ProtoPie Reviews

My honest review of ProtoPie

Comments: I've been using ProtoPie for a few months, and in my experience, it stands out as the top choice for both beginner and advanced designers when it comes to prototyping tools. Not even mention the helpful community and courses ProtoPie has to offer.

Pros:

ProtoPie is a remarkably user-friendly design tool that outshines other prototyping software, including Figma. Its extensive feature set makes it a versatile choice for designers. Notably, ProtoPie Connect allows seamless device-to-device connections for testing and refining interactions. Device preview ensures a consistent user experience, while features like cloud saving and design handoff simplify collaboration and sharing. ProtoPie is an all-encompassing tool suitable for both beginners and experienced designers.

Cons:

While ProtoPie is an excellent tool, there is room for improvement. It would be great to see features like 4K interaction recording and the ability to use custom code in specific prototyping cases in the future. Additionally, addressing and fixing some of the existing bugs would enhance the overall user experience.

Most creative prototype software out there

Comments: It was amazing so far, Protopie is working hard to solve all problems UX designers face while prototyping, And moreover it makes your imagination a reality

Pros:

The idea of Triggers/Actions is something that solves all prototyping problems in my workflow, i have the ful control of all the elements and can orchestrate them to give a good UX

Cons:

The wire-framing options, Pre-made symbol/component assets. Many itegrations can be done here

Great Program, gives you total control of your anuamtion but management stops you from creating.

Comments: Years of frustration

Pros:

Programmatic animations IoT supportMulti device supportAPI support

Cons:

Zoom and Panning bug with a trackpadMulti device support API - don't know to use it

A dependable tool that is easy to use

Comments: It’s a superb tool for communicating with stakeholders and for user testing.

Pros:

The way Protopie works appeals to how I think and it means I can get ideas down quickly. It’s also great at mobile prototypes.

Cons:

It lacks autolayout and responsive design features.

Our go-to prototyping tool

Comments: An essential tool in our development process

Pros:

A pretty accurate example of the final product

Cons:

Expensive to share with collaborators and especially developers who are not editors but who need to read basic values from designs

ProtoPie should be industry standard!

Comments: Amazing! I love this app so much, and would definitely recommend it.

Pros:

ProtoTyping features, variables, functions, components, intuitive tools. I just love it!

Cons:

Only thing are design tools. If design could be more similar to Figma, I'd be using only ProtoPie.

If Testing on Hardware Means Anything to You, Check Out ProtoPie

Comments: Overall, the experience has been great.

Pros:

What I like most about Protopie is that it is easy to learn, works on native devices, makes use of native sensors on said devices, and can connect/interact with complimentary designs/prototypes on other platforms/hardware (using ProtoPie Connect). For example, imagine you are a firefighter requesting eyes over a particular area of the forest, so you can better plan an exit strategy for your team. This message is sent from the phone and notifies the system in the two planes that have been flying as eyes for the team. One of the pilots initiates a message back, saying that he/she will take a look. This message makes its way back to the firefighter on both his watch (using native haptics + visual) and phone (haptics + visual), so he can view the live video via his phone. All of this can be mocked up in ProtoPie on real devices. This can then be user tested to see where hangups might be. Also, when it comes to user testing, consider that some jobs might require the separate actions of two people on two different devices to accomplish a particular task. Only when they work together (or do so within a range of time) does a message get sent and the task is complete. Protopie allows one to test at these higher levels (something impossible in a design/prototyping tool like Figma, since seaprate designs are not communicating with each other in real time).

Cons:

Certain features, particularly the use of the watch, is limited to Enterprise (big boo!) and Enterprise requires a minimum of three licenses. Licenses currently range from $2000 to $2500 each. This is a huge investment. So, unless you have an extra $6000-$7000 dollars available to you, you will never get to test and prototype with the watch. Since watches are commonly used, I think it should be made available to those on lesser plans, or at least the company should get rid of the minimum number of Enterprise licenses to be purchased. On the whole, when compared to offerings like Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office 365, it can be hard to see the value. It is double the price of Adobe CC, but with Adobe CC one gets over 20 other pieces of industry-leading creative software. With this said, this is a niche area and ProtoPie, in my view, is at the top in terms of providing a tool that gives one the ability to present high-end demos and more robust testing (outside of actual coding).

