Adobe XD vs HeyPhoto

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.

HeyPhoto is a free online AI photo editor that lets you tune selfies and group photos by changing gaze direction, nose shape, skin tone, age, hair style, and other facial features. It offers fun tools like 'Look at bird' to change eye direction, 'Anonymize me' to hide identity from face recognition, 'Gimme a smile' to adjust happiness, 'Change gender', 'Change my age', 'Tweak emotions', and more. The service is free but adds a watermark to resulting photos. It also promotes related face editing tools like Face Swapper and Face Generator.

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

• Free to use
• No special skills required, intuitive AI-powered tools
• Fun and creative tools: change gaze, smile, age, gender, emotions, anonymize face
• Works directly in the browser with drag-and-drop image upload

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

• Adds a watermark to resulting photos (free version)
• Some features are marked as 'Soon' and not yet available
• Requires quality photos with faces directly facing the camera for best results
• Images are stored on servers (privacy concern for sensitive photos)