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Artboard for Mac

Simple and direct vector drawing software.

$39.99
In English
Version 2.3
3.4
Based on 12 user rates

Artboard overview

Artboard is a full-featured vector drawing application for new and experienced creatives to draw crisp vector graphics, scalable logos, sharp icons, and stunning layered illustrations. Templates help small businesses, students, hobbyist and 2D game designers get started on their projects quickly, such as making business cards, posters, pixel perfect icons, and right-sized social media graphics.

With its uncomplicated interface and familiar Mac feel, users spend more time creating and less time searching for elusive commands. Overflowing with new features and a tidy user interface, its speed and responsiveness are complemented by smart techniques for interacting with drawing objects.

Features:
  • At Your Fingertips Control - New tabbed interface puts what you need at your fingertips, no more digging through menus to find edit commands
  • More Powerful Styles Editor - Go way beyond simple stroke and fill styles of basic illustration software. Artboard's Styles Tab is used to create and edit expert "stacked" styles (including arrowed strokes, rough strokes, pattern brushes, gradients, image tile, patterned and hatched fills, and more)
  • Smart Shapes - The most advanced smart objects give complete control of shapes and paths
  • Single, Direct Select Tool - Add and remove points, simplify paths, rotate and resize shapes, edit objects through direct and numeric input, move center points, combine objects with Boolean operators, crop and clip photos, reset object's bounding box, and... much, much more
  • Time-Saving Workflows - Export your drawing, selected objects, individual layers, and/or "slices" of your drawing, at multiple resolutions and scales, supporting multiple Color Spaces. Print shrink-to-fit to a single page, and "poster-tiled" printing over multiple sheets of paper
  • Editable Clip Art and Styles - Includes over 1900 royalty-free fully editable clip art and graphic styles to customize, plus a Library to store your own
  • Import SVG - Open directly or import scalable vector graphics

What’s new in version 2.3

Version 2.3:
  • Added binary for Apple Silicon (M1, etc)
  • Updated for MacOS "Big Sur"
  • Bug fixes
  • Performance improvements

Artboard for Mac

$39.99
In English
Version 2.3
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3.4

(10 Reviews of Artboard)

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John-Keogh
John-Keogh
Mar 27 2021
2.3
0.0
Mar 27 2021
0.0
Version: 2.3
I have version 1.9.8 from the Mac app store (actually a shop) The update path to version 2 at a discount has finished.
jehpo
jehpo
Nov 16 2017
2.0.7
0.0
Nov 16 2017
0.0
Version: 2.0.7
Waouh ! I bought Artboard 24 €, ok it was 5 years ago, and now I have to pay 44 € for version 2 !?!! It is really too much. For that price I have got affinity which is in a much higher category...
Melusina
Melusina
Aug 10 2014
1.9.1
0.0
Aug 10 2014
0.0
Version: 1.9.1
MacUpdate shows 1.9.1 as the most recent update while it's actually 1.9.4.
Tom-Fulery
Tom-Fulery
Mar 10 2014
1.9
3.0
Mar 10 2014
3.0
Version: 1.9
ArtBoard does a lot of simple drawing functions. It seems like it's designed to appeal to kids & dabblers, and it does a great job at that. It is obviously made to be fun & creative, and I really liked it as a simple design tool. But I was looking for something a bit more robust, that would output to SVG files, and ArtBoard only outputs to bitmap files. Which is great for kids & dabblers, but not for any serious design work. I eventually bought iDraw because it exports to SVG. However, I was very disappointed in iDraw, since it is extremely limited, with only basic draw functions. It has a very rigid, unintuitive interface that can't be customized at all & has very few shortcuts, making even simple jobs tedious. Then I discovered that the NeoOffice suite (the open-source app that rivals MS Office) includes a vector draw program that does WAY more than iDraw. It is very easy to learn & use, infinitely customizable, reasonably stable on OS 10.8, and it's absolutely free because it open-source. It has many advanced features, like envelope-warping, auto-trace, 3D & animations, none of which iDraw does. I'm a veteran FreeHand user, (the legendary professional vector drawing program that put Illustrator to shame - which is why Adobe bought it & killed it). And I can recommend NeoDraw to anyone looking for a serious vector draw program. While NeoDraw doesn't come close to being FreeHand, it will do until something better comes along. And you can't beat the price.. Meanwhile, I'd recommend ArtBoard to anyone looking for a fun, simple, easy to use drawing app.
David-Morrison
David-Morrison
Feb 2 2013
1.7
2.5
Feb 2 2013
2.5
Version: 1.7
I was looking for something to do vector drawings, rather like MacDraw used to do. Draw a box, fill it with colour, draw a few lines, add text, line things up. Simple stuff in MacDraw many years ago. I have been looking at all sorts of things for years and nothing has had the same ease of use. I saw a reference to Artboard, and thought I would try it on a project. I could see it had a lot of features, but what used to be a single click in MacDraw seems to be several clicks in Artboard. For example, even if the Text tool is selected, you cannot just click on text to edit it, you have to right click and select Edit Text. After two hours, I gave up. Very frustrating. A shame really.
Quiiick
Quiiick
Apr 25 2014
4.0
Apr 25 2014
4.0
Version: null
Tom-Fulery
Tom-Fulery
Mar 10 2014
3.0
Mar 10 2014
3.0
Version: null
dsimer
dsimer
Sep 11 2013
3.0
Sep 11 2013
3.0
Version: null
David-Morrison
David-Morrison
Feb 2 2013
2.5
Feb 2 2013
2.5
Version: null
Big77
Big77
Dec 1 2012
4.0
Dec 1 2012
4.0
Version: null
Phillat5dock
Phillat5dock
Sep 15 2012
4.5
Sep 15 2012
4.5
Version: null
Pugwash
Pugwash
Jan 23 2012
3.5
Jan 23 2012
3.5
Version: null
rfabian
rfabian
Dec 23 2011
2.5
Dec 23 2011
2.5
Version: null
Mookzmom
Mookzmom
Aug 11 2011
3.5
Aug 11 2011
3.5
Version: null
Mark-1971
Mark-1971
Jul 11 2011
3.0
Jul 11 2011
3.0
Version: null
MooreSusan-UK
MooreSusan-UK
Jun 9 2011
4.5
Jun 9 2011
4.5
Version: null
Martin-J
Martin-J
Mar 16 2011
3.0
Mar 16 2011
3.0
Version: null