Zeplin Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.9 out of 10

Score

6.9 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

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.

Reviews

22 Reviews

Zeplin- great handoff tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin to upload our final designs to be attached to jira tickets for dev handoff. I think it also accidentally gets used to organize release designs and be able to go back and find design iterations. The product managers will also use it to show and discuss designs for their tickets, as well as development using it to discuss when issues come up. Our UX architects will upload flows in the projects to be referenced as well. It also was used to hold our design system library for reference for a littler while.

Pros

Organization - tagging, filters, search, etc.
Easy to use - very little training needed
Integration - this is continuing to expand and help.

Cons

collaboration functionality
organization for large companies/teams
more admin capabilities

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it just makes it easier to share designs and give a lot of context to developers or others. I personally like uploading to an external program to have people see mocks vs working in the design program. I think it helps cleanliness and organization of projects.

I really like the ease of use and the use cases that many different teams get from using it- from design, to development, to product managers, etc.

Verified User

Team Lead in Product Management (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Zeplin is best design management team to ensure consistency across whole product

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin as design tool for new UI of the web. As I tester I refers to design in Zeplin to verify with our webpage. By using this tool, Product owner, Designer, developer, tester are working aligned with product specification and requirements. Before this tool, everyone was not able to work in align.

Pros

Precise testing: Developers can inspect design elements CSS (spacing, fonts, colors, sizes) so that it can set as per the designer
Centralized components color palettes, text styles make it easier for teams to maintain consistency across whole project
Designers, developers, tester and product owner can add comments directly on designs.

Cons

Developer or QA can see static design but cannot see in animation like figma.
I feel like it lacks advance design management system
Role base control is not there

Likelihood to Recommend

The most useful about Zeplin is that we can centrilize design and communicate over that design by adding comments. Which helps to stay on same page for every coress team like product owner, designer, developers and tester. But, Zeplin is not helpful in one thing is that when we have any animation on elements then it is not showing. Overall, I am happy with Zeplin.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Good tool if you know what you buy

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 19, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it as a main source of truth for design requirements for our clients, BAs, QAs, and developers. Important needs are to: -share assets for new UI items; -share precise sizes of lines, gaps, etc. for the purpose of accurate UI development; -asynchronous communication between different stakeholders regarding design.

Pros

Asynchronous communication regarding new designs
Share UI items' sizes, colors, gaps, etc.
Share assets
Versioning

Cons

I cannot pin the table of contents in web-application, it's annoying to expand it each time and scroll from the very top.
It logs me out very often. Smth like once a week I have to log in again and then refresh all opened Zeplin tabs. Too much
We cannot draw a flow, only single screen
We cannot create a dynamical prototype

Likelihood to Recommend

It's good for:

-Asynchronous communication using comments related to particular UI item;

-Design storage with the purpose of having a single source of truth, let's call this specification;

-Sharing sizes, colors, assets etc. whatever developers need to develop accurate UI according to this design.

It's not the best choice for:

-To discuss UI in live meetings while making changes on the fly.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Zeplin as the source of truth in the final design that I hand off to the developer team. Before utilizing Zeplin, my team used to face issues while handing over the design to the tech team. The main issue was that the tech team could not determine if the design was final or not. Even though we had marked the design as final, there were instances where our PM required some changes in the middle of development. This caused a delay in the delivery and made the dev team upset as it affected their timeline and deliverable.

Pros

We are able to organize the design with multi-group in every project
Zeplin is also able to create variants within one screen. It's a combination of screens or pages into one small group, based on the workflow or behaviour we set.
We can create style guide and connect it in to many projects
Now, zeplin is support variable from Figma latest features.

Cons

Flows in zeplin were actually good. but if we put many flows inside one canvas,. that make the app slow
I hope they can make boards based on the design group. to make loading faster. Imagine we have over 100+ screens, and we make all screens as design flow.
Sometimes the style guide is not connected to the project. especially for color intergation.

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

D Hendrik Mulyana

Lead Designer in Information Technology at Sinbad (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Zeplin - Handoffs made efficient and less painful

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zeplin is primarily used as a collaboration tool for our UI designers, front-end developers, product managers, copywriters and every other stakeholder in the design and development of the product. It makes the design handoff process efficient by allowing the designer to upload their design directly from the the sketching tools and then basic code snippets are auto generated for the developer as a boilerplate code to work on.

