This is absurd and the replies about it being unusable must be isolated cases, if even true.

I have been using Sketch for over an year as my Primary (99% done) tool for design. 1% is fixing some bitmaps on PS. I use sketch HEAVY, 8+h a day, 50+ artbords in projects, etc. There are some bugs that i know is there thats why i don't use or hack some of sketch features. As example I know that "background blur" sucks - I JUST DON'T use it. Also i don't import 10mb+ images to the artboard and i do split large projects in multiple .sketch files. I know its not cool, that i have to make these "hacks" but it's nothing compered i get in return using Sketch. Fast, intuitive, as i code a lot of stuff I make I just can't imagine my carrier without sketch. And as its made by so small team it's a miracle that they can even compete with adobe.

Making software costs money, man. You can't compare a company who has been making software for years with Bohemian coding.

I completely disagree here. I find adobe products more buggy then sketch. I can deal with a few minor bugs, but sketch is more than adequate for my needs.

Illustrator is far from being "bug free"

No they won't, it's software. It will always have bugs.

Adobe will put enough pressure on Bohemian when Project Comet is released.

It will be good or die from then on. Competition makes everything better.

I don't know what people who claim it's working for them do, but I don't use Sketch very often (I'm a developer, mostly working with other people's files) and I'm still frustrated by how bad it is every single time I have to open it. The only thing I really like about Sketch is its export feature, but that is irrelevant when it can't even render some shapes properly. And I don't mean crazy complex shapes, I once spent half an hour trying to export a rounded plus symbol and gave up because apparently bool operations on two bezier curves are too hard for a $99 vector drawing app. Also, I've been asking for ability to export PNG files with no alpha channel for years and the answer was always soon (when there was an answer at all). How can I take this app seriously?

Yeah sure Photoshop and other Adobe apps have bugs, but they are ginormous decades old pieces of legacy code barely held together by cheap glue and they perform much better than you'd expect them, while Bohemian sells us the promise of a nice lightweight native app, but has failed to deliver one that is usable for years.

Look at Adobe. They've got a full building-load of a team to work on Illustrator— versus the guys at Bohemian Coding. There's literally less people at Bohemian Coding than the number of fingers you've got on one hand.

Growth takes time. Fixing (everything) takes time— time the guys at Bohemian Coding didn't get as much as the guys at Adobe did.

Go switch to Illustrator, perfectly fine. Just acknowledge that the effort poured into Sketch— be it in the past or present— has been incredibly valuable, especially with the number of people they have.

No relationship is perfect. I'm with Sketch, and I don't want to be with anyone else.

The thread would be much more meaningful if you at least list out the problems you ran into. This is just pure ranting. Justsaying.

I'm also curious about what problems you guys have with sketch.

Adobe bugs (and performance) drove me to Sketch.

I'm convinced that the guys at bohemian don't even use their own software. They said on their FB page "we don't ship with known bugs", yet some of these bugs (in 3.4) would have popped up instantly had any designer actually been using the product for a day.

Witch hunt. If you don't like indie output, don't use indie software. Even the big boys have bugs. I use Sketch constantly and rarely run into bugs, especially those that make it "unusable."

I use Sketch a lot, but have much more less bugs than before. I understand your reasons, but I'll ask why so many people pay for Photoshop, that also have bugs and with every version add new features than patch it up and make it more stable.

I'll continue to buy new versions of Sketch because I like it and if Adobe making Project coment that means Bohemia guys, are on good route :)

What are your top 3 biggest issues with it?

Take this nonsense to your personal blog or something chap. Ranting about indie software to a community that loves said indie software is just poor form. You don't see people whining about photoshops horrendous crashing... because this isn't a forum for that. Just saying chap.

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Don't be an asshole.

There is no such thing as bug free software, and all development is a balance between new features, optimizations, and bug fixes. Balance.

