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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Opal

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Opal is a platform for brands, used to plan, create, and calendar their content - across teams and channels. Opal aims to enable tight alignment and high levels of efficiency. Marketing teams from companies such as Starbucks, Microsoft, and Target use Opal to collaborate, plan, and visualize, while ensuring an always-unified brand voice. Users can: Plan every facet of the brand experience, to ensure consistency throughout every moment and across every…

    $8.29

    per month

    Zeplin

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AZeplin, from the company of the same name, is a platform supporting collaboration in application development by engineers and designers by providing an API with popular collaboration, development and prototyping tools and creating a space where productions can be shared and reviewed.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    OpalZeplin
    Editions & Modules
    Opal Pro
    $8.29
    per month
    Opal
    Free Forever
    Teams Pro
    Custom Pricing
    per month
    Free
    $0
    up to 1 project
    Advanced
    $15
    per month per seat (up to 50 projects)
    Basic
    $15
    per month per project
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpalZeplin
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpalZeplin
    Considered Both Products
    OPAL
    No answer on this topic
    Zeplin
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    OpalZeplin
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Opal and Zeplin
    Feature
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Zeplin
    4.5
    4 Ratings
    53% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings4.72 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings4.12 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings6.24 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Opal and Zeplin
    Feature
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Zeplin
    6.7
    4 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Notifications00 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Opal and Zeplin
    Feature
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Zeplin
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Versioning00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings3.23 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings4.35 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings4.92 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpalZeplin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpalZeplin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OPAL
    I honestly cannot recommend this tool enough. Opal is such a valuable tool for brand content creators and there is nothing like it available. If you're serious about content marketing and have a need to find ways to collaborate, plan and provide more visibility among teams, then Opal really is the only way to go. One more thing that's not being mentioned: The tool is simply amazing but it's only as amazing is the team behind the tool. Their customer support and willingness to quickly be in touch when needed is a key feature within itself. Seriously, such a good team of people.
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    Zeplin
    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
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    Pros
    OPAL
    • Content planning: you can look at one asset and see how it is being used across multiple channels by multiple teams.
    • Content collaboration: it is really easy to see what other people and teams are contributing to an asset, or how they are using it. We can also duplicate content that was created by another team to use as a starting point in our own content collaboration.
    • High level/big picture overview: Opal allows us to see content that is being created, planned and scheduled very easily; it goes beyond social content (which we can also see in Sprinklr) to show us content created across multiple channels.
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    Zeplin
    • Ease in automatically building design style guides, saving time that might be spent on building style guides in another tool (such as InDesign).
    • Users can use Mac, PC, or web versions of this app to collaborate on a single project, enabling us to work with a wider pool of contractors.
    • Accelerates the design-to-development workflow, as it’s very easy to import Sketch or Photoshop files through plug-ins, and HTML/CSS codes are automatically created based on designs.
    • Provides cross-platform specifications for web, iOS, and Android, which can save developers time in figuring out specifications beyond the “main platform" on their own.
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    Cons
    OPAL
    • No publishing capabilities, for the most part.
    • No analytics tie-ins.
    • Rather pricey.
    • Requires someone to really manage the structure in order to keep the tool organized and use it effectively. When this is done right, though, it's worthwhile.
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    Zeplin
    • The uploading and syncing of assets is great for sketch and photoshop but we use illustrator and that can be cumbersome/tedious at times.
    • There are certain elements that have been a bit confusing to navigate at times, but for the most part, it's pretty user-friendly
    • More integrations
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OPAL
    No answers on this topic
    Zeplin
    Great tool
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    Usability
    OPAL
    No answers on this topic
    Zeplin
    Zeplin's component management and style guide help us to be consistent across whole product and it so easy to use for non-technical person. It is now easy to collaboration for designes between different teams like stackholders, product owner, UI/UX, developers and testers. Now there is only one point of reference is Zeplin so it is so easy to get details without asking designer or developer again and again.
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    Support Rating
    OPAL
    No answers on this topic
    Zeplin
    Zeplin has classic support with a chat from the website. It's working fine, and we're also getting the support needed when needed. However, Zeplin is very good at closing the incidents and moving on. It was a while ago we had a case with their support so that it might have improved since then.
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    Alternatives Considered
    OPAL
    You get for what you paid for. Opal has more features
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    Zeplin
    Zeplin is great to inspect and share user interfaces, specifications and assets, perfect for developers. Tools like InVision and Marvel are much better to create prototypes for both developers, coworkers and even stakeholders, but they don't have this kind of feature (inspection) as Zeplin does. So each of them can be used for different purposes, offering different approaches to share and interact with layouts for apps and websites.
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    Return on Investment
    OPAL
    • Opal allows for more discipline in marketing as teams are better aligned on messaging and big moments.
    • Opal cuts down on communication breakdowns and mistakes, which in the end leads to more happy customers.
    • I think Opal provides the team with more confidence as everyone is on the same page. With everything in one place rather than communications being lost in emails, etc., everyone is more efficient and can work knowing that there is one source of truth.
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    Zeplin
    • Development time has reduced as the design updates are communicated in real time to developers and they don't have to write the boilerplate code as it's already generated.
    • Employee engagement has improved as every stakeholder is aware about the design changes from the beginning and can give their inputs.
    • Designers save a lot of time as they don't to explicitly communicate when the update or publish their designs and also it just takes a couple of clicks to publish their designs. Also, lot of rework is saved as every stakeholder is involved right from the beginning.
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    ScreenShots

    Opal Screenshots

    Screenshot of Preview content exactly as it will appear in market to the audience. Collaborate with teammates and track changes in the  Chat & Activity window.Screenshot of View scheduled Moments across all campaigns on the Calendar -- by day, week, or month.Screenshot of Plan marketing content and campaigns using Boards, a free-form space for brainstorming, briefing, and scenario planning.