Adobe PhotoShop vs. Sketch

Adobe PhotoShop

3,135 Reviews and Ratings

Sketch

269 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe PhotoShop	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Photoshop is the best known graphics product on the market.	$20 per month
Sketch	Score4.5 out of 10	N/A	Sketch is a visual design tool of use for application prototyping, coming with a wide variety of extensions, plugins, and an active user community.	$10 per month billed yearly per editor

Pricing

Adobe PhotoShop

Sketch

Single App: $20.00
per month

Standard Subscription: $10
per month billed yearly per editor
Standard Subscription: $12
per month per editor
Mac-only license: $12
per seat
Business Subscription: $22
per month billed yearly per editor

Pricing Offerings
Adobe PhotoShop	Sketch
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Adobe PhotoShop	Sketch
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe PhotoShop Adobe Photoshop is superior in terms of its capabilities in terms of photo editing and image retouching. It is more powerful for building high level graphic designs that incorporate things like gradients, lighting, textures and so on. Where Sketch has an advantage over … Incentivized Helpful? Rand Habegger Creative Director in Marketing at Frontline Education (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Adobe PhotoShop Photoshop is broad in its functionality that it overlaps with layout and illustration programs like Illustrator (not as strong as Illustrator in either area) and with UX/UI design programs like Sketch and Adobe XD. (both of which are superior for web/interface design). Since … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe PhotoShop Adobe Photoshop is a professional software for design [and] it is an essential software for designer and professional artist. The best feature among this software are working with each layer separately, combine or merge layers, we can group layers, mask layer, and more with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe PhotoShop We heard that GIMP was another powerful and popular image manipulation and graphic design software, and more importantly, it was provided free for everyone and for all platforms, but one thing that it didn't come with and the reason we chose Photoshop was the number of users … Incentivized Helpful? Donald Boivin Director graphic at Ubisoft (Graphic Design, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe PhotoShop Affinity Photo Photopea Art Rage Incentivized Helpful? Natalia Ransom Sr UX Consultant in Information Technology at Virtusa (Design, 10,001+ employees) Chose Adobe PhotoShop Photoshop is my go-to tool and the only one I use. So for that reason, I am not able to provide examples of any other software that I used which could be similar in function to Photoshop. Other software I use is completely different than Photoshop. Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas De Salvo Chief Executive Officer in Marketing at Edge One Media (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe PhotoShop I've tried many Photoshop alternatives over the years and generally, nothing stacks up. I sometimes use Canva when I need something created and don't have access to Photoshop. It doesn't do the same kind of heavy lifting, but it works in a pinch. I think that's the real … Incentivized Helpful?	Bohemian Coding Verified User Chose Sketch Sketch is quite different from Adobe Photoshop. It's not built for photo editing, which is a good thing. It has just-enough in that area to get you by. Sketch is much more suited for creating websites as a design professional. The app is very fast, streamlined, and easy to use. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch In terms of comparing Sketch with some of it's competitors, I would say that Sketch falls behind Figma due to the fact that it doesn't not have the power of inline collaboration that Figma has developed. It's also not quite as powerful as Axure in terms of providing a usable … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch I constantly use various tools, selecting the right one for each task based on my experience and understanding of their strengths. This allows me to combine the advantages of each tool to complete tasks more efficiently and achieve better results. For example, I primarily use Fi… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Figma and Adobe XD provide features surpassing Sketch in key areas, such as collaboration, cross-platform support, and advanced prototyping. For those who need these capabilities, either Figma or Adobe XD is likely the better choice over Sketch, depending on whether integration … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch I think Sketch it better than Illustrator in a lot of respects. I feel like Sketch allows for more accuracy and precision. I do think it lacks in its collaboration. Unlike Figma it doesn't allow live collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch I would say that it's different enough from the others that it has its place right alongside them. Nothing beats Sketch in terms of its ability to quickly wireframe. