Skencil Alternatives and Similar Software

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Inkscape

Open Source by Inkscape |
Mac, Windows, Linux

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG...

Office & Productivity, Photos & Graphics pdf-editor, illustration, vector, svg-editor
+1 more vector-graphics
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Dia

Open Source by The GNOME Project. |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared...

Office & Productivity portable http://dia-installer.de/download/index.html, workflow, chart, diagram, flowchart
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Adobe Illustrator

Commercial by Adobe |
Mac, Windows

Design quickly and confidently with Adobe Illustrator CS4 software. Sophisticated tools for drawing and typography, along with advanced color controls and creative effects, provide a comprehensive vector...

Photos & Graphics graphics, drawing, illustration, vector-graphics, svg
+2 more vector-drawing, vector-editor
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Microsoft Office Visio

Commercial by Microsoft |
Windows

Microsoft Office Visio makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables that are hard to understand to Visio...

Office & Productivity workflow, chart, diagram, flowchart
+1 more microsoft-office-suite
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Adobe Fireworks

This application has been discontinued. More info: Last version, v 12, was released on 2012, but it will be still available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
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Apache OpenOffice Draw

Open Source by Apache Software Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Draw, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a graphics editor that gives you the tools to communicate with visuals and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is powerful tool for posters,...

Photos & Graphics chart, diagram, vector-graphics, vector-drawing
+2 more openoffice-suite, technical-drawing
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CorelDRAW

Commercial by Corel |
Windows

With vector illustration, page layout, photo-editing and tracing software, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is ideal for professional and occasional designers tackling any type of graphics project. Precision design...

Photos & Graphics graphics, illustration, vector-graphics
+1 more vector-editor
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Pencil

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

Photos & Graphics graphics, animation, illustration, vector
+1 more 2d-animation
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Xara Xtreme

Open Source by Xara Group Ltd. |
Linux

Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD and (in development) OS-X. Formely known as Xara LX, it is based on Xara Xtreme for Windows....

Photos & Graphics graphics, illustration, vector, svg
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Torapp guilloche designer

Free by Torapp.Info Inc. |
Mac, Windows, Windows Metro, Linux, Online

Torapp guilloche designer is a full-featured web-based vector graphic editor for security printing. It runs in Chrome on all major OSes including linux, OSX and all versions of windows, and is the most...

Photos & Graphics portable Torapp guilloche designer runs in Chrome 20 and above currently, graphics, drawing, vector-graphics
+4 more vector-drawing, vector-editor, guilloche, security-printing
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Sketch

Commercial by Bohemian Coding |
Mac

Sketch is a vector drawing application for the Mac with an intuitive, powerful and uncluttered interface.

Photos & Graphics drawing, vector-graphics, sketch, vector
+3 more vector-drawing, line, album-artwork
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Alchemy

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that...

drawing, sketch
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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer

Commercial by Xara Group Ltd. |
Windows

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (formerly Xtreme) is quite simply the worlds fastest graphics software, with truly flexible illustration tools and revolutionary photo handling. A single application for all...

Photos & Graphics graphics, illustration, graphic-design
+3 more vector-drawing, dtp, photo-composition
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VisiTouch

Commercial by Darsoft Inc. |
iPhone, iPad

~ Simple way to view, annotate and share Microsoft Office Visio diagrams ~ VisiTouch helps mobile workers to view and annotate on MS Visio diagrams on their iPhones and iPads. Use it to open .vsd, .vdx and...

Development, Office & Productivity iphone retina, ipad retina, collaboration, drawing, uml, flowchart
+7 more diagrams, built-in-pdf-converter, visio-viewer, vsd-viewer, vsd, vdx, vsdx
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Karbon

Open Source by Calligra Suite |
Linux

Karbon is the scalable vector drawing application in KDE. It allows artists to create complex drawings without losing image quality when zooming in on, or resizing the drawing. Graphic design ideas can be...

Photos & Graphics illustration, vector-graphics, graphic-design, svg
+2 more vector-drawing, svg-editor
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Adobe FreeHand

Commercial by Adobe |
Mac, Windows

Adobe (Macromedia) FreeHand is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics (use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images, also known as...

Photos & Graphics graphics, illustration, vector, dtp
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Xara Designer Pro

Commercial by Xara Group Limited |
Windows

Xara Designer Pro (formerly Xtreme Pro) is a graphic design software for print and the web.

Development, Photos & Graphics design, graphics, animation, flash, drawing
+4 more web-design, illustration, vector-graphics, gif
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VSD Viewer

Commercial by Nektony |
Mac, iPhone, iPad

VSD Viewer is a unique application that allows you to preview Microsoft Visio Drawings on Apple devices. This app is designed for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Microsoft Visio file format (VSD) is a binary...

diagrams, built-in-file-manager, visio, visio-viewer
+1 more vsd-viewer
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PrintDesign

Open Source by sK1 Project |
Linux

sK1 is a powerful illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator.

Photos & Graphics graphics, vector-graphics, svg, graphics-editor
+3 more illustrator, svg-editor, illustrations
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Diagram Designer

Free by Meesoft |
Windows

Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows.

Development diagram, uml, diagrams, flow-chart, flow-charts