15
Havi Propel
Havi Propel
Havi Propel Product Customizer is a designing and visualizing tool which facilitates the end-users to customize the products according to their need and taste. Products ranging from shoes, jewelry, clothes, hat, watch, to a car, bike, and furniture can be customized using Havi Propel Product Customizer. It can be integrated into any of the e-commerce platforms and has a 3D visualization feature too. Turn your tailoring shop into a virtual bespoke designing studio. Online or In-Store! Give your customers a chance to be the designer of their clothes. Tailoring is a challenging task as the designs and fashion trends change every other season. Staying updated with all the changing fashion trends and having a design catalog that fits every customer’s taste is almost impossible. That’s where the Custom Tailoring Software comes into the picture, it lets your customers design, customize and personalize their clothes by themselves.Starting Price: $5 per user per month -
16
SEDDI Textura
SEDDI Textura
Master the art of tiling with SEDDI Textura. Our easy-to-use suite of tiling tools empowers anyone to craft the perfect pattern repeat it, and see it come to life in real-time. No more toggling between software—save time and streamline your design process. SEDDI Textura’s neural network has been trained with high-quality mechanical and optical data from thousands of fabrics and tested with best-in-class methodology. With just a simple quality scan and a few fabric data points like composition and weight, SEDDI Textura’s AI quickly and accurately simulates the real-world behavior of textiles. Unleash your creativity with ease. SEDDI Textura’s material editor makes it simple to experiment with colorways, and fabric finish presets like satins and metallics. Then export digital fabrics in the format of your choice, whether ZIP, U3MA, or SBSAR, we’ve got you covered. Create, edit, manage, and approve digital textiles in one platform.Starting Price: $1,440 per year -
17
Aiclo
Aiclo
Aiclo is an AI-powered fashion technology platform that automates custom clothing production for brands, studios, and independent designers. Unlike traditional CAD software requiring manual pattern drafting, Aiclo generates production-ready patterns automatically from body measurements. The platform combines parametric pattern generation with integrated 3D virtual try-on, allowing designers to validate fit digitally before cutting fabric. Users can create garments through templates or custom configuration, accessing features like automated grading, fabric nesting, tech pack generation, and a standard size library. The system outputs industry-standard formats (DXF/PDF) compatible with professional manufacturing workflows. By eliminating manual engineering bottlenecks, Aiclo enables made-to-measure production at scale without requiring specialized technical skills.Starting Price: $11.90/month -
18
Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer is an industry-standard 3D clothing design and simulation software that lets creators draft, sew, and simulate virtual garments with physics-based fabric behavior for realistic draping, folding, movement, and interaction on 3D avatars and scenes. It uses a pattern-based workflow where you design traditional 2D garment pieces, virtually stitch them together, and then run real-time or high-fidelity simulation so fabrics behave like real materials with weight, stretch, elasticity, and collision, supporting precise tailoring and animation-ready results. It is widely used in games, VFX, animation, digital fashion, and architecture to produce professional-grade digital clothing assets and integrates smoothly with major 3D tools and pipelines via formats like OBJ, FBX, and USD while offering export options for engines and sculpting packages.Starting Price: $39 per month -
19
PatternSmith
Autometrix
At the heart of Autometrix’s innovative family of proprietary software tools is the powerful and intuitive PatternSmith. Featuring industry-leading pattern drafting, editing, nesting, and machine control capabilities, PatternSmith makes the entire process from creating patterns to precision cutting simple. Adding to the power and ease of PatternSmith are our easily integrated series of plugins and tools that ensure a custom software solution that suits your needs perfectly. At Autometrix, we stand behind the quality of our pattern drafting software and we want to bring you only the very best options to make your pattern making process successful. Whether you are completing 2D pattern making or 3D pattern making, our cutting-edge digital pattern making software is the perfect solution. With a more streamlined pattern making process, PatternSmith allows the user to utilize a series of tools and plugins to personalize their experience and ensure accurate and precise results. -
20
TUKAcad
Tukatech
