Figma vs. Whimsical

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Figma
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.
$15
per month per editor
Whimsical
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Whimsical is a visual workspace application from the company of the same name in Denver, allowing users to create collaborative wireframes, mindmaps, flowcharts, and sticky notes.
$10
per month billed annually per editor
Pricing
FigmaWhimsical
Editions & Modules
Professional
$144
per year
Organization
$540
per year
Starter
Free
Pro
$10
per month billed annually per editor
Pro
$12
per month per editor
Org
$20
per month billed annually per editor
Starter
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FigmaWhimsical
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
FigmaWhimsical
Considered Both Products
Figma
Chose Figma
Whimsical is a platform that I mostly had use for wireframing. It has a very poor AI feature and, personally, it only helped me to make me design in wireframes and not jump right into mid-high fidelity designs (Its not a platform for that). It could be use for flow charts and …
Chose Figma
Figma excels in collaborative interface design, offering live collaboration and powerful prototyping capabilities. Compared to Adobe PhotoShop, Canva, Figma stands out for its focus on detailed UI/UX design and seamless team collaboration. This made it our top choice, …
Chose Figma
Figma does everything that I personally needed to do, and does all of those really well.
If you're a UI / UX designer, there is nothing better out there. If you're a PM, you'll be working on this quite a bit, but this is definitely not the best wireframing tool.
Chose Figma
Figma blows these out the park. Adobe's system is very different, and I think this shows in their attempted acquisition of Figma. I've not used Sketch or Invision, but their lack of market presence says a lot—designers like using the best tools. Axure is definitely more …
Chose Figma
Visily is still developing and it lacks many advanced features. Unlike Figma has better collaboration & real-time feedback updates. Designers have all the tools readily available & visible on the dashboard itself. Prototyping is very advanced on Figma with multiple sharing …
Chose Figma
InVision and Figma are quite similar in terms of feature set and capabilities. While InVision is more popular for prototyping, the user experience on Figma is just a lot simpler and smooth. Sketch on the other hand, while being great didn't offer as many collaboration options …
Whimsical
Chose Whimsical
I like the wireframing/web mockups a little better in Whimsical. I still do use Miro for some other uses (simple sprints/onboarding exercises).
Chose Whimsical
I've tried a few different services similar to Whimsical, and like the simplicity of Whimsical - as it's very easy to learn how to use and begin creating. The price is also better than a lot of competitors. There are quite a few options for creating wireframes, flowcharts and …
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User Ratings
FigmaWhimsical
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(201 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(33 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(17 ratings)
5.7
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FigmaWhimsical
Likelihood to Recommend
Figma
Figma is a solid design tool to craft the UX design concepts/solutions for digital products. For printed marketing materials such as brochures, marketing flyers, press releases, etc, other design tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign might make more sense to use for those use case scenarios.
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Whimsical
This is my go-to mind mapping tool, and I use this both for business-related work and personal though organization and brainstorming. Can't think of any scenario where it is less appropriate, except for maybe, a larger enterprise where data confidentiality may be an issue.
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Pros
Figma
  • Detailed enough to create pixel perfect designs with total control over the outcome
  • Creating and implementing design systems to improve consistency and speed up design work
  • Robust prototyping tools to create simple animations or to connect various pages
  • I love autolayout, which improves design spacing and responsiveness
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Whimsical
  • Simple to use
  • Tons of uses
  • Can be customized with themeing
  • Can organize all your boards pretty much however you want
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Cons
Figma
  • Prototyping in Figma is pretty much nothing more than a glorified slide show. Sure, variables, etc are available but it takes way to long to set them up and even more time when there are revisions needed.
  • It would be helpful if there were a contextual help system for various functionality. For example, advanced autolayout (like space between) can become very tricky to implement sometimes. I often wish there were an AI assistant to ask for help. I often use ChatGTP to help me through these times.
  • Searching layers needs to be much easier and more intuitive.
  • I would like to be able to make groups like the layers palette in Photoshop. That would help with organization and speed a lot.
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Whimsical
  • It can be a little frustrating trying to line things up exactly right but that's probably more user error than anything
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Likelihood to Renew
Figma
Figma is a pretty cool tool in many areas. My team almost uses it on daily basis, such as, brainstorming on product/design topics, discussing prototypes created by designers. We even use it for retrospectives, which is super convenient and naturally keeps records of what the team discusses every month. Furthermore, I do see the potential of the product - currently we mainly use it for design topics, but it seems it is also a good fit for tech diagrams, which we probably will explore further in the future.
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Whimsical
No answers on this topic
Usability
Figma
It's easy to use for designers who are familiar with design terms and functions from Photoshop and Illustrator. However, non-tech and non-designer collaborators have a hard time figuring out how to leave comments and apply changes, compared to other online design tools like Canva and Squarespace. Even simple drag-and-drops and rearrangement of certain blocks become too complicated due to uncommon functions like Hug and Lock.
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Whimsical
Whimsical is overall very easy to learn and remember. One issue with the usability occurs when you attempt to move connected boxes around the workspace. Frequently connections break or do not add easily, causing further disconnects. You can manually fix these issues, but it's a oprobem that seems would have an easy fix
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Reliability and Availability
Figma
The only regret I have is, its not available when there is no internet
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Whimsical
No answers on this topic
Performance
Figma
I think its great, As there are many other software or systems which can be integrated with it as plugins or API's
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Whimsical
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Figma
I haven't used their support lately but in the past, they had a chat that I used often. They often responded in a few hours and were able to give a satisfactory solution. I would imagine it's less personal now but the community has expanded drastically so there are more resources out there to self serve with a bit of Google magic.
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Whimsical
I reached out to support, as I was interested in possibly investing in the organization, and they quickly and happily informed me they are a bootstrap organization and do not take on investors at this time. The swift response and information readily available for my consumption was extremely helpful and shows how solid the team behind it is.
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In-Person Training
Figma
In-person training has its own benefits - 1. It helps in resolving queries then and there during the training. 2. I find classroom or in-person training more interactive. 3. Classroom or in-person training could be more practical in nature where participants can have an hands on experience with tools and clarify their doubts with the trainer.
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Whimsical
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Figma
Online training has its own merits and demerits - 1. Sometimes we may face issues with connectivity or the training content 2. The way training is being delivered becomes very important because not everyone is comfortable taking online training and learning by themselves. 3. With the advancement of technology online training has become popular but there is a segment of people who still prefer class-room training over online one.
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Whimsical
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Figma
Figma compared to other tools has user friendly UI which is very easy for all levels of designers. Compared to Adobe XD and Sketch Figma is stable, while in other tools I have faced software crashing in the middle of the work which resulted in loss of data/design. Compared to other tools it's fast and shows less lag. Collaboration in Figma is very easy as it is cloud based but in XD it's not that smooth working with other designers.
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Whimsical
Whimsical is so much easier and has a better interface, so I think it's more suited to our workflow if compared to other tools like Google Charts. I really love this tool and I'm looking to learn and use it even more, as it helps us optimize our time, planning, and delivering more efficiently.
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Scalability
Figma
I think this is great and as I mentioned at ADP we use Figma extensively whether by designers, researchers or content writers
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Whimsical
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Figma
  • Allows us to get funding for further phases of the project (which is uncountable)
  • Well, it lets us show off when needed due to well suited UI-oriented character
  • Easily approachable by anyone (browser use)
  • User friendly interface
  • More advanced cooperation requires some of the users to have a license
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Whimsical
  • No hard numbers I can quote. Other than the free plan has been adequate for my needs.
  • It's my go to mind mapping tool.
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