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