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What is Ziflow?

Ziflow online proofing creates a single source of truth and streamlines the review and approval process for creative content to deliver marketing projects faster for agencies and brands.

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Standard

$199

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Pro

$329

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per year

Free

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Per User / Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $199 per month
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Product Details

What is Ziflow?

Ziflow is a creative workflow platform that enables agencies and brands to deliver creative work while streamlining feedback on any creative asset from concept to completion. Customers include Showtime, McCann Worldgroup, AWS, Weber, Specialized and Dupont. Ziflow was founded in 2016 and serves thousands of customers across the world. Ziflow has team members in the US, UK, Poland and South Africa.

The solution includes ZiflowAI, a chatbot that can drive review and approval processes forward. More information about ZiflowAI: www.ziflow.com/ziflow-ai

Ziflow Features

Online Proofing Features

  • Supported: File sharing
  • Supported: Annotations
  • Supported: Version management
  • Supported: Approvals
  • Supported: Templates
  • Supported: Mobile application

Ziflow Screenshots

Screenshot of Ziflow streamlines feedback on any creative asset from concept to completion so creative teams can deliver work, faster. With markup tools, stakeholders of all abilities can circle, highlight, draw, point, and overall produce feedback that doesn’t leave creatives guessing.Screenshot of For creative teams that constantly repeats tasks when setting up review workflows, Ziflow’s workflow automation and templates are available.Screenshot of Users can see different versions side-by-side to compare changes to a project over time, and automatically highlight version differences, all the way down to the pixel with the auto-compare capability.Screenshot of Frame-accurate commenting on video and motion projects. Feedback can be viewed on a specific video frame to remove any chance of confusion. Ziflow Safe Zones are used to make sure crucial content remains in-frame on every device, and to see likely cut-off points at industry-standard aspect ratios. Users can review projects from a web browser on any device - no app download is required.Screenshot of To approve creative content on the go, Ziflow has added support for review on mobile devices. Team members can access proofs via proof notification emails on their devices. Comments and decisions can be made via the device's native browser, with Ziflow's HTML5-based Proof Viewer.Screenshot of ZiflowAI: Creative collaboration, powered by artificial intelligence. Get the creative spark your project needs with ZiflowAI, a chatbot designed to drive review and approval processes forward.

Ziflow Videos

Ziflow - Creative review and approval--but faster
This video from Ziflow recaps some user statistics and new features added to the platform in 2022, and offers a sneak preview of where Ziflow is going in the next four quarters.
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Ziflow Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesGerman, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Frequently Asked Questions

Ziflow online proofing creates a single source of truth and streamlines the review and approval process for creative content to deliver marketing projects faster for agencies and brands.

Ziflow starts at $199.

