Zeplin Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score6.9 out of 10

63 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Zeplin Reviews

8 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services4Marketing & Advertising1Design3

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 (Design company, 10,001+ 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 (Information Technology & Services company, 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 (Design, 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 (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ 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 (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Awesome software

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 27, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zeplin is being used by the Product, Design and Engineering teams to share designs between design and engineering. It solves the problem of easily sharing screen designs, as well as allowing engineers to "inspect" the screens so designers don't need to mark up every measurement on every screen. It also allows for easy share links to other departments.

Pros

Sharing screen designs.
Allowing engineers to inspect the elements on the designs.
Runs as a web app or as a standalone desktop app.

Cons

Requires each user to have a login.

Likelihood to Recommend

Zeplin is well suited to Product Design teams that need to share designs with engineering and product partners. It is well suited to designs for any sort of screen — desktop, mobile, apps, TV. Zeplin is probably suited mainly for print or physical design and is only relevant for product design organizations.

Verified User

Employee in Product Management (Design company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Awesome tool for UI and UX designers interacting with technical team members.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 22, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin to share design specs with our clients and discuss UI changes. Zeplin provides us with a succinct but great set of features that lets us see, share, download and discuss design assets.

Pros

Share design screens: being the core of the service, uploading design screens from design software is as easy as it gets
Share and see design specs: Zeplin offers a really handy way to share design specs such as colors, fonts, CSS directives and rules

Cons

Prototype navigation: Zeplin offers navigation between screen using prototype navigation where you can link a screen and draw on top of the screen's elements. However, this is a very basic feature compared to similar apps and services. For instance, you can not assign transition effects or timeouts for transitions.

Likelihood to Recommend

For UI and UX designers, Zeplin is a great tool that allows them to share design screens and specs with other members of their team. For project owners, developers and stakeholders, Zeplin comes in handy when in need of a fast, reliable tool to preview and review design assets and screens.

Hernán Silva

Senior Front-end developer in Engineering at Velocity Partners (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Great tool for designers and developers!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 15, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zeplin is used by our designers and developers, as well as by product managers. It's a great tool to share design mock-ups or final UI designs and easily communicate with comments and notes on each of the files. It's pretty nice that you can directly import files from Sketch to Zeplin. Developers also love Zeplin, as it gives them the ability to see the measurements of pixels between components, select and see properties for each of the components, CSS code, etc.

Pros

Great way to import files directly from Sketch to Zeplin
Shows properties for all the components and elements and makes the lives of developers much easier
Allows developers to comment and write notes on the files
Has nice design and overall UX

Cons

Sometimes updates from Sketch don't work as fast as expected, but overall we are very satisfied

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great tool to share design mock-ups with the team. Developers love it, as it allows them to see properties for each of the elements in the design and makes their lives much better.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing (Information Technology and Services company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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