Sketch

Sketch

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Sketch	Score 7.4 out of 10	N/A	Sketch is a visual design tool of use for application prototyping, coming with a wide variety of extensions, plugins, and an active user community.	N/A

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Considered Both Products	Sketch Mike Muller Executive Vice President Chose Sketch Sketch works in a similar way to programs like Figma and InVision. Sketch is a mac only program so it works well in a mac environment. Tools like Figma and InVision have better collaboration tools and are both cross-platform. Sketch is easier to use and more intuitive for most … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Sketch I would say that it's different enough from the others that it has its place right alongside them. Nothing beats Sketch in terms of its ability to quickly wireframe. Incentivized Helpful? D Hendrik Mulyana UI/UX Designer Chose Sketch If we compared to popular design tools right now (Figma and Adobe XD ). Sketch app is still no 1, in terms of popularity, compatibility, and cost. Incentivized Helpful? Sanjana Gupta UI Designer Chose Sketch Very easy to start in Sketch. But less community as compared to Adobe, and fewer features as compared to Figma. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Sketch I think Sketch it better than Illustrator in a lot of respects. I feel like Sketch allows for more accuracy and precision. I do think it lacks in its collaboration. Unlike Figma it doesn't allow live collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Sketch Sketch's approachable UI allowed those using outdated technologies to transition efficiently. Among its peers, Sketch performs comparably with most prototyping tools. It falls behind compared to those that can better handle movement, like InVision Studio, which combines … Incentivized Helpful? Monika Jaeger Freelance Handlettering Chalkboard Artist & Graphic Desinger Chose Sketch The interfaces of Adobe and Figma are very similar, but I would say that Figma's collaboration tool is great with onboard live collaboration. For Sketch, that is a separate payment. XD is great for free usage and for Windows collaboration, but some parts of the collaboration … Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Sketch Sketch works well against any UI design apps and the pricing is also affordable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Sketch We went from designing websites in Photoshop to designing in Sketch, and it is certainly much quicker and easier to design in Sketch, and you're more easily able to make sure that our designs are exact in Sketch, as far as spacing exact pixels. I have never used AdobeXD and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Sketch Sketch is great for creating digital assets quickly and easily. It is simple to figure out and easy to use. It has a very clean user interface and isn't a resource hog like Adobe products tend to be. Its export feature is fantastic, generating multiple asset sizes/resolutions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Sketch At the time of evaluation, Sketch provided a full feature design tool at the cost we needed. We also had required integration with Abstract, Zeplin, and InVision. Our design team already had familiarity with the Sketch interface. these considerations made it an easy decision to … Incentivized Helpful? Flavio Bagioli Senior Strategic Designer UX/UI Chose Sketch Sketch works perfectly well with Adobe Illustrator, you can seamlessly copy and paste vector artworks and open PDF files. It also [works] very well with prototyping tools such as proto.io and Bravo App. At ExMachina we also selected Sketch for its handover capabilities and … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations Chose Sketch Sketch is much better for web design than Adobe products. It's easier to learn and use, and it's a much more efficient way to hand off design files to developers. However, given a choice between Figma and Sketch, I'd choose Figma because of its cloud file storage and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Sketch We use Sketch for its clarity. While Figma and InVision Studio have some "google-doc-escrow" collaboration tools, I've found them hard to make pixel-perfect designs, which is necessary while working with IT and clients. Illustrator may have been the first of these vector-based … Incentivized Helpful? Muhamed (Muha) Causevic Creative Services Manager Chose Sketch Sketch eliminates all the complexity of Photoshop and it simplifies the screen design process for web, UI, UX designers. It is also much faster software with capabilities to make responsive design quickly. Incentivized Helpful? Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education Chose Sketch I was a big Fireworks user when it was discontinued by Adobe. At the time most people used Photoshop, but I've never liked Photoshop for web designs because it was built for photo editing, not vector graphics. I've heard Illustrator might be a pretty good alternative now, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Sketch The simplicity, good UI and UX, integration with other apps, and mainly the plugins are the main reasons why we selected it. Incentivized Helpful? Mitchell Clements UX Designer Chose Sketch Sketch is the industry leader when it comes to visual design for mobile apps and websites. However, its competitors are catching up very quickly and starting to offer features that Sketch doesn't have. While I think Sketch is still the best visual design software out there for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Sketch At the time of purchase, Sketch was the industry standard. It's affordable and we liked it wasn't tied to a subscription model. We're on Macs so it being an OSX exclusive wasn't a deterrent. Sketch has set the bar high, but there is a massive amount of competition in this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Sketch Again, I would say that Sketch stacks up very well against similar Adobe products in the field. I get the sense, just from the little bit I've used it, that It may not be as robust as some of the Adobe products. However, for my needs (fundamental to the middle of the road use), … Incentivized Helpful? JC Jonathan Cantu Marketing Project Manager Chose Sketch I think they are both similar and different. I can generally choose an Adobe product when I'm looking for a specific end result. I use Sketch a lot for layout, UI and UX design cause it just takes all the frills out of the equation while giving me an equal end product. They are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Sketch Figma is great in a team setting, but Sketch seems to have far more tools that are aligned to the fast-iteration work we do. It also lacks a number of the plugins that make our work with Sketch so ideal. If we decided on Figma, we would definitely have to create more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Strategist Chose Sketch Although there's a lot of overlap, we use these different platforms for different purposes. InVision allows us to create more robust prototypes, Zeplin is a better tool for design/dev handoffs, and Marvel is great for basic wireframes. None of these tools beat Sketch when it … Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Mahajan Featured Speaker Chose Sketch Sketch had been great and improved a lot in the past, but so has Adobe. If you are going to start new, it's better to plan long term and based on needs see what suits more. Figma is relying a lot on new technologies which are not bug-free, but that may be the future of design. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Richardson UX Designer Chose Sketch Ultimately I did not select Sketch, but for a while, it was the software of choice over Photoshop or Illustrator. Photoshop was never a good fit for prototyping, as it's made for intense photo editing and has a lot of UI debt that's built up. It also facilitated a particular … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro High fidelity Pro Third party
Top Cons	Minus Keyboard shortcuts Minus Cross platform Minus Image editing

