An intuitive and visually appealing user interface (UI) can attract and keep users engaged and satisfied with the app's features and functionalities. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best app designs that will inspire you to improve your design.
In this article, we will explore some of the best app designs with amazing UIs, showcasing how app designers and developers have used color, typography, layout, and other design elements to create memorable and user-friendly interfaces.
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1. Scoob by Moxiedgtl
Standout Features:
- Trustworthy
- A friendly, warm color palette
- Slightly rounded, soft typography
If your furry or feathery friends need their needs met and your schedule is packed, Scoob is there to help! The Slovakian app connects you with people who would love to spend some of their time with your pets.
Scoob's app design by Moxiedgtl features an impeccable user flow that manages to overcome the main issue – trustworthiness. It does so through a dual system. One builds on geography, filtering the map and offering only caregivers in your proximity. The other trust-building feature helps filter caregivers through their ratings – the reviews, reliability score, and more.
The app design features a warm color palette and soft typography that’s slightly rounder, emphasizing the brand's reliability. And through this combination, the design sets a friendly, animal-loving tone that inspires trust.
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2. Onetime by FLUID Design
Standout Features:
- Clean and elegant
- Futuristic minimalism
- Dual-view
FLUID Design lets you visualize time-driven processes through the distinctive app design with an impeccable UI. With Onetime’s app design, you can easily create, change, track and share workshops remotely.
The app offers a dual-view option to shuffle between two views with one swipe. The time view provides a cool circular sphere that shows you a timespan through various points hovering around the globe. Switch to the schedule view to access a list of activities with the names and time expectancies in a single panel.
The design is clean and decluttered, with a soothing blue background and futuristic minimalist visuals that put efficiency over aesthetics. Still, the layout’s elegance is elevated through its pragmatism.
3. Drippretty by SparkPlus Technologies
Standout Features:
- Unified connectedness
- A soft color palette
- An all-around community app
Drippretty is a mobile app that helps the African-American community connect and pursue business plans together. SparkPlus Technologies designed the platform in an accessible and familiar way, similar to the more popular social media and job board apps.
The app design exhibits an incredibly unified connectedness where the clean layout, elements and soft color palette blend well. The user can seamlessly relate the properties to one another through the help of mostly pink and green shades. These colors also convey trust and friendliness.
This community app design encompasses common social media features alongside an easy-to-build business setup option and guarantees secure payments, essential for its unique marketplace (mainly beauty products.)
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4. TEC Canada by Poeta Digital
Standout Features:
- Hand-drawn artwork assets
- A muted color palette
- A laid-back approach
TEC Canada represents an international executive leadership program with extensive experience in providing leadership growth. However, as the number of people grew, it became more challenging to connect them all and maintain their joint goals and objectives.
That’s why the organization approached Poeta Digital, and the agency developed an app designed to overcome these issues through a simple, beautiful digital solution.
The app uses a muted color palette to highlight its features and build its not-so-serious atmosphere. Like the company’s leadership program, the app prompts interactive communication through a gamification system. The hand-drawn artwork assets aim to provide positive reinforcement complementing the chat bubbles that guide the user through the design.
5. PowerFull by Empat
Standout Features:
- Google Maps integration
- A QR code key
- A detailed tutorial
This startup studio project lets you immerse yourself in the power bank-sharing field across the UAE. Empat’s PowerFull app is easy to use, solving phone-charging problems on the go.
This app’s simplicity lies in a four-step cycle: find, scan, use, and return. A detailed tutorial walks you through this simple, easy-to-follow process.
The design lets you roam Google Maps to help locate the charging stations nearby. Each location also contains data on the number of chargers available, an hourly rate, and the number of minutes you have “free of charge.”
Upon arriving at the location, use the app to unlock a safe box through the QR scan feature. Then, borrow the charger and return it once you’re done.
The design epitomizes the perfect balance between a unique UI and a high-quality user experience.
6. MineFree by Axicube
Standout Features:
- Google Maps integration
- An interactive safety app
- A warm and neutral color palette
Our following pick for the best app designs with superb UIs is the MineFree app created by Axicube. The app helps Ukrainians keep track of critical areas and quickly report the danger to others.
The design is integrated with Google Maps, simplifying its use as people worldwide are familiar with this tool, so they don’t have to learn new ways to navigate.
This app promotes interactive safety by encouraging users to stay out of danger through constant informational contributions. The people can not only steer clear of dangerous areas but also report their findings to protect others.
The warm and neutral color palette helps the users remain calm despite the dire state. The orange buttons represent energy and inspire action while also presenting a warning.
7. AIPL by Promatics
Standout Features:
- A confidence-inspiring color palette
- Iconographic categorization
- A cute “analog” coupon visual
Promatics designed an app for AIPL to help the brand introduce itself as a channel partner of ABRO industries in India. The design’s excellent user interface presents an efficient solution for the brand’s expansion aims.
Aside from being quick to grab the users’ attention, the red and white color palette inspires confidence through a sleek combination that looks clean and modern.
As soon as you log in, you gain access to a search query to quickly navigate to a desired product. Below it, there’s a menu with iconographic representations of the main categories.
Another fantastic element is a coupon illustration that resembles an analog gift card from the pre-internet era.
8. Yalp by bitorbit
Standout Features:
- Guitar pick buttons
- Teal as a primary color
- A detailed preview
Another one of our picks for the best app designs with great UIs is Yalp by bitorbit. The agency developed a design that helps musicians improve their craft by turning audio tracks into chords.
The design lists songs through a detailed preview, including a picture taken at the band’s show, the song's name, chords preview, and approximate playing difficulty. On each entry, there’s a teal play button in the form of the exact guitar pick found in the logo that lets you play a particular song.
The app predominantly relies on teal as its primary color, which marks a good branding strategy as it’s the color of the emblem. It's also a refreshing brand color, boosting its memorability.
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9. Primax by Esedor
Standout Features:
- An “intelligent” search engine
- Friendly and visual filters
- A clean but informative layout
Primax's app design by Esedor has a smooth user interface. The app represents the most significant network of fuel service stations and convenience stores in Ecuador and Peru.
The color palette features mostly white circular buttons on a grey background. While some of them contain little blue illustrations, others feature visual filters. The palette inspires trust and reliability.
The app builds on friendly and visual filters across the design and helps the customers browse it seamlessly thanks to an intelligent search engine.
Overall, this app design maintains a clean layout without overlooking important information.
10. Betra by appleute
Standout Features:
- Speeds up shopping
- Blobby, liquid visuals
- A seamless shopping experience
The final pick for our best app designs with amazing UIs is Betra by appleute. This helpful app helps businesses offer their customers an automated, personalized shopping experience.
The app design responds to the items picked in the store thanks to an AI camera, collecting the products in the customers’ digital shopping cart. Without using money or credit cards and avoiding the tediously long lines, the customer pays by leaving the premises, which instantly issues a digital receipt for the items picked up by the camera.
Lastly, the liquid blob visuals balance green and blue for an eye-candy UI.
