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Adobe Illustrator vs Sketch: What are the differences?
Developers describe Adobe Illustrator as "Create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations". The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile. On the other hand, Sketch is detailed as "Professional Digital Design for Mac". Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.
Adobe Illustrator and Sketch belong to "Graphic Design" category of the tech stack.
According to the StackShare community, Sketch has a broader approval, being mentioned in 333 company stacks & 108 developers stacks; compared to Adobe Illustrator, which is listed in 84 company stacks and 61 developer stacks.
Pros of Adobe Illustrator
- Vector Creation2
Pros of Sketch
- Lightweight alternative to Photoshop23
- Mirror designs on mobile devices11
- Reusable elements/components9
- Vector7
- Plugins for everything5
- Real-time design preview on iOS devices2
- Constant updates1
- Thought for UI design1
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Cons of Adobe Illustrator
- Massive disk space usage3
- Adobe Updater to slow you down even more3
- Expensive2
- Not really a tool for web design1
- Clunky1
Cons of Sketch
- Not for Windows4
- Horrible for slide presentations3
