Inkscape Alternatives and Similar Software

Adobe Illustrator CC

Design quickly and confidently with Adobe Illustrator software. Sophisticated tools for drawing and typography, along with advanced color controls and creative effects, provide a comprehensive vector graphics environment. Explore more efficient ways of working with multiple artboards, a Blob Brush tool for intuitive vector painting, and transparency in gradients with on-object controls.

• Its a very reliable service-- i would consider it better than inkscape Guest • 8 days ago Disagree   Agree
• Clean user interface makes up for good workflow. Guest • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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Pencil Project

Pencil is a standalone app or Firefox extension that lets you create diagrams or UI mockups. It doesn't have collaboration/multi-user features. The Pencil Projects unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Electron / Atom Shell ... Firefox

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Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available. Whether you’re working on graphics for marketing materials, websites, icons, UI design or just like creating cool concept art, Affinity Designer will revolutionise how you work.

• Affordable price and better interface than Inkscape. Guest • Jan 2017 • 7 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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LibreOffice - Draw

Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for producing technical drawings, general posters, and much else.

• Open Source vector graphics editor can create SVG files. Guest • Aug 2015 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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Sketch

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite

With vector illustration, page layout, photo-editing and tracing software, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 is ideal for professional and occasional designers tackling any type of graphics project. Precision design tools, market-leading file compatibility and high-quality graphics content help you turn your creative ideas into professional results.

Commercial Windows

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Canva

Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: - blog graphics - presentations - Facebook covers - flyers - posters - invitations - and so much more

• Looking at the screenshots it seems it's tailored to produce presentations / documents, while Inkscape is more generic and low level. Guest • May 2018 Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Web iPhone iPad

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Clip Studio Paint

Clip Studio Paint, previously Manga Studio or ComicStudio in Japan, is a family of software applications for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows used for the digital creation of comics and manga. It delivers powerful cutting edge drawing and coloring tools, making it essential for professional comic and manga artists.

Commercial Mac Windows

67 Like

Boxy SVG

Boxy SVG is a vector graphics editor simillar to Adobe Illustrator, Sketch and Inkscape. Made with and for the modern Web Platform. Can do illustrations, icons, banners, mockups, charts, buttons and more. Features Transforms - Move, resize, rotate and skew any object, either by using on-canvas editing handles or by entering the values manually. Groups - Group and ungroup objects. Easly navigate nested groups using edit tool or the breadcrumb widget.

• Super intuitive for creating, and manipulating vector graphics. Solved in 10 min. what others couldn't after hours. Guest • Jun 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Mac Windows Chrome OS Chrome

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Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. Rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces with Adobe Fireworks CS4 software. Create and optimize images for the web more quickly and accurately than ever before with an enhanced toolset.

Commercial Mac Windows

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Vectr

Free vector graphics software used to create graphics easily and intuitively. Vectr is a simple yet powerful cross-platform graphics editor to bring your designs into reality. Get started immediately without the massive learning curve. Whether you’re working on graphics for marketing, logotypes, icons, website UI designs, brochures or vector art, Vectr’s intuitive tools let you focus on what truly matters - creating beautiful graphic designs.

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

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Gravit Designer

Gravit Designer is a feature-rich vector graphics tool. It is an installable desktop application. It is also a within-browser application for those who prefer this. It has every design feature this writer is aware of within Inkscape, without the recent issues.

• It's free as Inkscape is which is very important so maintaining that quality is a must. (This excludes Adobe and other commercial alternatives). Less buggy than Inkscape and better UI. The UI is particularly better due to its dark theme, I'm not a fan of software that is bright and tend to code with a black background. ElTortuga • Dec 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Incredible app. High quality app. Completely Apple UI design, elegant and very simple to use. I really like it and it's free. niktesla • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Nice app with better ui ! and better color theme Guest • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Much much better UI, once you find where to change color theme. Killy • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Free program with same functionality and updated looks. Workflow is more streamlined, according to some. Available in the browser as well as on the desktop, both portable and installer versions are available. Covers all the bases! Guest • Feb 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

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Karbon

Karbon, component of Calligra Suite , 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 quickly and easily transformed into high quality illustrations with Karbon.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE

38 Like

Inkpad

Inkpad - Vector illustration app for the iPad.

Free Open Source iPad

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AutoDraw

AutoDraw is an intuitive drawing tool for everyone. It's a Google Experiment project that provides relevant suggestions as you draw, based on what it guesses you're drawing.

• Inkscape is a Vector Picture Editor AutoDraw Is a little minigame where you have to draw a theme/object in a certian amount of time, while yes AutoDraw can be fun, it is not a Vector Photo Editor. Guest • Aug 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Web

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Xara Designer Pro

Xara Designer Pro X10 is a fully integrated single package solution for all your graphic design needs, for print and the web. Illustration, photo editing, DTP and document creation, web graphics and websites - Designer Pro does it all!

• Though commercial it's fast and packed with features. Not as expandable as Inkscape the core engine is very fast and the way it handles bitmaps leaves Inkscape far behind Michiel • Nov 2017 Disagree   Agree

Commercial Windows

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svg-edit

SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG drawing editor that works in any modern browser.

Free Open Source Web

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Bloom

Bloom is a fast, light-weight, cross-platform procedural graphics editor that lets you tweak any action you have ever performed - organized by layer. Bloom is the first editor to allow true non-destructive editing. Every filter, effect, brush stroke or vector edit you apply is stored separately, and nothing is baked in. This allows you to come back to anything you've done in the past and adjust it - without redoing all of the subsequent work.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

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Autodesk Graphic

Autodesk Graphic is a modern full-featured graphic design and illustration application, created specifically for Mac OS X. Packed with many powerful features, and designed to be easy to use, you can use Graphic to create everything from simple diagrams to intricate detailed vector artwork. Import and export SVG, PDF and Photoshop PSD documents, creating simple workflows with other applications.

Commercial Mac iPhone iPad

24 Like

PicMonkey

PicMonkey is a feature-rich online photo editor that works right in your browser; no downloads necessary. Touch-up tools like Teeth Whiten, Blemish Fix, Weight Loss. Effects like Orton, Cross Process, Color Boost, with drag and drop ease. All the photo editing magic of Picnik, with 78% more monkey.

Commercial Web Android iPhone

37 Like

sK1

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

Free Open Source Windows Linux

24 Like

InsightPoint

InsightPoint is a cool multi-scene vector drawing tool for Windows and Linux.

Free Windows Linux

10 Like

Microsoft Expression Design

Microsofts professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images. More oriented towards editing web graphics and creating XAML rather than print graphics. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather as part of the Expression Studio suite. It requires the .NET framework.

Free Windows

20 Like

Webchemy

Webchemy is an open-source cross-platform web-app for creating idea sparking sketches. Based on the desktop application Alchemy, Webchemy takes some of its drawing tools and brings them to the web. Webchemy is great for generating new ideas, but at some point it's better to take your concepts and let them evolve within other tools. That's why you can export your creations as PNG and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).

Free Open Source Web

8 Like

Canvas

Canvas 11 is the single most cost-effective, integrated solution for the creation, enhancement, presentation and sharing of technical illustrations and graphics.

Commercial Windows

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