PageProof, Adobe Workfront, and Wrike are common alternatives for Ziflow.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Ziflow are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Ziflow as a proofing tool for marketing deliverables across social, web, email and print, including our seasonal catalogs (200-500 pages). Ziflow has allowed our team to get feedback from cross-functional teams all in one place. We can organize feedback and communicate with team members all within Ziflow. Since I design many of the deliverables or am giving direct creative feedback, this makes everything streamlined and clear to me and my team members.
  • Comments in proofs: You can tag them, copy them from version to version, resolve them and comment back. All of this is super simple to use.
  • Workflow Templates: Setting up a workflow that automatically pushes the proof from stage to stage following a pre-determined timeline. Also, locking stages or proofs when a deadline has come or decisions has been made.
  • Proof Organization: Being able to organize proofs in folders, locking or archiving them when you are done with them. Keeps this organized and clean when looking for proofs.
  • Connecting to Asana: This may be a company thing that we have not figured out. We used to have the two systems communicating with each other but we haven't been able to get it for some time. I wonder if that can become easier.
  • Uploading Proofs: Since the new version, there is so much clicking that has to be done with add messages to proofing stages and many sections. It's hard to click through it all and it feels like it takes longer than it did before.
We work with a lot of cross functional teams, so it is nice to have them review things on their own and provide feedback all in the one place for our team to review. It helps cut back on meetings and emails full of feedback that gets lost. This is especially helpful when we are working on our catalogs. We do reviews on Ziflow all the way from rough layouts to proofreading.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ziflow to upload proofs for our proofreaders to proof. We also use it for client feedback (our team members jot down the feedback through their accounts during or after meetings). Having the review process from various employees in one program keeps everything organized and flowing smoothly. In my experience, the staging function also contributes greatly to this as you can have one stage for an internal review, another for proofreading and then a final one for client.
  • If your filenames are organized, the search function is a dream.
  • I think the staging function makes it handy to keep things moving once one party approves.
  • I think the templates are great for adding multiple people to proofs automatically.
  • After big design overhauls, maybe instead of highlighting new features, old ones that may have been moved could be highlighted.
  • Sometimes emails are a bit slow to receive but that could be a problem on our end.
Ziflow is a great program for all our proofing needs. Creating a proof is as easy as dragging it over. To add someone, you can just start typing an email and it'll pick up from an address book and you can click the name. You can also add multiple people to one tag and have them all added at once to a proof. You can also create templates with people already added to various stages to really speed up the process of adding people to proofs. The stage function itself is also great for having multiple approvals from multiple stages instead of creating new proofs after each person approves.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Ziflow for creative collaboration on key pieces of content that need to go through a medical, regulatory, and legal review for a pharmaceutical company. The product allows for swift feedback, repository of feedback, proof/version control and electronic signatures. Very versatile tool...easy to use...and cost effective....solid value.
  • Manage proofing process
  • Version control
  • Support from the company on account training
  • Better baseline layout of tool- can overwhelm at 1st with all the tools it has
  • Organized training modules by topic
  • User forums
Great when you have a lot of creative approvals to manage with many decision makers and to keep versions in control- nice safety and security to the tool. Account team is outstanding....
Rachel Reams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We create digital renderings and upload the drafts to Ziflow for clients to review and make edits. A problem we have is only with the live tours, as an extension needs to be downloaded, and some clients don't like that. Other than that, it is a relatively easy platform to use. I find it best to create folders and share the folder link with the client so that they have a place to find all their drafts/proofs.
  • Compare mode for different versions
  • Easy editing capabilities that show where the edit needs to be
  • Easy to export and review edits
  • Easy to upload new versions
  • live site editing and possibly showing a small snippet of the screenshot in the comment section so others can see if a comment they had was already made.
  • It would be really great if there was some nudges the first time someone used the platform. Pointing out where to make edits and then comparing them more. Just a quick walkthrough.
  • I would love to be able to use the platform to collect material from the client for internal review.
We create digital renderings; it is perfect for still renderings or floor plans to review and make edits. A challenge we had was clients not being able to tell what the changes have been, but Ziflow's compare mode has eliminated this, and it's very clear what changes happen. However, sometimes, we change the overall lighting to a rendering, and when using auto-compare, it makes the entire new version all red.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Ziflow to upload proofs of different types of projects that our clients can then review and comment on. This helps our company massively to keep all projects in one place, look at past versions and easily share to other people. We use Ziflow for every project we work on and occasionally for multiple aspects of a project.
  • Commenting section of the system is really easy to understand and navigate
  • Folders are easy to keep in order
  • Record of all existing versions of a proof.
  • Sometimes uploading multiple files can be tricky to upload together and ends up with multiple proofs.
  • Have occasionally found it hard to find archived proofs
  • Nothing more to add
When we have created a visual image for a client with lots of detail. Ziflow allows client to precisely comment on certain things. I have used Ziflow for proofing an audio file instead of a visual one and found this slightly more difficult to navigate.
Emiliano Spampinato | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I started using ziflow one year ago doing home office, so my training was remoted. In a very few days I was able to work with it since it's a very intuitive and simple interface. But instead of being simple it's very complete and satisfy all my needs as producer to check assets and giving and receiving feedback.The principal problem Ziflow resolves is the possibility of sharing several assets under the same route and the easy way of surfing into each one. It turns into a gain of time when we have many projects and proofs, because it's very easy to localize any project thanks to the search filters.
  • Sharing proofs to the client easily
  • Visual tools to mark changes
  • Real time
  • some kind of editor, to let other users to show changes easily
  • to record audio on proofs
  • PDF with less information, more visual
