Flock vs. Zeplin

Flock

Flock

25 Reviews and Ratings

Zeplin

Zeplin

63 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Flock	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Flock is a collaborative business messaging application, designed to compete with Slack. The app is presented as a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition for teams of up to twenty members.	$0 for teams of 1-20 members
Zeplin	Score 6.8 out of 10	N/A	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.	$0 up to 1 project

Pricing

Flock

Zeplin

Editions & Modules

Starter: $0
for teams of 1-20 members
Pro: $6
per month per user (ideal for teams of 20-100 users)
Enterprise: Contact Sales
for organizations of 100+ members

Free: $0
up to 1 project
Advanced: $15
per month per seat (up to 50 projects)
Basic: $15
per month per project
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Flock	Zeplin
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Discount available for annual pricing.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Flock	Zeplin
Considered Both Products	Flock MP Mayur Patil Software Test Engineer Chose Flock Flock standsout with it's extra ordinary features such as file sharing, pinning any file in groups, customised integration with various applications, reminders across groups, creating and managing groups, file sharing with integration, notes sharing and mainly communicate … Incentivized Helpful? BM Billy Myers Office Manager Chose Flock Many of the features are shared between these three programs but for us, we found the mobile application to be much easier to manage and being that we were using this a lot on the go that was a major selling point for our team and operation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Flock In my opinion, Flock is not the best among the listed products in terms of extensive features that other products listed provides but has it's own place in the communication and team collboration domain. I think Flock works well for smaller teams and organizations looking for a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Flock Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls … Incentivized Helpful? IK Iffat Khan Application support specialist Chose Flock Flock stands strong with these tools in market. Although it does offer some great features but can be better in terms of integration. We used Flock for over 10 years in our organization because it was easy to use for non technical users. Incentivized Helpful? AK Ankit Kapadia Sr. Marketing Manager Chose Flock Slack and Flock are fairly comparable in terms of features, though Flock has a cost advantage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Flock So much easier to navigate Incentivized Helpful? SJ Sasha Jacobsen Model Chose Flock I mainly prefer Asana as a task management tool, but I prefer Flock to Slack for communication. Flock bridges the gap between the two, and I find it's the best niche is for businesses or collaborators who need some integration (drive or calendar) but mostly need it for its chat … Incentivized Helpful? AZ Anthony Zurica Owner Chose Flock Flock as mentioned takes the best of all these apps and improves upon them. Flock's UI was exactly what we were looking for and Flock doesn't overcharge small teams for search functional or messaging. It just offers a great product at a great price combined with great … Incentivized Helpful? BW Benard Wambua Director of Product Management Chose Flock Unlike Flock which is more official, Google Hangouts are geared towards personal communication rather than business. Flock on the other hand has many features which relate to business setting Incentivized Helpful? KR Kristen Reeves Data Entry Clerk Chose Flock I did not like Google Hangouts. Hangouts is more geared toward personal communication instead of business related communication. Flock is also a lot easier to use and has more options related to a business setting. Incentivized Helpful? TM Tim Mack Instructor Chose Flock Our creative team collaboration pathway story went like this..We started on Facebook as a secret group. We looked for better solutions and moved to Google Docs. It was a bit too robust for smaller conversations, so we moved to flock. Flock was great but proved to be too much … Incentivized Helpful? LK Lee L Kennedy Analytics Director Chose Flock Flock is similar to Glip, with only two notable differences: the gifs are worse but the reactions are slightly better. Integrations are a little better, albeit a bit confusing. For example, there is a built in video conferencing feature where you can video chat with someone, … Incentivized Helpful?	