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Turn Ideas Into Designs

Sketch simplifies creating and prototyping.

Sketch

Design, prototype & handoff

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Whether you’re looking to create a mock-up for your website or app, an eye-catching icon, or a festive party invite, the Apple Design Award winner Sketch is flexible enough to adapt.

What we love: How easy Sketch is to jump into, no matter your level of expertise. Create from scratch or use one of the hundreds of templates for app mock-ups, social media posts, Kanban boards, and more. Leverage an infinite canvas to iterate using layers, vector illustrations, interface elements, and advanced typography. Put your most-used tools right in the toolbar—the app offers over 50 options! And make creativity a true team effort with real-time collaboration and threaded comments that can be applied to any part of a design.

Share your prototype with colleagues so they can tweak and comment. Use the companion app Sketch–View and Mirror to see your design on iPhone and iPad.

Quick tip: Save time by using Libraries to store the symbols, element styles, artboard templates, and other components you use frequently; when you update a component in a library, it’s instantly updated across any design that uses it. You can also share these Libraries across documents and teams for design consistency.

Meet the creator: Pieter Omvlee and Emanuel Sa created Sketch in 2011 from their home offices in the Netherlands and Portugal, respectively. The two didn’t meet in person until after the release of Sketch 2.0. Today’s much larger Sketch team spans the globe—helpful for continually improving the app’s remote-collaboration features.