Best toold for little to no coding skills in product design team for interaction design

Comments: Protopie has helped our team to craft better interactions and gives us a better understanding of the experience we are designing in our products

Pros:

Interaction recipes with specs that help development craft the design as needed.

Cons:

no live interaction cloud support like figma

Review of Alex Dmitriev

Pros:

ProtoPie is awesome. You can make cool stuff with it, even if you don’t know much about prototyping. It’s super easy to use, and it has everything you need to make your ideas come to life. You can make your prototypes do all kinds of things, like respond to touch, motion, and sound. You can also make them look amazing with smooth transitions and realistic animations. ProtoPie lets you create prototypes that feel like the real thing.

Cons:

ProtoPie is hard to master. You need to spend a lot of time to figure out how everything works. It doesn’t have the best tools for making animations, like Principle. Some other prototyping tools can do more. ProtoPie is not cheap. You have to pay every month to use it. It can be too much for some people and businesses.

ProtoPie Review By Dinesh

Comments: It is far better than Adobe XD and Figma. Easy to understand and handle for a designer who does not have a coding background.

Pros:

The best features of ProtoPie are interactive tools. It makes your prototype almost complete product to showcase. features like camera, voice, 3d motion are feathers to the cap.

Cons:

There are some technical bugs I felt while using the ProtoPie.1. The Numpad Enter Key does not work in the Left and Center Panels.2. Space constraints in the Left Panel. It should be free-flow.3. Figma has the feature to update the preview instantly while in ProtoPie we have to save the file to have an updated version of the Prototype in the Browser/Player. Means Figma has an auto-save feature.

Great tool to prototype real experience

Comments: It's my favourite tool. I used everything that we have on the market. Once we have animation on the curve that allows us micro-interaction I will be in the prototyping heaven.

Pros:

I like the most seamless of the prototype. E2E prototype can give you close to actual product results so you can cheaply test nearly ready products, not wonky pretend-to-be products. Eliminating this wonky layer, I can test the experience.

Cons:

It's still buggy, and you must use features / prototype a lot to understand that sometimes it's not the issue with the approach but the software itself.

Great Prototyping Environment But Updates/Improvements Are Needed

Comments: I have enjoyed working with Protopie for almost 6 years, but I feel the current pricing and slow development pace of the editor make it less of a viable choice for small companies and independent designers/developers. The main reason I continue to use the tool is having been grandfathered in under a license that is no longer offered. Now that Figma supports variables and conditional logic, Studio XID would do well to look at lower-cost tiers to stay competitive.

Pros:

Protopie facilitates setting up software interaction/demonstrations relatively quickly. Getting prototypes onto mobile devices is relatively easy. Support for variables (and thus states) as well as the nicely designed editor make it one of the more worthwhile prototyping tools.

Cons:

Several basic aspects of functionality are missing or require goofy workarounds, such as being able to distinguish between single and double clicks or detecting the intersection/overlap of objects. The UI has gone years with very little improvement. Sequential interactions are too time-dependent and will fail unless small delays are added to triggers and responses. The subscription cost is excessive.

GMT Review

Comments: ProtoPie is the catalyst that transforms the abstract concepts in my mind into tangible reality. As the pioneer in prototyping tools, it employs a unique timeline-based control system, setting it apart from the rest. What truly enhances the ProtoPie experience is its welcoming community and exceptional support – a testament to its commitment to user satisfaction.