Zeplin Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Zeplin is used for us purely as a handoff tool. It keeps it clean and clear for devs and product managers what is completed. It has some good labels and other organizing features. The different levels of access are also super helpful to give the correct people the view they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin As our project is large and there are many modules and they should be consistent. So, Zeplin's style guide can be shared globally across different projects and we can easily ensure consistency across all modules. Zeplin automatically exports assets in multiple file formats like … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Actually, we didn't select Zeplin. After a long time of internal discussions, the majority of the team decided that we want to move to Figma. We still use Zeplin as a legacy, but we don't use it for new features. In my opinion, it's less flexible than Figma, which allows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin We went without a tool like Zeplin for a long time, but as we grew we needed to get a better handle on the design process and handoff to engineering. We went straight to Zeplin off of numerous recommendations and didn't look back. We have had a great experience with Zeplin. Incentivized Helpful? Raphael Sanguinete Creative Director Chose Zeplin Zeplin is more focused on the handoff than in the creation itself. The other alternatives can do both, but Zeplin is an awesome tool for the handoff part. It depends in how big is your team and how the workflow is organized to understand whats the best tool for your team. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Fritz Head of Global IT Chose Zeplin It was a business need from different departments. From an IT point of view, we have been a part of purchasing and setting up. However, the decision to go with Zeplin was not ours. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin I believe Invision is the only one that is supporting such inspection tools at this moment. Incentivized Helpful? Ray Flores Software Engineer Chose Zeplin Zeplin has and easier on the eyes UI, not a cumbersome constructors of projects and easier collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Out of all of the products that I have used to support design-to-development handoffs, Zeplin is my favorite. It’s pretty lightweight and easy to use (once you get the hang of it). Zeplin also has a smooth interface and is, generally, clearer to use than other tools, such as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin These other tools are really helpful products for creating and sharing wireframes / prototypes. However, Zeplin is the best tool for the actual hand off between the design and development teams once the design is actually ready to share. Zeplin fills this gap and improves the … Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Mahajan Senior Product Manager Chose Zeplin Zeplin is simpler. Zeplin lacks prototyping on par with Invision. Zeplin doesn't give a direct code for Android and iOS like Figma does. Zeplin doesn't have a lot of advanced features like Invision, for example, whiteboard. But Zeplin is good for at its job which is to share … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Zeplin is a really nice lightweight app, that is easier to use than Invision for sharing purposes. Invision does primarily handle prototyping, which Zeplin does not do. Abstract is my product of choice but is also a slightly different tool — almost a Github for design. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin We chose Zeplin because it allowed our product and design teams to collaborate more effectively, while providing the rest of the organization an easily accessible location to access up-to-date assets. While InVision's interface can be more intuitive, we prefer Zeplin because it … Incentivized Helpful? Ronald Melendez Desarrollador de software Chose Zeplin Marvel is a pretty expensive application for what it gives you, it is a pretty good tool but I think the handoff is not as good as Zeplin's. I think the style of Zeplin is more oriented to developers and Marvel is more oriented to the designers. I like the way Zeplin is … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager Chose Zeplin Zeplin is great to inspect and share user interfaces, specifications and assets, perfect for developers. Tools like Invision and Marvel are much better to create prototypes for both developers, coworkers and even stakeholders, but they don't have this kind of feature … Incentivized Helpful? Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Chose Zeplin For my company needs, Zeplin comes as the best tool in its category. Zeplin's competitors are great tools but they either offer way too many features or are priced above Zeplin with the same features. Zeplin is in the right spot for both pricing and features. Incentivized Helpful? Tariq Virani Product Manager Chose Zeplin Zeplin is a better tool for collaboration and has a deeper feature set that helps communicate the information developers need to build products. Incentivized Helpful? Brad Henderson Co-Founder/Chief Janitor Chose Zeplin I know there are other products out there but Zeplin has been so effective that I haven't even bothered to look elsewhere. The whole experience of Zeplin has been excellent. However, once Adobe XD is more built out Zeplin will finally have a formidable competitor as it will be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zeplin Zeplin is much better when it comes to seeing the properties and CSS code of the design elements. Our developers love it when they get all that info from the Zeplin file. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Gardner Co-Founder Chose Zeplin Zeplin is the only solution tailored for this common use case. Previously we just shared files in dropbox but that was messy and didn't allow for specific comments, etc. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Flock

