24 Top UX Prototyping Tools with Downloadable Comparison Table
The sheer amount of choice of UX prototyping tools can be pretty overwhelming, so here’s an overview of the top 24 tools, together with a FREE downloadable pdf table so that you can easily compare them.
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Atomic
Description
Powerful and scalable prototyping that lets you tackle complexity with confidence. Use simple interactions or advanced animation to bring your Sketch designs to life.
Verdict
Create prototypes for web and mobile. The structure is similar to Sketch in that you create Pages and Artboards, which adds a level of familiarity to Sketch users.
Create simple click-through diagrams or highly functional, rich prototypes with conditional logic, dynamic content, animations, math functions, and data-driven interactions without writing a single line of code.
Verdict
Powerful tool that allowing detailed interaction to be prototyped for websites and apps. A fairly steep learning curve.
App type
Installable app for Mac and Win
Fidelity
Lo to hi
Collaboration
Feedback tool available on live prototypes via the web
Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that helps you Work Faster & Smarter. It reproduces the experience of sketching on a whiteboard, but using a computer.
Verdict
Quick to learn and put together wireframe designs with ease.
App type
Installable app for Mac and Win and web app
Fidelity
Lo to hi
Collaboration
Feedback tool available on live prototypes via the web app only
Easee is a web animation tool for designers. Create smooth animations that can be exported as CSS so that you can import them into your own web project.
Verdict
Short learning curve to bring your designs to life.
Flinto lets designers quickly make interactive prototypes of their mobile, desktop, or web apps.
Verdict
Comprehensive app, allowing you to create anything from simple tap-through prototypes to comprehensive prototypes with impress interactions. Sketch images can be imported and transitions and user behaviours can be easily added.
App type
Mac app and web app (Flinto Lite)
Fidelity
Lo to hi
Collaboration
Feedback available in the tool and shared projects
Design the impossible with Framer. Start with simple code to bring your design to life. Test it on any device, iterate as you go and share easily for feedback. Pioneer new interaction patterns or create groundbreaking animation. No limits, no constraints.
Verdict
A great tool for prototyping complex interaction designs and animations for mobile
Create beautiful HTML5 web content. Interactive web content and animations made with Tumult Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.
Verdict
Uses a keyframe-based animation system, however this comes with a high learning curve. It’s a good tool for websites prototyping.
The world’s leading prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform. Upload your design files and add animations, gestures, and transitions to transform your static screens into clickable, interactive prototypes.
Verdict
Low learning curve and it is well supported int he community
Justinmind provides the best solution to prototype web and mobile apps. You can define apps for Web, iOS, and Android in a few clicks, without writing a single line of code.
Verdict
Can create sophisticated prototypes with great tools, however there is fairly decent learning curve. The Free version is very limiting.
App type
Installable app for Mac and Win
Fidelity
Lo to hi
Collaboration
Present your prototype and invite stakeholders to give feedback
Simple design, prototyping and collaboration. Create screens directly in Marvel or add your images from Sketch or Photoshop, then add gestures and transitions.
Verdict
Create prototypes for the iPhone, iPad, Desktop, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Andrpoid
App type
Web app
Fidelity
Hi
Collaboration
Clients and colleagues can comment directly on each screen or drop annotations
Explore, iterate, and test your ideas. A new tool for designing modern interfaces. Copy anything from Sketch and paste native layers into Origami Studio. Then quickly adjust, add behavior and animate any layer property without going back.
Verdict
Perfect for creating sophisticated mobile prototypes with realistic animations and interactions
Principle makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you’re designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, Principle lets you create designs that look and feel amazing.
Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It’s a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
Verdict
Prototypes can be designed on the web or desktop app for Win and Mac and are kept in sync. Not as feature rich as other apps atm, however this will change.
Build dynamic, responsive websites without writing code. Launch with a click, and enjoy the fastest, most reliable hosting on the web. Or export clean, semantic code to hand off to your devs.
Verdict
Webflow gives you the power to build websites your way — visually — while producing clean, standards-compliant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that developers will love. The down side being a high learning curve.
App type
Web app
Fidelity
Hi
Collaboration
Shared projects (Team version only), no feedback through tool
Xcode 8 includes everything you need to create amazing apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Verdict
Perfect for cutting down on redundant work and misunderstandings when designing and developing mobile apps. Software engineers can immediately iterate the work of a designer. A pretty steep learning curve.
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