Alternatives to Sketchbook
Drawing and painting app for sketching and illustration on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Sketchbook
Drawing and painting app for sketching and illustration on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Sketchbook.
Procreate
A digital painting and illustration app for iPad, sold as a one-time purchase.
Procreate is a one-time purchase painting app designed around the iPad, with free learning material, but it has no Windows, macOS or Android version.
Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
Krita is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux with over 100 brushes and comic tools, but it has no mobile version.
Clip Studio Paint
A commercial drawing and painting app for illustration, comics and animation across desktop and mobile.
Clip Studio Paint adds comic and animation tools on desktop, tablets and phones, but it is paid after the trial period.
Tayasui Sketches
A drawing and painting app with realistic brushes for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android.
Tayasui Sketches offers realistic watercolor and acrylic brushes with iCloud sync on iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android, but has no Windows version.
Infinite Painter
A painting and sketching app for Android and iOS with natural brushes and realistic blending.
Infinite Painter provides natural brushes and realistic blending on Android and iOS, but has no desktop version.
MediBang Paint
A free painting and comic creation app for desktop, tablet and phone.
MediBang Paint is free on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS and is geared toward comic and manga creation.
Adobe Fresco
Adobe's free drawing and painting app for iPad and iPhone, built for stylus and touch.
Adobe Fresco is free with thousands of brushes and animation tools, but it runs only on iPad and iPhone.
Concepts
Infinite-canvas sketching app where every stroke is an editable vector, for iOS, Android and Windows.
Concepts keeps every stroke as an editable vector on an infinite canvas, running on Windows, Android and iOS, with some tools on a paid plan and no macOS version.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Sketchbook as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
FireAlpaca
A free, lightweight digital painting program for Windows and Mac with new brushes each week.
Sketchbook is freemium with an uncluttered canvas and runs on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, though the desktop and mobile versions are separate products.
PaintTool SAI
Lightweight Windows painting program with pressure-sensitive tablet support and anti-aliased brush strokes.
Sketchbook is a freemium sketching app with an uncluttered interface on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, including guides, rulers and layers with blend modes.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
MyPaint
A distraction-free painting app for graphics tablets, with an infinite canvas and deeply configurable brushes.
ibisPaint
A mobile drawing and painting app for illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery.
ArtRage
A natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending and textures for desktop, tablet and phone.
Kleki
A free painting tool that runs in the web browser for quick sketches and drawings.
