Inkscape is really good for products with no budget for designers. Let me explain why.

One of the apps I am working on hit 10,000+ active users (per Playstore dashboard), and Inkscape has a role to play in this.

Since the app is free and doesn't even have a backend, there is no budget for the designer.

I looked for a few tools online, but most of them failed to generate icons/logos.

I ended up using Inkscape to make logos for my app.

Without Inkscape, this workflow is difficult.

Though I am not able to intuitively use it well from the GUI. The thing is, you don't even need the GUI anymore!

But Claude or Codex is able to write SVG line by line (so you can make changes incrementally) and use Inkscape via CLI to generate icons, logos, and graphics for your app.

Here's my app for those who are curious: https://macrocodex.app/

I am pretty sure some designer will come and say "you did a bad job at this," which is fine. My experience is in writing backends, not mobile apps or design.

Every app is saying they use "AI for smart recommendation,” while I went the opposite route, of “no, our product does not use AI for any suggestion.“ It’s entirely deterministic.