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InVision Freehand is a cloud-based digital product design platform that helps development professionals and businesses of all sizes create and manage prototypes. It allows users to collaborate, test and experiment with designing...
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- Industry: Utilities
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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The best mockup generator out there
Pros
I love everything about InVision. Easy to use, easy to add designed files and build a mockup in minutes
Cons
Nothing really. It just works. I can't think of anything bad to say
Alternatives Considered
SketchReasons for Switching to InVision App
Sketch works only on macs and I needed something cross-platform- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Extremely easy and flexible tool for interactive prototyping and seamless design presentations
InVision app is extremely useful when you have to gather feedback from multiple stakeholders or those business stakeholders who might not be technically savvy. Clients can easily add their comments any where on the design screen using drag and drop comment feature.
Pros
My team has been extensively using InVision app to create interactive mockups and share it with clients/business stakeholders to gather their feedback.
InVision is extremely easy to use without deep design knowledge. It's dashboard shows the exact order of design screens which end user will see, so you can easily make changes in the order of screens by simply using a drag and drop feature.
Additionally, InVision has a feature where clients/business stakeholders can directly add their comments / feedback on any design screen. This helps the product team to understand which particular design element needs to be changed.
Whenever we have design presentation where team needs to pitch a product idea to stakeholders or share user journey for a feature, InVision has been our go-to app.
Cons
One major challenge is that InVision doesn't allow you to create designs. It means that the design team has to use Sketch or Figma or any other software to create a prototype and then, upload it on InVision to make it interactive. This adds an additional step in the workflow for the designers.
- Industry: Museums & Institutions
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Practical but also frustrating as PO/Dev
This tool as the potential to be very good. What I need are easily shared snapshots of a design at a given point which can not be overridden. e.g. This was X design at 14:35 on Thursday. Then we know that we are working with the right design and can inspect it and use it.
It needs to be faster.
Pros
Inspect tool is great for giving to developers and asking them to pick colours, spacings etc from a design. There are also prototype functionalities which are very useful.
Cons
I find this software so clunky and slow. It takes an age to load, it's so heavy. We actually moan about this in sprint planning when there's an invision link in a ticket.
There are also more pressing issues, such as the difficulty in versioning. Developers don't like it when you add a screenshot because it doesn't reflect the design, but when we reference invision, the design has changed and no longer meets the original scope of the ticket. It's great for designers if they want to be able to update a design at one click of a button in Sketch, but it can cause real arguments and confusion between developers.
Navigation is also slow and confusing, but that might be the way our designers have set it up.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Prototyping tool for everyone
Loved invision from day one when there were not many options for prototyping in the market. Invision's main winning point at the time was the all in one bundle which had prototyping, collaborative work (Freehand by invision) and spec sharing using Inspect. However, invision didn't have major improvements or additions in the recent past. Overall a great tool for anyone whether you are a beginner or a pro.
Pros
Started using invision on the free and personal plan and then introduced it to my company as the main prototyping tool for the design team. Invision is very easy to use and has a minimal learning curve. You can simply start doing user testing with the prototypes in minutes. Invision integrates with Sketch (visual design app) using the craft plugin which makes the workflow very efficient for importing designs. Invision's inspect mode allows developers to dissect a screen easily to get the specs (the colours, fonts, dimensions, margins, padding & etc) which could be used straight away to code the frontend.
Cons
The management of artboards become a little troublesome when you are dealing with hundreds of them. The paid plan limits you to 5 users and then you have to go for an enterprise plan which will have custom pricing based on your requirement. It would have been better if it was possible to add users to the base plan at a per-user cost than completely going enterprise.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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it's convenient and we use it a lot and people and acquaintances don't listen to us recommendin...
All in all I don't know what else can I say everything is good!
Pros
it's convenient and we use it a lot and people and acquaintances don't listen to us recommending you anymore they thank you later. Easy, safe and fast!
Cons
All in all I don't know what else can I say everything is good! I love Invision. I did not encounter any errors in all areas.
Reasons for Switching to InVision App
All in all I don't know what else can I say everything is good! For other alternatives, I could choose Figma, uizard and Lunacy.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Essential product team collaboration tool
I've used this for many years and the product features have remained the same since 4 years ago – seems like they've been focusing all their energy into developing Invision Studio (their own competitor/alternative to Sketch app).
Pros
It's great for creating clickable prototypes that can be tested in a web browser or mobile. The commenting feature is good for having discussions and making notes on specific mockups/screens for streamlined and organized collaboration.
Cons
There's no good way to organize user flows or screens in a project if the project contains over 30 screens. The search/filter and workflow feature is not helpful when I just want to group specific screens together because they pertain to a specific user flow.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Easy to learn
I was amazed be the learning curve and how I managed to do things I needed to achieve quickly. Starting with prototypes I quickly realized that the other tools provided by inVision were very useful. Live Freehand for example which is a tool for quickly and collaboratively sketching out ideas and interfaces.
