Sketch Updates

New in Sketch: Glass, progressive blur, concentric corners, and more

2025-08-20T07:30:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App / Web App / iOS App

Our second 2025 update — Barcelona — is here. While we’re hard at work redesigning Sketch for macOS Tahoe, we’re releasing this update with our glass effect now to help you redesign your own apps for iOS 26 and macOS 26. That’s not all this update brings, either.

Introducing: Glass

An all-new glass effect. Yes, the one you’ve been asking for. You’ll find it under a new Effects section of the Inspector, where you can apply automatic settings or tweak every parameter to your liking. It’s a lot of fun to play around with.

Read our glass documentation

Concentric corners

You can now set a layer’s corner style to Auto. This automatically aligns them visually with the corners of the nearest container that has corner properties. We calculate this based on the layer’s distance to that container — or the container’s padding if it’s a stack.

Read our corner styling documentation

Progressive blurs

In the Effects section of the Inspector, you’ll find new layer and background blur options. Choose from Uniform (replacing the previous Gaussian and Background options), Linear Progressive, or Radial Progressive. Progressive blurs support multiple adjustable stops, like gradients, which you can move freely on the canvas.

Read our blurs documentation

Progressive alpha

We’ve added a new button next to the opacity slider in the Inspector to switch to progressive alpha. This gives you a faster and easier way to fade out a layer compared to setting up an alpha mask. You can also adjust and add stops to the opacity gradient on the canvas.

Read our opacity documentation

New Apple UI Libraries

Apple has updated their Sketch Libraries with glass for both macOS 26 and iOS 26. You’ll find them in Settings > Libraries.

30 more improvements and fixes

Along with the headline features, you’ll find a number of smaller improvements in Barcelona — from being able to add search keywords to components (making them easier to find in the Command Bar), to P3 color space support for WebP exports. There are also plenty of bug fixes and performance improvements to keep things running smoothly.

2025.1.4

2025-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

Fixes

Fixes a bug that meant it was possible to paste a symbol source inside an existing symbol source in some cases.

iOS

Fixes a bug that could prevent you from adding comments to documents.

2025.1.3

2025-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

Changes

We’ve updated how we convert Artboards to Frames — this happens when you open an older document after this update. If an Artboard didn’t have “Adjust content on resize” enabled, we’ll now set a fixed height and width for its contents, and pin them to the top-left corner. This preserves the previous behavior where resizing the Frame won’t proportionally affect the size or position of its contents.

Important: This change does not affect documents that you have already opened in a previous Athens update. It only applies to older documents you open in v2025.1.3 or later.

Fixes

Fixes a bug that meant it was possible to nest a Symbol source within another Symbol source when you moved layers within the Layer List.
Fixes a bug where editing a layer which uses borders and shadows (with no fills) could leave artifacts on the canvas.
Fixes a bug where layers you set to ignore stack layout would not respect their pins when you resizes containing stack on the canvas.
Fixes a bug that caused Sketch to hang when you imported certain Figma files.
Fixes a bug that caused undo/redo actions to behave unexpectedly when you were working with layers within a stack.
Fixes a bug where changing a background blur to use only the saturation effect could still render it blurred.

API

Restores context key-values path, url and request for an ‘Export Slices’ action.

2025.1.2

2025-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

Fixes

Fixes a bug that caused some plugins to stop working.

2025.1.1

2025-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This version brings bug fixes and minor improvements, plus all the great features from our Athens update.

Improvements

You can now add tints to layer styles. You can also now copy or move a layer style’s fills to tints via options in the Layer > Style menu.
We’ve improved Sketch’s performance when you work with motion and zoom blurs.

Changes

If a layer you’ve selected has its position managed by Stack Layout, we now disable the X and Y fields in the Inspector for it.

Fixes

Fixes a bug that could cause Sketch to crash when you opened an older document version that contained a text-related property we no longer support.
Fixes a bug where a background blur could render incorrectly if you placed it inside a Frame which already had another blur.
Fixes a bug that renamed a Symbol source unexpectedly when you changed its container type.
Fixes a bug that could cause a frame’s fills to bleed through at the edges of layers within that frame, if you’d set the frame to clip its contents.
Fixes a bug that caused the Layout panel to incorrectly appear when you selected a graphic.
Fixes a bug that caused some stacks to resize unexpectedly when you deleted nested groups from within them.
Fixes a bug where items within a Stack that you dragged to re-order could unexpectedly became nested within other nearby items in the layout.
Fixes a bug that could stop you from deleting layers in a Stack if they were nested within a group that used Smart Layout.
Fixes a bug where the canvas wouldn’t refresh as expected when you replaced symbols in some cases.
Fixes a bug that meant a hidden symbol source in a document would stop the Components View from loading when you viewed that document in the web app.
Fixes a crash that could occur when you imported an SVG with a gradient that uses the CSS color() function.
Fixes a bug where using the transform tool on a shape with blurs could lead to unexpected results.

New in Sketch: Stacks, Frames, and so much more

2025-05-27T07:30:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App / Web App / iOS App

Our first update of 2025 is the largest we’ve ever shipped. It introduces an all-new layout tool — Stacks — and some big foundational changes in the form of Frames. It also brings major improvements to the Command Bar, and so much more.

