Abstract vs Folio

Overview

Folio

Stacks23

Followers35

Votes2

Abstract

Stacks125

Followers86

Votes3

Abstract vs Folio: What are the differences?

Abstract: A platform for modern design teams to work together. Abstract builds upon and extends the stable technology of Git to host and manage your work; 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.

Abstract and Folio can be primarily classified as "Visual Version Control" tools.

Some of the features offered by Abstract are:

version control
commenting
annotation

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

Beautiful browser
Full visual history
Really, really fast

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Detailed Comparison

Folio	Abstract
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.	Abstract builds upon and extends the stable technology of Git to host and manage your work.
Beautiful browser;Full visual history;Really, really fast;Built on Git	version control; commenting; annotation; branching; merging
Statistics
Stacks 23	Stacks 125
Followers 35	Followers 86
Votes 2	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Easy to used git client for designers	Pros 2 Great way to maintain historical uxd knowledge 1 Easy to track down versions
Integrations
Git	Slack Sketch

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