Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe XD
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Adobe XD is a prototyping and UX/UI option for website and mobile application design, featuring a range of UI tools and and templates, a versatile artboard and contextual layer panels, and deep integration with Adobe's creative suite of products for fast import of objects from these applications.
$33.99
per month per license
Node.js
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Node.js is an open source, asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.
$0
Supernova
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Supernova is a collaborative platform that helps product teams turn ideas into production-ready features while keeping design and development connected. It brings designs, tokens, guidelines, and code libraries together in one collaborative environment.
$0
per seat
Pricing
Adobe XDNode.jsSupernova
Editions & Modules
Individual
$9.99 ($119.88)
per month (annual, prepaid)
Students & Teachers - All Apps
$19.99 ($239.88)
per month, annual plan (for the year)
Business - Single App
$33.99
per month per license
Business - All Apps
$79.99
per month per license
Schools & Universities - Institution Wide
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FREE
$0
per month per seat
PRO
$20
per month per seat
ENTERPRISE
custom
custom per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe XDNode.jsSupernova
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Adobe XDNode.jsSupernova
Likelihood to Recommend
5.5
(34 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.7
(3 ratings)
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Usability
5.5
(3 ratings)
-
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(16 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Adobe XDNode.jsSupernova
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
If its already part of your organization, and they have a license for Creative Cloud, its worth learning. It doesnt take long to get started, but compared to other software in the same field, its lacking in many ways, from quality of life features to just simply not having the option for Darkmode. Even for website design, UX/UI, and mocking up proof-of-concepts, there are much better tools like Figma.
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Open Source
1. Node.js is useful for building one page, fast, light-weight, scalable applications. 2. It is not suitable for building computationally extensive applications, it may lead to bad performance.
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Supernova.io
Supernova is the best documentation platform on the market, having tested numerous alternatives, including the more popular zeroheight, Knapsack, etc. It's ideal for low-code solutions for brand guidelines and detailed component documentation. Their automated exporter pipelines are the icing on the cake, enabling them to pull what you see in Figma and push it directly into your codebase.
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Pros
Adobe
  • Easy and simple animations.
  • Good tool for website mock-ups.
  • Easy user interface and tools that are like most Adobe products.
  • You can share a dev link and it displays all assets for developers to download or user like it's very own style guide.
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Open Source
  • Robust
  • Fast
  • Modern
  • Easy to learn
  • Allows using JS or TypeScript everywhere
  • Supported and maintained actively by the open source community
  • Pleasurable to work with
  • Reliable
  • Simple to learn
  • Simple to setup
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Supernova.io
  • Customer service.
  • Automation
  • Organization
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Cons
Adobe
  • Doesn’t have image editing tools, so having to go back to Photoshop or Lightroom just to make a sight edit can be a pain.
  • Could add some text editing functionality. It feels silly that I have to draw a line under text when I should just be able to underline.
  • Would be nice to have some real-time collaboration functionality.
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Open Source
  • It reduce performance while dealing with heavy computational task.
  • Node.js invites a lot of change in code, due to an unstable api.
  • Lack of library support.
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Supernova.io
  • Difficult to sync large files (more of a Figma problem).
  • Restrictive paid tiers.
  • Redundant features.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
We utilize many of the applications in the Adobe CC suite and our usage of this application came about simply because it was the one that was already paid for. Bearing that in mind we will definitely be renewing the software upon the expiration of the licensing. I am not sure if this is the solution we would go with were it not already included, we would have to evaluate all other options
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Open Source
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Supernova.io
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Usability
Adobe
Adobe XD is basically on life-support now, there are much better software out there that do everything XD can do, and a few that you don't even have to pay a monthly subscription fee on. While Adobe XD is great as shortcuts that are used in other CC software works, and its integration with CC is great. But it still lacks compared to its closest competitor.
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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Supernova.io
It is occasionally buggy, but nowhere near as buggy as zeroheight.
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Support Rating
Adobe
I have not had a need to connect with the Adobe XD support team as of yet, but from past experience when dealing with the other products, the support has been very very good, and I would have no reason to think that this product would be any different. There are a good number of training videos on the Adobe site for this product as well as on other social media sites so a quick search should let you find the answers in several different ways.
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Open Source
Node.js is easy and good to use, their support team is also good they always tend to help you, and solve your problem, even we know that Node is free to use and opensource but then also we get support from them but for getting much better results we need to purchase standard or enterprises support provided by them.
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Supernova.io
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Adobe
Implementation was a snap
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Open Source
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Supernova.io
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Before XD came to the company, screens were designed in Illustrator or Photoshop and a PDF presentation was generated, which was extremely time-consuming. XD saved us a lot of time (and money) by generating interactive prototypes, which are much more tangible for the client than a PDF. The "fight" with Figma is frequent. Both have features in which they are better than their competition. And, while I still choose Adobe XD, don't rule out moving to Figma with its multiple updates.
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Open Source
There is a smooth and seamless performance for multiple requests as the feedback received from users. and uses one platform to maintain UI and backend.
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Supernova.io
Supernova has best-in-class customer service. Our Figma library is a huge file and was unable to automatically sync with most platforms (including Supernova) - of all three platforms we tried, Supernova was the only one that actively assigned engineers to our case and offered a solution within a couple of days. They've been great partners.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Ease of use means we are up and running in no time.
  • Integrates and is a part of the Adobe CC platform (which we already subscribe to) so there was no additional cost.
  • Online proofing and developer handoff links are the icing on the cake. Keeps everything in one place.
  • Handles all our assets (mostly created in Illustrator) like a dream. Even imports native Photoshop docs, too, so that saves us so much time round tripping.
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Open Source
  • It helps our business to expand our standard offer with new solutions based on Node.js such as conversation bots.
  • It brings avarege 2-3 new clients projects per year, that we couldn't do without it.
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Supernova.io
  • We've seen a massive increase in organizational design system adoption since launching our Supernova site.
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ScreenShots

Supernova Screenshots

Screenshot of Build high-fidelity prototypes that feel and look like your actual products.Screenshot of Keep your prototypes fully aligned with your brand and design system. Apply tokens, colors, and typography instantly, so every prototype reflects the real product experience - from first idea to high-fidelity concept.Screenshot of Automatically generate synchronized PRDs, specifications, and other documents, and push them to their workbenches, such as Jira.Screenshot of Export on-brand, on-codebase code straight to VS Code or Cursor using our remote MCP serverScreenshot of Instantly search your design system: tokens, components, assets with AI-assisted queries.