Is Breathe HR or ProtoPie better?

Neither clearly leads. Breathe HR starts at £13/month and ProtoPie at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Breathe HR or ProtoPie?

ProtoPie has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at £13/month for Breathe HR and Free for ProtoPie.

Does Breathe HR or ProtoPie run on more platforms?

Breathe HR runs on Web, Ios, Android. ProtoPie runs on Windows, Macos, Web, Ios, Android.

Can I use ProtoPie for free?

Yes. ProtoPie has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Breathe HR starts at £13/month.

What is Breathe HR best used for?

Breathe HR is most often used for holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a uk small business, storing hr documents, contracts and e-signatures, performance reviews and onboarding workflows for small teams. Of those, holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a uk small business and storing hr documents, contracts and e-signatures are not what ProtoPie is typically brought in for.

What can Breathe HR do that ProtoPie cannot?

Breathe HR covers Employee Database, Absence Management, Document Storage, HR Reporting. ProtoPie covers Interactive prototyping, Data binding, Advanced interactions, Animation. Both handle Slack.

HR & Recruiting · head to head

Breathe HR vs ProtoPie

Breathe HR

HR & Recruiting

Simple HR software for SMEs

From: £13/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

ProtoPie

Design Tools

Create advanced interactive prototypes

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only ProtoPie has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Breathe HR pricing is banded by headcount, starting at £24 per month for 1 to 10 people, £44 per month for 11 to 20 and £99 per month for 21 to 50; ProtoPie the free plan allows 2 prototypes, 8 scenes per prototype and 50MB of cloud storage
They diverge on capability: Breathe HR covers Employee Database, ProtoPie covers Interactive prototyping.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Breathe HR and ProtoPie actually diverge.

Attributes where Breathe HR and ProtoPie differ
Attribute	Breathe HR	ProtoPie
Starting price	£13/month	Free
Free tier	No	Yes
Platforms	Web, Ios, Android	Windows, Macos, Web, Ios, Android
Category	HR & Recruiting	Design Tools
Founded	2012	2013

Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Breathe HR

Employee Database
Absence Management
Document Storage
HR Reporting
Performance Management
Training
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365

Only in ProtoPie

Interactive prototyping
Data binding
Advanced interactions
Animation
Collaboration
Cloud sharing
Device testing
Code export

Both cover

Slack

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Breathe HR

Holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a UK small businessnot ProtoPie
Storing HR documents, contracts and e-signaturesnot ProtoPie
Performance reviews and onboarding workflows for small teamsnot ProtoPie

ProtoPie

Building high fidelity interactive prototypes without codenot Breathe HR
Prototyping multi device and hardware interactionsnot Breathe HR
Sharing prototypes with stakeholders for testingnot Breathe HR

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Breathe HR

Pricing is banded by headcount, starting at £24 per month for 1 to 10 people, £44 per month for 11 to 20 and £99 per month for 21 to 50
Plans are capped by band up to 151 to 200 people, so it is not sold to organisations above that range on the published ladder
The free trial is 14 days
Health and safety, e-learning and other modules are sold as add-ons on top of the core HR plan
Pricing is quoted in pounds and the product is marketed to UK SMEs

ProtoPie

The free plan allows 2 prototypes, 8 scenes per prototype and 50MB of cloud storage
Free prototypes carry a watermark and shareable links require the Basic plan
Saving prototypes locally requires the Pro plan
Team libraries and handoff recordings require the Pro plan
Basic caps storage at 500MB and prototypes at 20
Single sign on, private servers, custom fonts and custom hardware integrations are Enterprise only
Enterprise requires a minimum of 3 seats and is priced by quote
Connect Core is a paid add on at $20 per user per month

Pricing, plan by plan

Breathe HR

£13/month

Core$13/month
- Employee Database
- Absence Management
- Documents
People Management$18/month
- All Core features
- Performance
- Goals

ProtoPie

Free

FreeFree
- Limited prototypes
- Cloud storage
- Basic sharing
Professional$25/month
- Unlimited prototypes
- Advanced interactions
- Collaboration
Enterprise$75/month
- Everything in Professional
- Team features
- Advanced security

Which should you pick?

Choose Breathe HR if

You need employee database.
You work on Web, Ios, Android.
You also want absence management.

Breathe HR review

Choose ProtoPie if

You need interactive prototyping.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Windows, Macos, Web, Ios, Android.
You also want data binding.

ProtoPie review

Questions people ask

Is Breathe HR or ProtoPie better?: Neither clearly leads. Breathe HR starts at £13/month and ProtoPie at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Breathe HR or ProtoPie?: ProtoPie has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at £13/month for Breathe HR and Free for ProtoPie.
Does Breathe HR or ProtoPie run on more platforms?: Breathe HR runs on Web, Ios, Android. ProtoPie runs on Windows, Macos, Web, Ios, Android.
Can I use ProtoPie for free?: Yes. ProtoPie has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Breathe HR starts at £13/month.
What is Breathe HR best used for?: Breathe HR is most often used for holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a uk small business, storing hr documents, contracts and e-signatures, performance reviews and onboarding workflows for small teams. Of those, holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a uk small business and storing hr documents, contracts and e-signatures are not what ProtoPie is typically brought in for.
What can Breathe HR do that ProtoPie cannot?: Breathe HR covers Employee Database, Absence Management, Document Storage, HR Reporting. ProtoPie covers Interactive prototyping, Data binding, Advanced interactions, Animation. Both handle Slack.

Breathe HR vs ProtoPie

Breathe HR

ProtoPie

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Breathe HR

Only in ProtoPie

Both cover

What people use each for

Breathe HR

ProtoPie

Where each one falls short

Breathe HR

ProtoPie

Pricing, plan by plan

Breathe HR

ProtoPie

Which should you pick?

Choose Breathe HR if

Choose ProtoPie if

Questions people ask

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