That wraps up our guide to the best free drawing apps for MacOS! Did we miss out on one of your favorites? Let us know in the comments which apps you rely on for daily drawing, and whether we should add any additional apps in upcoming revisions to this guide! Need a new monitor to improve your drawing skills on the big screen?
Check out our guide to the best monitors for Mac! Your email address will not be published. Our Recommendation. Runner Up. Everyone Else. August 12, at pm. Fun fact, the organization that develops Firealpaca also make Medibang which is why these two programs are very similar.
Also, Sketchbook is only free on mobile devices you have to pay 20 USD for the desktop version. Eliza says:. Bev says:. July 1, at am. Leslene says:. April 15, at pm. Is there a way to upload photos of them to one of these programs?
Fi says:. Sketch is an advanced graphic design program for Mac. You'll be able to work with vectors and all the tools necessary for any professional in this field.
Your best work happens when tools stay out of the way. Glidagida Jul 11 Sketch is so cool the UI has got to be the most exciting thing I have played with in the last 10 years. It is NOT a replacement for Freehand or any other heavyweight, and it is never intended to be one, but in its niche it is a winner. It makes doing graphics FUN again, when I opened the demo I just played and was amazed at how simple and elegant this programme is.
JohnJung May 14 Was bought it few months ago and haven't used it intensively til today. It's really awesome. It's damn easy to use and powerful. Highly recommended it!
Jynto Apr 15 Great application, terrible name. I keep trying to launch SketchUp, and accidentally launching this instead. Nitpicks aside, I hate that Sketch saves everything in its own proprietary format. Why can't it use a vector graphics format that everybody uses? SVG's only been around for 11 years now. Minder-Softworks Feb 8 I don't do commercial design anymore, so I just needed a vector illustration app for icons and logos and other such stuff, and Sketch fit the bill pretty well.
I had to export all my EPSs from Illustrator into SVG format so I could get them into Sketch, but after that the learning curve was shallow and the feature set pretty comprehensive, especially for the price. The interface was pretty clean and I picked it up pretty quick. I appreciated the lack of Adobe-esque palette overload. I did run into a few glitches that were irritating: 1 A few times it would lock up and crash when selecting an object from an imported SVG file or re-ordering the layers.
For some apps that are self-explanatory, this is okay, but for something like a graphics program that is expected to have a lot of depth, it needs some better docs. Otherwise, it's a great start to a promising app.
Looking forward to seeing where the developer takes it. Alvin-H Sep 2 Bought it as a part of bundle Nov 9th, which i bought because sandvox, and never actually used this app, until 3 months ago, i need to draw something for y little online shop and my hospital team. So try to install and check an update and get it for FREE!!! I tought it'll will complicated, but it's UI is understandable for me, and the result is good i know it's now great but my hospital love it as using it.
Xplicit Aug 16 And I'm afraid to say that Sketch is unable to open eps files. Mlbkxbx Jun 21 I'm afraid to say proper "undo" and "redo" is still as absent as ever Phaleron Jun 18 I was pleasantly surprised to find an alternative demo link for those of us staunchly opposed to the AppStore-only philosophy.
Thank you. It's been quite awhile since I've been truly impressed and blown away by the utility and design of a software application, and then today I used Sketch. This is one very, very, impressive app, which does wonders for the user in terms of workflow and usability. The product is a playground of clever design that adobe ought to have released years ago.
Sketch is a joy to use, and should be in every web designers toolkit. Rubaiyat May 10 Thought this was a terrific app when I first saw it so ponied up for a licence to support the developer. Never used it though. Wouldn't mind if the price was more in line with the use I'd get out of it.
Maclover May 4 That way I could have only one file type for my web development.. I also wish apps could use the "save as" as opposed to "export" for any format..
It always puzzled me. Cosjr May 4 I give this 4. This is revolutionary. Every developer needs to take note. Drfrank May 4 I've looked at Sketch and the now discontinued DrawIt previously, but Sketch 2 is such a significant improvement that I purchased it after using Bohemian Coding's free trial for less than an hour. Jack75 Feb 13 DrawIt has been stoped, SKetch is supposed to replace it, but how come for 2 softwares sharing the same files and code, Sketch is not able to open correctly and properly DrawIt files??
Sketch seems to have made some progress in terms of stability, but it's still way to easy to crash this app. The undo function is still unpredictable, redo factually non-existant. It's a pity… This app is so well designed, and there is even an iPad version now. It could be a great app, really. From time to time I come here and download the latest version to see if it's grown out of beta stage. This time, it took about 3 minutes for Sketch to bring up the spinning beach ball and crash.
There are thousands of ways to crash this app, it's incredible. If you like to play with it, you can use almost every drawing tool to somehow let this app quit itself unexpectedly, in every different way. Takes not more than 30 seconds, if you really want to crash Sketch. However, if you want to work with it, prepare for a lot of frustration.
Sachi Jan 18 Tim27 Jan 17 This app has some nice features. It's fast and seems stable. The thing that I need the most that is missing from this app is alignment of points. I can't select a bunch of points and align them. I have to drag one point at a time. In fact, selecting things in general is hard. It seems like there should be a selection tool and it should allow me to drag and select points rather than shapes.
Maybe there could be a modifier key to hold down to do that? Another thing is I want my inspector visible all the time. Perhaps that could be an option as well?
I don't want to have to bring it up on a per shape basis. Bfulop Dec 27 In short: With the latest version it's stable enough to replace Illustrator for me. In fact if I look around, most logos, vector illustrations that I see everyday, could have easily been created by Sketch.
A couple of things I like that's not in Illustrator : - You can indestructibly round any vector point. With Versions, saving means saving a point, where you can go back later if you want, the rest is handled by autosave.
Drag a slider, change a value and everything changes immediately. It really seems like a lightweight app, that uses just a fraction of my mac's resources. There are a lot of other features, like the decorate tool, etc.
I think the developer has created a nice platform and seems to me he has a lot of fun adding regularly new features. I think he has a clear vision to make a fast, minimalist drawing app and I really like to "be in this app" when I'm working. Even if minimalism means just not having a toolbar, but putting all the tools as teardown like in the iWork apps.
I still appreciate that it's not just a simplified Illustrator clone, but it's a new concept. I guess I've always been attracted to novelty I've been putting a lot of hope into this app about one year ago. Then I gave up because it was just too buggy and I really lost too much time because of the crashes and undo not working.
Right now, at least on my machine the app seems stable enough. There are still some small bugs around related to dynamic shapes for example though.
It's really a small team just one person according to their blog working on the software and I have the impression that they don't have the means to test on a wide variety of machines. I have a macbook pro and with the version 1. Tip about the undo problem: I only lose the undo, when using dynamic shapes. As soon as you create one the undo is gone, even if you delete it.
What gave me confidence to use Sketch more often is that I can export to eps and import from svg. If any time I decide to go back to Illustrator my work is not locked into one app. So here it is. I got Sketch, Pixelmator and maybe I'll get Mapdiva Artboard too one day, for the stackable layer styles.
I'd like to offer some help if I can. I'm using a macbook pro with the latest OS. We'd love to troubleshoot your crashes and fix whatever is causing them - could you reach out to us at support sketchbook.
So I thought i could just delete the app and reinstall it for free. Instead I had to pay 20 dollars for it and now it: doesn't have the color palette feature. Hey we're so sorry you are experiencing glitches with Sketchbook - can you write us at support sketchbook.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age.
0コメント