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Sketch works well against any UI design apps and the pricing is also affordable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Sketch is great for creating digital assets quickly and easily. It is simple to figure out and easy to use. It has a very clean user interface and isn't a resource hog like Adobe products tend to be. Its export feature is fantastic, generating multiple asset sizes/resolutions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch We went from designing websites in Photoshop to designing in Sketch, and it is certainly much quicker and easier to design in Sketch, and you're more easily able to make sure that our designs are exact in Sketch, as far as spacing exact pixels. I have never used AdobeXD and … Incentivized Helpful? Flavio Bagioli Senior Strategic Designer UX/UI in Corporate at flaviobagioli.com (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Sketch Sketch works perfectly well with Adobe Illustrator, you can seamlessly copy and paste vector artworks and open PDF files. It also [works] very well with prototyping tools such as proto.io and Bravo App. At ExMachina we also selected Sketch for its handover capabilities and … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations at Clearfire, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Sketch Sketch is much better for web design than Adobe products. It's easier to learn and use, and it's a much more efficient way to hand off design files to developers. However, given a choice between Figma and Sketch, I'd choose Figma because of its cloud file storage and … Incentivized Helpful? Muhamed (Muha) Causevic Creative Services Manager in Marketing at Lookout (Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees) Chose Sketch Sketch eliminates all the complexity of Photoshop and it simplifies the screen design process for web, UI, UX designers. It is also much faster software with capabilities to make responsive design quickly. Incentivized Helpful? Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education in Information Technology at Kansas State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Sketch I was a big Fireworks user when it was discontinued by Adobe. At the time most people used Photoshop, but I've never liked Photoshop for web designs because it was built for photo editing, not vector graphics. I've heard Illustrator might be a pretty good alternative now, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch The simplicity, good UI and UX, integration with other apps, and mainly the plugins are the main reasons why we selected it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Again, I would say that Sketch stacks up very well against similar Adobe products in the field. I get the sense, just from the little bit I've used it, that It may not be as robust as some of the Adobe products. However, for my needs (fundamental to the middle of the road use), … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Cantu Marketing Project Manager in Marketing at Billingsley Co. (Real Estate, 201-500 employees) Chose Sketch I think they are both similar and different. I can generally choose an Adobe product when I'm looking for a specific end result. I use Sketch a lot for layout, UI and UX design cause it just takes all the frills out of the equation while giving me an equal end product. They are … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Richardson UX Designer in Marketing at Bluebeam, Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Sketch Ultimately I did not select Sketch, but for a while, it was the software of choice over Photoshop or Illustrator. Photoshop was never a good fit for prototyping, as it's made for intense photo editing and has a lot of UI debt that's built up. It also facilitated a particular … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch While we still hold some Adobe Creative Cloud licenses, we use Sketch much more often, far and away. Sketch isn't great for print jobs, so we use other software for that, but for pretty much everything else, Sketch is simple, cost-effective, and helps us deliver high-quality … Incentivized Helpful? Lou Gallo Team Member in Engineering at Onshape Inc. (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Sketch It was simply a focused toolset that made building a toolset and a process around simple. Some tools required a lot of training to be proficient (Adobe products) and then there were tools like Balsamiq that was fast but did not make pixel perfect anything and was mainly for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch We needed to move on from Photoshop/Illustrator and Adobe XD is better than the other two, but still didn't seem to be on par with Sketch. Sketch is light-weight, but also powerful. It was really easy to use and the designers have enjoyed getting to know how to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Learning curve is good. Transitioning from other softwares does not require attending week long classes to get started Onboarding process is good. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Sketch is great. I "grew up" using Adobe products so it's been a bit of a learning curve, but Sketch is nice for quick designs and collaborative sharing. Incentivized Helpful? Fábio Zuppone Chavasco Senior Product Designer at Qelp (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Sketch All new design tools including Sketch will be better than Adobe. Adobe will try to catch up, but the way they work at that corporation, it will be impossible. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sketch Unlike the Adobe Suite, Sketch was specifically designed for designing digital interfaces. Having built-in prototyping, useful default artboard sizes and shared libraries makes it really useful. Adobe XD is really exciting, but honestly, our files are so invested in Sketch it … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe PhotoShop	Sketch
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (190 ratings)	3.3 (37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (30 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (15 ratings)	5.8 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (54 ratings)	9.1 (8 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	4.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)