Boxy SVG vs ProtoSketch

Boxy SVG is an SVG editor for beginners, professional designers, and developers. It lets users adjust object geometry, transforms, paint, and other properties directly on the canvas. The editor saves SVG and SVGZ files and exports PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF, and HTML5. It connects to Pixabay and other libraries for free stock photos and vector assets, and integrates with Google Fonts. Web developers get a Chromium-based rendering engine, an SVG and CSS code inspector, and tools for editing SVG sprites. Boxy SVG runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows, with desktop and mobile apps; it is also available as an installable PWA. Boxy SVG Cloud offers up to 10 GB of storage at no charge, with a quote available for more. The paid product has a 15-day free trial without requiring a credit card, then charges annually at an amount shown as a page variable. The separate Web Component has customer-specific pricing and supports self-hosting, white-labeling, embedding, and custom-element frameworks.

ProtoSketch is vector graphics design software for work spanning web and app graphics, logos, icons, print, illustration, UI and UX. Its stated audience also includes product and marketing designers. The app provides vector tools, icons, fonts, UI elements, and basic and complex shapes. For layout precision, it offers smart guides, object snapping, an adjustable grid, and alignment and distribution commands. Styling options include fills, strokes, gradients, RGB sliders, color wheels, hex input, blending modes and opacity. Users can draw and edit paths, use layers and groups, and apply divide, exclude, minus front, unite and intersect operations. ProtoSketch currently exports PDF, imports and exports PNG and JPG, and supports SVG data exchange; SVG import is planned for a future version. On iOS, Dropbox can import documents and images, while “Open in…” functionality is also available. iCloud syncing across Mac, iPad and iPhone is planned. ProtoSketch Lite costs nothing and allows up to five documents, with some libraries locked and exports restricted to social shares and ProtoSketch files. The Mac version is in development.