Pros:

It's Trigger and Response system. Really nice to understand and power control

Cons:

The cost is very expensive in my country, I will not allow anyone to use it and try. I think we need more plans like Pro without Connect functionNo support for 3D interaction like Spline, Dora...Even now Spline collaborates with Webflow and makes 3D interactionNo support Design tool like Auto LayoutNo free Drawing is very limitedNo function responsive easily

Such a convenient portopie

Pros:

Able to easily create dynamic effects Very convenient to use

Cons:

I think the current PIE needs to be able to be co produced by multiple people and require a web version. The second phase needs to be able to flexibly use other people's masters, because many dynamic effects are actually similar, and repeated production is a waste of time. For example, it can be copied from another file to this file and the dynamic effects can be directly replaced

Very promising

Comments: Overall, I'm satisfied. If the points mentioned were improved, my company would use it every day. My superiors wonder whether (very) complex prototypes don't take less time to develop live.

Pros:

The number of triggers and events. That allows me to create a lot of interactions. The possibility of prototyping on a multitude of devices is also a very good point.

Cons:

When we create a lot of animations, it becomes difficult to organize the file due to all the layers of animations created. Even if you rename all the layers and animations, I find it tedious to find my way around our prototype. Too bad the interface doesn't have the same mechanics as software like Figma. The components don't work in the same way, and neither do the constraints… etc

Happy customer

Comments: Really good.

Pros:

The tools it provides for you to play around

Cons:

The pricing tag, but i get the financial side of things.

Best Tool For Protoyping is Protopie and east or west protopie is the best

Comments: Protopie is a gift for UI/UX Designers because it's easy to use and we can make some amazing prototypes in the Protopie

Pros:

It's an Amazing real-time Prototyping tool for UI/UX Designers

Cons:

I think the using variables and condition

Simply the best high-fi prototyping tool there is

Comments: Loving it, is all I can say. About to take the game prototyping course also.

Pros:

The ease of use, and its support for a wide range of interactions, including taps, swipes, gestures and many more. You could pitch & test an entire app with no single development yet.

Cons:

The price, it's expensive. Literally about 6x Figma monthly plan

Excellent program that allows you complete autonomy, but management prevents you from making new things.

Comments: Fantastic! I adore this app so much and heartily suggest it.

Pros:

Animations with programming IoT assistance support for multiple devices assistance with APIs

Cons:

Using a trackpad, zoom and pan the bugAPI that supports multiple devices; not sure how to use it

Collaboration option

Comments: It's really good for individual experience for sure. If i am working on a self project but in work based environment it lacks the fundamentals of working in groups for designers.

Pros:

I really like the conditional triggers which are not free anymore on figma. I also like the preview for phone to test out my prototype

Cons:

I don't like the fact how it does not allow us to collaborate with people to test so running back and forth with the saved file is hard to work with

Designers check this out!

Comments: Protopie has been interesting to use it has many trigger options and it's easy to use.

Pros:

The fact you can send your screens with the tap of a button from figma to protopie is classic. Every element can be prototyped with many trigger options

Cons:

Opening the product to login has to be done through a web browser

User feedback

Comments: I love it

Pros:

The whole experience, the ability to customize and design freely

Cons:

The complexity of certain triggers with preforming what you truly want

ProtoPie is a worth tool for prototyping

Comments: Quite nice.

Pros:

It supports so much platforms, gestures and flows.

Cons:

It's difficult to learn as a beginner. Interacitve learning.

About the interactions

Comments: Protopie is a powerful prototyping tool used for creating interactive and high-fidelity prototypes. Its features are designed to help designers and developers create realistic and interactive prototypes.

Pros:

You can use real device sensors and inputs, such as gyroscope, accelerometer, touch, and sound, to create realistic interactions.

Cons:

Prototype voice-activated interactions, making it useful for voice UI and AI applications. Lags sometime.

Skip Figma prototyping, try Protopie

Comments: Nice, steeper learning curve than Figma prototyping but definitely rewarding at end of the day. Nicer interface that Axure prototyping software

Pros:

Triggers easily available to build prototype, components to reuse easily

Cons:

Copy and pasting certain components, behaviour/triggers does not get copied over. Would like to copy and past across different files as well.