Download Vector Magic for macOS

Graphic designers and print professionals who still reach for Illustrator or CorelDRAW know the pain of a rough auto-trace. Vector Magic’s Desktop Edition is the tool they often keep in their back pocket—not for quick one-click jobs, but for the moments when a logo needs to scale to billboard size without a wobble in sight. It’s a dedicated raster-to-vector converter that lives on your Mac, far from a browser tab, and it’s built to handle the kind of detailed tweaking a deadline demands.

The real muscle for an experienced user lives in Manual mode. You’re not stuck with a single algorithmic guess—you can adjust individual parameters and watch the preview update instantly. Segment editing lets you clean up trouble spots right inside the app, so you aren’t bouncing back and forth to another editor just to fix a stray anchor point. Drag-and-drop and copy-paste flow straight into Illustrator or CorelDRAW, which makes it feel like an extension of the tools you already have open. The app also shrugs off size limits that choke web-based converters, supporting vectorization of very large images, though it’s worth knowing the desktop edition caps files at 10 MB and 10 megapixels. For most production artwork, that’s plenty of headroom; for giant-format raster maps, you’ll just need to plan your crops.

• macOS 10.7 or later
• Intel 64-bit processor
• Maximum file size: 10 MB
• Maximum image size: 10 megapixels