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User Ratings
	Sketch
Likelihood to Recommend	6.3 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (8 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Sketch
Likelihood to Recommend	Bohemian Coding It is very simple to master and has a variety of built-in tools that allows one to begin prototyping quickly, and can be powered using a variety of plugins for presentations. However, Sketch struggles with more complex designs, particularly those where animations or transitions are desired. It also isn't a good fit for agencies that use a variety of prototyping tools, as results from importing are not predictable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Bohemian Coding Auto Saving your work Great library of plugins to use to make the software your own Easy to understand interface that is very similar to other prototyping applications They have been around for 12 years so you know the support and legacy stands Monika Jaeger Freelance Handlettering Chalkboard Artist & Graphic Desinger Read full review
Cons	Bohemian Coding Color management can be finicky. For instance, the eyedropper tool sometimes isn’t very precise. It would be helpful if there was a built-in commenting system that included tagging where designers and developers could have real-time collaborative conversations about designs. Sketch is only available to Mac users. This is fine internally, but an issue when working with external folks. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Bohemian Coding Sketch is a core tool for us and the cost to keep it going with our teams is low. It provides a good alternative to other screen design tools for our team members who prefer to use it. Incentivized Mike Muller Executive Vice President Read full review
Usability	Bohemian Coding At the end of the day, it's just simple. This goes a long way in design and goes even further when your talking productivity, intuitive design and turnover rate. It's not difficult to figure something out even if it's not something your directly familiar with, i.e. if you want to export in certain file formats or change the size of the canvas, you don't have to delay your end product trying to figure it out. Similar situations took me less than 30 seconds to solve without a Google search. That's Usability. Incentivized JC Jonathan Cantu Marketing Project Manager Read full review
Support Rating	Bohemian Coding The support is relatively decent, and they are quick to respond. However, their releases are not great. Sketch could use more robust testing of their software before releases. Over the last four years, I have had many days lost while waiting for Sketch to patch issues with their releases. It's actually a running joke in our office. So, support, good. Releases in the first place? Not great. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Bohemian Coding Sketch is great for creating digital assets quickly and easily. It is simple to figure out and easy to use. It has a very clean user interface and isn't a resource hog like Adobe products tend to be. Its export feature is fantastic, generating multiple asset sizes/resolutions in one shot. For anything other than print design, Sketch is my go-to. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Bohemian Coding Sketch has had a positive impact on the amount of time my team needs to spend in meetings gathering feedback. By creating screen views in Sketch and posting to our InVision projects, we're able to collect feedback without requiring multi-person meetings. Sketch is an extremely affordable price point with many free and inexpensive add-on options that allow me to work the way I want without spending a lot of money on additional products. Incentivized Albert Ellenich Sr. Experience Designer Read full review
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