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Zeplin

Overview

What is Zeplin?

Zeplin, from the company of the same name, is a platform supporting collaboration in application development by engineers and designers by providing an API with popular collaboration, development and prototyping tools and creating a space where productions can be shared…

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Zeplin is a versatile tool that facilitates collaboration between designers and developers, streamlining the design handoff process and …
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Handoff+, yes!

8 out of 10
April 27, 2021
Incentivized
Zeplin is used by several departments across our organization - our product, design, and engineering teams all make use of the software. …
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Awesome software

9 out of 10
March 27, 2019
Incentivized
Zeplin is being used by the Product, Design and Engineering teams to share designs between design and engineering. It solves the problem …
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
per user per month

Team

$6

Cloud
per user per month

Organization

$12

Cloud
per user per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Zeplin?

Zeplin helps teams deliver on the promise of design. Its design delivery platform connects design to development and provides an organized workspace to publish designs where product teams can collaborate to ship beautiful products together.

Zeplin Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Workflow Automation
  • Supported: Mobile Access
  • Supported: Tagging
  • Supported: Search
  • Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools

Communication Features

  • Supported: Notifications
  • Supported: Comments and feedback
  • Supported: Sharing and privacy

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Versioning
  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: Document collaboration
  • Supported: Shared folders
  • Supported: Access control
  • Supported: Advanced security features
  • Supported: Web interface

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Zeplin Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Zeplin, from the company of the same name, is a platform supporting collaboration in application development by engineers and designers by providing an API with popular collaboration, development and prototyping tools and creating a space where productions can be shared and reviewed.

Abstract, InVision, and MightyText are common alternatives for Zeplin.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Zeplin are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Zeplin is a versatile tool that facilitates collaboration between designers and developers, streamlining the design handoff process and minimizing miscommunication. With Zeplin, designers can import screens from software like Photoshop or SketchUp, attach assets, and create convenient diagrams. This enables them to set a high bar for implementing designs and saves time on back-and-forth communication. For developers, Zeplin offers the ability to better understand layouts and be more assertive by providing ways to export assets and CSS code. It captures CSS styles and optimizes their work, making it practical for prototypes and the layout of web applications. Additionally, Zeplin allows for easy sharing of design specs with clients and provides a succinct set of features for viewing, sharing, downloading, and discussing design assets. It acts as a bridge between design and development teams by reducing the communication gap and enabling feedback from stakeholders through shared boards. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy for engineers and designers to share, discuss, and question designs, ultimately saving time, headache, and mistakes due to miscommunication. Overall, Zeplin is widely used by digital product teams, UX designers, and other departments to collaborate effectively on projects.

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December 29, 2023

An alternative option design Hand-off platform and support integration with Figma

D Hendrik Mulyana | TrustRadius Reviewer
D Hendrik Mulyana
Lead Designer
Sinbad (Design, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I still have some issues, especially with color integration between the style guide and also project.

When we update the colors, it's not automatically sync to every project.

Aside from that, zeplin solves my problem for hand-off design from design to developer. I set zeplin is source of truth design file
May 08, 2021

Zeplin - Handoffs made efficient and less painful

AJ
Annie Jain
Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is more suited for teams that are looking for handoff tool that also has a built-in style guide. It is effective for both large and small project and primarily delivers most benefits when there are a large number of stakeholders. However, if someone needs a design handoff tool along with prototyping, Zeplin is not the right choice as it doesn't have prototyping capabilities.
April 27, 2021

Handoff+, yes!

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is well suited for collaborating on product design and allowing the designer to include all the necessary notes and details required by the engineer in order to move forward and build what has been designed. It would be ideal to allow for clickable elements with the design to be able to show/experience some natural navigation and therefore be better suited for prototyping and understanding behaviors/interactions of elements.
April 22, 2021

Zeplin takes away the friction of design hand off to developers

Verified User
Contributor in Research & Development
Consumer Electronics Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin helps with asset management and design artifacts delivery. It enables conversations like InVision with its commenting features. It can help maintain collections of design works in custom sections. Various inspection features support the developers to build pixel perfect interfaces. This is not useful for clickable or rapid prototyping. It is only helpful as an archive bridge between design and development.
August 19, 2020

Zeplin is an awesome tool for handoff focused production

Raphael Sanguinete | TrustRadius Reviewer
Raphael Sanguinete
Creative Director
Rebuliço (Entertainment, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is well suited for teams that want to organize the development workflow of web apps and user interfaces in a way that the design team has more control and can pass information in a better way to the developer team. If your team is small or the web app or product being created is not so big, maybe other options that do all the mockup/wireframing/prototype in only one tool probably will be better.
February 18, 2020

Zeplin - collaboration and user management at a glance.

