Figma vs InVision: InVision Has Shut Down

Update: InVision shut down its services on January 1, 2025. The platform is no longer available. This comparison is kept for historical context, but if you're choosing a tool today, Figma is the only option here.

InVision used to be the way you showed stakeholders a clickable prototype. Before Figma's prototyping existed, you uploaded your Sketch screens to InVision, drew hotspots, and shared a link. It was the standard.

Figma made that entire workflow unnecessary. InVision shut down in early 2025.

What InVision was

InVision's original product — click-through prototypes from uploaded screens — was genuinely the right tool for the job from about 2012 to 2018. You designed in Sketch or Photoshop, exported screens, uploaded to InVision, linked them together with hotspots, and shared a prototype URL. Stakeholders could click through without needing to know anything about design tools.

InVision also had Boards for design feedback and Inspect for developer handoff. These were useful additions that built InVision into a broader collaboration platform.

Then Figma launched with prototyping built in, and suddenly you didn't need a separate tool for any of this.

The InVision Studio problem

InVision tried to compete directly with Figma by launching InVision Studio — a full design tool with animation capabilities. The launch was messy, the tool felt unfinished, and the community never adopted it. Designers who tried InVision Studio mostly went back to Sketch or switched to Figma.

Studio is largely abandoned now. InVision has focused on enterprise contracts and Freehand (their whiteboard product), but their design tool ambitions didn't materialize.

What Figma replaced in InVision's workflow

Figma's prototyping covers everything InVision's hotspot model did — and more. You can define transitions, scroll interactions, overlays, and component state changes without leaving Figma. You share a prototype link directly from Figma with no upload step.

Figma's commenting system replaces InVision's feedback tools. Stakeholders can comment directly on frames, tag team members, and resolve threads. No separate platform required.

Figma Dev Mode replaced InVision Inspect. Developers get spacing measurements, CSS values, and asset export from the same file designers work in.

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When you'd still touch InVision

If you have existing InVision projects with archived prototypes that stakeholders reference, there's no rush to migrate everything today. The tool still works for viewing and commenting on existing prototypes.

And if your company has an enterprise contract with InVision that isn't up for renewal yet, you're stuck with it regardless of what's better. Enterprise SaaS procurement doesn't always match product quality.

But if you're evaluating tools for a new project, a new team, or a new hire's workflow: start with Figma. Building new workflows on InVision in 2026 is building on a platform in decline.

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Pricing

Figma: Free for individuals, $15/editor/month (Professional), $45/editor/month (Organization)

InVision: InVision has moved to a primarily enterprise pricing model. Their free tier is limited and the product is clearly not being aggressively marketed to new individual users.

The verdict

InVision was the right tool for a specific era of design tooling. That era ended when Figma shipped prototyping and collaboration that was better in every way. The story of InVision since then has been a slow decline, some pivots toward enterprise features, and no clear path back to relevance.

Use Figma. If you're already using InVision and everything works, no need to panic — but plan to migrate.

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