This is a rant but honestly I feel that it's just. My main beef with Sketch is its quirks. Scaling objects / bitmaps is awful (not retaining ratios and just doing its own thing with shapes). Not being able to assign a point of origin for scaling is a complete pain. The typography is terrible in terms of bugs and workflow.

I had to use it over a period of three months, 8+ hours everyday and its shortcomings often outweighed its benefits. When it works Sketch is great but when it fails at the most basic of tasks it drives me mad!.

I love the fact that it's a product by a small independent company and they're adding new features with each new release but I won't be ditching my CC subscription any time soon.

Personally I didn't believe the hype and using it for an intensive period of time unfortunately proved me right.

Why aren't you using Antetype?

You claim it to be "the best, most productive tool for UI design I have ever used." on the homepage. "Antetype is the best, most productive tool for UI design I have ever used. It does everything, from websites to mobile apps, and it's just unbelievable how much time it saves me. There is simply no better tool out there if you're serious about UI design." Luca Candela, Product Manager at DataPad

Show me a bug free app and I'll show you my peepee

I Remember when Adobe shipped a version of AI and it had a bug that wouldn't let users export as SVG. That was this year, AI CC2015.

From my personal experience Sketch is now in a state in which I consider it suited for production work: Sketch is helping me getting stuff done far more often than hindering me in my work. There are still bugs (and there always will be bugs, it's software after all), but they are no dealbreakers (for me). Sketch has reached a point where I'm satisfied with its overall quality.

Admittedly, sometimes I'm still reminded of the bad ol' days when it sometimes took me minutes after an update to find major reproduceable bugs: When 3.3 shipped and broke click-through measuring, an essential feature, that had worked for the last 2 and a half years I was once again asking myself if Bohemian Coding actually uses their software, how they cannot find something like that and how this can be shipped to customers. I still find it amusing, that it even was mentioned in that article detailing all 3.4's "new" features, when it was finally fixed in the last update.

In the end, however, I have to say that there is little software on the Mac I feel so strongly about as Sketch. When everything works (and nowadays this is 95% of my time) it is an absolute delight to use. I feel I'm quicker and more efficient than I was or ever could be with any of the competing offerings. I love the little touches, the clever ideas, the wide array of extensions and I hope that with the ever growing support (and hopefully, financial success) of Sketch they further improve the overall software quality and keep on adding features, that make my daily work easier.

The thing that eats me most about Sketch (these days) is that I get an inconsistent experience between systems. I switch regularly between an MBP and a tricked out MacBook that I use for on-the-go work sessions and the bugs I run into consistently are different on both machines. For example I have problems where texts and symbols will randomly disappear on the MBP and booleans get all jacked on the MB - I've got a laundry list of them and yet I've never seen the same bug on both machines. It's just really weird.

Do n't get me wrong, I enjoy working in sketch but if I need to do anything beyond solid color / simple gradients, or simple layouts, it's just faster for me to do it in Illustrator. Those little headaches add up and I just can't afford the production delays half the time.

Luca, it’s not cool to be frustrated with a product, post an ambiguous comment and watch people interpreting what you meant. Sketch managed to break the industry which you have to give a huge credit for them. So many worldwide design agencies have moved from PS to Sketch and their daily workflow. There is a reason for that. I feel there was a bug or two that may have annoyed you - it would be a bit more useful if you just stated what they are. Although if you moved back to Illustrator it may be more than just a bug, perhaps the product just doesn't suit your requirements and therefore Illustrator is still your preferred choice. Which essentially creates room for a completely different discussion.

I'll be one of the possibly few to agree with you. Illustrator is basically a less-buggy, more functional, more mature version of Sketch. It does exactly the same things, with some minor workflow differences, and it does it without crashing, without getting unbearably slow, and without ever reaching a point where you need to do something but can't.

Fully support this comment. No software is perfect, and Sketch is small and innovative, but it's also a tool for extremely professional work and must be a level of quality and polish to match if it wants to really break into Adobe's market share.

