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Sketch
Sketch puts the focus back on you and your work. Made by designers, for designers.
Where it stands
4.1 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health5 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.7 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Sketch yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Sketch's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 208 ms.
- Security5 / 54 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.7 / 5 · 27 commenters78% of the 27 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Sketch; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“Then, when I could get the new Macbook Pro I stayed for Keynote (imho just the best tool for presentations) and Sketch (as an analyst I sometimes need to create dashboard mock-ups). Now I use Figma exclusively for that…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“OT: But their 8bit graphics theme (which are really not 8-bit, I know...) is so much the wrong message for a product like Sketch that it was a net loss for me. Graphics are important, and styles like that are great for…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“I don't use sketch, so I don't know anything about it. It's mac only and while i have an ipad pro and an iphone, I don't own a mac and dont want one, and thats a mac only app. I'm not sure why sketch would have the…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“> No down sides Figma is significantly more expensive than Sketch, e.g. for individuals: $144/year vs ($99 for first year + $79 for next years), and that's if you choose to upgrade Sketch every year, which you don't need…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App (2020, 346 comments) · Sketch – Part of your world: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app (2020, 19 comments) · Sketch: License Is Changing (2021, 5 comments)
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