Sketch Reviews & Insights

Score4.7 out of 10

269 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Sketch are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Easy to use interface: Reviewers have consistently found Sketch's interface to be easy to understand and navigate, with similarities to other prototyping applications. This positive sentiment is shared by many users who appreciate the user-friendly design, making it accessible for both novice and experienced designers.

Versatile symbol libraries: Many reviewers have praised Sketch's ability to create custom symbol libraries or download available ones for free or purchase. This feature allows users to easily create and customize their designs, resulting in a versatile and fast tool that can be tailored according to their specific needs.

Time-saving features: A significant number of users have mentioned that Sketch eliminates the need for manual creation of form fields and UI elements before using them in wireframe layouts. This time-saving feature has been highly appreciated by reviewers, as it allows them to focus more on the creative aspects of their designs rather than repetitive tasks.

Sketch Reviews

4 Reviews

Engineering

Planning, designing, wire-framing and prototyping. Single tool for all.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 4, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using Sketch for all designing and prototyping-related work for my company (Octrax Systems). We are Web and App development company, so for all clients from starting to show user flow till real screens of Apps/Web, everything we are here designing in Sketch.

Pros

Sketch is a very very good designing tool, you can design Graphics, Wireframes very well in Sketch.
Since recently Sketch released the Prototyping feature, It is also good in doing prototyping.
It integrates with external apps/plugins like Zeplin to provide extended functionality.

Cons

Prototyping can be improvised by wrt designer. Right now it is a bit difficult to connect screens as compared to other 3rd party tools.
The community of Sketch is not big enough, sometimes I struggle to get help from the internet.
It is only available for MAC...its better if it would have an online version too.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch is very well suitable for all design requirements. I feel the learning curve is very quick for Sketch as compared to peers Adobe Illustrator, Figma, etc. For highly special graphic designing needs it can not compete with Photoshop. For normal requirements, it is better than Photoshop.

Sanjana Gupta

UI Designer in Engineering at Octrax Systems (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Pixel perfect made easy with Sketch

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a member of our product definition and user experience team, we have many tools to design the user interface of our product and Sketch is typically used for nearly all of our design and layout. The product is primarily used by our team to mock up pixel-perfect ideas, click-throughs and communicating workflow to our development team. Sketch is also coupled with a few other tools/plugins that allow us to make click-through user tests and some content control, allowing us to share ideas in a native way with our developers. Although this is used exclusively in our UX team, we try to include many of our teams in the process of UX and design so we have developers and quality engineers that are also using templates and asset sheets so they can simply layout and share ideas quickly.

Pros

Sketch has a nice plugin and partner set of applications so you can extend the use through partnerships they have built. These plugins can also speed up layouts as well as templates that can be reused quickly.
Sketch has a great layout, support of an eye friendly dark mode and has great organization of assets. You can quickly create pages, groups and control all aspects of the visual effects of each and every level.
Drawing tools are wonderful and they have all the expected graphics based drawing and boolean options necessary for building layouts, icons and effects.

Cons

Although they have gotten much better, the stability of large sketch files was a bit flaky.
I would like to see some online services provided natively to Sketch for things like version control (instead of using Abstract)

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Sketch is a great tool for design for those that may not want to be tied to the workflow of an Adobe suite and have to switch and swap out tools for a variety of needs. If you are not trying to do photo editing or have to do some blending to photos, but are trying to do pixel-perfect layouts with custom icons, shadowing and other effects, Sketch is a great tool. Personally, I have used Adobe's tools but was never an expert in them. Sketch is a quick study and you can build amazing design assets that are easy to share and output. If you build exports of image files for a variety of formats to support many platforms like web, mobile, website etc. that is easy to automate.

Lou Gallo

Team Member in Engineering at Onshape Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Well thought software made with the perspective of designers and developers both.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

From Wire framing of a new product to UI Designing sketch is involved from day 1 of the product development.
The use of sketch starts with the UI/UX team, and revolves around the development teams as well.
The designing team can layout a design and developers can collaborate alongside for changes and tweaks.

Pros

Use of extensions - Directly generate code from the sketch and paste it on for HTML/Swift/Objective-c/Kotlin/Java.
Exports - Directly export the design to other software like Zeplin.
Ease of use - The easiness that the tool carries is quite good as compared to other software in the same category, even a novice can start using it in very less time.
Community Support - The best part is that the software is used by a very large audience, and the community support is quite large and good.

Cons

Quick saves - sometimes quick saves don't work, and the progress for last few minutes is lost.
Layers choices - Choosing layers among nested layers becomes complicated if you have not kept this in mind from the start.
Pre-designed styles - Some pre-designed styles can be given to be built upon to reduce design time even more.

Likelihood to Recommend

Prototyping - Easily create prototypes.
Designs - Well suited in case of visual designs.
Transitioning - If you had been using another software with clashes from your internal team on UI elements and frequent changes and need a fast pace designing it would be best tool to opt for this tool, and learn it in lesser time.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (Information Technology and Services company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A Sketch Review from an entry-level Designer

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 2, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Sketch on a daily basis to complete my design work. While using Sketch I have created vector icons, lo to mid-fi wireframes, all the way to hi-fi visual mockups for my ongoing projects. As a freelancer, it's a great tool and a solid alternative to Adobe Illustrator with a lower learning curve than most design software out there in the market. Whether if you're an entry-level designer or a seasoned veteran in any type of design (graphic, print, industrial, or UX) you'll want to add Sketch to your design toolbelt.

Pros

$99 dollars a year for the Sketch license
Thousands of templates you can find online to help jumpstart your designs
Whether you know the Adobe CC or not, learning Sketch will be a breeze either way
Symbols and reusability of artboards

Cons

Limited illustration support, logo design isn't possible in Sketch
Only available on MACOS
Exports can sometimes come out pixelated, export preview in Sketch doesn't always tell the full story

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch is well-suited for designers that are looking to build mobile and web designs quickly. There is also a prototyping feature in Sketch that allows you to quickly try out your design before you export your mocks to InVision.

Sketch is not well-suited for graphic designers looking to build a poster or graphic from an illustration, I would stick to Illustrator for work of that nature/caliber.

Verified User

Contributor in Engineering (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Pixel perfect made easy with Sketch

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Sketch has a nice plugin and partner set of applications so you can extend the use through partnerships they have built. These plugins can also speed up layouts as well as templates that can be reused quickly.
Sketch has a great layout, support of an eye friendly dark mode and has great organization of assets. You can quickly create pages, groups and control all aspects of the visual effects of each and every level.
Drawing tools are wonderful and they have all the expected graphics based drawing and boolean options necessary for building layouts, icons and effects.

Cons

Although they have gotten much better, the stability of large sketch files was a bit flaky.
I would like to see some online services provided natively to Sketch for things like version control (instead of using Abstract)

Likelihood to Recommend

Lou Gallo

Team Member in Engineering at Onshape Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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