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title: "Meet Compiler for Sketch, the sassy plugin to manage your exports · Barrel · Jinson Johny"
description: "Summary of Jinson Johny's 2019 launch post for Compiler, a Sketch plugin for managing exports from a single interface."
url: https://jinson.me/writing/compiler-for-sketch
markdown: https://jinson.me/writing/compiler-for-sketch.md
type: Article
author: Jinson Johny (https://jinson.me/#person)
updated: 2026-11-01
---

[Published in **Barrel** · Apr 5, 2019](https://medium.com/barreldotim/meet-compiler-for-sketch-the-sassy-plugin-to-manage-your-exports-aa982519a898)

# Meet Compiler for Sketch, the sassy plugin to manage your exports

By [Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/about.md) · \~3 min read on Barrel

## In short

Jinson Johny announces Compiler, a Sketch plugin for managing exports from a single interface. It keeps Sketch's native export features but remembers project output folders per file, exports the same assets to several locations at once, and lets designers group, ungroup and rename exports in one place. It offers a five-day trial, then a $15 one-time licence.

![Compiler's folder window for Sketch exports, with a context menu offering Export, Add Folder and Import Layers.](https://jinson.me/images/writing/compiler-for-sketch.webp)

Cover image from the original on [Barrel](https://medium.com/barreldotim/meet-compiler-for-sketch-the-sassy-plugin-to-manage-your-exports-aa982519a898)

## Key takeaways

1. **Remembers output paths.** A Sketch file can be linked to one or more project folders, so switching between projects doesn't mean re-picking export locations.
2. **Multiple export locations.** One export updates the same output in every location different teams need.
3. **Naming in one place.** Grouping, ungrouping and renaming exports happen in one interface instead of relying on Sketch's layer-naming patterns.
4. **Simple pricing.** After a five-day trial, a licence costs $15 as a one-time payment, with no refunds.

## From the article

The problem: Sketch's native export asks for a location every time, and only remembers the last one.

Exporting files with the Compiler plugin.

This is a summary. The full article lives on Barrel, where it was first published.

[Read the full article on Barrel](https://medium.com/barreldotim/meet-compiler-for-sketch-the-sassy-plugin-to-manage-your-exports-aa982519a898)

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**About the author.** Jinson Johny is a Dubai-based Design Engineer and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems and Design Ops at IBM iX. He is the creator of Deck (deck.is), a Figma-to-PowerPoint plugin used by 160,000+ designers since 2017, and .gui (dotgui.org), an open file format for user interfaces. Open to design engineering, design systems, DesignOps, AI design and product design roles in the UK (London) and remote. Contact: hello@jinson.me · [Open to work](https://jinson.me/hire.md) · [All pages](https://jinson.me/llms.txt)