Filestage vs. Ziflow

Filestage

Ziflow

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Filestage	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Filestage is an online workspace to share, review and approve videos, audios, documents and designs with clients and co-workers, from the company of the same name in Stuttgart. The platform is tailored to the needs of advertising, design, film, sound, media and creative professionals.	N/A
Ziflow	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	Ziflow online proofing creates a single source of truth and streamlines the review and approval process for creative content to deliver marketing projects faster for agencies and brands.	$249 per month 15 users

Pricing

Filestage

Ziflow

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Standard: $249
per month 15 users
Pro: $399
per month 20 users included
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Filestage	Ziflow
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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Educational discounts are available for the Business and Enterprise editions. Up to a 20% discount is available for annual pricing.

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Community Pulse
	Filestage	Ziflow
Considered Both Products	Filestage BM Bonnie Miguel Designer Chose Filestage We use Slack - but not really for organizing, proofing, or approving projects. We use it more as a communication tool for the employees that are spread across the country. We will occasionally post smaller jobs there - but most of our projects go through Filestage. Incentivized Helpful? Rachel Kostival Creative Director Chose Filestage It is more affordable and straightforward than Wrike, though in some areas has less functionality. We found it better because it takes significantly less time to undertand than Wrike and Clickup do. It's more expensive than clickup, but again, the ease of use makes it … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew DeLaRosa Graphic Designer Chose Filestage Filestage is by far the easiest and most affordable option for our team. Incentivized Helpful?	Ziflow Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow None - first time using a review software. I have done manual editing/reviews in the past (paper printouts) so this is better for record keeping. Incentivized Helpful? YM Yevdokiia Mykhailova Grapgic designer Chose Ziflow Pointed out some useful benefits of Zillow in previous questions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Just as good if not better and so much better value Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Ziflow is much faster. The Progress Updates on the dashboard actually work, and automatic status updates without refreshing the browser are a bonus. Ziflow operates more smoothly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow I found Ziflow to be easier to use than the rest. When we were doing research, it was the one that I found had the best features and pricing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Ziflow had the better user interface and looked more modern. The integration with Adobe products helped our design team as well and setting deadlines and no limits on file uploads where advantages from Ziflow versus GoProof. we had several demos and the ease of use of Ziflow … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Ziflow is way cheaper and my clients and internal team are already familiar with Proof HQ so the transition was seamless. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow It's similar, but this other platform allows file storage and sharing with other external teams. Incentivized Helpful? GC Gabrielle Callender Product developer Chose Ziflow We chose Ziflow because it felt like the perfect fit. Its user-friendly design and powerful features stood out from the rest. It just clicked with our team, making collaboration a breeze and streamlining our content review process like never before. I will mention that Trello … Incentivized Helpful? JM Julie Makepeace Art Director Chose Ziflow I only used Workfront for a short time before we switched to Ziflow. I know that pricing was a big thing and there were features that Ziflow had to offer that Workfront did not. One of those being the automated workflow process and being able to set templated workflows. I have … Incentivized Helpful? EW Eric Williamson Senior Production Artist Chose Ziflow In my experience, previous programs offered a very bare bones proofing process. Ziflow introduced new features that make things so much easier and faster. Some features I didn't even know I wanted. No contest! Incentivized Helpful? Josh Nathanael Walker Social/Digital Production Designer Chose Ziflow - able to send more then one proof - able to group the proofs - easier to upload download proofs Incentivized Helpful? CB Carly Bright Photo Retoucher Chose Ziflow monday.com Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Better value and the right solution for a start-up Incentivized Helpful? Rachel Reams Senior Project Manager Chose Ziflow None, this is the first editing platform I have ever used. Incentivized Helpful? John Fitzgerald Managing Director Chose Ziflow Ziflow is similar to Proof HQ, which I have used but never had to implement. I prefer the Ziflow user interface Incentivized Helpful? BL Brian Loos COO (Chief Operating Officer) Chose Ziflow No experience with other packages Incentivized Helpful? Kelly Allee Marketing Associate Chose Ziflow While Monday.com and Notion are robust project management platforms, they may not offer the same level of optimization and efficiency specifically required for creative reviews. Ziflow's specialization in creative reviews, its simplicity and ease of use, and its targeted … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow None Incentivized Helpful? Craig Smidt Marketing Director Chose Ziflow I found Ziflow to be much better than PageProof in several ways. The tools available for making comments and edits are more intuitive and there is a greater variety of tools and the version control features worked much better as well. Also their customer service was far … Incentivized Helpful? AF Adam Foidart Graphic Designer Chose Ziflow We still use Adobe Acrobat, but only to view pdfs and to create editable forms. Anything proofing-related, we use Ziflow now, and I don't ever see us going back. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Ziflow has a better approval process but we use MarkUp Hero for making changes to CAD drawings as this is a similar but also different system so we use both and keep them for their own unique usefulness. When needing to get approval on a drawing, we use Markup Hero first then … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow They are close to the sand functionality but Ziflow is more user friendly and offers more additional options for growth Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Ziflow Before Ziflow, the company had an in house developed version for approval process, which was never fully implemented as Ziflow was available. Incentivized Helpful? MW May Wong Director of Project Management Chose Ziflow It's cleaner Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Filestage	Ziflow
