HotGloo vs. InVision

InVision

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HotGloo	Score 8.0 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	HotGloo is an online wireframing and prototyping tool. This solution has been designed for all those engaged in the concept, design and development of web or app projects: project managers, information architects, usability experts, freelancers, concept people, digital agencies, web companies, publishers, web designers, web developers and many more. The vendor’s value proposition is that this solution makes it easy to wireframe web and mobile sites and to collaborate with others due to the…	$13 up to 4 users, 2 active projects, unlimited reviewers
InVision	Score 5.8 out of 10	N/A	InVision is a collaborative design and prototyping platform with features such as freehand drafting mode and interactive mockups, collaboration, idea management, user testing, and integration with Slack and other collaboration tools. According to the vendor, 1 million designers are using the free version.	$0

Pricing

HotGloo

InVision

Editions & Modules

Group: $13
up to 4 users, 2 active projects, unlimited reviewers
Team: $27
up to 10 users / 6 active projects / unlimited reviewers
Agency: $54
up to 20 users / 15 active projects / unlimited reviewers
Enterprise: 150 +
More users and projects, priority support. Get in touch for an individual quote.

Free: $0
Pro: $7.75
per user/per month
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
HotGloo	InVision
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

The billing period starts on the day you upgrade from the free trial to a paying plan. If you pay by credit card the service is billed in advance on a monthly basis and is non-refundable. There will be no refunds or credits for partial months of service, upgrade/downgrade refunds, or refunds for months unused with an open account. If you do choose to cancel your account in the future, you will never be charged again, but you are responsible for charges already incurred up until your cancellation. For monthly recurring payments we accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express through our online payment system. You can also prepay any account for 12 months with credit card. In certain cases we also take money transfers – please contact us beforehand if you want to use this option.

