15 Essential Free Plugins for Sketch App

curated by repick.co

Whether you are new or a regular user of Sketch, one of the best thing about Sketch is that it’s easy to create plugins. So here are our pick of the best plugins for Sketch.

1.Looper

Looper is a smart way to duplicate, rotate or scale. This plugin facilitates automated duplication of layers and groups. Create innovative organic and geometric patterns using Looper. You can download Looper from Sketch Runner, Sketch Packs or from Sketch Toolbox. Search for Looper in the search bar.

2.Confettii

Confettii If you are a fan of confetti, like the world is, then Confettii will be your savior in disguise. With just one click, you can create beautiful confetti using this. You can define your grid in horizontal and vertical columns to get the perfect layout. It also works with Symbols. With this plugin, you can determine the density of confetti, change the transparency, overlap, resize, repeat the confetti or work with symbols using this plugin.

3. Magic Mirror

You can create Perspective Transformed Image using Magic Mirror on Sketch for Artboards. Create landing pages, perspective mockups, application flows and also other effects that, like distorted, to your UI design using this Magic Mirror plugin.

4.Slinky

This plugin comes in handy when you have to export your Sketch designs as HTML email templates. Though in its nascent phase, Slinky still comes in handy.

5.Auto Layout

Auto Layout works seamlessly with Sketch. You can define and view different iPad and iPhone sizes even Portrait and Landscape. With Auto Layout, you can also generate an overview for artboards of all screen sizes at once.

6.Launchpad

Publish your responsive websites directly from Sketch using Launchpad, without coding. You can stack and pin layers using Launchpad. Whatever you see on Sketch will be reflected on your responsive website.

7.CSSketch

Attach a stylesheet and modify your designs instantly using this Sketch 3 plugin. You can lay out your designs, add shadows or change colors using this. CSSketch also supports {less} and Sass stylesheets. Integrate functions and variables into your stylesheet, making your workflow efficient and seamless.

8.Day Player

If you want to insert a customized placeholder images from a number of different placeholder image services in a Sketch document, use Day Player. There are advanced options like height, width, color and black and white options too.

9.Social Artboards

Add artboard presets using this plugin for Sketch. This plugin can add artboard presets for common image dimensions of social media platforms. You can either download the package manually or install the plugin using the Sketch Toolbox.

10. FlipSizeSwap

FlipSize is the height or width of layer, artboard or shape using this plugin. Install this plugin via Sketchpacks or download the zip file and later unzip it. You can even download via Runner too.

11. Pixel Perfector

Keep your documents cleaner and details vivid using this Pixel Perfector plugin. You can find layers that have float properties like, height, width, x and y using this plugin. Pixel Perfector offer 2 functions: Select All Pixel Imperfect Layers and Select One Pixel Imperfect Layer. The fisrst function gives you a total count of all pixel imperfect layers in your doc. Use Alt+Command+P to access this function. The second function can select only 1 pixel imperfect layer. This comes in handy when you have to go through all the bad layers and deal with them individually. Use Ctrl+Alt+Command+P to access this function.

12. Repeat Objects

Duplicate your objects to Artboards using this plugin. You can download Repeat Objects manually using the zip file or you can use Sketch Toolbox.

13. Sketch Icon Stamper

Sketch Icon Stamper makes your life easier by creating multiple sizes of a full-sized art. You can install it easily. The official Sketch plugin is found on plugin docs. You can also download the zip file to install Sketch Icon Stamper plugin.

14. RunnerRunner

offers an intuitive interface to help you navigate Sketch and supercharges your workflow. Using this plugin, you can start running commands from your keyboard directly, without going through the menu. Navigate through the Sketch menu commands and available plugins using this Runner plugin. Jump anywhere using the goto option. With this plugin, navigating through any huge Sketch file is a walk in the park. Artboard, group, page or layer, nothing is too hard for this Runner plugin. You can even insert symbols using Runner without having to tediously searching for it. Just jump to insert and start typing the symbol you want and select your symbol from the matching results.

15. Sort Me

Sort through artboards on layers list alphanumerically using this Sort Me plugin. Keep your designs organized using this plugin.

Now you know about the smart plugins for Sketch. We are sure your life will become easier with these handy plugins.Hope you enjoyed the list and found it useful :)