Zeplin

Zeplin is a cloud-based design collaboration and handoff platform that helps designers and developers communicate design intent more efficiently. It provides a central workspace where UI designs, assets, and specifications are organized by project. Designers export assets and specs from design tools into Zeplin, and developers access inspectable measurements, colors, typography data, spacing, and downloadable assets.

Core features include integration with popular design tools such as Sketch, Figma, and Adobe XD, enabling the automatic generation of style guides and code snippets for multiple platforms. Zeplin supports versioning, tagging, and commenting to facilitate reviews and feedback within the same environment. Its inspector-style interface presents design details alongside mockups, helping teams maintain consistency during handoff.

Zeplin is available as a web application and as native desktop clients for macOS and Windows. It offers a tiered pricing model with a free tier and paid plans that unlock additional collaboration features, more projects, and greater asset handoff capacity. The platform is commonly used by product design teams, frontend developers, and design systems groups to streamline handoff, enforce design consistency, and accelerate development workflows.

Historically, Zeplin originated to bridge gaps between design and engineering and has become a widely adopted tool in product development. It competes with other design handoff and collaboration solutions and is often integrated into broader design-system and version-control workflows.