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Community Pulse
	HotGloo	InVision
Considered Both Products	HotGloo LS Lewis Scott Programmer Analyst Chose HotGloo HotGloo was extremely intuitive to use, particular for users who were not from a UX background. The wide-ranging widget library and elements available meant little domain knowledge was required to get up and running with the product. The product was supported by a great online … Incentivized Helpful? PC Paul Constantopolous System Designer Chose HotGloo Being able to export the finished wireframe to HTML was a huge time saver for me and my team. Getting to that next step quickly and seamlessly was a massive help. Not only that, but other tools that do this, we have not as much luck. HotGloo's functionality was a step above the … Incentivized Helpful? MS Max Schütte Student Chose HotGloo HotGloo is tailored to this use case and therefore considers the right user needs. I think one strength is that it focuses on the main aspect. There are other tools, that have more extensive features. However, those are then more complex and not so well made for the specific … Incentivized Helpful?	InVision Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision we use different 'similar' applications for different usecases. Incentivized Helpful? MH mICHAL Hipner DESIGNER Chose InVision figma is better for creating designs, invision is easier to use and more light weight when it comes to sharing designs Incentivized Helpful? GJ Greg Jubb Product Manager Chose InVision I have only used InVision as a tool for designing mockups. I wouldn't be able to draw a fair comparison to other tools since I have more experience with InVision. Incentivized Helpful? VT Veronique Tally UX Researcher Chose InVision Sketch, Figma and Axure RP Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision FigJam has more shapes, more importable reactions, and for me it's less likely to lag. It's also way easier to connect arrows to sticky notes in FigJam and overall rough designs look cleaner than in InVision. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision [InVision] provides the ability to iterate really quickly, in fact, it is so intuitive that can be applied on live wireframe designing, while the ideas are being scratched and stormed from the team in a single discovery session, as well as allowing and giving access to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision We went with InVision because we were already bought into that ecosystem. We have since decided to move to Figma, as we were not receiving the features we needed from InVision and the associated tools (Whimsical, Sketch, Abstract, and Zeplin). The ROI of Figma allows us to free … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations Chose InVision InVision can be a powerful tool when paired with Sketch and other platforms like Freehand. However, Figma is currently the industry leader in terms of functionality and usability for collaborative UI design and prototyping. Invision's sharing and prototyping features are its … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision Main difference is InVision's easy to use prototyping capability. When it is compared to Marvel and Axure RP, while it has less capabilities on tools it is more robust than both. I believe Figma is just a new and upgraded version of InVision where you could do everything online … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision InVision is a bit limited overall compared to other programs like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator and XD. At the time we selected InVision they were one of the leaders and introduced a lot of new features that were beneficial. However now we've moved back to many of the Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision I choose InVision over sketch, however figma is leading because of the cloud feature collaboration and open source plugins Incentivized Helpful? Charles Fashana, MBA COO (Chief Operating Officer) Chose InVision We only tested out using Adobe XD for similar uses and found it to be more challenging to fit within our processes. It didn't have as robust a set of capabilities as InVision and wasn't as easy to use enterprise wide. I recall also having issues with working with Sketch. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision InVision was the best tool for our team. It has the features that best fit our process but is also flexible enough for make it work in various situations where visuals are a core component. We've been using InVision for over 5 years and we're not likely to move to another … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision InVision's design is much more polished and seamless due to its apps on mobile and web. They are very easy to learn and gather feedback compared to Sketch or Principle. Although these features are quickly coming to the other apps, InVision has an upper hand at the moment with … Incentivized Helpful? Dmitry Pashkevich Senior Fullstack Engineer Chose InVision Zeplin seems to support everything that InVision does (including Inspect mode) plus reusable styles. That alone significantly speeds up development. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Mahajan Senior Product Manager Chose InVision Zeplin also allows to share design spec and collect feedback, but the ability to have prototype changes the game. Also, other products like Craft plugin is cherry on the cake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision Compared to other tools, InVision is a very solid tool with a great reputation and prototyping functionalities to back it up. InVision was the first prototyping tool we purchased, and it’s served us really well. However, more and more design tools are now also providing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision Faster and easy to make sure all the necessary controls are readily available, ability to show a click event. Incentivized Helpful? Wojciech Szafalowicz Project Manager Chose InVision Balsamiq is a better tool for interactive prototyping and dynamic transition. InVision is definitely better for handling various designs, separated by projects and shared with different access levels across multiple organizations. Incentivized Helpful? Mitchell Clements UX Designer Chose InVision Other design tools have been creating their own prototyping functionality, which has made InVision less valuable over time. It is much more convenient to use the same tool for both design and prototyping, because it removes the unnecessary steps of exporting, importing, and … Incentivized Helpful? Albert Ellenich Sr. Experience Designer Chose InVision InVision works seamlessly and easily when sharing and requesting comments from others. Other products I've used like Balsamiq and Dropbox (earlier versions) provided online displays of work, but no easy way to collect feedback or quickly update. InVision provides enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision InVision is a great tool to use and well worth the price. However, if you're looking for some variety, UXPin and Figma are worth looking into too. While UXPin may be a tad simplistic in the design ability, Figma is a great competitor to InVision. Both tools are worth looking … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision I actually haven't used anything that's similar to InVision, so can't compare. I'm not even sure there is anything out there that can actually compare to InVision. It's an ideal tool for any designer that wants to improve client/team feedback. I highly recommend it and look … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision As the industry leader, XD and Figma have had some catching up to do. I think now InVision will have to innovate to hold these products off. Several are doing what made InVision famous, and in some instances do it even better. There is an insane amount of competition and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose InVision Truthfully, while we have looked at others, InVision has the name recognition in the web design community and a tight integration with Sketch which is what was important to us. We have not seriously considered others, but may in the future as our needs change. This is our first … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	HotGloo	InVision
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HotGloo	InVision
Likelihood to Recommend	HotGloo is well suited to a dispersed team of users who are looking to collaboratively wireframe and prototype their latest web solutions. It's extremely intuitive and comes with a large widget library meaning the newest user can be up and running very quickly. In browser access means it's extremely accessible whether you're working in a room together or across the country at home. Incentivized LS Lewis Scott Programmer Analyst Read full review	InVision is well suited for design reviews and immersing yourself in the experience of an app-to-be. As a Product Manager, it's difficult to take abstract concepts, user pain points, and business needs, and produce a vision for an app without a visual aid to communicate a vision. InVIsion offers PMs, designers, and developers the opportunity to sketch a vision, communicate about it with inline commenting, and shareable with other stakeholders. Incentivized GJ Greg Jubb Product Manager Read full review
Pros	Elements Library Symbols Library Interface supports workflow Incentivized MS Max Schütte Student Read full review	Very easy to export Sketch files (where prototypes are actually created) into Invision and preserve the interactivity. Additional interactivity can be added in InVision. Like scrolling with locked footer. Clients, designer and developers can collaborate - leave notes and respond to notes made by others. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	logical structure of interface objects preview view does not scale frame on small screens Tool ribbon Incentivized MS Max Schütte Student Read full review	Designs can be very slow to load on mobile devices, particularly when they include many screens. There isn’t an offline version of the full app, which feels less-than-ideal for many of our teammates who live in areas with more spotty internet. There are limited functionalities to portray animations and transitions. This hasn’t been a huge issue, but it makes the app feel a little out of date, considering the range of such functionalities in other apps. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	it does what we bought it for, so would buy again :) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The interface is well designed, but I had a hard time figuring out how the various pieces of software integrate together. Incentivized Wilbert Kramer Digital Media Manager Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	I didn't need to contact InVision support, as I've never needed it. They have an intuitive UI, and most of the questions are answered in their help portal or in tutorials online. Since many people use it, there a great resources available on for example YouTube. No problems so far with InVision. Incentivized Wilbert Kramer Digital Media Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	HotGloo is tailored to this use case and therefore considers the right user needs. I think one strength is that it focuses on the main aspect. There are other tools, that have more extensive features. However, those are then more complex and not so well made for the specific work I use it for. Thus, I like HotGloo also because of the element and symbols library. Which has the right depth and detail - no more, no less then needed. Incentivized MS Max Schütte Student Read full review	[InVision] provides the ability to iterate really quickly, in fact, it is so intuitive that can be applied on live wireframe designing, while the ideas are being scratched and stormed from the team in a single discovery session, as well as allowing and giving access to the whole organization to the final outcome Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Build more wireframes quicker and deliver to client and provide options. Incentivized PC Paul Constantopolous System Designer Read full review	For the price it is well worth it. It improves collaboration and efficiency which can be easily attributed to cost savings or improved margins. It also adds an element of professionalism and sophistication to the process and presentation of the work, which in turns aids in brand favorability. Incentivized Charles Fashana, MBA COO (Chief Operating Officer) Read full review
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