Fashion CAD pattern making software with advanced functionality and process engineering to empower accurate pattern building, bespoke grade rules, and marker nesting for every style conceived. Includes audio/video help for every tool. Get all the below when you purchase TUKAcad, or customize a monthly subscription to your needs. Create your own custom grade rules to easily standardize your brand’s unique fit across every style. For customers “between sizes,” half-size grading automatically makes a new size just for them. Lingerie and swim designers will love angle grading for unmatched curve control! Leave nothing on the cutting table! Calculate efficient fabric utilization, including stripe and plaid matching, buffers, blocking, and more. Share yield and consumption data with robust reports. -
21
Garment Designer
Cochenille Design Studio
Garment Designer Overview for Windows or Macintosh. This pattern making program allows you to create patterns for both sewing and knitting. It includes libraries of ready-to-wear body measurements, or you can input your own measurements to create a more custom fit. While you work, you can see the shape of your body (the sloper) sitting inside the pattern you are building. Garment Designer uses a USB HASP key for software protection. This key will need to be plugged into your computer during software use. You may install the software on your desktop and your portable and move the key back and forth. This is the same key system we use with Stitch Painter. Those of you who own Stitch Painter 3 or greater, may choose to update your existing key so both programs will run.Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
22
PWstudio
Pattern Works International
Whether designing for the fashionista, suiting the business person, outfitting the child at play, or costuming for stage or screen - streamline your pattern design experience with PWstudio V4! PWstudio V4 is affordable apparel design software that’s flexible, intuitive and easy to use. Since it was developed by a garment designer, it is intuitive to your needs. You can even design on your laptop. Add a wide carriage printer and/or a roll-up digitizer and you have a complete pattern design studio in a very small space. From the style sketch, to pattern design, to grading and more. Design with any size sloper, customize client grade rules, create technical drawings for garment construction, and diagram sample production. PWstudio V4 is perfect for the professional garment designer or costumer, the independent pattern company, the sewn product entrepreneur, or apparel design educator and student.Starting Price: $975 one-time payment -
23
Telestia Creator
eTelestia
Would you like an apparel CAD system that will allow you to create your own pattern collections, accurately, quickly, easily and in the most economical way? Then Telestia Creator is for you. An apparel CAD system created from pattern technologists for you! Forget the tedious technical functions included in most CAD systems, moving you away from pattern creation to struggling to learn complex systems. This unique system combines a set of easy to learn CAD tools and functions, with sound pattern cutting knowledge. You will be able to create your own blocks and styles, build-up your own style library, modify and adjust existing blocks and create fully professional collections. The software comes with built-in help and ready examples feature. Upgrade this software with the Automatic Patterns feature and get your own pattern blocks with a click of a button. Automatically created blocks can be retrieved on your desired measurements.Starting Price: $200 one-time payment -
24
Vetigraph
Vetigraph
From the design office to manufacturing through the prototype phase, VETIGRAPH EXPERT® is affordable for all companies for the construction and modification of patterns on the screen, gradation, optimum placement, cutting lines as well as automatic cutting flexible materials (garment, furniture, composite and synthetic materials industries). This goal has been largely achieved to such an extent that our teams are now called upon by customers ranging from the design office with 3 employees to the manufacturer grouping together several subcontracting sites on five continents, wishing to carry out interactive management of its production. The ultimate goal is to get as close as possible to the simplest and most efficient CAD solution with the sine qua noncondition of opening up the systems in order to ensure perfect compatibility in the transmission of files between contractors and sub-contractors.Starting Price: $5000 one-time payment -
25
Inventor
Autodesk
Professional-grade 3D CAD software for product design and engineering. Inventor® CAD software provides professional-grade 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools. Work efficiently with a powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities. Work with anyone, anywhere no matter what CAD software they use. Use cloud-based design reviews to collect feedback from key stakeholders wherever they are. Follow the entire product development lifecycle with one data model. Design efficiently using specialized tools for sheet metal, frame design, and tube and pipe. Enable design, documentation, and process automation powered by iLogic. Access Inventor API to create your own add-ins. Go further by investigating Forge Design Automation API for running your job processes in the cloud.Starting Price: $2,190 per year -