I know this feel... When sketch 2 just was realized, I was so happy that so helpful for designers product was launched, but after I tried to run a big project there and very soon give up in cause of all these bugs. Then tried 3 version and was so excited that they had fixed all the bugs, but no, it's still can't properly works with the raster and etc. Guess in the 4th version they fix all bugs.

I would probably be really helpful if you could start a google doc of the bugs encountered. I'm not making the switch from Adobe because I have no idea what I'll encounter. I think if there was a list that people could edit, then that would help the people at Bohemian Coding prioritize what to fix.

Any bugs and Sketch will still be faster than Illustrator and PS.

Love you Sketch and keep these new features coming.

I get your frustration. I'm somehow in the same boat as you. But my main issue here is not that Sketch has bugs, every software does. But the the frequency at which updates are released.

With 3.4 being released, 3.4.1 will fix most of the annoying bugs, buts lots of others will stay until 3.5 (months ahead). Instead of fixing small bug every week / other week, we have to wait like 3 months to get some of these fixed, and be presented with a long line of new ones.

May I just ask: What is the goal of this post? What outcome did you have in mind when you posted this? What positive impact would this have for the community?

I understand that you're frustrated with Sketch. I'm not trying to understate the fact that it's buggy. Rather, I'm questioning the motives of this post.

As it stands, the whole thread is just a mess of people arguing over Sketch's bugginess, with little to no constructive output.

I'd like to think that the motive is to bring attention to Sketch's buggy reputation, and maybe, in some way, help improve the situation.

Sadly, because of the way your post is worded (a rhetorical honest question?), it doesn't seem to be the case. A better post would have been "What can we do about Sketch's bugs?" Maybe list down issues you personally faced (and workarounds). Something that isn't so... aggressive in tone.

I guess I just wanted to remind everyone to always, always, be aware of what your human does.

P.S.: Here's all of Bohemian Coding. Remember that all of them are real people.

Sketch has been more and more unstable since 3.0 imo. Zooming in and out on boards with a lot of bitmaps is horrible, even on a 16gb ram MPBretina. Does anyone know what the most stable version was? I want to go back :(

Community submitted bug reports encountered in Sketch. http://sketchobserver.tumblr.com/submit

Submit a bug you encountered and help making Sketch even better.

I'll always have Adobe products whether they are my primary tools or my backups. I will at least own a copy of Sketch 3.x as long as I have a need to access .sketch files. And as long as I have Adobe products, there will constantly be a question of how much patience I am willing to devote towards software that is similar.

Quit operating on goodwill. Don't do Bohemian Coding any favors. If Sketch has run its course with you, then it's all good. It doesn't have to be for everyone.

I seriously have no idea what you're talking about. I've never experienced ANY bugs in Sketch.

Moreover, Illustrator is horrible. Is it opposite day or something? checks the date of the original post to see if it was posted on April 1st

This is a bit too much. When I first tried out Sketch (around 2.0), I didn't understand the hype. It WAS buggy, zooming was slow, it had a lot of rendering bugs, etc. But it did got a lot better, and from 3.0 it's much more stable. Now it works perfectly for me when I'm doing wireframes or UI designs. Somehow I get more joy of working with Sketch than with Illustrator, especially on UI designs. Although when I'm doing logo design, Illustrator feels much more at hand.

Maybe you are just using sketch for the wrong tasks.

There is no such thing as bug-free software. You can test and test and test before a release and never encounter or be able to replicate a bug that others run into after release. That's why, instead of pursuing the fantasy of a bug-free release, you should encourage the real possibility of frequent updates. That said, Adobe CC — which thankfully does update more frequently than Sketch — is still infinitely more buggy than anything else I use regularly.

No point beating around the bush here, this post is an example of sheer stupidity.

We're better than this.

I'm a huge fan of Sketch, it's what I mostly use. While I admit it has its fair share of bugs, I have yet to experience anything that would make me switch (any consistent bug severe enough to permanently turn me off). That being said, I definitely see where you're coming from.

Luca, can you please provide us with a list of worst bugs you are constantly encountering and which prevent you from adequate working?

