Sketchvs.Figma

Yes! Figma says it’s not possible. We say that real-time design collaboration is for native apps, too.

Sketch subscriptions come with a shared Workspace, so your team can do everything from designing seamlessly side-by-side in the same space to sharing documents with version histories (with unique links for each and every version).

With Sketch, everyone’s on the same page

Work together, see everyone’s cursors, and break through the finish line with no conflicts along the way.

Behind the scenes: How we added real-time collaboration to a native Mac app

What’s better, a native app or a web app for design work? It’s 2024, so we say why choose? Don’t restrict yourself with a design tool that’s limited to only web tech. With Sketch, you get the best of both worlds.

Truly native

Our native app for designers offers great features that web-based electron apps, like Figma, simply can’t. That means super-fast performance on Apple silicon, native font rendering and P3 color profiles.

With the power of the browser

Share your designs with our powerful web app. Invite collaborators to your documents, then give and get feedback in any browser, on any operating system.

Developers, project managers and other team members get the tools they need. A focussed environment for every stakeholder means Sketch is easier to learn and easier to use, with less distractions. Keep your workflow simple.

Sketch doesn’t force you to have an internet connection to do your design work.

The freedom to work online and offline in our Mac app is right here. Grab it!

You can create new documents, keep existing projects moving and even access Libraries.

You have the freedom to design at any time. Whether you’re going through a tunnel, a power surge, or a detox from the newsfeed, Sketch still works.

Our processes just make sense so you can do better work, and do it faster.

The fact is, you won’t find a UI this intuitive to Mac users anywhere else. Apple set the standard for what great creative software should be — and our goal with Sketch was to make a design app as easy to use as Keynote.

You can say goodbye to Figma’s unfamiliar UI and head scratching moments. Like this, this and this.

Our Mac app makes perfect sense, so you can spend more time on Bezier curves, and less time on learning curves.

Trust is an integral part of the design process. You should feel empowered from the start of your project to the final product.

Take control over who can follow you around in a collaborative document, when you share your work, and even whether you’re on or offline to begin with.

They sure are. Figma forces your assets to be exported using a single color profile, or to go completely unmanaged. If you’re using Figma in the browser, you don’t have the option to change the color profile at all. This means that your end-users might see something different to what you’ve designed.

Whatever you do, don’t let your designs down with a limited and inaccurate color gamut.

With Sketch, you can assign P3 or sRGB color profiles to all of your assets and documents.

Industry: What are color profiles? And why do they matter?

No! That’s the power of our web app.

People that aren’t designing simply don’t need to be distracted by design tools.

What they do need, is to inspect designs, give feedback, and be able to test prototypes.

Invite clients, managers and developers to do all of the above on any operating system, in any browser, with our web app. Better still, you can invite them all for free.

Make handoff a breeze with Symbols that match the components developers work with. Having a single source of truth for your elements isn’t only great for designing, it makes developers’ lives easier too.

You need to be able to control which parts of a Symbol designers can change, and which parts stay consistent. Only Sketch gives you that level of control.

Make Symbols work for your design system and developers

That means causing less feedback and fewer questions, resulting in more time saved for everybody.

Some rules are made to be broken, but which rules everyone follows should be in your control. Symbol override controls make Sketch stand out with full control over when designers can (and can’t) deviate from your established Design Systems.

Manage overrides

Always maintain consistent styles across your designs by deciding which aspects of your Symbols can be overridden by you and your collaborators, and which ones can’t.

If you want to allow free rein to change everything, that’s an option too. The choice is yours!

Sketch Tutorials: How to organize your Symbols and manage overrides

No, you don’t need plugins. Sketch comes with design, collaboration, prototyping and developer handoff straight out of the box. It’s like getting InVision, Zeplin and Abstract bundled into one tool — with all the powerful editing functionality you know and love.

It’s time to wake up from platform fatigue, all the tools are here.

Built-in prototyping

Create prototypes right inside the Mac app and share a link for anyone to test them out, in any web browser, without plugins.

Sketch Tutorials: How to get started with UX prototyping

Easy developer handoff

Developers can inspect your designs and download ready-to-go assets from any browser — for free. All you need to do is share.

Community: How to set up your design process for smooth developer handoff in Sketch

Sketch was once a humble vector drawing application. Now, it’s the all-in-one platform for design, collaboration, prototyping and developer handoff.

As you can see, constant improvement is in our DNA, and we’re just getting started.