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Lunacy Editor 3.0 - Free Windows app that opens, edits, and stores .sketch files

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The Icons8 team rolls out a global update for Lunacy, a native Windows app that opens, edits, and stores .sketch files. In short, it’s long-awaited Sketch for Windows. It helps design teams working on different operating systems and improves the transition from design to development. It's a beta version. And it’s completely free.

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I’d love the same tool for macOS, bc I’m pissed what Sketch-team does in the recent times: shitty features, no bug fixing and performance degradation :( So if you’ve managed to make it work on Windows (hopefully it’s a wrapped webview) — it’s easy to make it work on Apple devices.
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Hi! Since it is a native Windows app it won't be easy to create it for MacOs. Hopefully Sketch creators will fix those bugs and performance degradation soon. And it is not a webview :)
oh I see. Thanks for the response. There’s no hope for Sketch to fix outstanding issues.
Maybe the best move for you would be to switch to Figma?
Maker
or XD, or couple more. Cons: once we switch, we have to leave the Sketch ecosystem, the de-facto standard for design.
Sorry I mentioned you, my comment was meant for . There are indeed many (new) design tools these days to choose from. The de-facto standard 5 years ago was still Photoshop so I don't think that it would be a problem for designers to adapt to something new. Nevertheless, Sketch is still one of the best design tools out there and I think it's probably here to stay, even though it has some issues (but they all have). Anyway, congrats on the great product and keep up the good work, I'm a big fan of what you guys do at Icons8!
Oh man this is amazing, I would pay big money to be able to use this on Linux !
Maker
thanks man! It is still a beta version, we have a long road ahead to make it better.
Maker
find 1000 more friends with linux and I promise that I try to port Lunacy there)
can I find 1k for you to try to port it to macOS?)
Maker
will they all want to pay big money either? ;-)
why not? macOS\iOS users are the most paying users, aren't they? I want a Sketch replacement so bad, that I'd work on it for myself. As I mentioned before, I'm so pissed that Sketch-team doesn't fix child bugs and at the same time performance gets worse and worse update to update.
- Automatically downloaded missing Google Fonts This should be native Sketch function. So simple and clever. I don't use Windows, but this software for sure gonna help a lot of people since Sketch is becoming so popular these days. Very nice!
Maker
thank you for calling it clever :) I wish we were that clever too, but we've invented it the hard way. First, we've done it traditional way (with an ugly dialog asking for missing fonts) last summer. Then we added a button downloading the fonts automatically sometime in October. Then we thought: wait a moment, we don't need this ugly dialog anymore.
Maker
Features of this beta: - Reading any .sketch files of all versions (13 months of testing!) - Automatically downloaded missing Google Fonts - Publishing assets directly to a CDN - Saving .sketch files (alpha) - Inspecting .sketch elements - Showing margins and distances between elements - Organizing Pages and Artboards in your document - Basic typography tool available - Drawing, joining, and aligning vector objects - Exporting assets in PNG and SVG - Exporting CSS and XAML code - Coming July 2018: help porting the functionality of the major Sketch plugins
I have tried the portable version. Very well done!!!. Does it export only png?
Maker
thank you 😚 also SVG
The portable version seems to export only png. I do not see the option for svg.
Maker
You can export selected element to SVG and PNG only on the export tab. However, you can export only PNG to a CDN. I will add SVG support in our next release if you wish. PS. Also, you can copy CSS and XAML
Ok, I will check. Thanks.

finally I don't need a Mac to work with our designers

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free and windows compatible

Cons:

it's just a beta

Hi a year ago you hunted Lunacy 2.0 -- how has the product changed since then?
Maker
Hi! Lunacy 2.0 was just a viewer - you could only open .sketch files on Windows. Now it is an editor :)
That's one of the reason I switched to Figma months ago :-)
are you okay with storing all files in their cloud?
Wow just wow. This product opens up a world of possibilities. A huge thank you!!!!
Maker
oh thank you :) you've made our day. Even more: 1.5 years or work are worth your comment.
Do you plan to Open Source it?
Maker
we open source stuff (examples: ), but not this one so far.
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