Adobe XD vs Gyazo

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.

Gyazo captures screenshots and short screen recordings and instantly uploads them to the cloud, generating a shareable link within seconds. It includes OCR-based search, tagging, and collections to help users find old captures quickly, plus apps and browser extensions across desktop, mobile, and web.

• Tight integration with Adobe Creative Cloud
• Fast, lightweight vector engine
• Good auto-animate prototyping
• Familiar to Adobe users

• Extremely fast capture-to-shareable-link workflow
• OCR search makes old screenshots genuinely findable later
• Available across nearly every platform: desktop, mobile, and browser
• Large established user base (23 million+ users) suggests reliability

• Smaller plugin ecosystem than Figma
• Real-time collaboration less mature
• Adobe has slowed new feature investment

• Free tier lacks OCR search and longer video capture
• Captures are cloud-hosted by default, a consideration for sensitive content
• Teams plan requires a 5-user minimum even for very small teams