Sketch is a design platform that offers a native macOS app for design, prototyping, and illustration, complemented by a web app for collaboration, inspection, and asset export. It enables users to create and manage design systems through reusable components like Symbols, Text Styles, and Color Variables, which can be organized into shared Libraries for team-wide consistency and version control.

Features
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Must Have

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Centralized Asset Storage

Version Control & Updates

Asset Organization & Search

Brand Guideline Editor

Shareable Brand Guide URL

Other

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Logo Variant Upload

Color Palette Definition

Typography Settings

Customizable Sections

Real-time Collaboration

Integration with Design & Dev Workflows

Preview Mode

Google & Custom Fonts

Asset Generation Tools

Browser Extension Access

AI Consistency Checker

Automated Notifications

Whitelabel Agency Mode

Pricing
Subscription
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Standard subscription

$10.00 monthly
  • Native Mac app: Design, prototype and illustrate
  • Work privately, offline
  • Collaborate in real-time
  • Web app for any browser: Unlimited free Viewers, Version history and control, Inspect designs, test prototypes and handoff to developers for free, Comment, discuss and inspect on the Canvas
  • Preview on your iPhone or iPad: View documents and play prototypes, Mirror designs from your Mac

Mac-only license

$120.00 one time
  • Native Mac app
  • Design, prototype and illustrate
  • Work privately, offline
  • Save documents locally
  • Yours to keep, forever
  • Collaborative features excluded
  • Access to the web app excluded
  • Sharing and saving documents online excluded
  • Unlimited free Viewers excluded
  • Free trial excluded

Business subscription

$22.00 monthly
  • All features from the Standard subscription
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Unlimited online storage
  • Invoice-based billing
  • Powerful permissions directory
  • Permissions Groups
  • Project archiving
  • Priority support, a dedicated customer success manager, as well as customized reviews and terms (for teams with over 25 Editors)
Rationale

Sketch is primarily a design tool, not a dedicated brand guideline and asset management platform like ybrand. While it offers features for organizing design components (Symbols, Text Styles, Color Variables, Layer Styles) in Libraries and allows for sharing and version control, it doesn't explicitly provide a 'Brand Guideline Editor' or a 'Shareable Brand Guide URL' in the same way ybrand does. Its 'Libraries' function as a centralized asset storage and organization system, and it supports version control for these components. It also allows for collaboration and has integrations with other design and development tools. However, the core focus is on design creation and collaboration, with brand asset management being a secondary function through its component library system.