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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 features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great
care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex
path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and
developer community by using open, community-oriented development. More Info »
Inkscape features Spiro curves (Cornu spirals)
Tweak tool - Move, Move In-Out, Move Jitter, Scale, Rotate, and Duplicate or Delete
Vector drawing methods for most of the work using the Bézier & node tools

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283 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...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Electron / Atom Shell ...
Cliparts Firefox extension Add a feature

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306 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...
Commercial Mac Windows
Automatic alignment Layers support Save as eps Export to PDF SVG Support Vectorize raster
images Add a feature

Clean user interface makes up for good workflow. Guest • Jan 2017

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179 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...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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Open Source vector graphics editor can create SVG files. Guest • Aug 2015

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122 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...

Commercial Mac Windows

Open PSD files Responsive design Add a feature

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124 Sketch

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

Commercial Mac
Live Preview Bitmap Editing Cloud sync Integration with InVision Screen Mirroring Add a feature

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1055 Gravit Designer

A cross-platform design tool for the 21st Century. Gravit Designer is the easiest way to design.
Whether you're doing illustrations, creating a logo or icon...

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

Browser based app Works offline too SVG Support Website wireframing Add a feature

Much much better UI, once you find where to change color theme. Killy • 4 days ago

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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...

Commercial Windows
Customizable Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Add a feature

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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...

Freemium Web iPhone iPad

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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...

Commercial Mac Windows

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Discontinued As described at http://blogs.adobe.com/fireworks/2013/05/the-future-of-

adobe-fireworks.html , development of Fireworks has been stopped, but last version, Adobe
Fireworks CS6 (v12), released in 2012, is still available as part of the
https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-creative-suite/

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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...

Commercial Mac Windows

Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Tablet support Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature

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Inkpad

Inkpad - Vector illustration app for the iPad.

Open Source iPad

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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...

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome

SVG Support Add a feature
Know any more alternatives to Inkscape?

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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...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE

SVG Support Add a feature

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Vectr

Vectr is a free graphics editor. Vectr is collaborative like Google Docs, and runs both in your web
browser and on your desktop as a native app. With an intuitive...

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

Convert images to PDF Add a feature

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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...

Commercial Windows
Photo effects Add a feature

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svg-edit

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

Open Source Web

SVG Support Add a feature

Discontinued Last Release 2015-12-02

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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...

Free Web
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Autodesk Graphic

Full-featured graphic design and illustration application created for macOS and iOS.
Commercial Mac iPhone iPad
Apple Pencil support Add a feature

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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...

Free Windows
Add a feature

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

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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...

Freemium Windows
Desktop publishing Add a feature

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

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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...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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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...

Commercial Windows
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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
Add a feature

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Bez

A vector graphics editor for iPad and iPad Pro, with support for Apple Pencil and Apple Smart
Keyboard.

Freemium iPad
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LineTracer

LineTracer is a tool for converting scanned hand-drawn sketches to vector format. It exports to
EPS, which means the output can be used by about any program. It is...

Open Source Windows

Vectorize raster images Add a feature

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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...

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Web Android ...

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Inker

Inker is a vector graphics editor designed to simplify sketch inking, logotype, comics, tribal or any
other digital drawing. Images created with Inker can be exported to...

Freemium Web Android Chrome

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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...

Free Web
Real time collaboration Add a feature

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Torapp guilloche designer

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...

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Windows Mobile ...

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Discontinued The software is not working. Last Activity 2013/02/25. See

http://www.torapp.info/en/s/changelog.html

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LaTeXDraw

LaTeXDraw is a graphical drawing editor for LaTeX. LaTeXDraw can be used to 1) generate
PSTricks code; 2) directly create PDF or PS pictures. LaTeXDraw is developed in...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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YouiDraw

Draw and Design Vector Graphics, Logo, Text, icon in the Cloud. like online Adobe Illustrator or
online CorelDraw. It gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas...

Freemium Web
Google Drive integration Add a feature

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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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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. ...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Batch Editing Batch processing SVG Support Add a feature

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DrawBerry

All the features of other vector editing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape, in a
free, easy to use, powerful application.

Open Source Mac

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Discontinued The project is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.1, released in 2009, can be
still downloaded from the official website.

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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.

Open Source Windows Linux

SVG Support Add a feature

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ProtoSketch

ProtoSketch is a desktop-class illustration tool for mobile devices to let you easily create vector
designs on the go. Supercharged with icons, fonts, ui elements, basic...

Commercial Mac iPad

Boolean operations SVG Support Vector art Add a feature

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Creative Docs .Net

Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to
quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas...

Free Windows
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Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.3.6, released in
October 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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iVinci

iVinci is a new starting point in vector design industry. It's just incredibly easy, and incredibly fast,
for both beginners and experts. Notable features: -Use...

Freemium Mac
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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...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Packly

The complete packaging solution to create and download die-cut templates immediately, order
3D Virtual Mockup and print high quality personalized package in 48Hrs.

Free Web
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Autotracer.org

Autotracer is a free online image vectorizer. It can convert raster images like JPEGs, GIFs and
PNGs to scalable vector graphics (EPS, SVG, AI and PDF). No registration...

Free Web
Vectorize raster images Add a feature
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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...
Open Source Web
SVG Support Add a feature
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Mondrian

Mondrian offers all the tools needed to create, modify, and export simple SVG files. Basic editing
capabilities Strict drawing with the pen tool ...

Open Source Web

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Autodesk SketchBook Designer

Concept Design & Illustration Software Explore design concepts and produce stunning artwork
with Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer illustration software...

Commercial Mac Windows

Add a feature

Discontinued this project discontinued

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Kleki

Kleki is a multi-platform web app for painting and editing. It features: 4 different brushes;
pressure sensitivity for Wacom tablets; up to 8 layers; numerous filters...

