Inkscape
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Inkscape is free and open-source software licensed under the GPL.
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Most Helpful Reviews for Inkscape
1 - 5 of 496 Reviews
Nicole
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2 - 10 employees
Used less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed July 2022
Best free tool similar to Illustrator
Evelyn
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2022
My Vector Design System
For me, this is an extraordinary design software, super intuitive to use, handy since it possesses a portable version, and the vector image format is great for building icons compatible with almost any website out there.
PROSIt is Completely free. The user-interface works phenomenal. Designing is super straightforward.
CONSThe layers management and some other fancy features from paid alternatives are missing.
Reason for choosing Inkscape
It is a free software with super intuitive features, lightweight and fast.
Reasons for switching to Inkscape
In the first place I wanted a free software, but, after using Inkscape for a while, I found myself more productive designing in this software than using any other with more complexes user-interfaces and tools managements.
Lisandro
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
Without Inkscape I would have fail as a designer
Right now, Inkscape is indispensable for me and my design career. Even though Inkscape is an open-source and free application, that doesn't mean it's inferior to paid alternatives in any way. Sure, Illustrator has its great set of features, but Inkscape is nowhere lesser. I have not needed to switch to any other alternative. It gets the job done really well! Love it!
PROSIt is very easy to use. It has a very friendly interface. It's really feature-packed. It has some out-of-the-box features equivalent to those in Adobe Illustrator but for free! It's open-source and get updated regularly. I love you can even work with PDF files natively. Also, I rely on the "trace bitmap" feature a lot: it's great to reuse royalty-free bitmaps on a quick design or just for inspiration. Inkscape is amazing and free!
CONSI WISH it supported the Adobe Illustrator format (ai) but it's too much to ask as that is a proprietary file format. Also, some fundamental actions are complicated to implement: for example, setting default document properties shouldn't require to save a file in a specific folder or exporting your artwork as a .jpeg file shouldn't require an extension; those actions should be more straight forward.
Reason for choosing Inkscape
Adobe Illustrator is really expensive. I was just starting as a designer, so I had no money. Inkscape is free and doesn't lack too many features when compared. So it was the way to go.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2021
The cost of free
I like it because it was free and we were a startup so overhead matters. At some point we outgrew our need and the free was no longer enough. Some of the more needed tasks too twice as long to dial in as again the paid alternatives
PROSBest feature is the price it is free and yes it is a vector software. It does the basics of vectoring and design creation
CONSNot intuitive It take many mores steps to complete functions compared to paid alternatives
Reason for choosing Inkscape
Main reason was it was free
Julian
Design, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2023
Fantastic, free vector tool
Great vector tool, especially in combination with other tools.
PROSCompletely free and open-source - this is the main advantage. It's a decent tool for putting together vector graphics, quick 1-pager designs, and has some great addons and tools like bitmap tracing.
CONSOnce files get very large, it can be problematic scrolling around and Inkscape can begin to lag / slow down.