When we have several proofs under the same project, the new interface makes a little bit difficult to find each version, the thumbnails don't show the aspect ratio (as the old interface did). Also the name of the proofs appear cut when the title is long. On the other hand, the dashboard shows clearly each stage of approval, which makes very simple managing several proofs.
Craig Smidt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ziflow helps us to keep our proofs organized and helps keep the approval process moving along efficiently. It also helps us to convey changes clearly and see past versions. With inputs coming from multiple sources it can be difficult to keep them all straight without the use of a tool like Ziflow
  • Proofing
  • Version Control
  • Tracking Changes
  • Adding Review Workflows From Proof
Ziflow is very well suited to any Marketing department that has inputs, changes, comments and suggestions coming in from multiple different contributors. Even if there are not multiple contributors, the ability to easily mark up a proof is way better than trying to do the same thing in a program like Acrobat
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We work in the apparel industry, creating tags and label for the brands identity. We use Ziflow for some accounts to upload artworks proof so then the brands can look at them and make a comment or either approved it. Ziflow is very helpful as we can upload multiple files no matter the size of it.
  • Upload Proof
  • Set timelines for proof approvals
  • Revise the proof when customer ask for updates
  • See on realtime the status of the proof
  • Option to change the email of the person who will approved and make a decision
In my case I only use Ziflow to upload proofs to the brand, is very easy to use although at the beginning you can find it tricky but then you will get used to it. I will like to learn of other things that Ziflow can do instead of only upload proof that is my case only, will be helpful to see its potential to the fullest.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ziflow helps us applying collaborative work methodologies with a team spread across the world. We manage to achieve higher productivity, reduce the communication noise and limit the number of "parallel discussions" happening on various communication tools adopted by the workgroup (e.g. instant messaging, emails, etc.)
Our use case is the localization, editing and proofing of boardgames.
  • Controlled information sharing
  • Live editing and notifications
  • Communication noise reduction
  • UI size/tool buttons could be perfected
  • hover-on buttons should be avoided when working via browser
  • some processes are a little crunchu, e.g. switching from one tool to another sometimes requires 3+ clicks
Ziflow is well suited for publishing processes of all nature - from print products to online publications and even media-enriched publications. It is great for working on the go and submitting notes for immediate feedback using the in-built communication capabilities. I have not found scenarios where Ziflow could be considered not appropriate, given that the scope of Ziflow is very precise and fills a specific niche in the market.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At Princess Auto, we use Ziflow to proof the various documents our design team creates. In the past, we used pdfs on a common server, and it was a mess. Every person reviewing the proof would have to create their own copy so they could put their own comments on it. This meant we had to look at dozens of documents, many of which would have the same comments over and over. Then, the process would start all over again once we finished addressing the comments. With Ziflow, everyone is commenting on the same document, and everyone can see what comments others are leaving so we can have discussions about them inside the proof itself, the proofs are saved online rather than on the server so people can look at them even if they're at home, and new versions of the proofs replace the old ones so even if we go through six rounds of revisions, we're still just dealing with "one" proof.
  • Keeps all relevant information related to the project together, including briefs, screenshots, and conversations
  • Reduce the amount of documents we have to save on our server
  • Make it easy to track which comments still need to be addressed
  • Clearly shows at what stage in the project we're at
  • The ability to see a time stamp on when comments were resolved (and be able to sort them by who did, and/or when)
Ziflow is best suited for medium to large organizations, the kind where 5 or more people from different departments will be commenting on a proof, projects are created via briefs/dockets that are then assigned to another department, projects are likely to go through multiple revisions because the people who initially assigned the work are not graphically inclined, etc. For freelance designers who are dealing with just one client at a time, it would be overkill.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We originally came across Ziflow when looking for a solution for one of our customers who needed to annotate drawings onsite and send between staff members for approval instead of emails, this was the best tool for the job as it kept the current drawings completely up to date. We liked it so much we decided to also start using to speed up the process of getting quotes or estimates authorised when sending to customers as the back and forth on emails always took too long. We love the fact that it works across a wide range of document types and not just stuck with its own format. We use it with pdfs, word and cad drawings.
  • Internal and external document reviewing
  • Marking up documents
  • Easy file sharing
  • Quick way to keep track of document changes
  • The ability to hand write with a digital pen on a document and class it as a markup
  • A few emojis to use on some documents
  • Dockable tool bars
It is best suited for approval processes and file sharing when commenting is required from multiple sources. This is what the software was made for and does it without any hassle or problems. This system for monitoring which files still need to be approved, which are progressing and which are completed is very straightforward and doesn’t require any in-depth training.
Beverly Newburn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Ziflow to create proofs for our aviation training videos. Ziflow allows members of our team to comment at a specific time of a video. It also allows us to compare versions of the proofs in real time. Ziflow helps track our comments, versions, and decisions in one easy-to-use location.
  • Track comments
  • Versioning
  • Side by Side comparisons
  • Notifications
  • Make it easier to find archived proofs
  • I can't think of anything else! It works great.
It's good for sharing proofs to different users. Allowing users to comment at a specific time in a video proof. Ziflow also allows users to create proofs of different mediums like PDFs. It's well suited for environments that require a team of people to review a project before it's finalized.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We create digital media for advertising and use Ziflow to provide proofing and approval functionality to clients. They offer corrections and additions and ultimately approve Media for printing and web.
  • Client engagement
  • Quick proofing ability
  • Faster approval process
  • Can’t replace proofs in a live upload without a new version.
  • Honestly, it really functions as needed. I can’t think of any missing elements
I have not used for video presentation, but it seems like the collaborative effort would require a higher learning curve. But for print or web media, it provides an excellent source for proofing and feedback from clients. Especially since they are not required to create their own account.
February 24, 2023

