--- title: "ProtoPie Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of ProtoPie Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Prototyping Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/prototyping/) / ProtoPie Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/alternatives/) # ProtoPie Review From $67/month Free version Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview ProtoPie 4.5 [(46)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $67.00 per user per month Top Alternatives ### About ProtoPie ProtoPie is an advanced prototyping tool that allows users to create high-fidelity prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT applications. With ProtoPie, organizations can bring designs to life and create interactive solutions using dynamic multimodal interactions. One of the standout features of ProtoPie is its ability to empower designs by allowing users to seamlessly incorporate hardware interactions. Whether working on automotive interfaces, game interfaces, mobile and tablet apps, smartwatches, or TV productions, ProtoPie helps users simulate realistic UX and HMI experiences. ProtoPie is trusted by some of the top design teams around the world, including Meta, Warner Bros Discovery, and Picsart. It allows users to prioritize motion designs and communicate interactive solutions without limitations. ProtoPie allows organizations to prototype cross-device interactions, test designs in real-time, and ensure functioning on various platforms. With ProtoPie, users can connect hardware and APIs to create immersive experiences and achieve the highest fidelity possible by utilizing the camera and leveraging all the multi-touch gestures that touchscreens have to offer. Additionall... y, ProtoPie allows users to type naturally on the device, eliminating the need to imagine typing interactions. ProtoPie offers a range of plans, including an enterprise plan, a pro plan, and options for students and teachers. Do you work for ProtoPie? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/protopie/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## ProtoPie User Interface ## Popular ProtoPie Alternatives Main Product ProtoPie 4.5 [(46)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.09Ease of use - 4.08Value for money - 4.41Customer support - 4.50Functionality Pricing Starting at $67.00 per month Alternative Product [Adobe Creative Cloud](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/adobe-creative-cloud-profile/) 4.7 [(7346)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/adobe-creative-cloud-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.23Ease of use - 4.16Value for money - 4.17Customer support - 4.67Functionality Pricing Starting at $19.99 per month Alternative Product [Adobe Express](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/354910-adobe-express/) 4.6 [(1244)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/354910-adobe-express/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.50Ease of use - 4.42Value for money - 4.37Customer support - 4.37Functionality Pricing Starting at $4.99 per month Alternative Product [Canva](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/canva-profile/) 4.7 [(13459)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/canva-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.69Ease of use - 4.61Value for money - 4.40Customer support - 4.55Functionality Pricing Starting at $10.00 per month Alternative Product [Adobe Photoshop](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/adobe-photoshop-profile/) 4.8 [(2472)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/adobe-photoshop-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.18Ease of use - 4.29Value for money - 4.26Customer support - 4.77Functionality Pricing Starting at $22.99 per month Alternative Product [GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/gimp-gnu-image-manipulation-program-profile/) 4.4 [(3500)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/gimp-gnu-image-manipulation-program-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 3.88Ease of use - 4.78Value for money - 3.99Customer support - 4.34Functionality Pricing Available upon request ## ProtoPie Pricing and Plans Starting price: $67.00 per month Free Trial Free Version Pro $67.00 per user, per month No plan information available ## ProtoPie Features - Popular features found in Prototyping Animation Collaboration Tools Design Management Usability Testing - More features of ProtoPie API CAD Tools Chat/Messaging Commenting/Notes Component Library Content Library Content Management Custom Development Custom Fonts Customizable Branding Customizable Fields Customizable Forms Customizable Templates Data Import/Export Data Visualization Design Templates Drag & Drop Drag & Drop Editor Feedback Management For Low-Code Development For No-Code Development Ideation Image Editing Image Library Interactive Content Interactive Elements Media Upload Mobile Access Mobile App Mockup Creation Multi-Language Multiple Projects Offline Access Performance Testing Presentation Tools Project Management Prototype Creation Real-Time Updates Role-Based Permissions Search/Filter Single Sign On Social Media Integration Software Prototyping Template Management Text Editing Third-Party Integrations UI Prototyping User Management UX Prototyping Version Control Video Editing Web/Mobile App Development Whiteboard Widgets Wireframe Creation WYSIWYG Editor ## ProtoPie Integrations Figma Integration rated 4.4 from 24 reviews IFTTT Integration rated undefined from -1 review Adobe XD Integration rated undefined from -1 review ChatGPT Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## ProtoPie User Reviews ## ProtoPie customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 46 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 27 reviews (59%) - 4 stars: 18 reviews (39%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 4.1/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 --- ### Best toold for little to no coding skills in product design team for interaction design - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nicolás D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Protopie has helped our team to craft better interactions and gives us a better understanding of the experience we are designing in our products #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Interaction recipes with specs that help development craft the design as needed. #### Cons no live interaction cloud support like figma #### Reasons for choosing ProtoPie ease or use #### Reasons for switching to ProtoPie framer depends upon coding skills --- ### If Testing on Hardware Means Anything to You, Check Out ProtoPie - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jonathan V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, the experience has been great. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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). #### Reasons for choosing ProtoPie We elected to test out ProtoPie because we needed a way to test locally, without a dependable Internet connection. --- ### Interesting solution for Design Prototypes - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Diego R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is a very interesting prototyping software, with great resources for micro interactions and animations, but I don't know if it pays off the monthly investment compared to other software such as Adobe XD or Figma. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I liked that it has a lot of resources for prototyping and controlling micro animations, in addition to the standard integrations with Adobe XD. #### Cons It is not very simple to learn, it takes a while to understand how to make a high definition prototype, but after you understand it, it becomes more intuitive. The value of the plans was also in doubt as to whether it is a good acquisition for the company. --- ### Great tool to prototype real experience - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Alex L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for choosing ProtoPie I am a user from the beginning. Of the product, I have seen the evolution and tempo of changes. I get the best result even tho sometimes you have to "fake it till you make it" #### Reasons for switching to ProtoPie stopped being developed --- ### Review of Alex Dmitriev - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alex D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to ProtoPie Just wanted to use something new. --- ### Great Prototyping Environment But Updates/Improvements Are Needed - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Scott R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for choosing ProtoPie Ease of deploying a prototype on a mobile device is one reason I choose Protopie over other tools. --- ### GMT Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nguyen T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Motion Pictures and Film - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### ProtoPie Review By Dinesh - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Dinesh S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Alternative Medicine - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is far better than Adobe XD and Figma. Easy to understand and handle for a designer who does not have a coding background. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to ProtoPie Already metioned. --- ### Such a convenient portopie - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: bohan p. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Protopie gave a new name to interaction design - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Adwaitya Prasad S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I really love it, It changed my life on what I wanted to do, I knew I wanted to be a UX designer but also wanted to focus on interaction design. This was the solution #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like how easy it is to create interactions to show what the final product will really look like. Its almost like magic #### Cons There are only 2 things that bother me, why it does not have an embed system and fonts can be tricky if you sharing the pie with a remote user #### Reasons for choosing ProtoPie I think the name was attractive enough for me to give it a try --- Showing 1 - 10 of 46 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/reviews/) ## ProtoPie Popular Comparisons [Canva vs ProtoPie](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/canva-profile/vs/protopie/)[Adobe Photoshop vs ProtoPie](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/adobe-photoshop-profile/vs/protopie/)[GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) vs ProtoPie](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/gimp-gnu-image-manipulation-program-profile/vs/protopie/)[Figma vs ProtoPie](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/figma-profile/vs/protopie/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/graphic-design/protopie-profile/alternatives/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice