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Yes, Sketch's failure was to focus on being Mac only.

It may be than in US, and countries of similar income levels, all designers carry Apple gear around, however 70% of the world does not.

Before Figma, we were using a mix of InVision, Adobe XD or Balsamiq.

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I love Balsamiq and it was great to see it mentioned here. While the wireframes are intentionally simple looking, the ease of creating a mockup is unsurpassed IMHO.

+1. I still use Balsamiq. Their pricing is also very helpful.

balsaqmiq was nice many many years ago, but then i found pingendo. Used it heavily, but it was buggy and short lived... web frameworks moved on and they abandoned the project very soon.. have to say that my customers never seem to understand the mockups created with balsamiq..

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