We’re calling this release Athens. As a city, it’s the birthplace of democracy — something we greatly value — and home to some of the foundational architecture of the modern world. And this release is all about foundational architecture.

Introducing: Stacks

Yep, it’s finally happened. An all-new layout tool in Sketch. If you know auto layout in Figma, or stacks in Framer, this is our take on it.

With Stacks, you can create anything from buttons that grow or shrink to fit their labels, to entire interfaces with nested layouts that adapt to container size or content.

You have full control over a stack’s size, padding, alignment, distribution, and styling. You can also choose if items in a stack have a different alignment, fill all available space, or ignore the layout altogether.

Blog post: Rethinking layout in Sketch with Stacks Read our Stacks documentation

New containers: Frames and Graphics

Stacks are only half the story in Athens. We’re also introducing Frames — a new container that replaces artboards, made for UI design, that works hand-in-hand with stacks.

You can nest Frames, style them with multiple properties (no more background layers!), set resizing constraints for their contents, or give them a stack layout.

For icons and illustrations, we’re introducing a different container type — Graphics. They have a fixed size, and their contents will always resize proportionally. They also offer a more focused Inspector, with no pinning or resizing controls.

Groups are sticking around, too. You can use them to organize layers and keep them together without additional properties.

Blog post: Frames and Graphics — a not-so-short guide Docs: Frames and Graphics

Components in the Command Bar

We’ve all struggled with those deeply nested menus when inserting components, so we’ve replaced them with something far more efficient. The Command Bar now makes it easy find and insert Symbols Y, Text Styles ⌃T, Templates, Layer Styles and Color Variables from the Command Bar S. You can also swap any component you’ve selected with ⌥⌘R.

We’ve replaced the Inspector menus for swapping Components with a new popover inspired by the Command Bar. It shows more useful information, supports keyboard navigation for Libraries, and comes with a number of useful shortcuts.

We’ve improved Symbol thumbnails with customizable dark or light backgrounds, added rich previews for other component types, and new keyboard shortcuts to quickly drill down through your Libraries.

Blog post: Components in the Command Bar Docs: Command Bar

100.4

2025-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release fixes a bug which could cause unintended data to appear in internal crash logs. We recommend you update to this version of Sketch as soon as possible.

101.9

2025-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release fixes a bug which could cause unintended data to appear in internal crash logs. We recommend you update to this version of Sketch as soon as possible.

101.8

2025-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release fixes a bug where documents with lots of text layers would cause Sketch to slow down and use a lot of system memory. It also fixes a bug that caused Symbols to disappear or change unexpectedly in the web app when you saved a new version of your document. Thanks for reporting these!

101.6

2024-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release fixes some bugs and crashes you’ve been telling us about — thanks for your reports!

Fixes

Fixes a bug that stopped you from changing the default character and line spacing values for text from the Inspector, either via the stepper controls or by dragging on the labels.
Fixes a bug where activating or deactivating fonts could cause Sketch to crash.
Fixes a bug where new Workspace document thumbnails would sometimes not display correctly.
Fixes a bug that meant renaming multiple layers using regular expressions with non-roman characters would not work.

101.5

2024-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release fixes some bugs and crashes you’ve been telling us about — thanks for your reports!

Fixes

Fixes a crash that could occur when you edited a layer that was being used as an alpha mask.
Fixes a bug where document thumbnails would sometimes not display correctly when you dragged a local document onto the Workspace Window to upload it.

101.1

2024-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release includes all the great new features we just shipped (Smart Animate, better PDF exports, Spanish localization, easy Library swaps, and more…) along with a few important bug fixes that you’ve reported. Thanks for all your feedback!

Fixes

Fixes a bug that caused contents of the Recent Documents view in the Workspace window to reset every time you relaunched Sketch.
Fixes a bug that caused some Symbol overrides, Layer Styles and Color Variables to disappear if you copied and pasted that Symbol into another document.
Fixes a bug that stopped overrides for hidden layers with custom layer visibility inside a Symbol from showing in the Inspector. This fix brings back the previous behavior, showing overrides for those hidden layers where you have set a custom layer visibility for Prototyping interactions.

101

2024-09-18T08:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App / Web App / iOS App

Smart Animate

Smart Animate looks for layers with the same name across different Artboards and animates their changes. If you’ve used Magic Move in Keynote, you’ll pick this up fast! You can control movement and timing with easing and duration options — for Smart Animate and all other transitions. There’s also another new transition type — dissolve — which adds a smooth fade between Artboards or Overlays.

Read the blog post

Easy Library swaps

You can now easily replace Libraries in your documents, replacing Components with the same names and locations. It makes designing for dark and light modes or adapting a site for different sub-brands faster and easier. You can choose whether replacing a Library will affect all Components, a specific type or just a selection.

Read the docs

Color Variables in gradients

It’s been a long time coming, but you can now use Color Variables in gradients. Now, when you update a Color Variable, it will update any gradients that use it too. There’s not much more to say with this one except that we’re glad it’s here, and we hope you are too!

