Zeplin
Design handoff platform that turns finished designs into developer-ready specs.
About
Zeplin is a design handoff platform that turns finished design files into a developer-friendly workspace. When a designer publishes screens from Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD, Zeplin generates an inspectable view of every element: exact dimensions and spacing, font properties, colors in HEX, RGB, and HSL or as design token names, and code snippets in CSS, Swift, Android XML, or React Native. Assets export in multiple formats and resolutions, styleguides keep components and tokens documented, and an open platform of REST APIs, webhooks, a CLI, and an MCP server connects handoff to Slack, Jira, and CI workflows.
Pricing starts free for a single project, with Starter at $6 per member per month, a Growing Business tier at $16 per member per month, and custom Enterprise plans; view-only developer seats are free. Founded in 2014, Zeplin remains a staple for teams that want spec-first communication between designers and developers, even as Figma's own Dev Mode covers part of the same ground.
What it can do
- Inspectable specs: dimensions, spacing, fonts, colors as values or token names
- Code snippets in CSS, Swift, Android XML, and React Native
- Multi-format asset export at multiple resolutions
- Styleguides for components, colors, and text styles
- REST API, webhooks, CLI, and MCP server
- Integrations with Slack, Jira, GitHub, and CI tools
Setup
- Sign up at zeplin.io and create a workspace.
- Install the plugin for Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD.
- Publish finished screens to a Zeplin project.
- Invite developers as view-only members to inspect specs and export assets.
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Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (TIER verified, metrics-v1). Evidence: founded 2014, widely adopted handoff standard with public REST API, webhooks, CLI, and MCP server; free tier plus transparent per-member pricing from $6/mo; view-only dev seats free. Strengths: purpose-built spec-first workflow, deep Figma/Sketch/XD plugin coverage, open platform for automation. Docked for: (1) proprietary and closed, with adoption claims company-sourced; (2) Figma Dev Mode now covers part of the same ground, narrowing its moat. License: proprietary (SaaS, free for 1 project).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · founded 2014; established handoff standard
- · plugins for Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD
- · free 1 project; Starter $6/member/mo; Growing Business $16/member/mo; Enterprise custom
- · public REST API, webhooks, CLI, and MCP server
- · Figma Dev Mode narrows its moat in some workflows
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