Sketch

Sketch is a powerful tool with an elegant interface, all in a single award-winning package. It’s designed to make creating beautiful things a joy, not a burden.

Key Features

  • Supports multiple fills, borders, and shadows per layer
  • Powerful non-destructive boolean operations
  • Smart pixel alignment
  • Easy exporting with automatic slicing and multiple resolution export
  • Vector tools and basic shapes are the foundation for designing icons, websites, interfaces, and more
  • Imported images can be rotated, scaled, cropped, and masked
  • Best-in-class text tool for adding beautiful typography to your designs
  • Symbols allow you to reuse entire groups of content in multiple places in your design
  • Supports OS X’s Versions and Auto Save
  • iCloud sync across multiple Mac computers
  • Single-window interface

Sketch was the winner of an Apple Design Award and was amongst the App Store’s ‘Best of 2012’.

New in Version 3

  • Symbols for reusing elements in your design
  • Redesigned Text Styles and Layer Styles for a better experience
  • Redesigned inspector for quicker access to everything
  • Automatic Slices for direct layer exporting
  • Improved PDF, EPS, and SVG importing and exporting
  • Presentation Mode for showing off designs
  • Improved bitmap editing with Magic Wand, Crop, Invert, and Vectorize tools

Additional Features

  • Optimized for Retina and non-Retina displays
  • Powerful styling options: multiple shadows, multiple fills, gradients, blending, blur, noise, and more
  • Flexible boolean operations to combine simple shapes into complex shapes
  • Artboards and Slices for exporting multiple images out of a single document
  • Unique Color (with RGB and HSB modes) and Font pickers
  • Beautiful native text rendering and text styles
  • Vector and pixel zoom
  • Multi-stop and radial gradients editing right in the canvas
  • Shared Layer Styles that automatically update all associated layers
  • Shared Text Styles for sharing font and paragraph info between text layers
  • Powerful, easy-to-use Vector Tool

Sketch is great for a wide variety of designers and artists.

For Web and UI Designers

  • Web and iOS design templates come standard
  • Copy CSS Styles to clipboard (including gradients!)
  • Slices: export areas on the canvas as images
  • 960 default grid, with support for more advanced grid options
  • Create multiple pages inside a single document
  • Standard Responsive Web Design Artboards

For Icon Designers

  • Artboards: each is its own little canvas
  • iOS Icon Templates
  • Pixel Grid
  • Pixel Effects, such as Gaussian and Motion Blur
  • Round to nearest pixel edge