Pros

Code snippets based on design are auto generated.
Integrates with existing collaboration tools used at the organization like Slack, MS teams and development tools like Visual Studio Code.
People can add comments to the designs which can be assigned as tasks to the relevant person within the design team.

Cons

Interface is confusing and unintuitive.
Steep learning curve for new users.
Tutorials in the self help section need a lot of improvement both in terms of depth and breadth of topics they cover.

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.

Annie Jain

Consultant in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Handoff+, yes!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 27, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zeplin is used by several departments across our organization - our product, design, and engineering teams all make use of the software. It allows the product and design teams to do their work and then have a clean handoff to engineering to build out the feature with everything that they need.

Pros

Collaboration tools.
Design notes/documentation for engineers.
Simple prototyping.

Cons

Clickable actions to navigate prototypes naturally.
Subscription model.

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.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Zeplin is an awesome tool for handoff focused production

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 19, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin to help us implement mockups for Users Interfaces in our games and on our websites. It is used mainly for the first prototypes in a simple way, focused on the handoff of the design side that can be picked by programmers after. It helps us iterate quickly on those ideas and design good UI and UX.

Pros

Very nice design and user interface
Its styles components and color palettes organization is great
It has nice tools to iterate on web designs quickly

Cons

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

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.

Raphael Sanguinete

Creative Director in Product Management at Rebuliço (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Zeplin - collaboration and user management at a glance.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zeplin is being used between several departments and in collaboration with clients. It's primarily a valuable piece of software for our design department who can share and create designs and style guides with our project managers. It's a great tool to work alongside Adobe and Sketch etc. The collaboration between the apartments is the key to success here. The rest of this review will be written from an IT point of view.

Pros

Collaboration between departments
Excellent user management

Cons

Better definition of roles within user management.
Better options for versioning.

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.

Christopher Fritz

Head of Global IT in Information Technology at Vertic (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Zeplin takes away the friction of design hand off to developers

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 25, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zeplin acts as a bridge between the design teams and developer teams to assist in the handoff of the finished design artifacts. Once the design is done, it is exported to Zeplin and Zeplin parses the screens to enable assets and delivers specifications to the developers. This relieves designers to manually deliver the assets in multiple folders or files and explain those to the dev team. Zeplin saves a ton of time in manual work and makes it easy to update the assets when the design changes.

Pros

Code and design specifications help developers to quickly access colors and dimensions and also code snippets like CSS if required.
Commenting features are great for getting feedback and answering questions.

Cons

User interface design could use some better treatment.
Better tutorials to teach how to efficiently use the software.

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.

Verified User

Contributor in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

As Pretty as it gets!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 2, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin between two departments ( content and tech ). For the tech team to show off their best work, we need to know what the desired results are to be displayed. With Zeplin, the tech team can collaborate with the content team via notes directly on the mock-up. This is ideal for questions and answers that will not get lost in the shuffle, but rather are pinned directly where the question stems from ( point on the design ). This allows for very minimal miscommunication.

Pros

Allows note to be dropped and pinned directly on the design where the question stems from
Removes questions about exact styles with the CSS box
Loads extremely fast with the Windows App on a PC
Encourages collaboration between team members and departments

Cons

In the UI, the menu is a bit misleading by not showing all the pages available within a single project
Offline notifications are missing ( a must when the app is closed )

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.

Ray Flores

Software Engineer in Information Technology at LendEDU (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

We are able to organize the design with multi-group in every project
Zeplin is also able to create variants within one screen. It's a combination of screens or pages into one small group, based on the workflow or behaviour we set.
We can create style guide and connect it in to many projects
Now, zeplin is support variable from Figma latest features.

Cons

Flows in zeplin were actually good. but if we put many flows inside one canvas,. that make the app slow
I hope they can make boards based on the design group. to make loading faster. Imagine we have over 100+ screens, and we make all screens as design flow.
Sometimes the style guide is not connected to the project. especially for color intergation.

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

D Hendrik Mulyana

Lead Designer in Information Technology at Sinbad (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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