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Abstract
Design version control and asset management
As of 30 August 2026, Abstract has a free plan and paid plans start at $12/month. Abstract is a version control and asset management platform built for design teams. Softwr lists it under Design. Abstract is launched in 2015, available on macOS, Web.
Overview
What Abstract does
Abstract is a version control and asset management platform built for design teams. It organizes design files, manages versions, and enables seamless collaboration while maintaining design system integrity.
What people use it for
- Design systems
- Version control
- Asset management
- Team collaboration
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Abstract.
- The product appears to be gone. Its documentation path 404s, goabstract.com no longer resolves, and abstract.com now belongs to an unrelated venture capital firm
- Built around Sketch files, so it never covered teams that moved to Figma
Cross-shopped
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Pricing
What Abstract costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 1 shared library
- Basic version control
- 2 team members
- 1GB storage
- Comments
Pro
$12 /mo
- Unlimited libraries
- Full version control
- Unlimited team members
- 100GB storage
- Branching & merging
Enterprise
$50 /mo
- Everything in Pro
- Advanced admin controls
- Compliance & security
- Dedicated support
- Custom deployment
Capabilities
Features
Version control
Branching & merging
Asset library
Design tokens
Collaboration
File management
Comments
Activity tracking
Sketch
Integration with Sketch
Figma
Integration with Figma
Slack
Integration with Slack
Jira
Integration with Jira
Behind it
Who makes Abstract
- Company
- Abstract
- Based in
- San Francisco, CA
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Where to go from Abstract
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Best Design software for
Compare Abstract with
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- Affinity Designer
- Gravit Designer
- Linearity Curve
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- Marvel
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- Zeplin
- LottieFiles
- Origami Studio
- Recraft
- Proto.io
- Subframe
- Womp
- Adobe XD
- Vectr
- Zeplin
- Origami Studio
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