Sketch 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
Integrations
User Reviews

Overview

Sketch

4.6

(810)

Pricing

Starting at $9.00 per month

About Sketch

Sketch is designed to help businesses create icons and vector graphics, collaborate with team members and modify designs' topography or fonts via a unified platform. The application enables employees to automate workflows, receive feedback on designs, and share prototype links with internal and external stakeholders.

It provides a variety of other features such as data export, project management, reporting and more. Sketch allows professionals to handle data synchronization activities and invite clients and external collaborators to access or edit specific documents. Additionally, it helps designers create and store symbols and layer styles in a centralized repository and share them with specific users.

Sketch comes with an application programming interface (API), which facilitates integration with several third-party platforms such as Droplr, Frontify, Lokalise, Marvel, Origami, Proto.io, Zeplin and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures.

Sketch Screenshots

Sketch Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $9.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Standard

$9.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

A Home for Your Work
Native Mac Editor and Web App for Everyone

Business

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

A Home for Your Work
Dedicated Customer Success Manager
Invoice-Based Billing
Native Mac Editor
Priority Support
Security Reviews and Terms May Be Customized and Web App for Everyone
Single Sign-on (SSO)
Technical Support via Live Chat
Unlimited Cloud Storage

Sketch Features

Popular features found in App Design
Change Management
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Design Templates
Drag & Drop
Feature Library
Prototype Creation
Visual Modeling
Workflow Management
More features of Sketch
Animation
API
CAD Tools
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Content Library
Content Management
Customizable Fields
Data Synchronization
Design Management
Feedback Management
Image Editing
Image Library
Mobile App
Preview Functionality
Project Management
Template Management
Templates
Third-Party Integrations
Web/Mobile App Development

Sketch Integrations

Zeplin

Integration rated 4.4 from 10 reviews

Lokalise

Proto.io

Droplr

Frontify

Sketch User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

66%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.4

Danielle C.

Verified reviewer

Animation

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

I really liked Sketch before I found Figma

It's a good software, but if you're collaborating I prefer to go elsewhere

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Previously 5

Functionality

Pros:

The design tools are great, it works quite nicely for app design IMO

Cons:

Well, now that I found Figma, the Sketch cloud is laughable. Sketch cloud never seems to work well to sync our files between coworkers

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Best Product Design Tool Available For Mac/iOS

I really love using Sketch. It's one of my favorite tools to use for mobile app designing. Even though it's collaborative features are not that great, however, it's clean interface, intuitive design, key shortcuts and tons of plugin options makes it one of the best product design tool out there.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

My company primarily uses Sketch to design the mobile application designs and share them using the Zeplin plugin. I have used Sketch to create high fidelity mockups and mobile app designs. I love it's clean UI, intuitiveness, various plugins, pixel perfection. As I am a Product owner and coming from a non-designer background, there has been a little learning curve while learning to use this product but it was all worth it. Additionally, the key command shortcuts makes the design process so easy and productive for me. I highly recommend using Sketch for your product designs.

Cons:

One of the biggest limitation of using Sketch is that it is only available on Mac and this limits the collaboration with the rest of the team (which might be majorly on Windows). Additional issue I have faced multiple times is that whenever I am creating Product designs which has numerous art boards (like 60+), Sketch tends to lag a lot and makes it impossible to export the files. Moreover, Sketch is not a great tool for Prototyping.

Reasons for switching to Sketch

In my company, Sketch is the preferred tool used for mobile app designing. So for a few Projects where we had to design mobile applications for the Client, I used Sketch for wireframing and UI designing (instead of Figma, which is our go-to design tool for those projects where most of the team members are using Windows machines).

Verified

Reviewer

Graphic Design

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

i love sketch

sketch allows me and those I work with to design quickly and effectively

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

sketch is possibly my favorite software amongst all that i use regularly. I love the features, functionality and usability of the product. works great

Cons:

one disadvantage to sketch is the inability to freehand draw through the program. if this feature was available on sketch i would have absolutely zero complaints

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Sketch is an awesome prototyping too for information technology agency.

I also solve my web design & development service. When I get any client this time they want a live demo of how to look there website. This time I create a prototype using Sketch. I can create very fast and easily from here.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our company offers a full suite of IT Services Like web design & Development, Graphics Design, also digital marketing, so our prototyping needs to run and then hand off to my UX counterparts. Sketch allows us to manage both ends of the spectrum and everything in between, ensuring consistency and collaboration between team members. They then take those and turn them into high-fidelity designs that we use to test with customers. Sketch works great for this.

Cons:

Sometimes keyboard shortcuts are not the same as photoshop. This system needs to improve I think. Because maximum designer uses photoshop that why you design your keyboard shortcut like photoshop then much easier for your user.

Reasons for choosing Sketch

Because of Simple wireframing, Working with other tools, and Easy to share files. Saves our time Saves frustration, Makes collaboration easier. This cause I choose this.

