Sketch: digital design toolkit 4+
UI and graphic design app
Sketch B.V.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Sketch is a complete design toolkit. With a native Mac app for design and prototyping, and web-based tools to share, get feedback and handoff.
A native macOS app for design and prototyping
— Powerful tools built for designers, by designers
— Nestable frames and flexible stack layouts
— Fast, immersive prototyping to bring your ideas to life
— Shared Libraries, styles and components to scale your work
— Full control over color profiles, including P3 support
— Variable and OpenType font support
— Offline and local file support
— Ready for real-time collaboration, or working solo
A flexible web app for feedback, sharing and handoff
— Store, sync and share documents
— Document and project permissions
— Easy Workspace admin
— Annotate documents with feedback
— File version history
— Share Libraries, components and templates
— Developer handoff tools
— Test prototypes in any browser
— View, comment and handoff for free
With our free companion app, Sketch — View and Mirror, you can view designs, mirror from your Mac, and play prototypes on your iPhone or iPad.
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CREATE WITH EASE
Sketch is perfect for beginners and professional designers. With powerful tools built for designers, by designers, you can bring your ideas to life. Whether you’re crafting a stunning logo, or designing apps and infographics, you do it effortlessly.
POWERFUL LAYOUT TOOLS
With nestable, stylable frames, you have infinite flexibility when building screens, UIs and more. Add stack layouts to your designs to make them adapt to their content, or adapt content to their size.
FAST, INTUITIVE PROTOTYPING
Test your ideas quickly and efficiently with our intuitive prototyping tools. Create immersive prototypes in just a few clicks. Test and share your concepts easily, with a link to a browser-based prototype, or in our native iOS and iPadOS app.
FULL CONTROL OVER YOUR DESIGNS
Get complete control over every aspect of your designs. Sketch supports a variety of color profiles, including P3, for vibrant and true-to-life visuals. With variable and OpenType font support, you can customize your typography too.
WORK FASTER WITH THE COMMAND BAR
Invoke almost any action, find and insert components, and so much more — all without leaving your keyboard. The Command Bar gives you a faster way to do almost anything in Sketch.
EFFICIENT DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
Easily store, sync, and share your design documents with your Workspace. With intuitive admin tools and a browsable document version history, you can track changes and collaborate with ease.
FULL OFFLINE SUPPORT
Work when and where inspiration strikes! Our design software supports offline access and local file management, so you can create without interruptions.
EXPLORE, CREATE, AND SHARE
Our tools make it easy to provide feedback, share your work, and hand off projects seamlessly to developers, making it easy for you to collaborate with others.
GET STARTED TODAY
Download Sketch today to get all the power of professional design tools combined with user-friendly features. Whether you’re a seasoned designer or just starting, our app is your go-to solution for all your graphic design needs.
Sketch comes with a 30-day free trial. After that, you can sign up for flexible subscription, which includes your own Workspace to store and sync documents, wherever you use Sketch.
Terms of Service: https://www.sketch.com/tos/
Privacy Policy: https://www.sketch.com/privacy/
What’s New
Version 2025.2
→ Introducing: Glass
This update brings a new glass effect to Sketch. Yes, the one you’ve been asking for. You’ll find it under a new Effects section of the Inspector, where you can apply automatic settings or tweak every parameter to your liking.
→ Concentric Corners
You can now set a layer’s corners to Auto. This visually aligns them with the corners of the nearest container that has corner properties. We calculate this based on the layer’s distance to that container — or the container’s padding if it’s a stack.
→ Progressive Blurs
In the Effects section of the Inspector, you’ll find new layer and background blur options. Choose from Uniform (previously Gaussian or Background), Linear Progressive, or Radial Progressive. Progressive blurs support multiple adjustable stops—like gradients—that you can move freely on the canvas.
→ New Apple UI Libraries
Apple has updated their Sketch Libraries for both macOS 26 and iOS 26. You’ll find them in Settings > Libraries if you want to enable them.
Improvements
Styling
- We’ve added a new button next to a layer’s opacity settings in the Inspector to switch to progressive alpha — giving you a faster and easier way to fade out a layer compared to setting up an alpha mask.