Small Businesses	Frame.io Score 9.1 out of 10	Frame.io Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Asana Score 8.4 out of 10	Asana Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Wrike Score 8.3 out of 10	Wrike Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Filestage	Ziflow
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	9.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Filestage	Ziflow
Likelihood to Recommend	I think Filestage is perfect for projects where there is a team involved and several eyes need to be on the project. I don't think it is necessary for small projects where the approval process only goes through one other person. It also keeps everyone on schedule without being annoying. BM Bonnie Miguel Designer Read full review	Ziflow is a great program for all our proofing needs. Creating a proof is as easy as dragging it over. To add someone, you can just start typing an email and it'll pick up from an address book and you can click the name. You can also add multiple people to one tag and have them all added at once to a proof. You can also create templates with people already added to various stages to really speed up the process of adding people to proofs. The stage function itself is also great for having multiple approvals from multiple stages instead of creating new proofs after each person approves. Incentivized EW Eric Williamson Senior Production Artist Read full review
Pros	Version control Organization of projects Collaboration Incentivized Rachel Kostival Creative Director Read full review	Simple and user friendly interface with little if no learning curve. Accurate and specific change requests are especially enhanced when using the markup tools. Nice to be able to assign who the decision maker is and also be able to change project participants easily, like when someone goes on holiday or sick leave. SOCD (sent, opened, comment, decision) progress indicators provide an awesome 'at a glance' view of project participants activity. Email notifications and integration with ASANA is brilliant. Incentivized John Fitzgerald Managing Director Read full review
Cons	I would like to see a little more control over sending reminders to review a project. Maybe a notification to let the level of urgency for a rush job for tight turnarounds would be helpful. I would like to have maybe one more level of the folder structure to separate a large group of projects by the user. Incentivized Matthew DeLaRosa Graphic Designer Read full review	Software bug when updating one of many document status. Sometimes, Ziflow displays a document as "pending" even after being approved unless you manually refresh the page. When a comment is too long, the email notifications are displayed incomplete. When using "compare mode" with comments, Ziflow leaves little space to look at the actual document. Thecomment section of both proofs combined can easily take up to 50% of your screen. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Ziflow is easy to use, efficient and now is also part of our daily lives. Hence, the teams are already adapted to the tool and willing to work with it. The features are according to all what was expected and we had a great experience until the moment with the tool Karen Wasserstein Beker, MBA EMEA + India Marketing Manager Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The tool is easy to use for digital oriented people. For the ones not used to this kind of environment, it could look a bit complicated at the beginning, but following the instructions and tutorials and performing it once makes you get a grip of it in just one use. Karen Wasserstein Beker, MBA EMEA + India Marketing Manager Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The ZIflow support team has always been very responsive to my questions, issues and other problems. The good thing is I have never had to use their support team all that much because Ziflow has been for the most part trouble free. If it had been error prone, we would have dropped it long ago. Incentivized Scott Grosteffon Marketing Manager Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	They were friendly and took the time to go through everything, especially relating to how we would use the system. Incentivized CL Cohen Lewis Technical Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	It was seemless! Things got instantly better when we started using Ziflow! Incentivized JC Joey Chambrot Graphic Design Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Filestage is by far the easiest and most affordable option for our team. Incentivized Matthew DeLaRosa Graphic Designer Read full review	I only used Workfront for a short time before we switched to Ziflow. I know that pricing was a big thing and there were features that Ziflow had to offer that Workfront did not. One of those being the automated workflow process and being able to set templated workflows. I have liked Ziflow from an interface perspective better as well. Incentivized JM Julie M Art Director Read full review
Return on Investment	Saves time when proofing and editing work. Creates a unified place for feedback from team members. Allows all editing and review to happen in one place. Allows for versioning and version comparison. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We used to do all reviews by email, but it was hard to consolidate, and sometimes the wrong version was referred back to. This has saved countless manual hours of management and tracking. Now we can see the status of each proof at a glance, no need to read email chains! Version comparison is a LIFESAVER. Incentivized Jennifer Wilde Senior Production Artist Read full review
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