What are we working on?

Our plans can change and sometimes ideas just don’t work out as we expected originally. We don’t want to give you false promises by telling you something will ship on a certain date, then let you down by missing that deadline. Nor do we want to put any pressure on our team with an artificial timeline that compromises quality. A ‘kind-of roadmap’ like this feels like a good compromise.

We’ll try and be as open as we can here. This covers our biggest focuses and priorities, but this isn’t everything. There will be smaller things that aren’t so newsworthy and also things we have to keep a secret (who doesn’t like a surprise once in a while?). Don’t forget — we’re a small team, and we like to stay focused to get things right!

The best way is to download our beta app (sketch.com/beta) and keep it updated — if you have an active license or subscription you can use it. We run every new release through a period of beta testing before shipping it. Occasionally, we’ll make something an opt-in experimental feature, for wider/longer testing. The best way to find out about what’s in testing is to follow this page — and the community forum!

It’s just not our thing. We have a team of great Mac and web developers. That’s what we love working on and it’s where our expertise is. Creating an app for another platform like Windows would mean growing the team in an unsustainable way. We’re a small team and we want to stay focused and keep it that way, working on what we know and do best.

We do have a web app — but we keep it focused on viewing, commenting and developer handoff (which you can do for free, by the way). Much like building an app for another platform like Windows, bringing the full editor experience to the web app would require a huge team and for us to grow in a way we don’t feel comfortable with.

We already do (and have done for a few years now)! Two or more designers in the Mac app can work together on the same document in real-time. Better still, if you invite someone to edit your document from outside your Workspace and they already pay for Sketch elsewhere, we don’t charge you any extra for them. What we don’t offer is collaboration between designers across different platforms — we’ve explained in other answers why we won’t be building a Windows app or bringing our full editor experience to the web app.

This one would be a lot of fun — and we’ve thought about it! But bringing the full editor experience to the iPad would be a lot of work, especially to make the UI make sense. Truthfully, we’ve never felt like the market for pro iPadOS apps makes enough sense for us to enter — and we don’t want to cut corners to make it happen, either.