What are your favorite Sketch plugins? 💎

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What are your go-to Sketch plugins that you can't live without?

Shivek Khurana · Accepted Answer

It gives some really nifty features like realistic dummy data, images from unsplash and duplication.

Marcus · Answer

Really handy for setting up precise and tidy design files. I use it constantly to set fixed margins for layers, symbols and artboards.

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

🎉🎊 🎉🎊 🎉🎊 Confetti 🎉🎊 🎉🎊 🎉🎊

Tejas Kinger · Answer

Best Sketch Plugin ever since sliced bread if you are into designing webpages.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

Sketch Runner saves me so much time and the spotlight design makes me feel right at home. One of my favorite uses—I'm able to add symbols lightening fast with my keyboard, rather than traversing through menus to find the right nested symbol.

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

React components ported directly into Sketch :)

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Manage different versions of your designs automagically ✨ Perfect for people who *always* want to go back and redo their designs.

Henrique Ourique · Answer

Helps design teams ensure consistency at scale by allowing them to establish, use and evolve a fully customizable shared design system for Sketch.

Chris Messina · Answer

Love this plugin — has so much more potential, but as is, keeps my Symbols and Assets pages sane!

Gabriel · Answer

Manage team assets (symbols, text style, color and layer style) in an external template file in any folder. you don't need to syncing to cloud, works in local environment

You Still you can opt-in to sync via Dropbox, Drive, etc, then share it with co-worker. Work best when working with git too.

By using symbol for element, component, or a page, it can help boost productivity for team or individual.

Scott Valentine · Answer

So many great integrations to speed up your prototyping workflow

Venkata Pracash Gidugu · Answer

Awesome! I use it for images and text regularly

Darin Ji · Answer

SO EASY TO PICK UP ICONS,NO BOTHER DOWNLOADING EVERYTIME

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Sketch Runner is worth the install, if only for the ability to quickly add symbols with a couple of keystrokes. Not to mention the other powerful bits of search/apply/install functionality it brings.

Venkata Pracash Gidugu · Answer

Good one!

Emmanuel Darmon · Answer

Sketch app plugin for generating dummy data such as avatars, names, photos, geo data etc

Venkata Pracash Gidugu · Answer

Great plugin for Sketch when you need a best prototyping tool.

Heidi Helen Pilypas · Answer

This plugin allows you to distribute selected objects vertically or horizontally with distances of your choice. It really comes in handy if you're making a pattern and wish for precise spacing between (including fractions) and for spacing elements consistently.

Tanmay Desai · Answer

Great plugin to create responsive design. I use it with Craft by Invision to dynamically change data and modify page accordingly. I recently used this to create Amazon LaunchPad page for a client.

Venkata Pracash Gidugu · Answer

Very useful for freeing up your Mac storage space. Looks like there is a bug in the system, Sketch app using a lot of storage space for storing temp files/auto save versioning in the system folder called DocumentRevisions.

Benny Chew · Answer

Symbol Organizer is a huge time saver for turning the huge mess of symbols into a neat overview organized by the 'groups' you have provided. It can even delete unused symbols for you. Highly recommended if you want clean Sketch files!

Scott Valentine · Answer

This plugin calculates the color contrast of two layers and evaluates it against the WCAG. It might help you design more accessible products!

Kevin Gutowski · Answer

A great way to easily communicate flows to my teammates. I also use it with every PR I make with Abstract.

Alexandru Stoica · Answer

A great way to move around your page, groups of small symbols like icons, shapes &  colours.

Mark Justin Harvey · Answer

There's still a ton of bugs with InVision Inspect. I still have to use this to outline layouts.

Yefim Vedernikoff · Answer

It might be because I built it 😜 but Diverse UI is still the best way to easily get free diverse images that can be used in your design work.

Kirill Kozionov · Answer

Reduces tension in design handoff, saves up to 30% of the time on getting things done, tracks changes between design versions as a visual difference. Provides useful visual specification browsing, generates scaled assets for different platforms (iOS, Android, Web) and a lot more.

Varun Trivedi · Answer

Easy to use plugin using which you can directly import High quality icons. Powered by Iconscout, this plugin offers more than 340,000+ icons

David Adamu · Answer

Looper is super awesome for creating complex patterns - mostly referred to as 'Processing'. I use Looper a lot and you should definitely check it out - It's free.

Chris Messina · Answer

Sort of a meta-product, but Sketchpacks and Sketch Runner are two great tools for managing and using Sketch plugins.

Heidi Helen Pilypas · Answer

Great for picking colours, I especially like the Google Material Design swatches.

Heidi Helen Pilypas · Answer

This plugin allows you to align to the key object, which was a feature I really liked and depended on in Illustrator.

Sketchpacks · Answer

Super handy when you want to consolidate identical symbols or update existing ones.

Jay Liu · Answer

Perfect for getting elements to be at the same location across artboards --- for InVision/Marvel/etc mockups, and alignment.

Tarun Gangwani · Answer

One keyboard command and you can send your designs to a platform that parses all elements into HTML/CSS. Really handy and a great way to work with developers on your team.

Emmanuel Darmon · Answer

Another content generator, but still useful. Deserve to be in this list :)

Tanmay Desai · Answer

You will not need placeholder text/image anymore. Feed text data using JSON and image data using local folder or cloud services like Pexels. And obviously you can export designs to Invision directly.