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Inflight vs Sketch

Inflight and Sketch are both design tools tools. Inflight is aimed at small businesses and agencies, while Sketch is aimed at agencies and freelancers. Sketch costs less, from $12/mo versus $18/mo for Inflight. Only Inflight has a free plan.

Inflight

Feedback layer for prototypes that hands comments to coding agents

Sketch

Native Mac design toolkit

PricingPaid · $18Paid · $12
Starting price$18/mo$12/mo
Free planYesNo
Free trial14 days30 days
Built forSmall businesses, Agencies, EnterpriseAgencies, Freelancers
Platformswebmacos, web
Country—NL · 2010
Rating——

Choose Inflight if

Design and product teams that prototype in code and want stakeholder feedback to flow directly into their coding agents.

  • Feedback stays attached to the exact element it refers to
  • Reviewers and guests never need a paid seat
  • MCP handoff removes retyping feedback into agent prompts

Look elsewhere if: Teams that need bug reporting on live production sites with issue-tracker integrations (Userback, Usersnap).

Choose Sketch if

Mac designers preferring native apps.

  • Fast native performance
  • Works offline
  • One-time license option

Look elsewhere if: Cross-platform collaborative teams (Figma).

Inflight vs Sketch pricing

Inflight

  • Pro$18/member/mo$15 billed yearly; unlimited videos, guests and MCP access
  • Reviewers$0People who only give feedback are always free
  • EnterpriseCustomSAML SSO, SOC 2 Type 2, priority support

Sketch

  • Standard$12/editor/moBilled yearly; 50GB per editor, unlimited docs
  • Professional$24/editor/moBilled yearly; SSO, permission groups
  • Enterprise$44/editor/moBilled yearly; unlimited storage, SCIM, BYOK
  • Private CloudCustomUS or EU hosting, unlimited workspaces
  • Mac-only license$120Per seat, one-time, includes 1 year of updates

Inflight · Key features

  • One script tag adds the toolkit to any preview URL or HTML file
  • Comments pinned to specific elements of the running prototype
  • Built-in video replies so reviewers do not need a Loom link
  • Structured questions that steer reviewers toward useful feedback
  • Automatic grouping of feedback into next steps for a coding agent
  • Inflight MCP server for Cursor, Claude Code and Codex

Cons

  • No free plan for prototype authors after the 14-day trial
  • Only Slack and MCP integrations; no Jira or Linear listed
  • Works with web previews and HTML, not native app prototypes

Sketch · Key features

  • Native Mac app with offline work
  • Symbols, libraries and smart layout
  • Prototyping
  • Web app for collaboration and handoff
  • Plugin ecosystem
  • One-time license option

Cons

  • Mac only for editing
  • Collaboration behind Figma
  • Smaller community now

Inflight vs Sketch: FAQ

Which is cheaper, Inflight or Sketch?

Sketch starts at $12/mo and Inflight at $18/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.

Do Inflight and Sketch have a free plan?

Inflight has a free plan. Sketch has no free plan, a 30-day free trial.

Which is better for small businesses, Inflight or Sketch?

Inflight lists small businesses as a core audience, while Sketch is aimed more at agencies and freelancers.

Not sure yet?