26
BlueCherry
CGS
To compete against more nimble fashion and footwear brands, retail and manufacturers must control product and operational costs, manage ongoing supply chain complexities, reduce time to market, improve visibility and meet growing social and regulatory compliance. CGS’s BlueCherry® Enterprise Software, with its apparel enterprise resource planning (ERP) and product lifecycle management (PLM) components, provides the platform necessary to compete and succeed. CGS’s BlueCherry Enterprise Suite allows fashion, apparel and footwear companies to control their processes start to finish, design and product development, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and sales functions. These end-to-end capabilities enable brands to efficiently manage everything concept-to-consumer for improved speed to market and enhanced competitiveness. With 30+ years of industry expertise, CGS’s Applications team understands the mission-critical nature of the processes our BlueCherry Enterprise Suite supports. -
27
Indigo Fashion Software
Trendwärts
From practice for practice: Indigo Fashion Software is the optimal ERP system for all those who want to act professionally in the clothing industry. A comprehensive, browser-based solution – developed for all company sizes in the fashion, clothing, lifestyle and textile trade. Indigo’s modular design offers maximum flexibility: You want to start with basic functions, such as intuitive article management, pre-ordering and warehouse management? Are you looking for a modern PDM system and your customers expect the exchange of order data in electronic form via EDI messages? Or would you like to use our PIM system in your end customer online shop? With one click the modules you need are activated. Merchandise management, continuous inventory, substitute settlements, calculation assistant, returns management – as a modern ERP system Indigo already has all this “on board” and also allows the activation of further functionalities during operation – when you need them.Starting Price: $95 per user per month -
28
ESSDi CAD
ESSDi Infotech Corporation
ESSDi CAD/CAM is predominantly used in Garment and Textile, Made-ups, and Leather manufacturing. It also shares its potential tools in the Shipping, Aeronautics, Automobile, and Furniture industries. First Apparel CAD Developer in South Asian Continent. ESSDi IC innovates newer technology to various industries to ease their day-to-day affairs to have a clear and perfect focus on their business to increase profit margin by well large. ESSDi IC's technology is all cost-effective at carrier no further expenditure. Mostly, it will be a life investment or form an asset. Thiru.L.B.Thiyagarajan, the founder of ESSDi Infotech Corporation had crossed all impediments with his innovative and creative knowledge towards this project. To get his passion come through he was carrying his intellectual Child, ESSDi CAD with limited resources generated through job work and selling the CAD system, to sustain in market for the past two decades. -
29
CLO
CLO 3D
Get inspired by prepared pattern blocks and sketch directly on your avatar to generate pattern pieces automatically. Our true-to-life 3D garments make it easy to fine-tune the fit of your designs — even for drape-sensitive fabrics, like lightweight wovens and jerseys. With 100% accurate digital samples, you can explore every idea and inspiration freely in the most sustainable way - at no cost. Evolve your E-commerce by using our natural simulation environment to display and merchandise your 3D garment collections as soon as you create them. Sustainability is a fast moving topic in fashion discourse - developments in technology, production, textiles, and new collaborations and businesses to address different aspects of the fashion ecosystem are constantly coming into being. Check out these sources to learn about current developments.Starting Price: $25 per month -
30
Synthesis
Six Atomic
Synthesis is an automated pattern generation and modular design for the apparel industry. It's a turnkey AI-driven web app that doesn't require technical expertise to operate. Patterns are organized and graded automatically, delivering products to market over 20x faster than traditional means. Automatically assign and export stitching and clustering data to 3D visualization software for simulation. Save up to 90% of traditional 3D sampling time. Automatically grade patterns to any size, whether it’s a full standard size range or bespoke. Create designs and patterns for staple clothing in a few clicks. Cut down drafting and sampling time.Starting Price: $69 per month