Saves so much time

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We build websites for our clients and we need a way to easily pass feedback to our developer to make changes to ensure high quality when passing to our clients. Previously we were getting PDFs of the websites and annotating feedback on that which was very inefficient and caused issues because sometimes the feedback was unclear.
  • Versioning - We can easily see the previous version of the website and compare it with the update to ensure that the revisions were made as intended
  • Approval process - Can go through multiple layers of approvals across departments which ensures a high quality before it's delivered to the client
  • Multiple screen sizes - Toggling between multiple screen sizes allows us to ensure a perfect experience across all devices and we can give feedback at each level
  • Build solution for Shopify Preview Theme - Currently the Shopify preview link doesn't work natively within Ziflow so we can have to do a roundabout method to get it to work
  • Website accessed from a US server - For some clients we have a redirect which takes them to the US version of the site so when we want to proof, we have to turn the redirect off as Ziflow accesses it from the US
It's streamlined the process from developer to designer and feedback is easily communicated and actioned. With versioning and being able to see the before and afters allows the designer to ensure that the changes went through appropriately. Where it hasn't worked as well is that if you're using a Shopify preview link, the workaround is such that the link is only active for 2 days i.e. the designer has to give feedback within that time when it may not always be realistic and causes the developer to have to make a new link.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ziflow allows multiple departments to have visibility over the progress of the same project. By allowing multiple users to add comments within the same document, we can track all changes in a very organized way. Additionally, Ziflow also allows you to keep historical tracking of all the changes since the beginning of the project for easy reference.
  • Historical Tracking of changes
  • Multi-department access
  • Customizable & Automatic email updates for a project
  • Software bug when updating one of many document status. Sometimes, Ziflow displays a document as "pending" even after being approved unless you manually refresh the page.
  • When a comment is too long, the email notifications are displayed incomplete.
  • When using "compare mode" with comments, Ziflow leaves little space to look at the actual document. Thecomment section of both proofs combined can easily take up to 50% of your screen.
As a company in the product development sector, the majority of projects require input from different departments, such as, Product Development, Marketing, Social Media, E-commerce, etc. Ziflow is a powerful tool that has allowed us to facilitate what before used to be physical documents passing through each department. A single round of comments could take days. Instead, using Ziflow allows us to have all departments involved add their comments simultaneously if a much faster fashion, making the process more effective and efficient.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ziflow let us add feedback and comments on creative resources while they are wip. It minimizes the completion time and gives us better assets. Ziflow ties design and marketing team and keeps everyone on the same page. Absolutely love their version control tool and ability to collaborate with teams. They also let you leave reviews on the videos and the performance was above my expectations.
  • Feedback management on images as well as videos
  • Version control
  • Permissions - Video CMS
  • Integration with Canva
  • Analytics - Video CMS
  • Search - Video CMS
Ziflow is best suited for advertising, media, design, UI/UX and marketing teams. It is the best choice for organizations looking for a good creative collaboration and online proofing tool. Agencies can deliver exceptional creative content. One-stop platform for feedback on video, web, documents, audio, images, banners, GIFs, and lot more.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Ziflow to proof all of our ads and copy. We started using it for proofing emails and web pages as well. When you use Ziflow, it is also an extension of Adobe products which streamlines the revision process. You can also see side by side comparison of the versions uploaded.
  • Plug-in for Adobe
  • Side by side proof comparison
  • Layout of the pages/comments
  • Names of tools
  • Settings for alerts
  • User guide/tips
