Sketchbook 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

On this page

Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

Sketchbook

4.5

(43)

Pricing

Starting at $19.99 one time

About Sketchbook

Sketchbook is a drawing app for artists, designers, and other creatives. It provides hundreds of customizable brushes and pens used to create artwork. It provides an intuitive interface that supports the drawing process and includes color fill tools, rulers, symmetry tools, and more. Sketchbook can be used on desktops, tablets, or mobile devices.

The app provides natural pen interaction and is responsive to a stylus. Traditional, curved, ellipse, and French curve tools are available to assist with drawing smooth lines. Users can access a predictive stroke tool to draw smooth strokes. Sketchbook brush types include pencils, markers, paint, airbrushes, and others. To work with a clean interface, users can choose to hide tools and palettes as needed.

A free Sketchbook mobile app of Sketchbook is available for iOS and Android devices. Sketchbook Pro can be purchased for Mac and Windows desktops. Support is available via an online help center, email, and other resources.

Sketchbook Screenshots

Sketchbook Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.99 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$19.99

flat rate, one time

No plan information available

Sketchbook Features

Popular features found in Graphic Design
Collaboration Tools
Content Library
Custom Fonts
Design Management
Pattern, Color & Art Storage
More features of Sketchbook
CAD Tools
Custom Brushes
Design Templates
Image Editing
Mobile App

Sketchbook User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

60%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.4

Verified

Reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Sketchbook Your Smart Drawing.

Rated one of the best modern drawing programs, has many dazzling tools, has great drawing tools library months and was in my office in the middle of brushes and pens and colours, I can put Layer If I want to try something and don't want to spoil your painting, Easy to use, you don't need a course to become a professional using, suitable for all ages and different fields.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like its tools, it has many colours many brushes and a pen . I like to use my pen tablet to draw Paintings or any view. it has a contemporary style for the tools bar. I like using Sketchbook, like the board to teach my class. Easy to use, you don't need a course to become a professional using, suitable for all ages and different fields.

Cons:

sometimes, on my mac, I can't see the tools bar

Razaanah C.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

Might not be great for beginners

Sketchbook was great and had man great aspects to it. I was put off from the large variety of functions and tools but nevertheless it’s a great app once you get a hold of.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For a free application I loved the variety of tools you’re given. Though I wouldn’t say it’s the best for beginners as the interface can a be a little confusing.

Cons:

This is a personal thing but I wasn’t able to get a grip on the program as a beginner. I might now that I have more experience.

Verified

Reviewer

Animation

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Good for what it is

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is a free software and it can be great to start digital art. Can be downloaded into your phone or tablet.

Cons:

Limited amount of layers and can be quite tedious because some tools are scattered in other tabs.

Simon T.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

An amazing software but.....

I'm old enough to remember using the old glass bottle Magic Markers but since going digital, with the help of Sketchbook, Photoshop and CSP, I find I am more productive in terms of speed and quality of work. Drawing in Sketchbook is incredibly intuitive and satisfying, I only wish I could open more than one file at a time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I think the drawing brushes and pencils for linework are some, if not the best I have found in a drawing app. I especially like the snap to curve, elipse and perspective rulers.

Cons:

I am a storyboard artist which means I am usually drawing and colouring a number of frames at once, sometimes as many as 30-40 frames. I would love to be able to open up a number of frames so I can achieve uniformaty of line and colour across the frames. I also dearly miss the Copic colours you used to have.

Reasons for switching to Sketchbook

I found Corel Painter to be too bulky and slow. It also did not provide me with the accuracy of linework that Sketchbook offers me.

hussein h.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

review

so powerful software to draw

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

the best software for drawing anything you need

Cons:

in reality, the software provides everything you need to draw so I don't see any disadvantage in it till now

Verified

Reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Amazing app for digital art creation

I absolutely love this app for digital art, to create fun and festive backgrounds for photos and as a relaxing and an enjoyable hobby.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Quality of saved images, ability to save in various formats, options of brushes, layers and colors, intuitive functions, fun usage and ability to get better as you get more and more experience with the ap

Cons:

Mobile app is not as good as the desktop version, everything is limited and I don't find it intuitive. I use the desktop app frequently and find that I can not use the mobile app practically at all.

Verified

Reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Want to have a drawing hobby? Try this software!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This is a fun way to draw, paint or stretch anything you want on your mobile device.

Cons:

Sometimes it doesn't save my work and I hope it can be fixed.

Verified

Reviewer

Arts and Crafts

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Reliable and fun to use

This program is efficient and intuitive.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This program has a great price and tons of features. It always runs smoothly and my team and I enjoy working with it to collaborate. Works exceptionally well on all platforms and operating systems.

Cons:

This program is not an art industry standard in my creative networks.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Sketchbook Experience