The only thing which bothers me is the need to work in the browser and syncing of designs.
Pros
The speed at which I was able to achieve anything in inVision was unbilievable. The UX/UI of the tools is boiled down to the stuff one really needs and nothing else. The feature set is fine and the more one uses one thing, the more sense make other tools line Freehand and Sync.
Cons
It only runs in the browser and you have to upload your design. There is a sync plugin that helps with that, but the general building of prototypes need to be done in inVision.
Special characters and diacritics in the filenames get ignored and mess with the automatic sorting of your screens.
Alternatives Considered
Adobe XDReasons for Choosing InVision App
Commenting feature for clients was more convenient.Switched From
Adobe XDReasons for Switching to InVision App
Although we use Adobe Creative Suite and XD is included the ease of use of inVision got us excited and we tried it and loved it. Other prototyping tools were just too complicated to use. Maybe they had a larger feature set, but we did not need it.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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iNvision is great for sharing design files with developers and others from your team
It is a very good tool for designers, I recommend it.
Pros
Easy to use and fast to integrate with Sketch or other design software. Inivison is a great way to share design files to get comments, approvals and test design prototypes.
Cons
Cost may be one downside for smaller companies that can't afford a plan.
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Overall, my experience with InVision was great. I was actually fairly impressed with their features and capabilities. It was easy to get the hang of, had a lot of the same hot-keys as Adobe Photoshop and worked well within a team setting.
Pros
What I liked most about InVision was actually surprising...Their built-in animations for prototypes were amazing and the ability to create multiple "boards" or project pages within one screen was impressive. Also, very cool how I was able to sync projects online for my team to then view.
Cons
To be honest, InVision did lag at times...I actually found the software to freeze up on me, erroring out the program. Also, once a project gets pretty hefty with multiple boards/animations, it can be hard to navigate...It's important to stay as organized as possible when building projects within InVision.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Better than Photos***
Perfect. Clients get to take part in design process from the moment we have a deliverable image.
Pros
It is really easy to get started and working on a design. The compatibility between it and Sketch allows you to use a single design and collaborate with a team of even 5 designers and editors until you have a perfect product.
Cons
at first, it was heavy on our machines, but it kept the shape on the mac os machines. The web version kinda covers up for all that so yeah, it works as needed.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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Not very intuitive
Pros
Variety of templates that I could choose from
Cons
It was far from intuitive for someone like me who is not a designer. It felt like a very powerful and well organised tool, but I wanted to do a very quick wireframe to bring to life my thoughts and it felt very fiddly
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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I can collaborate with my team on design projects thanks to a feature of this software. My team and I can easily share our work and critiques of designs, which makes it simpler for us to accomplish our objectives.
Pros
I enjoy how this software enables me to develop and manage design systems for my projects. I like that I can keep track of the adjustments I've made to my design over time and, if necessary, return to a previous version.
Cons
The fact that this software is cloud-based and I can't access our work offline is what I like least about it. However, for the design I needed, I found it to be a valuable and useful tool.
- Industry: Industrial Automation
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Easy leaning curve but increasing limited flexibility and boor cloud tools
Pros
Using Invision is good because there is a relatively easy learning curve, within minutes one is able to wireframe and prototype
Cons
It's not as flexible as other tools in the market, it doesn't have a great browser tool and the mobile app is clunky.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Prototyping and collaboration in a fast and efficient manner
Pros
InVision is the software we use for creating our designs along with Zeplin. It provides us with the ability to share the design with various stakeholders across various teams within our company and easily evaluate the design before development. It allows designers to communicate with stakeholders, including developers, in a way that avoids the communication gaps that often occur at the project level.Furthermore, the ability to specify the access rights between the client, developer, designer, or project manager makes this tool easier to manage.
Cons
A better way of branching or versioning the changes is needed, because the UI/UX started to make changes to the existing version and that results in confusion. I would also appreciate if they integrated the changes aspect into the project management tools.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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I use InVision to get feedback on mockups and facilitate collaboration with developers
Pros
- Easy commenting ability that works even for the less tech-savvy folks at my job
- Clear and clean email notifications mean a better response rate when I ask for feedback through the application
- Ability to set states (in progress, needs approval, etc.) for mockups and to notify folks when a mockup changes state
- Distinction between notes and comments, and ability to resolve comments so that they're hidden but not lost
- Ability to easily create interactive prototypes for presentation and testing
- iPhone app makes it possible for me to view and interact with prototypes on my phone - so nice!
