Amadine vs Inkscape
Both are bought outright, both sit in design, and both are bought by people leaving Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Cloud. Here is what actually differs — including what each price does not buy.
The short answer
- Inkscape is free; Amadine costs $29.99.
- Inkscape has the cleaner licence: free and open source, against lifetime plan available for Amadine.
Side by side
 Amadine$29.99Lifetime tier |  InkscapeFreeOpen source | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | approachable vector drawing app with a 29.99 dollar lifetime licence | SVG-native vector editor with no licence to buy at all |
| Price | $29.99 | Free |
| Licence | Lifetime plan available | Free and open source |
| What you get | Normally sold as a subscription, but a genuine one-time lifetime option exists. | No licence to buy, and the source is public. |
| The catch | The iPhone and iPad app is a separate purchase with its own monthly subscription | The macOS build is a GTK port — menus, shortcuts and dialogs don't behave like a Mac app |
| Macs per licence | not established | not established |
| Account required | no | no |
| Works offline | yes | yes |
| Apple Silicon | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| On Setapp | No | No |
| Minimum macOS | not established | not established |
| App Store rating | not established | not established |
| Last updated | not established | not established |
| Price checked | 2026-09-22 | 2026-09-22 |
Apple’s public API reports a rating for only a small minority of Mac apps, and returns zero for most of the rest even when the store page plainly shows reviews. A blank here means we could not read a number, never that an app is unrated or disliked.
In their own right
Amadine
A mid-weight vector illustration app from BeLight covering everyday drawing work: pen and shape tools, artboards, layers, gradients, text on a path and export to SVG, PDF and EPS.
Inkscape
A long-running free vector graphics editor with node editing, live path effects, boolean operations, bitmap tracing and a document model that is plain SVG all the way down.