Ziflow has come a long way and is proving itself useful in many different aspects. I cannot think of an instance where it wouldn't be fitting. Any ads, emails, and web pages have to be reviewed before being published, so doing so with Ziflow simplifies the process and holds you accountable by displaying the stage of the proofing process you are in.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We make marketing, brand identity, social media, and web design for our clients. We use Ziflow to send to the clients for proofing and reviewing all the things that needs their approval such as social media graphics, logo studies, landing page mock-ups, web design mock-ups, print collaterals, among other things.
  • literally pin pointing the area that needs to be corrected or changed
  • commenting
  • resolution options
  • versioning
  • putting a resolved toggle on the comments of the proof
  • the overall UI can do a little facelift
  • integrations with softwares such as adobe and Figma
Ziflow is definitely best suited for sending proofs to clients especially in materials that needs visual reference to easily determine what needs to be changed and corrected. It can definitely save you tons of time, instead of going back and forth in reading the comments from an email to make sure you've understood the what needs to be done, you can just easily view those comments in the proof here in Ziflow.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazing proofing platform! Best I have ever used. We send all our marketing collateral over to Ziflow which helps us keep track of version, changes and updates. It allows our remote-working marketing team to work as if we are in the same office space. We are even able to collaborate and brainstorm as a team on edits and refresh designs. And, this goes without saying, that the approval process is smooth, easy and trackable. It makes our daily lives easier and more efficient.
  • Tracking comments & edits
  • Comparing versions in multiple ways- overlays, side by side, and the screen swipe
  • Automatic proofing stages
  • hourly digests vs all comments & decisions
  • Keeping record of archived projects & filtering for seaches
  • Social Media templates
  • Social Media plug ins
Ziflow is well suited for any marketing/design team, unless it is Social Media focused. Ziflow has helped our team in all print materials (packing design, catalogs, signs, banners, ads) and website material (ads, homepage redesigns, banners) as well as photo shoot post production (we create one photo per page contact sheets and comments on what needs retouching, cropping or killing). I only hope one day it will be more social media campaign friendly.
Art Stiefel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We create a lot of websites and digital assets. Ziflow helps us to review live staging websites, banner ads, and production websites in realtime and referencing the true interactivity of the things we are building, testing and readying to launch. Every other option we've seen requires reviewers to comment on static printouts or screen grabs of the designs. This falls short of being able to interact and comment on the functionality, and overall UX/UI.

With Ziflow, that is not a problem. We're able to look at the live assets and provide the proper, constructive insights so that the end product is the best it can be.
  • Capture and comment on existing, interactive websites and other digital assets
  • Ziflow provides an excellent array of commenting and annotation tools that allow us to more accurately identify issues and share input to resolve them
  • With Ziflow, we're able to easily share reviewing capabilities with team members and client for their input for better use of time and streamlining the job creation, routing and revision process
  • The platform continuously, proactively seeks to improve the usability and ease for its customers.
  • While Ziflow is great for live site markups and comments, it would be good to see additional integrations with some our other business platforms to further integrate the platform with our workflows across the company
  • Integrations they have now are good for some of our teams, however there some platforms that our accounting team inquired about to integrate for billing/tracking purposes
  • It would be good to see them add additional "How-To's" with videos and links for some of our less tech-savvy team members to faster on the uptake and how the user interface can guide them to the task at hand
Ziflow, as a platform, provides active design and development teams with an incredibly useful tool for being able to review our work in progress. This allows us greater control and time efficiency in our development process. The ability to then share these live projects for internal and external reviews has significantly reduced the volume of emails and back and forth on Slack and Teams so we can spend our time developing and delivering and not having to chase people down to get them to review what they need to.
November 02, 2022