Free Web
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diagrams

Diagrams is a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector

graphics, using the Haskell programming language.

Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Ras2Vec

Raster to vector conversion program for Windows 95/98/NT that takes 1 bit x pixel BMP or TIFF
images and emit HPGL, DXF, EMF or TXT files. Ras2Vec is released with full...

Open Source Windows

Vectorize raster images Add a feature
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Adobe Illustrator Draw

Create elaborate, finished illustrations with easy and intuitive touch controls. Send your artwork
as layered files to...

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Layers support Support for styluses Add a feature
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Vector Artist

Explore your creativity with Vector Artist! Whether you are an artist, a designer or just for fun!
Vector artist is great for the beginner and a useful tool for...

Commercial Windows Android iPhone Windows RT Android Tablet ...

SVG Support Add a feature
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Vectornator

Vectornator Pro is a vector-based drawing app that allows you to easily create sensational
graphics from anywhere, whether you’re in a cafe, in a park, on the train or...

Commercial iPhone iPad

Layers support Export to PDF SVG Support Add a feature
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AutoDesk Vectorize it

Autodesk Vectorize It is a simple to use mobile app for creating editable vector drawings based
on photos and images. With Vectorize It you can take a picture from the...
Free iPad
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Ella

Ella (an acronym for Elegant Light Linux Animator) is a light animation software intended to
achieve a aim of the Linux world : a functionnal and WYSIWYG (What You See...

Open Source Linux

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Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.4.2, released in 2012, can be
still downloaded from Launchpad.

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Paintastic

Paintastic allows you to make beautiful drawings, paintings, designs and greeting cards. With just
a few strokes on your Android smartphone/tablet you can create...

Logo creator software with vector design tools that allow to scale logos to any size without losing
their sharpness and clarity, and import and export SVG files that...

Commercial Windows
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Biff

Biff is a Vector Graphics application. It's easy to create graphics for your Website, Poster, or
anything else. Create Amazing Logos and App Icons with simplicity...

Commercial Mac
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Bluetail

Bluetail is a beautifully designed easy to use vector drawing application to help you create
inspiring vector graphics. Bluetail has all tools, giving you power that...

Commercial Mac
Export to PDF Add a feature
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FlySketch

FlySketch from Flying allows you to draw on top of any program which can't draw itself.

Free Mac
Tablet support Add a feature
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Crello

Crello is an online graphic design editor that offers over 6000 free design templates for social
media posts, advertising materials and other graphics.

Free Web
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Artipic Photo Editor

Artipic is a multi-platform image editing system that allows you to quickly and easily edit,
retouch, compose and distribute your pictures and photos.

Commercial Mac Windows

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GLIPS Graffiti Editor

The GLIPS Graffiti editor is a cross-platform SVG graphics editor. It enables to create regular SVG
files and SCADA HMI applications that can connect to any data...

Free Mac Windows Linux

SVG Support Add a feature

Discontinued Last Update: 2013-04-17: https://sourceforge.net/projects/glipssvgeditor/

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VectorNow

VectorNow is a raster to vector converter, that convert BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPG file into editable
DWG/DXF file.

Commercial Windows
Vectorize raster images Add a feature
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xfig

Xfig is a free and open source vector graphics editor which runs under the X Window System on
most UNIX-compatible platforms. In Xfig, figures may be drawn using...

Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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PageFocus Draw

This is an easy-to-use, and yet powerful desktop publishing program. It contains a broad range of
tools for meeting your publishing requirements. Use it for creative...

Commercial Windows
Desktop publishing Add a feature
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IDesign

Precision 2D vector drawing & design for the iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch. Make professional
quality designs, illustrations and technical drawings on the move...

Commercial iPhone iPad

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Swipe Draw

The program allows you to draw graphic shapes directly on a sheet of paper. The new way to
create vector graphics, graphic shapes are drawn with his finger on a piece of...
Freemium iPhone iPad
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Mayura Draw

Mayura Draw is a vector-based drawing program. Unlike bitmap-based "paint" programs, vector-
based drawing programs define each object that constitutes the...

Commercial Windows
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InstaLogo

InstaLogo is a professional Logo Design Suite App for Android and iOS that let's you create
professional branding for your business in a matter of seconds from your...

Commercial Android iPhone iPad

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Penguin - Delightful Vector Graphics Editor

Penguin puts the power of great design in your hands. Create beautiful vector artwork on your
iPad with Penguin. Illustrations, logos, graphics, posters, diagrams and...

Commercial iPad
SVG Support Add a feature
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Cenon

Graphical tool of a special kind. Build upon a modular graphics core, Cenon offers a wide variety
of applications. The feature-rich Cenon core is open source software...

Open Source Mac Linux

Desktop publishing Add a feature
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Sketsa SVG Editor
Sketsa is a cross platform vector drawing application based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
The visual design tools allows designer to select, draw, and edit objects...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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Aphalina Designer

Vector drawing tool with nondestructive Boolean operations, smart shapes, gradient fills,
shadows and so on built exclusively for tablets and hybrid devices on Windows...

Freemium Windows
SVG Support Add a feature

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Recent comments

Nice Vector App

The cons: Why the hell is the Y-axis reversed? There should be a Pixel Layout as default instead
of millimeters or...

Review by kardaw4 on Inkscape

Inkscape SVG not always cross platform but more pros than cons.

Great program, does things that Illustrator can't but it does fall over or die with bigger files.
Pros: colour picker...

Positive Review by phillipsalf on Inkscape

easy to use but still have one problem

if i copy the the diagram from excel to inkscape, it's not vector any more. so i have to use
illustrator to edit excel...

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