Joe loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. He has been covering Android and the rest of the Google ecosystem for years, reviewing devices, hosting podcasts, filming videos, and writing tutorials. Joe Fedewa has been writing about technology for over a decade. If you want a free desktop version of SketchUp, it's still a great option. The good news is that Trimble still offers this version in an official capacity, although it's no longer receiving updates. The last version of SketchUp Make was released in 2017. When Trimble acquired SketchUp, it forked the product into several tiers, keeping the free desktop version around as 'SketchUp Make.' The SketchUp web app is decent and might be good enough for many people, but for a long time, the desktop version was completely free, too. If you want the latest full desktop app, you're looking at $300 a year for personal use. At the time of this writing, the only modern free version of SketchUp is a web app. SketchUp has changed hands a few times over the years, once having been owned by Google, and currently owned by a company called Trimble. Trimble even warns it might have security problems as it hasn't been updated since 2017. However, as of May 2022, the official SketchUp website is no longer offering the free version (SketchUp Make 2017) for download. This worked when we published it in 2021.