Perfect For Our Agency

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Ziflow in our organization to streamline the project team to work collaboratively in between our creative rounds. We were running into issues with our different resources using different platforms, updates being missed, version issues, etc. It helped streamline the process and version control when there are multiple rounds for a marketing piece.
  • Helps all stakeholder collaboratively work on files so no feedback is missed
  • Keeps version control as there is one document everyone is working on
  • Streamlines between rounds of creatives
  • Once learned, easy user interface
  • The navigation isn't as easy as I would've hoped, and some people do feel intimated by it.
  • Making sure all users permissions are set correctly, so they can see and work on the projects at the level needed for their role. It can be tedious, and there can be misses.
Ziflow is great and makes collaboration easy. Depending on how big your project is- you can loop in and tag as many people as you would like. I am a senior project manager who works and manages global teams, and Ziflow made it easy to collate all feedback. I appreciate previous versions are stored so you can go back and review them to ensure all feedback and notes were captured in the "new" versions. Also, having the feature of organizing your proofs into different folders, archives, duplicates is great for file keeping. I always found version control when receiving feedback on creative files, but Ziflow allows you to upload PDFs and docs, and compare them side to side, which helps to ensure everything flowed in correctly. Lastly, the ability to create workflows is incredible and saves you so much time.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ziflow as a collaborative review tool throughout design and production. Ziflow helps us manage version control and allows us to collective review deliverables across offices and departments.
  • Version comparison
  • Text markup
  • collaborative commenting
  • Drawing markup tools could use some refinement (i.e., it would be nice if there was a way to draw a 1:1 constrained square instead of just freeform rectangle)
  • The Ziflow UI is difficult to navigate. If you have a lot of files in Ziflow, it's hard to find things.
  • It's difficult to find how to turn off email notifications as they exist on both a platform level as well as a file level.
Good for flat artwork reviews, animation/film reviews, text markups.

It's great for comparing versions of the same thing, but it's not so good for reviewing multiple options.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ziflow is used within the marketing department to upload documents, videos, graphics etc for approvals from other teams in the organisation. Ziflow has helped eliminate missing emails with feedback, forgetting about certain tasks and their due date and has allowed us to streamline the process of approvals, making it easier for teams in the organisation to approve and make changes to their design requests.
  • User friendly for people with different types of computer skill levels
  • Allows for team members to provide specific feedback on any videos/documents etc.
  • Provides updates and reminders to the team requesting feedback/reminding us about a job.
  • One thing that can be frustrating is when proofs move themselves to the archive folder and are no longer visible in active proofs after a certain time
  • Not sure if this is just a user error but the original uploader can not approve/confirm the proof has been approved if other people on the proof haven't approved it yet.
  • No further issues from me
As I work in the marketing team with the graphic designer we use Ziflow to get approvals for all of the content we are creating, making it seamless to receive feedback on our work to make immediate changes, uploading multiple versions of a proof to ensure we are all aware of the current correct design and it allows for other teams in the organisation to provide their feedback and approvals effortlessly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ziflow really takes the tediousness out of the review process. Previously we'd have to include timecode overlays on videos and go through pages and pages of unclear notes in order to implement changes, and even then some were missed. And if the requested changes weren't possible, there would be phone calls back and forth to discuss it and then we'd have to relay that to the editor again. Now it's almost painless, and there is a clear audit trail of the required amendments. Our clients can even track the progress as the requests get ticked off, and our editors can correspond directly with our clients if anything is unclear.
  • Version comparison
  • Multiple file formats
  • Video review
  • Easy to use
  • Navigation could be more intuitive.
  • Tutorial content to distribute to 3rd party users (clients & other reviewers).
  • Have the rich media and website options working out of the box.
The version comparison makes it perfect for marking up and checking whether changes have been implemented by my team as per my client's requests. For video review it also works very well - it has completely replaced our traditional, clumsy way of reviewing videos. Some of my clients feel intimidated by the interface, so perhaps the client-facing side of things should be simplified.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ZiFlow for communication and to add/edit/view changes one of our B2B client. We use it for website changes communication.
  • Comparing proof versions
  • Really quick and easy navigation for managing proofs
  • Sometimes while viewing the comments, the page/proof display suddenly goes and hides upwards which leads to click no where.
Great tool, user friendly, and smooth navigation.
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