Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Figma
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
$15
per month per editor
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
Pricing
FigmaSketch
Editions & Modules
Professional
$144
per year
Organization
$540
per year
Starter
Free
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Pricing Offerings
FigmaSketch
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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FigmaSketch
Considered Both Products
Figma
Chose Figma
1. First, Figma is browser based, unlike Sketch that requires a client app and a license for each of them.
2. Sketch is limited to Mac users, Figma, on the other hand, is universal and only requires a browser.
3. It offers free tiers.
Chose Figma
Figma's most outstanding feature is its real-time collaboration capability. Unlike Adobe XD, multiple users can work on a design simultaneously with seamless integration. This was a significant factor for our team since we often collaborate remotely. Both Sketch, Figma, and XD …
Chose Figma
Sketch had 2 important cons at that time:
  • No real time collaboration
  • Very annoying way of merging changes - commits
Chose Figma
Compared to Sketch, Figma is more user friendly and easier to collaborate. The component and library feature is better. Sketch does not have Figjam. Figjam has amazing features like sticky notes, templates, voting, emojis, stickers, etc. The community of Figma is my favourite. …
Chose Figma
I will be specific here -
With Adobe XD it was very difficult to prototype, it was also very complicated to learn.
With Sketch - We had to use InVision for prototype and share and there were limited feature were available compared to Figma.
Chose Figma
Figma stands out for several reasons:

Collaboration in real-time: Figma operates entirely in the cloud, allowing multiple users to collaborate on designs simultaneously. This real-time collaboration is especially useful for remote teams or those working across different …
Chose Figma
Yes definitely, it is way easier to use and has way better collaboration compared to Adobe Illustration and Sketch. Figma has better integration with the development team as it can export code and maintain assets as well.

Another big upside of Figma is prototyping, since the …
Chose Figma
Figma is a better layout tool than all of the other products I have used. I believe it’s worse at prototyping than Sketch and axure. Also its lack of a design kit from officially from Apple is a ding on the product and a plus for Sketch in my opinion. XD is awful and not worth …
Chose Figma
We switched from Sketch to Figma 3 years ago. Back then Figma provided more flexibility to build design systems, collaborate between designers and work on the same files.
Chose Figma
Figma is much more user friendly and collaborative. It works in your browser and contains everything you need really, whereas Sketch requires other tools to run it properly. It is also much easier to import and export things into Figma, which means we can work across lots of …
Chose Figma
Figma has better design tools than Adobe XD and you don't need to purchase the whole adobe suite to use it. The collaboration and cloud based storage is better that Sketch. Sketch has great design capabilities but it's much harder to have multiple people working on one file …
Chose Figma
Figma is the best tool for designing UI/UX on multiple platforms such as Mac, Windows, Linux, and Browser-based applications. It has support for many plugins and a strong community. On the other hand, Adobe XD lacks these advantages, and it is said that Adobe will enhance Figma …
Chose Figma
The benefits of Figma are that you can log in easily and use it anywhere. It has great features and component management.
Sketch has more advanced visual effects, and can be used offline. I've run into trouble where I have no internet, so am unable to connect to use Figma.
Axure …
Chose Figma
In Figma we have it all! From sketches, wireframes, to complex design systems, components, tokens, libraries, etc.

It is also very easy to share interactive prototypes, the developer team can also access the files from anywhere, without installing anything on their computers, …
Chose Figma
Figma is a lot cleaner, easier to navigate and organize. Maybe you can't do as much visually but you can move faster in Figma. I'm trying to remember more but honestly I've been using Figma for so long now.
Chose Figma
Figma is inherently "smarter" than these other apps for its ability to create design tokens, generate code and is just better suited all around for screen-based design.
Chose Figma
I've been using Figma for the past 4 years so I'm not on top of the most recent versions of the other tools but we chose Figma as it allowed our distributed team of designers who are not just in different cities but different regions and timezones to collaborate better and stay …
Chose Figma
It's the organization's decision to move from Google Suite to Microsoft, so we changed our design tool to Figma.
Chose Figma
I have used almost all the tools in UX designing and reviewed all of them, I found the Figma is light weight and very fast, I love the web version as I am teaching online and also working on the organization in different teams and the web version is super helpful for me.
Chose Figma
Figma is a one stop tool which has all the functionality over using multiple tools
Chose Figma
Figma is superior to all of these products, from design, to prototyping, to documenting feedback
Chose Figma
Figma is far better in so many ways. The shortcut in Figma makes the most sense. It allows teams to collaborate like no others. People don't even need to pay for Figma to work live with designers. The product owners and stake holders are very happy about Figma. It is also very …
Chose Figma
Figma has regular updates and amazing plugins as well as a community where you can draw inspiration from and actually see working files.

The collaboration element to Figma is much better as well as the ability to use it within the browser or desktop app.
Chose Figma
Figma is the most collaborative and most fully featured when compared to these alternatives. No other option offers the same mix of features with the same ease of use. The ability to simultaneously edit files and provide instant feedback fosters a dynamic and efficient design …
Chose Figma
Figma is by far the best option of the software I've used. It's very easy, usable, and intuitive.
Sketch
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Chose Sketch
Sketch works well against any UI design apps and the pricing is also affordable.
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 …
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 …
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User Ratings
FigmaSketch
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(109 ratings)
6.3
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.8
(5 ratings)
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(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(15 ratings)
9.1
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
FigmaSketch
Likelihood to Recommend
Figma
A solo developer or small team that wants to integrate development, feature planning and ui design in a single app can find a lot of value in using Figma, since the FigJam whiteboard and UI editor are in the same app. Business plans and software features can be mapped out on FigJam and then implemented in the UI editor, that way there is reduced context switching and teams can operate smoothly without having to toggle between multiple apps.
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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.
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Pros
Figma
  • As a visual designer, I spend 90% of my working time in Figma. So, as a design tool, Figma is mature and feature-rich. It covers all the basic needs and provides extras, such as simple prototyping and the ability to use external plugins.
  • Collaboration: It’s very easy to work together on the same file in Figma. You can easily brainstorm together or use Figma as a shared screen.
  • Smartness of components: Figma provides many adaptability options for components that allow building very flexible and scalable layouts.
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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
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Cons
Figma
  • Access control - it wasn't apparent to me at first that a project was shared with everyone in the company vs just people i choose to share it with. I think the inverse should be the default.
  • Sometimes it struggles to import old sketch files - no clue how to make this better, but its frustrating
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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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Figma
It's by far the best tool and I feel delighted using it every day.
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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.
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Usability
Figma
It's so simple to use! I have no background in UI design but basic designing and I was able to learn this software Figma within 3-5 days. There are tons of tutorials available on Youtube from so many popular YouTubers in the space, you can just go through them and start designing.
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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.
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Support Rating
Figma
I haven't used their support lately but in the past, they had a chat that I used often. They often responded in a few hours and were able to give a satisfactory solution. I would imagine it's less personal now but the community has expanded drastically so there are more resources out there to self serve with a bit of Google magic.
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
Figma
Much more intuitive, Adobe XD fails to keep up with the newest market changes thus it did not let us stay on top of the technology. The big plus of Figma is that the majority of our clients worked with it, whereas it was not the case with Adobe XD. You can get similar results working with both, but the process will be different in Figmas favour
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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.
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Return on Investment
Figma
  • Negative -- the Figma mirror app is quite poorly connected with Figma itself, hence when we were conducting user testing, we got some incorrect data.
  • Positive -- time spent for discussion because we have something visual to base on discussion on
  • Negative -- it's difficult to find files and comments, which is a lost of time
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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.
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