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Sketch is a innovative and fresh look at vector drawing for the Mac. Its intentionally minimalist design is based upon a drawing space of unlimited size and layers, free of palettes, panels, menus, windows, and controls. Though simple to use, it offers powerful vector drawing and text tools like perfect Boolean operations, Symbols and powerful Rulers, Guides and Grids.
What's New
Version 1.3:
- Fixes bugs related to undo
- Fixes bugs in SVG importing
- Fixes a bug in Fullscreen on Mac OS X 10.7
- Restores the Distribute & Align functionality
- Fixes bugs in the Smart Rotate tool
- Fixes bugs in the Scissors tool
- Cosmetic update to some of the toolbar icons
- Experimental: adds a pixel preview mode when zoomed in
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:3,714 |
| Version Downloads:541 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Illustration |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:17 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $40.00 |
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Sketch is a innovative and fresh look at vector drawing for the Mac. Its intentionally minimalist design is based upon a drawing space of unlimited size and layers, free of palettes, panels, menus, windows, and controls. Though simple to use, it offers powerful vector drawing and text tools like perfect Boolean operations, Symbols and powerful Rulers, Guides and Grids.
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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.
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Tim27 reviewed on 17 Jan 2012
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.
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Bfulop reviewed on 27 Dec 2011
With the latest version it's stable enough to replace Illustrator for me.
Longer version:
If you're a designer you probably know about the 20/80 rule, which in practice is closer to 10/90. Ninety percent of the time I only use about 10% of the features of Illustrator.
Sketch has all that 10% plus a bunch of other tools that make drawing fast and fun. 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.
- Versions in Lion gives you confidence that you can always go back if you mess up your design. With Versions, saving means saving a point, where you can go back later if you want, the rest is handled by autosave.
- Everything is instantaneous. 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. but they're not something I use that often. 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 2009 macbook pro and with the version 1.2 I have little problems.
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. All that for a price of an Illustrator plugin!
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Mtin79 reviewed on 08 Apr 2011
still i stumble upon the same annoying bugs bohemian coding other app drawit has: bugs in the undo function. as soon as i do undos some objects can loose their previous settings (especially dimension, groups are scattered, ...). which leave me redoing a lot of stuff and ending up in a mess or time wasting.
my recommendation: use it for primitive stuff and to play around until it becomes really stable. for production work: skip it and use illustrator or similar professional software.
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I've found that the undo only seems to work on general functions. So moving objects or filling them in with colour. But it doesn't apply to the actual vectors in the file. If you draw a vector line and then modify it, undo won't help it. Other times, the undo is completely without rhyme or reason. Considering it is probably one of the most important functions in any program, I'd say it is really sloppy to release it as is.
Other problems include strange anomalies opening up drawit files (the vectors are upside down and can only rotate if they are grouped. Ungroup them and the rotation is lost. Also no horizontal flips), strange behaviour in all the window elements that seem to fall out of the program, and a lack of zoom in/out buttons and scrollbars.
All this make for an aggravating experience. I was hoping DrawIt would allow export in svg/pdf, but instead the author releases this to play with true vectors. And with a hefty price tag.
I must say, I am not impressed and won't be buying this or any more software. Adobe's stuff may be really expensive and bloated to the gills (I hate Adobe), but it works. This? Not at all. I would expect this to be an alpha release in the state it's in and even if all the bugs and strange behaviours are ironed out, still not worth $40...
I honestly can't see anyone getting serious work done in this program. Maybe as a means to fiddle with vector design, but not anything accomplished.
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It's a pity: Of all the drawing apps out there, Sketch has one of the best UIs, great, great features, it looks beautiful, and I like the concept of it, with the infinite canvas. Sketch could be my favourite vector app, if just it would work!
Perhaps the developer is great at designing apps but he should hire some good coder.
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PhilippBerndt reviewed on 04 Apr 2011
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jenny_b reviewed on 13 Jan 2011
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Punkish reviewed on 01 Jan 2011
This application needs some serious bug fixing. Plus, it would be nice to be able to export vectors to Omni Graffle, not picts. On the other hand, if Omni Graffle had the Boolean functions, I wouldn't even look at any other application.
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I bought Sketch the day it was released and exchanged tenths of emails with the developer to have at least *basic* features work, then I gave-up on advanced ones :-(
It's a pity, 'cause the potential is there indeed
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Anapat reviewed on 28 Sep 2010