I use sketch for the whole last year, and it is doing a great job, comparing to Ps and, especially, to Ai.

Some of the random bugs that pop up in Sketch definitely get me down from time to time. But I guess it all comes back to what you're using it for, and what "done with it" really means. Are you really going to leave Sketch for Illustrator for modern digital design?

In my opinion there is nothing better than Sketch for our field. The flexibility of art boards, vectors, and the spectrum from quick wireframes to polished designs is unmatched with Adobe. It’s truly been built for people like us.

It can be buggy (live text can be brutal, groups and layers can uncontrollably collapse, etc.), but my money’s on them for fixing these things before the ship’s sailed with a grumpy audience.

Ultimately, what works better for you? If it’s Illustrator, use that instead :)

I agree with Luca Candela. The only reason I use Sketch is because I client is using it. I bought it and I think it's so unprofessional to publish an update if all or at least most of the kinks have not been ironed out. I started by using the 3.3 version and when the 3.4 update came I updated it assuming it would work. Wrong! First of all it uses all of your ram (really, I had 4 gigs and it was using all of it and mentioned it on their FB page. It wasn't just me, other people posted the same thing was happening and they had 16 gigs of ram. All of it was being used by Sketch. The memory thing is a huge problem. It slows everything down. moving something a few pixels would automatically show the pinwheel for like 45 seconds or more. Insane. Also, something as simple as selecting an object is a pain in the ass. Common, why is this so difficult??? And everytime I think this is not Open Source software, this is payed sotware. It's unprofessional. An then the program doesn't recognize fonts installed like Fontawesome. Why??? It's insane. If I share the file with someone alse whi has the font installed they get this weird icon instead and the have to go and click on each time the font is used and reselect the font. It doesn't make any sense to me. It such a time waster. I could go on but I'll stop here. I'm only using Sketch for this particular client but for other clients I'll go with Adobe. For those of you who think it's just a few people complaining go to their Facebook page and their facebook group... tons of real complaints. There is no excuse for such crappy versions.

Running out of goodwill? Fulltime sketch user here, I still have tons of goodwill left. Love working with it

I've made a full transition to Sketch in February and I have yet to experience a single deal-breaking bug. The only bug I've really experienced on a semi-regular basis is the lag that comes with zooming in/out.

I'm a pretty heavy Sketch user—almost every day. When Sketch 3 came out there were some issues, but for the last 6 months I have had almost no issues. I'm a Sketch convert, and I have no interest in leaving.

I'm an interface designer, if that helps.

I did notice with the recent update, my files crash when I try to undo and symbols are glitchy. However, I think we are spoiled by web applications that can push updates the seconds after they discover an error.

I am so thankful for every new feature and every new patch that brings certain fixes. As long as the usefulness outweighs the crashes I will keep on using it and have been since 2 years. Even 2 years ago it was much much more buggy and crashes were just something that happened. Today its so much better and stable, anyway what better alternatives are there to compare it with? Photoshop? Well that certainly crashes never :P

I've been working on sketch for 3 weeks now. In the beginning it was really buggy, but I still was feeling better than working in photoshop. Now, after the last update it doesn't crash as much as it did before and a lot of bugs were fixed.

I'm just starting with sketch, but it's great to know that their are improving their software continuously.

As a designer and developer I know very well that with every new feature you make, new bugs popup. No matter how many tests you write for it, there always will be a few that are getting out there unfortunately. Especially if you work on a complex product as Sketch, since there are so many different combinations that can happen inside that app.

Illustrator and Photoshop also comes with a bucket with bugs when they release a new version. http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/problems/common?page=3&sort=recently_active&style=problem

I know the Bohemian guys are really working hard to fix bugs as soon as you report them and before they launch a new release they always have a beta running for several months to avoid bugs in the their final release.

The only thing I know is that I saved hours, days or perhaps months by using Sketch and I'm tremendously thankful for that! Every time I have to export a app icon it reminds me how a wonderful job they are doing!