Folio vs LayerVault

Overview

LayerVault

Stacks5

Followers10

Votes1

Folio

Stacks23

Followers35

Votes2

Folio vs LayerVault: What are the differences?

What is Folio? Simple version control app for designers based on Git. Folio is a simple version control app for designers. It lets you clean up all your duplicates by allowing you to browse and restore previous versions of your design documents.

What is LayerVault? LayerVault makes designing alone better and designing together great. One central LayerVault repository. Accessible to everyone, simplified, and organized without the effort. Whether using LayerVault Sync or Dropbox, we store and organize your design work. No desktop interface or command line.

Folio and LayerVault can be categorized as "Visual Version Control" tools.

Some of the features offered by Folio are:

Beautiful browser
Full visual history
Really, really fast

On the other hand, LayerVault provides the following key features:

File Sync
Version Control
Collaboration

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Detailed Comparison

LayerVault	Folio
One central LayerVault repository. Accessible to everyone, simplified, and organized without the effort. Whether using LayerVault Sync or Dropbox, we store and organize your design work. No desktop interface or command line.	Folio is a simple version control app for designers. It lets you clean up all your duplicates by allowing you to browse and restore previous versions of your design documents.
File Sync;Version Control;Collaboration;Teams;Presentation;iOS;Support for over 20 file formats	Beautiful browser;Full visual history;Really, really fast;Built on Git
Statistics
Stacks 5	Stacks 23
Followers 10	Followers 35
Votes 1	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Closed down	Pros 2 Easy to used git client for designers
Integrations
Dropbox	Git

What are some alternatives to LayerVault, Folio?

Abstract

Abstract builds upon and extends the stable technology of Git to host and manage your work.

TortoiseSVN

It is an Apache™ Subversion (SVN)® client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. And it is free to use, even in a commercial environment.

Pixelapse

Pixelapse Is Where Your Designs Live Version Control + Backup + Collaboration

Gource

It is an OpenGL-based 3D visualisation tool for source control repositories. The repository is displayed as a tree where the root of the repository is the centre, directories are branches and files are leaves. Contributors to the source code appear and disappear as they contribute to specific files and directories.