Read the docs

Di ‘hola’ a diseñar en español

You can now use the Mac app in Spanish and interact with the UI in a more familiar and intuitive way. To use Sketch in Spanish, make sure you’ve set Spanish as your Mac’s primary language — or set a custom language for Sketch in System Settings.

Learn more

Better PDF exports

You can now choose which Artboards to export and whether you want to display their title or render them as bitmaps. For Workspace documents, you can also export all comments — either as part of the PDF or as a CSV file.

A cleaner, fresher web app UI

2024-09-18T07:30:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

Following our refresh of the web app’s document view, we’ve given the rest of the UI a redesign as well. Along with a new font (Inter, if you’re wondering), we’ve also redesigned the sidebar, overhauled settings with dedicated pages, and improved the hierarchy of project, document, and collection thumbnails.

See it for yourself

Export any asset from the web app

2024-09-18T07:20:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

Developers using the web app for handoff can now export any layer in a document without it being set to export in the Mac app first. They’ll have full control over things like size/scale, format and file naming conventions — all within the browser and on the fly.

Learn more

100.3

2024-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release fixes a bug and lays the foundations for new features in the next major update.

100.2

2024-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

This release updates our Figma file importer to work with the latest Figma file format — everything should now work as expected. Thank you for your reports!

100.1

2024-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

Thanks for all your feedback on version 100! We’re already busy working on our next big update, but thought we’d take a moment to fix a few of the bugs you’ve been running into.

Fixes

Fixes a bug that made Sketch slow to respond, or freeze completely, if you had the app open for a long time. You may also have noticed this more if you used the undo action a lot (this fixes that as well).
Fixes a crash that could occur when you opened documents with certain fonts on macOS Sonoma.
Fixes a bug that blocked you from opening bitmap images in Sketch if you downloaded the app from the Mac App Store.
Fixes a ghost notification that would inform you about Component updates when there were none. Spooky.
Fixes an issue where changes to Figma’s file format prevented our .fig file importer from working properly.
Fixes a bug that caused the eyedropper tool to stutter or lag briefly on particularly large documents.

100

2024-05-07T07:01:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App

Scroll areas in prototypes

Make your prototypes scroll in any direction — from a simple row of cards, to a full size map. Set up scroll areas in seconds and adjust them right on the Canvas.

Read the docs

Hover, press and toggle triggers

We’ve added new hover and press interactions, alongside the classic tap/click. Use these to trigger overlays, or even hide or show specific layers (that’s also new with this update). There’s also a new toggle option to show and hide a layer or overlay with each click or tap.

Read the blog post

Command Bar

Press ⌘K in any document to open the Command Bar and quickly access tools, actions, and plugins. Over time, it will learn your preferences and bring your most-used actions to the top of the search results.

Learn more

Minimap

Find your way around fast on an infinite Canvas. The Minimap will appear whenever you have layers outside your view, and show you exactly where you are in the current document. Simply click and drag on it to pan around.

Pin documents and projects

Pin important documents and projects to the top of the sidebar in the web app and Workspace window in the Mac app. Pinned items are personal to you, so you can use them in whatever way suits your workflow best.

Read the docs

Discover in the Mac app

You can now access Discover via the Mac app too. You’ll find it at the top of the Workspace Window’s sidebar — the latest updates, learning resources and helpful links right at hand.

Find out more

Permissions groups

For Business plan customers, it’s now easier to manage who can access documents and projects by assigning pre-made groups of Workspace Members to them.

Read the docs

Archive projects

For Business plan customers, we’re introducing the option to archive projects, giving you a handy space to file away inactive projects, and stay focused on what’s in flight.

Find out more

View prototypes at Full Width

2024-05-07T06:58:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

You can now preview your prototypes at Full Width, making them automatically span to fit the whole browser window — even when you resize it.

New sharing options for prototypes

2024-05-07T06:57:00+00:00

Tags: Mac App / Web App / iOS App

We’ve made it easier to hide hints and hotspots when sharing prototypes. There’s also a new sharing option that removes toolbars and navigation for a more focused, client-friendly experience.

Read the docs

Add comments to prototypes

2024-05-07T06:56:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

You can now can view and add comments while playing prototypes — right in the web browser — with no need to switch back to the design. Great for gathering feedback without interrupting anyone’s flow.

Read the docs

Refreshed web app UI

2024-05-07T06:53:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

We’ve refreshed our web app’s UI, making it easier to navigate and helping you focus more on what matters — your designs. We’ve removed the sidebars, making more space for the full Canvas view, while keeping all the tools close at hand.

Open the web app

Inspect from full Canvas view

2024-05-07T06:52:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

You can now inspect designs in the web app with all the context that comes from the full Canvas view. Open up a design in your browser, click the Inspect icon and select whatever you need, right on the Canvas.

Read the docs

Export Design Tokens

2024-05-07T06:51:00+00:00

Tags: Web App

In addition to Color Tokens, you can now export Layer Styles and Text Styles as Design Tokens — right from the web app. You can download your design tokens, or create an always-up-to-date public link for them.

Read the docs