Fabric vs. Workflow

Last updated June 2026

Workflow is built for one job: collecting and managing design feedback. Upload a design, share a review link, collect pinned comments, resolve them, get approval. It does that job with polish and simplicity that clients and reviewers love.

Fabric is built for the entire creative workflow. Collecting references and inspiration. Writing the brief. Brainstorming on a canvas. Organising project files. Recording feedback calls. Annotating the work. Publishing with tracked links. Searching across everything with AI.

Workflow is the focused tool. Fabric is the complete one. The choice depends on how much of the creative process you want in one place.

Side-by-side comparison

Where Workflow wins

Purpose-built for design review. Every feature in Workflow exists to make the feedback cycle faster and cleaner. Shareable review links. Auto-numbered comments with screenshots attached. Tasks with checklists. Approval buttons. The product has no features that don't serve the review workflow. That focus shows in the polish.

Client and reviewer experience. Reviewers need no account. The guided tour means they understand how to use it without instructions. Clients consistently praise the simplicity. "I never had to onboard my clients into Workflow. They just get it." If client-friendliness in the review step is the priority, Workflow is hard to beat.

Pixel Perfect overlay. The Chrome extension layers a design mockup directly over a live webpage for pixel-level comparison. See misaligned elements, wrong spacing, or missing details by toggling between the design and the build. No other tool on this list does this as a dedicated feature.

Website platform support. Built for reviewing sites on Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Figma Sites, Lovable, and v0. Live commenting on any of these platforms. The design review happens on the actual website, not a screenshot of it.

AI design checks. Workflow's AI scans designs for potential errors (grammar, spelling, visual inconsistencies) before the reviewer sees them. Catches issues before they interrupt the feedback process.

Simplicity. One tool, one job. Nothing to configure. No learning curve. Sign up, upload or link a design, share the review link. The fastest path from "design is ready" to "feedback is collected."

Where Fabric wins

Everything before and after the review. Workflow handles feedback on the design. Fabric handles the entire creative workflow: collecting references, writing the brief, brainstorming on the canvas, organising files, recording feedback calls, annotating the work, publishing to clients, searching across everything.

AI across the entire project. Fabric's AI understands the brief, the references, the annotations, the meeting transcripts, and the design files. Ask: "What feedback did the client give on the homepage?" and the AI answers from annotations, recordings, and saved messages. Workflow's AI checks designs for errors. Fabric's AI understands the project.

Verbal feedback captured. The feedback call that's usually unrecorded? Record it in Fabric. Bot-free transcription. Searchable to the timestamp. AI-accessible. Verbal feedback isn't lost. It's part of the project. Workflow has no recording or transcription.

Cross-project memory. Search across past projects with semantic search. "What did we do for the last homepage redesign?" returns results from annotations, briefs, and recordings across all projects. Workflow searches within individual projects.

Reference collection and moodboarding. The web clipper saves inspiration. RSS feeds auto-pull from design blogs. Similar search finds visually similar content in your library. The canvas with live Figma, YouTube, and Spotify embeds becomes the moodboard. Workflow doesn't handle the research and inspiration phase.

Publishing with per-recipient tracking. Create named tracking links ("Sarah, Brand Director" or "James, Legal"). See who viewed, when, how long, and where. Compare engagement across stakeholders. Know who's reviewed without asking. Password protection for sensitive work.

Background agents. AI agents that run on a schedule: weekly project summaries, client report prep, status updates. Produce real documents in your workspace. Workflow has no automation.

Pricing. Fabric's $5/month flat with no per-user pricing means a 10-person design team pays $5/month total. Workflow's pricing scales per-user after the trial.

Where both fall short

Neither replaces Figma for design work. Both are feedback and project tools. The actual design creation happens in Figma, Sketch, or Adobe. Fabric embeds live Figma files on its canvas. Workflow syncs with Figma and offers the Pixel Perfect overlay. Neither is a design tool.

Neither has enterprise proofing automation. Automated multi-stage routing with deadline triggers, compliance audit trails, and formal sign-off workflows require dedicated proofing platforms like Ziflow or Filestage.

How to choose

Use Workflow if the design review step is your bottleneck and everything else is handled. You need the simplest possible reviewer experience with no onboarding. Your clients love the clean, guided feedback process. You want pixel-level design-to-build comparison. You don't need reference collection, moodboarding, meeting recording, or AI search across projects.

Use Fabric if the design review is one part of a larger creative workflow. You need references, briefs, annotations, recordings, tasks, and publishing in one place. You want AI that understands the entire project, not just the design file. You want feedback from calls, emails, and Slack captured alongside annotations. You want cross-project search across all past work. You want $5/month flat instead of per-user pricing.

Use both if you love Workflow's reviewer experience for the client-facing step but want Fabric for everything around it: the research, the brief, the canvas, the meeting notes, the file organisation, the AI search, and the publishing. They can complement each other.

FAQs

Is Workflow free? 14-day free trial with unlimited projects and reviewers. Paid plans after the trial.

Is Fabric free? Generous free plan with no time limit. $5/month Plus for expanded features. No per-user pricing.

Which is better for client feedback on websites? Workflow. Purpose-built for live website review with platform support for Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, WordPress, and more. The reviewer experience is unmatched in simplicity. Fabric annotates websites via browser extension with persistent annotations, but Workflow's dedicated website review is more polished for that specific step.

Which has better AI? Fabric. Full AI assistant across your entire library with multiple models, citations, and cross-project search. Workflow's AI checks designs for errors (grammar, visual issues) but doesn't understand the project context or search across past work.

Can I record feedback calls? In Fabric, yes. Bot-free meeting recording with automatic transcription. Searchable to the timestamp. Connected to the project. Workflow doesn't record or transcribe calls.

Which is better for agencies? Depends on the problem. Workflow if the main pain is collecting clean feedback from clients on designs and websites. Fabric if the main pain is keeping the entire creative project together: references, briefs, feedback, recordings, deliverables, and client-facing sharing with analytics.

See also:

• Best design review tool

• Best design feedback tool

• Best creative proofing tool

• Best image annotation tool

• Best online annotation software