Reasons for switching to Sketch

When I know about Sketch then Fastly I use the free version then I realize their tools are too much good then I buy their package.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Best UI design tool for Mac

The most intuitive and effective vector graphic software I've ever personally used. The fact that it's not cross platform may be a deterrent to teams that want to standardize tools, but I don't mind it personally for my own use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

This is by far the most intuitive user interface design software out there. It is made for screens first, whereas a program like Illustrator has a lot of features built for print first. You can still design screens in Illustrator, but Sketch is built to measure in pixels first and has a much simpler interface. I can quickly mock up a landing page, logo, app screen and more, faster than any other program. They remove a lot from their own interface that I feel can be distracting in a program like Illustator.

Cons:

I'm a Mac user, so this doesn't matter to me, but it only works on Mac's for now. Apparently they are working on a Windows version, but as of September 2020 when writing this, there is no known release date. Does not open layered .eps files, so I either use a web based conversion tool or open it using Affinity Designer and converting to .svg to work with .eps layered in Sketch. I find myself wanting to use this interface to create flyers and other print materials as well. I have to go Google dimensions of regular print items to set them properly. While I know that's not the intention of this software, that would be valuable to me and help this software compete with Adobe on print graphics the way they do with vector graphics.

Reasons for choosing Sketch

Pricing structure. Figma is a montly subscription, whereas Sketch is a yearly license. It allows you to use your current version for a few months before upgrading if the budget is tight, or you don't feel the need to update right away. This allows for more flexibility and keeps the overall cost down.

Reasons for switching to Sketch

Cost and usability. Sketch is ~$100 per year to get updates. I usually go a several months before updating, and that brings my per-month total down slightly compared to Adobe's suite of tools.

Jeffrey D.

Verified reviewer

Design

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

It's a dumb version of Illustrator that's somehow become essential

Somehow this bungled mess of a design program has become a can't-live-without UX tool for our company. The tight integration with Invision is probably the reason for that.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Layers. The layer management is pretty easy considering you can end up with thousands of layers in no time, you don't really have to think about them too much and items are easy to move between groups and layers.

Cons:

It's slow. If the comp has over 50 screens, good luck getting anything done. Randomly stops working and spins the beachball for 2 minutes. Saving takes minutes and has no feedback that it's working. Constantly makes my laptop fans spin like a turbine just to change a font color.

Reasons for choosing Sketch

Sketch is better streamlined for UX design. The integration with invision makes sharing and updating easy. Illustrator has its own faults as well.

Dustin M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

I love Sketch!!!

I love Sketch. I've dropped the practically limitless other options that I've picked up over the years to almost exclusively use this tool for all my designs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, quick to learn, and an every day tool in my office. I have done everything from web design to logo design to photo editing in Sketch (not recommended, but awesome what can be done). I absolutely love it, and I'm really impressed with the team and pricing model as well!

Cons:

Sometimes it is a bit slow to get features that I would hope for (I'm talking to you, dropper tool shortcut key), but overall it just does an excellent job at letting me do my job.

Reasons for switching to Sketch

Sketch does everything I need and more. And it's the most cost-effective option out there that has this much functionality. Becoming a standard in the industry.

Ryan L.

Verified reviewer

Design

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Worth it's weight in gold

Overall, it's been an interesting journey learning to use Sketch. I came from an Adobe environment and learning to use Sketch was not a tedious process. Many of its functions are so similar. Only difference is shortcuts and layout, but allows you to do your job without any hassle.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's so effective in creating artworks for both vector and raster based graphics and cost so much less than the largest competitor. It also has huge support and multiple plugins helping it become a platform that allows you to link it to other softwares like inVision for instance. It's become my daily driver.

Cons:

Not much to hate. Could use some extra polishing in functionality, i.e: isolating graphics & better scaling functions. Not as polished as the Adobe software.

Reasons for switching to Sketch

The company I work for uses Sketch as its main software. Adobe software is in use but not by everyone. So too accommodate my environment, I also began using it and have not turned back since.

Matt H.

Verified reviewer

Graphic Design

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

A cheaper and better solution to some Adobe products.

Sketch changed the way we design web pages from scratch. A friend of mine turned me onto Sketch and after designing a few clients with it, I couldn't return to using a different product. Sketch is more affordable than Adobe products, it's constantly updating, and easy to learn and use. We love the multi device view and find designing from scratch in Sketch is the best way to go.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Frequent updates, affordable price, and ease of use are the biggest reasons we love this software. We tried it out on a couple of client jobs and immediately fell in love with it.

Cons:

While it IS constantly updating, some things are still not very intuitive. Selecting multiple elements when not in the device views is still a huge pain, but honestly there isn't too much that we're not unhappy about. Even Adobe products have bigger gripes than Sketch does for us.

Reasons for choosing Sketch

I knew more people that were recommending Sketch over Figma or just hadn't tried Figma. I trusted my friends reccomendations.

Sean L.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Great vector-based app available ON-machine

I'll be sticking with Sketch for a while. Right now it covers all of my needs and is an easy handoff to others along the line, including developers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Sketch is an easy-to-use (once you learn it) app that is available ON Mac instead of a cloud-based app. Which is definitely my preference. Also available on Windows. I LOVE the plug-ins. As mentioned it can be a learning curve but it's a great alternative to Photoshop for some. Won't be for everybody and depends on what tasks you're doing of course.

Cons:

I was convinced to switch to Sketch and admittedly the learning curve was a bit tight.

Reasons for switching to Sketch

A friend/co-worker convinced me to give the trial a go.

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