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Design, graphics & illustration

Boxy SVG

Cheap SVG editor whose saved files are still clean, readable SVG

Price: $19.99 once

PerpetualUpdates included, forever

Price read on apps.apple.com, the page Buy on the App Store opens.

The catch

Buy it on the Mac App Store — the developer's own site sells a separate web version

The full picture

The App Store purchase is the only route to a one-time licence we could verify: 19.99 dollars up front with nothing to unlock. Third-party software directories describe boxy-svg.com's direct pricing as an annual plan from around 9.99 dollars a year; we could not confirm that on the developer's own page, so treat it as reported rather than read, and do not assume a purchase there is the same licence. Beyond price, the Mac app wraps a web-based editor, so it is not fully native and it struggles with very large documents. There is no print or CMYK workflow and no multi-page layout. Single-developer project.

Pays back in
under a month
Seats
No Mac count statedMac App Store licence: every Mac on your Apple Account, and shareable with up to six people through Family Sharing.
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$19.99Rent 5 years$1,320

$1,300 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against Adobe Illustrator at $264 a year, single-app annual plan, prepaid. Also replaces Figma Professional (for icon work).

What it looks like

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Boxy SVG edits SVG instead of converting it. The file you save is the file you opened: readable markup that a browser, a build step and a teammate's diff all understand, with a panel for editing the XML directly when a path has to be exactly right. For icons, logos, diagrams and anything headed into a web project, that matters more than the length of the feature list.

Buy it from the Mac App Store. The 19.99 dollar listing is paid up front with no in-app purchases, and it is the only one-time licence here we could actually verify. The same developer sells a browser-based version through his own site, and independent software directories describe that as an annual plan starting near 10 dollars a year. We could not read his pricing page to confirm it, so check carefully before paying there, and do not assume the two purchases are the same thing.

The app wraps a web-based editor, which shows: it does not feel entirely native, and it gets sluggish on very large documents. No print or CMYK workflow, no multi-page layout. If you need those, look elsewhere. If you mostly produce small, precise vector files destined for the web, twenty dollars is close to nothing against how often you will open it.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • A cheap, fast tool people keep beside a heavier editor for small vector jobs rather than as a replacement for one
  • Works on SVG that was written or generated somewhere else, which is what users say other editors mishandle

Details

The price in full

19.99 dollars on the Mac App Store, paid up front, with no in-app purchases listed (version 4.113.0). The developer also sells a separate browser-based version through boxy-svg.com under its own terms; that pricing page is a client-side web app we could not read, so no figure for it is claimed here.

The Boxy SVG page at boxy-svg.com
The developer’s own page. boxy-svg.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
No
Works offline
Partly
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
No
Minimum macOS
not stated
Developer
Jarosław Foksa

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