Hey folks,
I’m wondering if sketch files can be imported to framer and if so who develops and maintains the ability for framer to read sketch files. also how well are the files imported?
I would like to know so that i can assess the right tool for me.
many thanks.
Hi Yousef! 
It does appear as though Framer does support the ability to copy from Sketch documents and paste into Framer.
While in Framer, you can go to the Framer menu, select “File” and “Import from Sketch”.
In the popup that appears, you can download a Sketch Plugin and copy and paste layers between Sketch and Framer.
In terms of the plugin itself, that is Framer’s plugin and so they will be the ones that created and maintain it. Because of our open file format, it makes this kind of thing nice and easy for Framer.
I hope this information helps! 
Thank you very much for your response Keir!
Trying this out today and it no longer seems to work.
Have you spoken to framer about this? All well and good to say “It’s a third party plugin and it’s up to them to maintain this” but these interops with popular tools in the space need some collaboration to maintain. I noticed last week that Miro discontinued support for their Sketch plugin as well. How many more are going to bail? I know you don’t have all of the answers and it’s not as simple as “Make X company support your tool” but it’s frustrating and these things are so necessary to stay relevant nowadays.
I’m openly advocating for Sketch at the moment, active on these forums. I’m in your corner, I want you to succeed. I want you to do well, but it’s things like this that make me worry that this application is best left in the past. Maybe it’s not an application suitable for modern professionals. I see the state of the API, the zero movement on a share community, zero updates on the future of plugins for developers. I understand you don’t have silly VC infinite money (Something I appreciate about Sketch and their approach, it’s not all doom and gloom) but please put some resources in this direction. This is so frustrating.
Hey @Ash. First off, thanks for being honest about this. I get the frustration and so does the rest of the team. I’m sorry that’s ultimately how you end up feeling about this all.
I agree with you — interop with other products is important. We’re actively looking into what’s going on with Framer and Miro. We’ll of course work with them and do what we can on our side to keep these integrations going.
Your advocacy hasn’t gone unnoticed, and we do appreciate it! Reality is, we are a different tool operating at an entirely different scale (my rough estimate is that Figma, for example, has a headcount 24 times our size). That means we have to prioritize our work on features, and as you know, the release that’s currently in beta is huge. Most of us are working on readying that for final release right now. Trust me when I say there are plenty of people in the team who want us to build on the community side of things! As ever, it’s time and people.
Regarding plugins more generally, this is literally all I’ve discussed so far today in our internal Slack. We’re committed to at least maintaining the public API and are looking into whether we can expand on it (we’ll share more concrete details on all of this soon — but for now I hope you’ll forgive me for keeping it vague so I don’t inadvertently create false promises). We’re super aware that we need to do more here.
Over reliance on third party addons is a killer long term and all hobby developer communities eventually atrophe and there’s no way to look the like good guy when it does.
I appreciate the situation, honestly. I think from a PR perspective, clear guidelines on the state and intended limitations of the API (And clear statement of the lack of support for those that really push against those intentions) would be great. Managed expectations and all that. There’s a disparate thread of information and something more formal would be great. As well as (When and if appropriate) an idea of how you guys potentially intend to address functionality gaps left by some of the bigger hitter third-party tools. I know you’ve been doing this already with mass renaming and obviously the command bar.
Not going to hold you to anything, need to keep the lid on some stuff, but glad to hear the conversation is ongoing internally.
When it comes to integrations - please also keep us in the loop. I think the TL;DR of this response is - bad news delivered thoughtfully is better than no news and silver linings no matter how small are better than leaving a community to speculate. Not to teach you to suck eggs or anything 
but really, it makes a huge difference.
Agreed with you there — on all counts! My goal (along with the rest of the marketing work ) is to tighten the loop between the discussions we have internally and what we share here. Because we are internally discussing pretty much everything that gets brought up on the forum. In the case of plugins, that’s exactly what’s happening.
Keep me honest, by all means. If you don’t get a response from me, or someone else on the team, it’s more than likely because of gestures around wildly everything else. 
