Mattermost vs. Zeplin

Mattermost

Mattermost

116 Reviews and Ratings

Zeplin

Zeplin

63 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Mattermost	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.	$0 per month per user
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

Mattermost

Zeplin

Editions & Modules

Free Self-Hosted: $0
per month per user
Professional: $10
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Us
per month per user

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
Mattermost	Zeplin
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Mattermost	Zeplin
Considered Both Products	Mattermost Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost They're very similar. I think it's really a matter of preference. Again, one of the things I like about Mattermost is that it's strictly for business (atleast for us) it's different from the more mainstream messaging apps used so we can kind of separate work vs personal messages. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord Incentivized Helpful? Nayan Shah Senior Software Engineer Chose Mattermost Microsoft Teams and Slack Incentivized Helpful? MR Muhammad Rohan Director Chose Mattermost It's cheaper and similar to Slack. You can break down your project modules better here. It's secure and self-hosted. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jeremy Herman Engineer Chose Mattermost Much more expensive than most chat applications but you have more control over things by self-hosting. Your security team will be able to design a very secure place to store all your code, passwords, and internal details, but most companies will not require this. It would be … Incentivized Helpful? ME Momen Eldyrani SF Admin Chose Mattermost In comparison to Slack, where Slack is strictly for internal communication, Mattermost actually has the format to display and not alter source code. Google chat is also even more limited in comparison to Slack and Mattermost. If you collaborate on code every single day, then … Incentivized Helpful? SI Sid Iyer BizOps Lead Chose Mattermost It is just as good if not better. Can be a superior option depending on the needs of your organization. Incentivized Helpful? JL Justin Leopold Automation Architect Chose Mattermost These products all required cloud connectivity and licensing that was a significant cost. Mattermost allowed us to pilot this among just the Ops team and then evangelize this to the other infrastructure team. This allowed us to slowly show the value of this software and expand … Incentivized Helpful? Atlas Vieira Ops and Project Analyst Chose Mattermost Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost We used to have Mattermost and now we have Microsoft Teams. They are both very similar. Mattermost and Microsoft Teams are both great for communicating internally via calls, chats, meetings, etc. They are also both easy to set up an use. However, the Microsoft Teams mobile app … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost to reduce cost we shifted to Mattermost. Incentivized Helpful? Kulbhushan Mayer Co-Founder & Technical Architect Chose Mattermost Discord and Microsoft Teams Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost works better in that there aren’t constant updates and changes which can make finding past messages difficult. Mattermost also works better for channel creation and communication Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Slack is by far my personal favorite due to the age of the platform and the maturity of the features. Mattermost is a close 2nd- Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Singh Business Development Manager Chose Mattermost Honestly iv just used these two but when it comes to customization, they don't come close to Mattermost. Slack and Teams are Less flexible, Not self hosted. Not Open source,etc I will also say that i noticed integration capabilities are very limited with teams and slack and not … Incentivized Helpful? David Noah Controls Engineer Chose Mattermost Mattermost is much faster and easier to use. It also has many more features beyond chat. They are more customizations and features for workflow and messaging on this platform also. The ability to integrate with other platforms via plugins, the security features, and the open … Incentivized Helpful? SR Shannon Robertson Network Engineer Chose Mattermost We cannot connect to the internet so skype/teams is not a possible solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost is easier to use, faster, and less resource-intensive. Cross-platform support is great, and the mobile experience is awesome. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost We selected mattermost since we can control storage of our data. Slack is a great tool and offers more robust features compared to mattermost. However, the previously mentioned reason & the competitive pricing allowed us to stick with mattermost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost key selling points for us was that its open source and can be self hosted. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost is cheaper and offers the possibility of self-hosting compared to other competitors. This is a great advantage for our company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Microsoft Teams feels quite clunky and the video chat is buggy. Slack is close but maybe not quite as feature-rich. Mattermost just feels like the right tool for a company my size ~1000+ users. No one has had any major issues with this tool and there haven't been any … Incentivized Helpful? Abhigyan Tiwari Senior Software Engineer Chose Mattermost First of all, we don't lose messages; we can see or search messages from any point in the past. Second, it offers to manage the whole product ourselves from hosting to serving users of our organisation. We feel that we have full control over data, managing users, … Incentivized Helpful? Olga Khazanov Full Stack Software Engineer Chose Mattermost It was selected before i got to the company. 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

Mattermost

Zeplin

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Mattermost 8.3 Ratings 7% above category average	Zeplin 5.2 Ratings 39% below category average
Task Management	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scheduling	8.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	7.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Search	8.90 Ratings	5.20 Ratings
Visual planning tools	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Mattermost 8.4 Ratings 6% above category average	Zeplin 8.0 Ratings 1% above category average
Chat	9.20 Ratings	00 Ratings
Notifications	8.40 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Discussions	8.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Surveys	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	6.10 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	8.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Mattermost 9.1 Ratings 14% above category average	Zeplin 6.5 Ratings 19% below category average
Versioning	9.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Video files	9.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	9.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.90 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Access control	9.90 Ratings	5.20 Ratings
Advanced security features	9.00 Ratings	4.00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Mattermost	Zeplin
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (0 ratings)	6.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.4 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	6.4 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Mattermost	Zeplin
Likelihood to Recommend	Mattermost is definitely appropriate for a growing company with team members spread out across the u.s. and Canada. It’s given me the ability to have access to anyone with the information I need or the ability to develop friendships, working relationships with people I otherwise wouldn’t have access to Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com) I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Basic features like custom status, collapsed reply threads are JUST rolling out - kind of slow for a workplace chat app. I don't really get the idea of Playbooks and Boards - there are better, dedicated tools for stuff like this and it's not so easy to turn off. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Mattermost works perfectly within our company as a way to communicate seamlessly. I have had no issues with the product and continue to use it often while on and off site. The mobile app allows me to continue to communicate with my team even when I don't have my laptop with me. Incentivized RF Ryne Fiebig Chiropractor Read full review	Great tool Incentivized Hernán Silva Senior Front-end developer Read full review
Usability	It's an extremely easy to use software, and I would recommend it to every company that is growing. I think they could improve their notification system, as it gets a little spammy sometimes and important notifications get lost. Also needs to improve the number of private chats that you are allowed to create. Incentivized María Lucía Santagata Coordinadora Ssr 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 have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed. Incentivized Angela Goldsmith, PMP Director of Systems Development 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
Implementation Rating	This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence. Incentivized Atlas Vieira Ops and Project Analyst 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	The platform is adaptive to storage data center outages in case our cloud storage provider goes away, Mattermost still works with our local database. However, files couldn't be shared. We can switch storage to local temporarily; that's a benefit. Later it all syncs up to main storage. When our team switched to Mattermost from paid solutions, we had much savings and access to unlimited past messages and storage quota (we use our cloud storage provider) We have better visibility of our tools and other products running adjacent to Mattermost due to integration capability. We use it for notifications/ updates sent from other products. Incentivized Abhigyan Tiwari Senior Software Engineer 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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