- We’ve added menu and Command Bar items for changing a layer’s corner style, and resetting its corners to their default settings (Rounded, 0).
- You can now use the eyedropper tool to add or change a page’s canvas color when you haven’t selected anything on the canvas.
Libraries and components
- We now automatically install updates for Libraries with unchanged license agreements, so you don’t need to accept the agreement again.
- You can now add search keywords to any component in the Components View, giving you more control and better results wherever you search for components.
- Nested Symbols now preserve their current dimensions when you swap them within a Symbol that has a stack layout.
Performance
- We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you work with background blurs.
- We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when rendering shadows on image layers.
Workflow and UI
- If you’ve disabled “Rename duplicated layers” in settings, we now respect your preference and no longer rename layers if they have exports. However, exporting layers with identical names may overwrite each other.
- We now support the P3 color space when you export using the webp format.
- We’ve added a menu item and shortcut ⌘6 to view Graphic Templates in the Components View.
- Container titles on the canvas now dynamically adjust to contrast with dark or light canvas colors.
Changes
Blur types
- The Gaussian Blur type is now called “Layer” and has three new options: Uniform Blur (previously Gaussian Blur), Linear Progressive Blur, and Radial Progressive Blur.
- The Background Blur type is now simply “Background” and has three new options: Uniform Blur (previously Background Blur), Linear Progressive Blur, and Radial Progressive Blur.
- We’ve adjusted the radius value for background blurs to better match current web standards. Existing background blurs have a new radius value but will appear the same.
Ratings and Reviews
Can’t even open a sketch for free to view only?
A friend of mine asked me to see what I thought of a design draft, but they sent it to me in a strange file format. They said I needed to download “Sketch” and I’d be able to see what it was about. As soon as I downloaded it and attempted to open the file, I was prompted to either log in, restore purchase, or sign up for a 30-day trial. I mean, with a file format that Apple even has downloads for on their developer webpage (mind you, an application that they DIDN’T develop), you should be able to see at least what files look like! Have you ever had to pay to see what a PDF looked like? Exactly.
Developer Response ,
Hello there! Thanks a lot for your honest feedback. I will pass your words on internally to see if we can somehow improve this, but I’m afraid that this falls more on the part of how the operating system works. Additionally, when sharing documents, we always encourage our users to upload their designs to their Workspaces so they can share them directly with anyone with access to an Internet browser. (this makes them accessible in macOS, Windows, or any other OS) Cheers! 🙏
Only getting worse
Sketch used to be incredible and I recommended it to everyone. This app has gotten much worse over the last few years and can no longer compete with the other obvious choices. I design stickers every few months and every time I open the app it asks me to login again. So frustrating. Also, you can no longer just pay for the software, everything is a monthly fee. The quality has gone way down. If you are going to pay monthly for something, try Figma.
Developer Response ,
Hello there! I’m sorry to see you are feeling like this. The authentication token we use to keep you signed has an expiration date (one month, give it or take), so if you don’t use Sketch often, it may be that you have to refresh it every time you want to use it. If this is not the case, you can email us at productsupport@sketch.com, and we will gladly investigate your situation. On the other hand, you can still definitely pay for the License instead of subscribing (more details on our pricing page), so let us know if you need help with it. Cheers! 🙏
It's no Figma
Sketch truly can not hold a candle to Figma. This program is not smart - it's not good at predicting what I am trying to do in ways that would be obvious to other design programs. It's not good at conveying why certain things are happening e.g. why something is being scaled vs being cropped. Its component system and prototyping capabilities are primitive. The only reason I use this is because my client requires it. Otherwise everyone else should stick with Figma.
Developer Response ,
Hello there! First, thanks for leaving your honest review. We really take feedback seriously, and we are constantly working to improve our product. I will pass internally your comments, but rest assured some new improvements are on the way! Additionally, if you are experiencing any issues, don’t hesitate to email us at productsupport@sketch.com, and we will gladly assist you. Cheers! 🙏
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Information
- Seller
- Sketch B.V.
- Size
- 60.7 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Sketch B.V.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Sketch (Monthly Subscription) $14.00
- Sketch (Yearly Subscription) $139.00