Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Escher Sketch

Make M.C. Escher-like tessellation drawings

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Escher Sketch launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown▲176

   The latest 3Blue1Brown video [1] about the M. C. Escher print gallery effect inspired me to re-implement the effect as WebGL fragment shader on my own. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

   Apr 2026 · static.laszlokorte.de · its alternatives →

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   Sketch Tricks▲145

   Articles for Sketch

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   The Sketchbook Project▲87

   A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Master Sketch▲89

   Web’s first educational resource devoted to Sketch

   2014 · fastpng.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   #Laugh▲69

   Create Art in Space

   2016 · laugh.ai · its alternatives →

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   eex▲138

   A collection of web experiments

   2016 · tofuness.github.io · its alternatives →

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   SketchCasts▲212

   A weekly screencast, all about how to use Sketch

   2014 · sketchcasts.net · its alternatives →

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   Draw.io▲132

   Create and share diagrams easily

   2013 · draw.io · its alternatives →

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   Shapeways Creator▲57

   Doodle and make real things

   2014 · shapeways.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Method Draw▲70

    A free browser-based vector creator

    2014 · editor.method.ac · its alternatives →

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    Sketch Talk▲88

    A community for Sketch users of all skill levels

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Sketchat▲90

    Sketch + chat. Messaging with drawing.

    2015 · sketch.at · its alternatives →

13. 13
    DrawType▲109

    The Drawing Keyboard

    2014 · archive.theowatson.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    SketchBook by Autodesk▲91

    Professional-grade drawing and painting app

    2014 · sketchbook.com · its alternatives →

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    Matter▲127

    An expanding UI Kit for Sketch

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Layout – California Style Sheets▲72

    The future of Sketch and the story of how we got where here

    2016 · layout.fm · its alternatives →

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    Sketchmob▲93

    Real artists turning your photos into art

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    We Draw Comics▲70

    Collaborate on comic strips, one panel at a time.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Drawl for Messenger▲109

    Draw it like a boss, send it to your Messenger friends

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Perspective Mockups▲149

    Hipster-as-f*** perspectives for your designs

    2014 · vexus.digital · its alternatives →

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    TrapCrunch▲126

    "Someone Made A TechCrunch Parody Site And It’s Hilarious"

    2014 · hobokencityfc.com · its alternatives →

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    Bitwig▲66

    Sketch for Audio

    2014 · bitwig.com · its alternatives →

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    Omnigraffle 2▲118

    Diagramming. Wireframing. Drawing. And a ton more.

    2015 · omnigroup.com · its alternatives →

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    Synthesize TikZ Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches▲132

    Creating high-quality scientific figures can be time-consuming and challenging, even though sketching ideas on paper is relatively easy. Furthermore, recreating existing figures that are not stored in formats preserving semantic information is equally complex. To tackle this problem, we introduce DeTikZify, a novel multimodal language model that automatically synthesizes scientific figures as semantics-preserving TikZ graphics programs based on sketches and existing figures. We also introduce a Monte Carlo Tree Search-based inference algorithm that enables DeTikZify to iteratively refine its…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →