The Adobe Illustrator alternative that delivers

Change is hard—unless you’re switching to Linearity Curve. Use the Adobe Illustrator file import option to bring your designs into Linearity Curve, then animate them easily with Linearity Move. Start working right away.

You won't lose anything. But be prepared for a new design addiction.

Illustrator is the current industry standard in terms of vector design platforms. But the complexity and high fees are pushing designers to search for the best alternative design software on the market.

We believe Linearity Curve (formerly Vectornator) is the best alternative to Adobe Illustrator. It has an intuitive user interface that doesn't compromise on power. It offers advanced features: Auto Trace, Shape Builder, Background Removal, and Boolean operations tools.

Our platform also has built-in onboarding prompts with helpful video tutorials.

Linearity Curve is also so much more than an Adobe Illustrator alternative. Enjoy intuitive workflows, better integrations, and real-time collaboration.

Web designers use a specific toolset. They have a wide variety of skills. And they need to make screen-ready designs in optimal file sizes—fast. It's important to have design software with custom templates and a robust suite of vector editing tools. It should also be able to handle a variety of compatible formats, including .png, .jpg, and .svg.

Linearity Curve (formerly Vectornator) offers all these basic features and more. You can access an updated template library when creating a new document. These include social media size guides, web banners, device sizes, and resolutions. You can also save your own Custom Templates for smoother workflows. Linearity Curve supports an impressive range of import and export file formats for raster and vector images.

You don’t have to be stuck behind a desktop all day. Linearity Curve works across all your Apple devices, so you can keep designing on Mac, iPad, or iPhone. Once you’re happy with your designs, export and upload them to the web instantly. Wherever you are.

Design is a translation of life. In the past, hand tracing was the only way to turn an existing image into a vector drawing. This is a very common graphic design software use case. Photo-editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop, is based on raster graphics (or pixels).

Raster graphics can’t be scaled because they lose image quality. Scalable vector graphics are based on mathematical equations to form Bézier curves. These plot lines make it possible to infinitely scale graphics without losing their crispness.

But what if you want to transform a raster image into vector shapes? Linearity Curve’s (formerly Vectornator) Auto Trace technology transforms any pixel image into an illustration made out of vector shapes. You can then manipulate these shapes as much as you want to create stunning designs.

Try importing your own photos or scans and incorporating them into your designs. Or use one of the millions of high-quality, royalty-free Unsplash images available on our platform.

Digital designers may only need to print their designs every now and again. But if you're a product or marketing designer, you probably design for print all the time. And there's a big difference between RGB and CMYK colors.

Linearity Curve (formerly Vectornator) lets you design in an RGB P3 wide color gamut space with a CMYK Preview toggle. You can check your color accuracy for both digital screens and printed materials. Switch to CMYK Preview in one click. You can also choose to design in CMYK Preview from start to finish.

Once you’re ready, export your design in a print-ready format such as .jpg or .pdf.

We speak your language. We’ve perfectly translated Linearity Curve (formerly Vectornator) into 14 languages. Limitless design, with no communication barriers.

Adobe Illustrator currently supports only German, English, French, Japanese, and Chinese on the iPad. One of the many reasons why professional designers across the globe prefer Linearity Curve over Adobe Illustrator.

It starts at $0 per month. Explore Linearity Curve (formerly Vectornator) as a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Upgrade to our Pro or Teams plans to unlock unlimited design files and sharing—along with powerful tools for org-wide brand management. Escape the Creative Cloud!

Our premium versions run on a monthly subscription model. See Linearity Curve's pricing.

Linearity Curve runs on iPadOS 16 & iOS 16 (and later) or macOS Ventura (and later) with native M1 support.

Adobe's Creative Cloud is known for its high cost, with Adobe Illustrator alone priced at US$22.99 per month. In contrast, you can enjoy access to both Linearity Curve and Linearity Move for just US$9.99 per month.

No, your work remains exclusively yours.

We do not use any of your files for AI training unless you explicitly opt-in within the application. The only way to opt-in is by using the Auto Trace, Background Removal, or AI Backgrounds feature and then interacting with the feedback modal displayed afterwards. If you haven't seen this alert and haven't interacted with it, you can be confident that we are not using your files for training.