Inkscape Alternatives for Windows

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 • Oct 2018 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• No words to say how good it is. GarretJones136 • Aug 2018 • 0 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Clean user interface makes up for good workflow. Guest • Jan 2017 • 5 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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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.

• 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 • 2 agrees and 2 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 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• 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 • 4 agrees and 7 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

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

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Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available. Built from the ground up over a five-year period, every feature, tool, panel and function has been developed with the needs of creative professionals at its core. With continuous innovation and development, the result is a ground-breaking application that will revolutionize how you work.

• Affinity is an established product with the possibility of growth backed by a company. While Inkscape is open-source software, updated by volunteers. For now, I'll stick with Affinity but I'd prefer to work on Inkscape if only it could make the same usability quality jump that Blender did with its 2.8 update. Guest • Jul 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Affordable price and better interface than Inkscape. Guest • Jan 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows iPad

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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.

• This is a diagramming tool, not a vector graphics software. Guest • Jul 2019 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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

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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 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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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 $ $ $ Mac Windows Web

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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.

• Clip Studio Paint has very limited vector features. Just for manga inking. It is not a vector graphic editor at all. Guest • Feb 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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.

• Inkscape shows much more intuitive interface and workflow, as well as much more complex capabilities. Guest • Mar 2019 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Vectr requires an Internet connection. Guest • Nov 2018 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It has better ui, and more easy to use temfrong • Apr 2018 • 0 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

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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.

• I can rotate the picture better than inkscape Guest • Jul 2019 Disagree   Agree
• Super intuitive for creating, and manipulating vector graphics. Solved in 10 min. what others couldn't after hours. Guest • Jun 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Mac Windows Chrome OS Chrome

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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.

• Karbon and Inkscape are both great and are the only alternatives to each other that support the same wide range of operating systems. Guest • Jan 2019 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE

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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

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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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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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Windows

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Dotgrid

Dotgrid is a simple vector drawing application. Clicking on the canvas will insert control points, up to 3CPs. CPs can be moved with the arrows. Clicking one of the path icons, or pressing one of the shortcuts, will draw a stroke between them. The newly created segment's handles can be moved by clicking and dragging them.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Alva

Alva works with your production frontend components, adding up-to-date, responsive, and interactive designs to your living styleguide. You can start with a minimal set of components to sketch concepts and do fast iterations with your development team to create and enrich components, from atoms to modules and entire pages and a full-featured styleguide. But you can also add Alva designs to existing style guides.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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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.

• Discontinued No longer developed, but now available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center.

Free Windows

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InsightPoint

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

Free Windows Linux

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Vector Paint

Vector Paint is a drawing program, with a simple yet powerful interface, that lets you draw points, lines, curves and shapes. Features * Style text * Layer, grid and align objects * Freely export and import files in standard SVG format. * HTML5, JavaScript and no Flash This application uses vector graphics, which provide a clear image whatever the magnification. Use for posters, web graphics or printing.

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Windows RT Android Tablet iPad

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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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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer

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

Commercial Windows

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SVG Cleaner

Generally, SVG files produced by vector editors contain a lot of unused elements and attributes that just blow up their size without providing better visible quality. SVG Cleaner could help you to clean up your SVG files from unnecessary data.

• Not for creation of vector graphics. Guest • Dec 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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diagrams

Diagrams is a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector graphics, using the Haskell programming language.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Serif Drawplus

Serif DrawPlus is the affordable, all-in-one, creative powerhouse for drawing, sketching, painting, designing, illustrating and animating! DrawPlus is your one-stop-shop for creative fun, realistic painting, professional logos, stunning interactive Flash animations, layouts and plans, business diagrams and much more. With an abundance of impressive artistic power and a stack of exciting new features, DrawPlus has something for everyone.

• Discontinued Serif will not release another major version of any of our ‘Plus’ range applications. They will however continue to be available for the foreseeable future. https://community.serif.com/forum/other%20products/74586/affinity-is-coming-to-windows

Freemium Windows

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PGF and TikZ

PGF/TikZ is a tandem of languages for producing vector graphics from a geometric/algebraic description. PGF is a lower-level language, while TikZ is a set of higher-level macros that use PGF. The top-level PGF and TikZ commands are invoked as TeX macros, but in contrast with PSTricks, the PGF/TikZ graphics themselves are described in a language that resembles MetaPost.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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QueekyPaint

QueekyPaint is a unique browser-based drawing tool for creating animated drawings online. Visit the massive gallerys and learn drawing by watching the process of your favourite artists. QueekyPaint is free and simple to use.

Free Mac Windows Web

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