Zeplin

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Flock 7.6 Ratings 2% below category average	Zeplin 5.2 Ratings 39% below category average
Task Management	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scheduling	9.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Access	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Search	7.30 Ratings	5.20 Ratings
Visual planning tools	4.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Flock 8.0 Ratings 1% above category average	Zeplin 8.0 Ratings 1% above category average
Chat	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Notifications	9.30 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Discussions	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Surveys	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Flock 6.4 Ratings 21% below category average	Zeplin 6.5 Ratings 19% below category average
Versioning	7.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Video files	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Access control	4.00 Ratings	5.20 Ratings
Advanced security features	4.00 Ratings	4.00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Flock	Zeplin
Small Businesses	Stackby Score 9.0 out of 10	Stackby Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Troop Messenger Score 9.8 out of 10	Troop Messenger Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises	HCL Connections Score 9.0 out of 10	HCL Connections Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Flock	Zeplin
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Flock	Zeplin
Likelihood to Recommend	Flock is a great communication tool. However, it's in a very competitive space. It offers seamless app integration (i.e., google calendar and drive) to allow for easy use across the platform. It's a great communication tool. However, if you don't need an overloaded app, there are other options out there. And for work purposes, it only covers some of what you need. Incentivized Sasha Jacobsen Model Read full review	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 Incentivized D Hendrik Mulyana Lead Designer Read full review
Pros	Networked phones are a thing of past now. We don’t have to stop what we are doing to receive phone calls currently because Flock can do that It is now easy to send messages to many people at the same time, all we need to do is to add all the contants in the chat and select all to send a message This software has an in-built to-do-list which allows us to assign tasks to different people or users and then supervise each independently Incentivized BW Benard Wambua Director of Product Management Read full review	Provides dimensions across iOS, Android and Web which saves developers from a lot of guess and check when implementing designs Allows for easy download of digital design assets for developers to easily organize and implement Great user experience in terms of the product itself and a great value for your money Automatically generates CSS for web designs which is AMAZING! Incentivized Brad Henderson Co-Founder/Chief Janitor Read full review
Cons	A tool is only good if people use it. Some of the artists I work with found it too complex (though I don't think they really gave it a good shot). We used it heavily for about six months and it didn't hit too many other big negative points. Incentivized Tim Mack Instructor Read full review	It would be better if it has a dedicated web application It's not the easiest tool to learn and start working with It would be awesome if it had more features turning it into an all-around tool for mockups and prototypes Incentivized Raphael Sanguinete Creative Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	We would likely to renew use of Flock for our organization since it meets most of the requirements of team collboration and communication for a small group like us. Most of our Flock users like it's features and use it extensively for day-to-day work. We are quite optimistic about it's future updates. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Great tool Incentivized Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Read full review
Usability	It is good to give what an app deserves, Flock is very efficient and effective app to manage the all day to day activities and communicate across all team members, create groups, share files, send reminders schedule reminders for each group or persons and share notes.Pin files and search any messages from anyone with advanced filters. It's a great app. Incentivized MP Mayur Patil Software Test Engineer Read full review	Zeplin's component management and style guide help us to be consistent across whole product and it so easy to use for non-technical person. It is now easy to collaboration for designes between different teams like stackholders, product owner, UI/UX, developers and testers. Now there is only one point of reference is Zeplin so it is so easy to get details without asking designer or developer again and again. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	We've only needed customer support a few times with Flock (mainly concerning app integration and security), and they've always been timely and helpful, which are the only things I truly need from support. The response rate was still rapid, and there's plenty of support available online as well for Flock. Incentivized Sasha Jacobsen Model Read full review	Zeplin has classic support with a chat from the website. It's working fine, and we're also getting the support needed when needed. However, Zeplin is very good at closing the incidents and moving on. It was a while ago we had a case with their support so that it might have improved since then. Incentivized Christopher Fritz Head of Global IT Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls and search. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Out of all of the products that I have used to support design-to-development handoffs, Zeplin is my favorite. It’s pretty lightweight and easy to use (once you get the hang of it). Zeplin also has a smooth interface and is, generally, clearer to use than other tools, such as InVision. Plus, all of the plug-ins that you can use with Zeplin have supported the design-development relationship and workflows in which I’ve been involved in more efficient, clear, and effective ways than I’ve seen with any other product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Organizing notes manually has been drastically reduced. Flock folders and chats are perfect for keeping each file separate. We have not missed one calendar event with Flocks integration of our Google Calendar. Being able to cut out or $99/month case management software has saved a ton of money each month. Incentivized Anthony Zurica Owner Read full review	We're using the free plan, so it fits in our needs, although we're limited to create only one project at a time Sketch has some plugins that offers exactly what Zeplin does, for free The integration with design apps (Sketch, Photoshop, XD) and collaboration (Slack and Trello) helps our team to better communicate and be notified on every update Incentivized Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager Read full review
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