- Integration with Photoshop makes it easy to give devs pixel-perfect info about design elements (see note in Cons)
- Ability to organize and categorize mockups within a project
Cons
- Prototyping tool lacks some features (ex. ability to specify a compressed version of a sticky header, rather than using the full version on scroll). Note they seem to be actively working on the prototyping features, though.
- When mockups change drastically, sometimes comments and interactive hotspots can be lost
- The developer tool provides info based on the shape/size of Photoshop elements, and not their actual contents (so text boxes that are larger than the text can skew the readings for pixel distance)
- Some of my mockups are shown isolated on white backgrounds, some on dark gray. This isn't a big deal, but as a designer it bothers me. Wish I knew why it was happening.
- They directly and without my knowledge contacted collaborators that I had added to the software - this resulted in some disgruntled co-workers and slowed down the internal adoption rate. (However, when I spoke with them about this they said they'd try to make sure it never happened again, and it seems that they've kept that promise.)

- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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A must have tool for rapid prototyping
It's really an awesome tool and a life safer. We use it in every project of ours. And share it with stakeholders to take feedback and developers when handing off.
Pros
It let's you create interactive prototypes. You can define clicks, hover state, overlays, popups, floating buttons, fixed header and footer, and animations.
You can try it for free. With free version you can create one prototype and share with developers or client.
Invision has Craft plugin for Sketch and Photoshop. So you don't have to manually upload your designs to invision project. All you need to do is press the sync button and all your design updates will be sync on invision project.
Another reason to love Invision Prototype is the ability to share the project with client and take their feedback through comments. And once changes are done you can mark those comment as resolved.
Developers love invision too, because under inspect menu, they can see dimensions, colors, fonts and other specs of design. And download whatever icons or images are required.
Cons
Adding popups is a work around, you have to add black dot and the bottom right pixel of your popup image. They could've program it, so you didn't have to add a pixel to define color of your background overlay.
If you're working on a web project and your website has a sliding navigation. Then your prototype won't be sliding on scroll. However you can add scroll to point on screen. And add custom point to the next slide where you want to scroll vertically.
- Industry: Security & Investigations
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Excellent web tool, but it's lacking some key features
I am very pleased with Invision and I am happy my design team introduced me to its features and functionality. I have used it in many presentations to show clickable, working prototypes of my designs and will continue to do so despite its notable limitations.
Pros
I like the clean, quick interface of Invision. I love how you can import files directly from Sketch or Photoshop. The freehand is really useful when I just want to draw up a quick idea or even take hand written notes. If you have a touchscreen computer, you can really benefit from this feature. I also appreciate that updates are made in real time and you can see the changes you've made to hotspots applied on the screen the moment you switch from building mode to preview mode.
Cons
One big thing is that you can not add a clickable hover state in Prototype mode! This is a feature people have been requesting for over a year. From what I see in forums, the support team keeps saying they will "send it to the devs to see if it's a feature that can be added" but have never followed through. This is an essential feature that is being overlooked. For example, if you want a dropdown menu to appear when you hover over a menu item AND be able to click on the individual menu items in the dropdown this is NOT POSSIBLE in Invision. You can only have one or the other. As a workaround, I have made the menus appear by clicking instead of hovering but it involves importing transparent menus which is clunky and time-consuming. Please fix this, devs!
In addition to the freehand feature, I wish there was an option to prototype with custom wireframes with a tool which allows you to choose from wireframe presets and build your site from the ground up that way. Sometimes, freehanding is not really an option. Also, you should be able to directly import files from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe XD as those are more widely used for web design rather than Photoshop.

- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best software to present you work
This software has really simplified the process of presenting and sharing our work with internal teams and clients. The fact that Invision is simple and easy to use, it saves a lot of time and efforts. We don't rely on presentations anymore and we just send a clickable link to the client.
Pros
The best thing I like about Invision is that it makes our work presentable and appealing. Its simple to use as you just have to drag and drop your screens and create a link that can be shared with anyone. You can also convert your design into a clickable prototype and understand how the interaction will work. This feature just elevates your designs without even spending too much time and effort.
Cons
The biggest thing that I don't like about Invision is that it changes the order of the files sometimes. I assume that it is a bug and not a function of the app but it really creates a lot of confusion if you have shared the link with the client. The other things I don't like about this software is that it does not have integration with Figma and I have to export and upload my screens each time the client asks for iterations
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Amazing tool for designers and lean startups
Not a bad tool to incorporate with development teams and tech stack.
Pros
Not bad compared to other design apps for prototyping and app design.
Cons
It was intuitive and easy to use, but lacked the features of other design tools like Sketch and Figma. We still use it in our design teams.
- Industry: Consumer Electronics
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Can't got a day of work without Invision
Pros
Invision is a must for a technical product team. As a designer, I use it daily to share designs with my product team (devs/QA/PM), receive feedback, test prototypes with users. It is the only tool of its caliber that can handle all my team's needs. Plus, they have the best design blog I have ever read. It integrates seamlessly with Sketch, which makes exporting my designs an effortless process. Their new Design System Manager is a must too!