Christopher Fritz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christopher Fritz
Head of Global IT
Vertic (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is an excellent tool for collaboration between departments. Designers, developers, and project managers. From an IT point of view, we'll find a manageable user interface where we can encourage our end users to invite clients where they work as an Alien. If they need more than viewing access, we can set it for them quite easily. I would have loved a more natural way to integrate the access with other IT systems together with a better definition of user roles.
August 02, 2019

As Pretty as it gets!

Ray Flores | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ray Flores
Software Engineer
LendEDU (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is well suited for web developers to understand what the marketing team is desiring. For me, Zeplin is the desired resulting display from the code that I am writing. Zeplin takes the guessing of styles, guessing of size scale, out of the equation. Zeplin would be less appropriate to use if I were a beginner web developer, as it does not include any actual code ( other than styles ) in the project.
July 20, 2019

Zeplin: A Design-to-Development Lifesaver!

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Education Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is, overall, really great for what it’s known for: design handoffs to development teams. Thus, it’s an excellent tool for scenarios in which the design and development teams do not work very closely. Because it allows users to use the tool on various platforms, it’s also great for teams in which there are in-house and remote (or contract) staff working on a single project.

The tool is pretty lightweight once users are on-boarded, so it’s also great for larger teams. However, it can take significant time to onboard people to it, so it might not be great for more rushed projects. It also doesn’t have a ton of functionality beyond supporting design handoffs, so one might choose a more inclusive tool, such as Figma, to support more steps in the design process. Finally, Zeplin is costly and its rates are pretty inflexible, so this might not be the most ideal tool for more cash-strapped teams who want to use Zeplin for more than one project at a time.
May 16, 2019

Beautifully seamless design hand offs

Verified User
Strategist in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is really a wonderful tool for handing off designs to more technical teams. It makes it super easy to share specs and collaborate on designs at a high level. Zeplin's integrations make it especially great for teams that already use Sketch, Slack, etc. While Zeplin feels clean and easy to use, it might be too lightweight for very large / complex teams.
May 15, 2019

Zeplin: Worth the Price

Prashant Mahajan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Prashant Mahajan
Senior Product Manager
Tokopedia (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great tool if your design and development teams are separate. It is also great for freelancing or remote scenarios. The tool can be taken up by a company of any size, we have used it for 1000+ size companies with ease. I think, if you are using Sketch, then this is good to go. If you are using Figma, you can skip it.
March 27, 2019

Awesome software

Verified User
Employee in Product Management
Design Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is well suited to Product Design teams that need to share designs with engineering and product partners. It is well suited to designs for any sort of screen — desktop, mobile, apps, TV. Zeplin is probably suited mainly for print or physical design and is only relevant for product design organizations.
February 10, 2019

Super slick hand off between design and product teams

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a system for simpler handoff between design and product, or product to marketing, Zeplin's a great solution. On the development side of things, being able to see properties is extremely useful. And for those who simply need to grab colors or logos, using Zeplin as a style guide is incredibly useful.
December 27, 2018

Zeplin: The tool of the designer who is a programmer

Ronald Melendez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ronald Melendez
Desarrollador de software
Global Consulting (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Zeplin is very well at developing prototypes of applications. Also, you can base the development of frontend and layout, on the screens that are uploaded to the project. Besides the very good function of being able to upload assets separately so that the developer can have both the images and the assets in the project, I like that it is a pretty light tool. I like that it is much cheaper than other tools such as Marvel.
December 23, 2018

Great way to improve the workflow between design and development teams

Carlos Eduardo de Souza | TrustRadius Reviewer
Carlos Eduardo de Souza
Co-founder & Manager
Coopers Digital Production (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great if you need to work with interfaces created by partners or agencies, since it offers a great way to inspect and understand the specifications. Also, it's a great way to create style guides to create a really solid user interface. On the other hand, it doesn't offer a fluid way to navigate between screens like other prototyping applications like InVision and Marvel.
December 22, 2018

Awesome tool for UI and UX designers interacting with technical team members.

Hernán Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hernán Silva
Senior Front-end developer
Velocity Partners (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For UI and UX designers, Zeplin is a great tool that allows them to share design screens and specs with other members of their team. For project owners, developers and stakeholders, Zeplin comes in handy when in need of a fast, reliable tool to preview and review design assets and screens.
December 18, 2018

Love Zeplin! Zeplin has saved us hundreds of hours implementing designs!

Brad Henderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brad Henderson
Co-Founder/Chief Janitor
Crisp (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe XD is more seamless across products but it's still being built out and lacks a lot of functionality. So for right now, what Zeplin does for the whole process of implementing designs between designer and developer it's the best product on the market. It has literally saved us hundreds of hours of back and forth between developer and designer and it's seriously been a gamechanger for that process. Can't say enough good things about Zeplin!
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