Adobe XD vs Greenshot
Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, ratings, and alternatives.
Adobe XD is Adobe's UI/UX design and prototyping tool, built to fit naturally into workflows already using Photoshop and Illustrator. It supports vector-based screen design, auto-animate transitions for prototypes, and voice prototyping for testing voice-driven interfaces. XD integrates with Creative Cloud Libraries, allowing shared colors, character styles, and assets to flow between XD and other Adobe apps, which is useful for teams with an existing Adobe-centric design pipeline. While Adobe has shifted investment toward Figma-style collaborative tools industry-wide, XD remains actively used by teams already standardized on Creative Cloud.
Greenshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool for Windows that captures a selected region, a specific window, the full screen, or a complete scrolling web page from Internet Explorer. Every capture opens directly in Greenshot's built-in image editor, where users can annotate with shapes, arrows, and text boxes, or use dedicated pixelation and blur tools to redact sensitive information before sharing. Captures can be saved to file, copied to the clipboard, printed, attached to email, inserted directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, or OneNote, or uploaded through plugins to services like Imgur, Flickr, Box, Dropbox, and Photobucket, plus dedicated Jira and Confluence integrations. Greenshot is licensed under GPL-3.0, with active development on GitHub and an optional donation link supporting the project.
Free starter plan; paid plans bundled with Creative Cloud from $9.99/month.
- Tight integration with Adobe Creative Cloud
- Fast, lightweight vector engine
- Good auto-animate prototyping
- Familiar to Adobe users
- Completely free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license
- Built-in editor with redaction tools removes the need for a separate image editor
- Direct Office, Jira, and Confluence integrations are unusual for a free screenshot tool
- Actively maintained on GitHub with a large, established user base
- Smaller plugin ecosystem than Figma
- Real-time collaboration less mature
- Adobe has slowed new feature investment
- Windows only; the historical macOS App Store version is unmaintained and not treated as currently supported
- Interface styling is dated compared to newer commercial screenshot tools
- No native mobile app for iOS or Android
What reviewers say
Adobe XD Reviews
4.5 (4)Solid choice
Adobe XD has quickly become part of our daily workflow. Good auto-animate prototyping. One minor gripe: smaller plugin ecosystem than figma, but it hasn't been a dealbreaker. Would recommend to anyone considering it.
Great tool for design
Adobe XD has quickly become part of our daily workflow. Tight integration with Adobe Creative Cloud. No major complaints so far. Would recommend to anyone considering it.
Does exactly what we need
We've been using Adobe XD for a few months now and it's genuinely made a difference for our team. Tight integration with Adobe Creative Cloud. One minor gripe: real-time collaboration less mature, but it hasn't been a dealbreaker. Would recommend to anyone considering it.
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