Cons
The main fault I have found in Invision is its workflow for designs in progress. Since it integrates so seamlessly with Sketch, when I make a change it is automatically pushed to Invision through their Craft plugin. However, if a developer has already started working on a story with that specific prototype, there is no easy way to notify them of the change that occurred. This often leads to minor issues with inconsistencies.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great tool to easily showcase wireframes, gather feedback and promote faster development
It's a great tool for designers to gather quick feedback on their designers and it also helps developers to some extent.
Pros
The best feature of Invision I would say it's ability to sync with design apps like Photoshop and Sketch. It becomes easier for designers to quickly create flow mockups to provide for stakeholder reviews. It has a comment tab wherein any one can click on any location and comment specifically for that location for better clarity. It also helps developers with its develop mode. This provides for easy copy of text and colours in an element and almost accurate styling to use. This also has an assets tab wherein the designer can add in assets required for the development of the project in a highly organized manner.
Cons
One of the issues I faced with copy pasting text from Invision into my code is that it included rich text, which renders as gibberish on a web page. One other con I felt was that sometimes it becomes difficult to find out the distance between two elements specifically when a text element is involved (Height of the element is set automatically even though it's not needed). It becomes a little difficult to set padding or margin in our code accordingly.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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I use Invision to collaborate with remote teams and it has been fantastic as a communication...
Easy collaboration amongst remote teams, as well as a great client presentation resource.
Pros
I love the comments feature on the design prototypes. This allows for much more efficient feedback loops when you can comment directly on the prototype and keeps conversation streams clear. I have also began using the moodboards on the platform which has been fantastic for project kickoffs!
Cons
I wish it could integrate with Illustrator as easily as it does with SketchApp and Photoshop. I have began using this beyond SaaS, web and app design and would love to export my information designs directly to Invision!
Response from InVision
Hi Amy, we are thrilled to hear that InVision improves your workflow and that you enjoy using the product. We noticed you¿re an active InVision user and design enthusiast, and we'd love to discuss inviting you to be a part of our exclusive, invitation-only Community Ambassador program!
We recently launched the InVision Community to create a place where people can talk about their InVision projects and InVision features, design trends, prototyping and workflows, collaboration, and more. It¿s also a place where users can post any questions they have about InVision. Community Ambassadors get the opportunity to talk shop with other world-class designers and share their unique insights by helping answer questions from designers who post in the Community.
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- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Invision and mobile apps
Overall is positive, but after two years we are looking for better alternatives suits to our needs.
Pros
Perfect for mock-ups and demos, surveys, and testing.
Cons
Not very supportive for every day of developer's work, working with variants, clones, etc. isn't intuitive.
Switching between detail and folder view is my nightmare. too many clicks all the time.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Best Prototype Software
In the company, Invision is definitely the preferred choice when it comes to creating prototypes for our clients and we also recommend it to all agencies, clients or freelancers that we have come in contact with. As a friendly advice, make sure our art boards have the same names so you can make fast updates in real time. It has also helped us when we needed to do user testing before we start on the development, which saved our clients a lot of money. Really worth the try if you work in IT industry.
Pros
There are many things to love about it, depending on what you are using it for. As a Project Manager I use it to easily show UX and UI to my clients, they are very happy with it as they can just click around and feel how their website or app would be. It shortens the amount of time that it takes to make changes and decisions. You can just write comments in Invision and the designers can see them immediately. It also Syncs with Sketch, which is a time saver for Apple users. In general this tool has saved us a lot of headaches with it comes to communicating designs and user flow with clients, and the clients are happy as they click around and it is not just static.
Cons
You can only have one free project at a time is the main disadvantage, as if you are a small company or a freelancer it can be pricey. Also more screen transition options would be appreciated. Some bugs can occur once in a while with the micro interactions into prototypes but it is nothing that I bother with, no software is perfect after all.

- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The easiest way to show and sell a prototype
It is very useful for a client to know how the flow of an interface works. Also, you save a lot of time explaining to a client how and where a button will take you in an experience. InVision makes you look like a real professional.
Pros
InVision is a great tool to create and link prototypes. It is very easy to use and to configure. You can select a lot of devices to link so the possibilities are a lot. Also, they offer a plugin that helps you uploading your designs from Sketch or Photoshop, this is very useful to save time exporting the designs. It adds value to a client when you show them a close look to the flow of an interface, this is what InVision is made for.
Cons
In general, this software is well done but sometimes, when you upload a design, it takes a time to update it in the platform. I think that the price for the pro version is well balanced compared with all the things you can have from it.