Zeplin — Design-to-development handoff platform with AI design review, free for 1 project or from $12/seat/month billed annually.
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Best for: design and engineering teams needing structured, versioned handoff specs from Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD to developers
Pricing: Free for 1 project and 100 screens; Advanced starts at $12/seat/month billed annually, with custom Enterprise pricing above that.
- Zeplin's Free plan covers 1 project and 100 screens with 3 AI screen reviews/week.
- Advanced costs $12/seat/month billed annually (2 months free yearly) and adds Flow Boards and role-based permissions.
- Zeplin holds a 4.4/5 rating on both G2 (117 reviews) and Capterra (54 reviews).
- AI Design Review scans for off-system colors, spacing issues, typos, and accessibility problems automatically.
- Zeplin is used by 2M+ users at companies including Air Canada, United Airlines, and Ticketmaster.
Limitations: Reviewers describe the tool itself as not very intuitive, with a real learning curve.; Large projects with many screens and animation states are hard to track without disciplined organization.; SSO, MFA, and invoiced billing require the custom-priced Enterprise tier.
Top alternatives: Figma, Sympli, Marvel App, Anima, zeroheight — full list
What is Zeplin?
Zeplin sits between design tools and code: designers export finished screens from Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD into Zeplin, and developers pull structured specs — exact measurements, exportable assets, and code snippets matching their stack (CSS, Swift, XML) — without needing edit access to the original design file. Git-inspired version history with commit messages lets teams track exactly what changed between design iterations rather than losing history in a shared design-file link. AI Design Review automatically flags off-system colors, inconsistent spacing, typos, and accessibility issues against a team's design system rules, catching handoff inconsistencies before a developer builds them. Higher tiers add Flow Boards for mapping complete user journeys rather than individual screens, plus connected component libraries and design tokens. Zeplin runs as a web app (app.zeplin.io) with native Mac and Windows desktop apps, and integrates with Jira, Azure DevOps, Storybook, VS Code, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Zeplin turns finished designs from Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD into structured developer specs — measurements, assets, and code snippets — without requiring designers to change their existing workflow. The Free plan covers 1 project and 100 screens with 3 AI screen reviews a week; Basic scales per-project from $13.75/month annually up to 12 projects; Advanced runs $12/seat/month billed annually (2 months free yearly) and adds unlimited screens, team workspaces, Flow Boards, and role-based permissions (Admin, Editor, Developer, Reviewer); Enterprise is custom-priced and adds SSO, MFA, SCIM, and a dedicated success manager. Zeplin's AI Design Review scans for off-system colors, spacing issues, typos, and accessibility problems, and its version history uses Git-inspired commit messages. Zeplin is used by 2M+ users at companies like Air Canada and Ticketmaster, and holds a 4.4/5 rating on both G2 (117 reviews) and Capterra (54 reviews).
Standout feature: AI Design Review automatically flags off-system colors, spacing inconsistencies, typos, and accessibility issues against a team's design system before a developer starts building.
Biggest weakness: Some reviewers find Zeplin itself not very intuitive to learn, and for large projects with many screens and animation states, engineers report it's hard to keep track of everything without careful organization on the design side.
Pros
- Free plan covers 1 project and 100 screens with weekly AI design reviews, enough for solo designers to evaluate before paying.
- AI Design Review catches off-system colors, spacing, and accessibility issues automatically rather than relying on manual QA.
- Git-inspired version history with commit messages tracks design changes more precisely than a shared file link.
- Unlimited Reviewer seats at no extra cost on Advanced keeps stakeholder access cheap even as the team grows.
Cons
- Reviewers describe Zeplin as not very intuitive, with a real learning curve despite its narrow purpose.
- For projects with many screens and animation states, engineers report it's difficult to track everything without disciplined organization.
- SSO, MFA, and invoiced billing are locked behind the custom-priced Enterprise tier, out of reach for mid-size teams on Advanced.
- Figma's own built-in Dev Mode competes directly with Zeplin's core handoff use case for teams already fully on Figma.
Zeplin pricing
Free tier · paid from $12/mo · verified from the vendor's pricing page
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1 project, 100 screens, unlimited users (owner-only publishing), 3 AI screen reviews/week, 3 AI organization runs/week. |
| Basic | $13.75/mo | Billed annually, scaling by project count (1-12 projects, up to $118.25/month for 12); 1,000 screens/project, unlimited users, 20 AI screen reviews/week, 1-year version history. |
| Advanced | $12/mo | Per seat, billed annually (2 months free yearly); 50 projects, unlimited screens, team workspace, Flow Boards, 4 roles (Admin, Editor, Developer, Reviewer), unlimited Reviewers at no extra cost. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing; unlimited projects, SSO, MFA, SCIM, invoiced billing, activity logs, dedicated success manager, 24-hour support SLA, 20 AI reviews/week per seat. |
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