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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Yamdu

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AShort description: Yamdu is a production management software for visual content. It offers tools for all departments and stages of a film, television or commercial production.N/A

    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
    YamduZeplin
    Editions & Modules
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    Free
    $0
    up to 1 project
    Advanced
    $15
    per month per seat (up to 50 projects)
    Basic
    $15
    per month per project
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    YamduZeplin
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    YamduZeplin
    Considered Both Products
    Yamdu
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    Zeplin
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    YamduZeplin
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Yamdu and Zeplin
    Feature
    Yamdu
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Zeplin
    4.5
    4 Ratings
    53% below category average
    Task Management7.04 Ratings4.72 Ratings
    Gantt Charts10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.04 Ratings4.12 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings6.24 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Yamdu and Zeplin
    Feature
    Yamdu
    -
    Ratings
    Zeplin
    6.7
    4 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Notifications00 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Yamdu and Zeplin
    Feature
    Yamdu
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    YamduZeplin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.1
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    YamduZeplin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Yamdu
    Even for a small business like mine, Yamdu really felt like a one-stop shop for everything. It's hard to find a comprehensive software for film/video productions, but Yamdu has everything we need. The only thing that really held us back was the cost, ultimately. If anything, I would love a storyboarding feature that let you set the time per shot and build out a sequence in pre-production. I used Storyboarder for this currently and it's very helpful, especially for music videos, to be able to build out a storyboard, set a music/audio track to it, then play it back in real time and see the pacing of the shoot.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Yamdu
    • Crewlists
    • Callsheets
    • Breakdowns
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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
    Yamdu
    • More specific financial management reports.
    • Creation of some instant messaging software for the team.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Yamdu
    No answers on this topic
    Zeplin
    Great tool
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Yamdu
    What you see is what you get. It's easy to start working when you setup your first project. Also team members do not need many new to learn skills to work with the basic functions. Really incredible is Yamdu's help center. It is always available in the right corner. A lot of topics are covered with video links. If you need personal assistance, you can write a message within the help-box and Yamdu's crew is really fast in responding!
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    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
    Yamdu
    This is one of Yamdu's strongest points.
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    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
    Yamdu
    At the time, there really wasn't anything else like Yamdu. Especially as, in Celtx's case, at that time they weren't doing Excel/CSV exports of shot lists in the A/V format, something we required for what we were shooting. I understand that StudioBinder has increased its featureset the past few years, but Yamdu always felt like the most robust option and more familiar with the film/tv world.
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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
    Yamdu
    • Positive impact, centralized place with some good tools for film productions
    • Negative impact, not that flexible and as expected and strict pricing policy with little flexibility
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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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