What happened to Vectornator?

Vectornator was renamed Linearity Curve in July 2023, with version 5.0, after Linearity, the company that makes it. It's still a vector design app for Mac, iPad and iPhone, and existing Vectornator projects open in it.

Is Vectornator still free?

Linearity Curve has a free plan with usage limits and basic export options. On Linearity's site in October 2026, the Pro plan is $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly. Rindraw is $12.99 once in the US, for iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Can Rindraw open Vectornator files?

Not Vectornator's or Curve's own files. Export your design from Curve as a PDF, and Rindraw opens it with a page a layer, or export a PNG or TIFF and bring it in as a layer.

Rindraw vs Vectornator

Compared in October 2026. Both apps change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

Vectornator is now called Linearity Curve³. It's a vector design app, and Rindraw is a drawing and painting app, so they suit different work. Choose Curve for logos, icons, type and layouts that have to be SVG or vector PDF. Choose Rindraw if you draw and paint by hand and want lines with texture that you can still change, for $12.99 once, with no account or subscription.

The main difference

Vectornator became Linearity Curve with version 5.0 in July 2023, named after the company that makes it³. It was free then³. Today it has a free plan with usage limits, and a subscription for the rest². It's built around the Pen and Node tools, boolean shapes, text on a path and Auto Trace, and exports SVG, AI and PDF¹.

Rindraw keeps each stroke as the path your Pencil took, with its pressure and tilt, and paints it again with its grain and texture whenever you recolor it, bend it or export bigger. It's a painting app first: wet paint that mixes, blend modes, masks, adjustment layers, and Procreate and Photoshop brushes. What it exports is a picture, not a vector file.

Side by side

	Rindraw	Linearity Curve
iPad, iPhone and Mac	Yes, in one purchase	Yes, and Apple Vision¹
Windows and Android	No	No; a web app instead^{2, 4}
Price in the US	$12.99 once	Free with usage limits; Pro $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly²
Data the app collects	None. No account and no analytics	Name, email, identifiers and usage, linked to you, for analytics and marketing among other uses¹
How you draw	By hand, with a pencil, a finger, a mouse or a pen tablet	With paths, shapes and the Pen tool, and by hand with pressure-sensitive vector brushes¹
Texture	Grain, chalk, dry brush and wet paint that mixes	Vector fills and strokes
Export	PNG, JPEG, HEIC, JPEG XL, 16-bit TIFF, layered PSD, PDF and CMYK	SVG, AI, PDF, PNG, JPG and TIFF¹
Animation	Frames, onion skins and playback, out as GIF, animated PNG or video	Linearity Move, a separate app in the same plan²

Where Curve is better

Real vectors. SVG, AI and vector PDF¹, for websites, sign cutters and printers. Rindraw can export a drawing very large, but it's still pixels.
Logos, icons and type. The Pen and Node tools, Shape Builder, booleans and text on a path¹.
Auto Trace. It turns a sketch, a photo or a scan into editable vectors¹.
Free to start. The free plan costs nothing, within its limits².

Where Rindraw is different

Lines that look drawn. Lineart with a pencil's grain or an ink brush's taper, painted with pressure, tilt and barrel roll, that you can still recolor, bend or scale up afterwards.
Paid for once. $12.99 covers iPad, iPhone and Mac, with no subscription, no credits and no usage limits.
Nothing collected. No account, no analytics and no tracking. Your drawings stay in your iCloud Drive or on the device. See the privacy policy.
A full painting app. Layers with masks, blend modes, adjustment layers and live filters, wet paint, animation, timelapse and painting on 3D models.

Using both

Sketch and ink by hand in Rindraw, export a PNG or TIFF, and use Curve's Auto Trace¹ to turn it into vectors for a logo or a print. Going the other way, export a layout from Curve as a PDF¹, and Rindraw opens it with a page a layer, ready to paint over. Rindraw doesn't open Vectornator's or Curve's own files.

Moving from another app? See how to bring your work over from Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, ibisPaint, MediBang Paint, Infinite Painter, Sketchbook, Adobe Fresco, Tayasui Sketches, ArtRage, Rebelle, Corel Painter, PaintTool SAI, Krita, or Photoshop.

Get Rindraw on the App Store

Sources

Checked on October 15, 2026.

Linearity Curve on the App Store (US): formerly Vectornator; free with in-app purchases; iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision; Pen and Node tools, vector brushes and pressure-sensitive drawing with Apple Pencil, Shape Builder, booleans, text on a path and Auto Trace; export to SVG, AI, PDF, PNG, JPG and TIFF; privacy label lists contact info, identifiers and usage data linked to you, used for analytics and advertising or marketing, among other uses.
Linearity pricing: Free plan with usage limits on Curve and Move and basic export options; Pro $10 a month, or $8 a month billed annually; every plan includes Curve and Move; web app at cloud.linearity.io.
Vectornator is now Linearity Curve, 9to5Mac, July 28, 2023: renamed with version 5.0 after its developer, Linearity; free on the App Store for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Vectornator is now Linearity Curve, Linearity: existing Vectornator projects open in Curve; available for Mac, iPad and iPhone, with no native app for Windows or Android.

Linearity Curve, formerly Vectornator, is a product of Linearity GmbH. Rindraw is made by Sawir Studio and isn't affiliated with Linearity.