Ruttl: Revolutionizing Design Feedback
In the dynamic world of web design and development, feedback is crucial. It’s the bridge that connects the creative minds of designers and developers with the practical needs of clients and users. Enter Ruttl, a visual feedback tool designed to streamline this process, making it more efficient and effective.
Features
Ruttl distinguishes itself through a range of distinctive features tailored to the requirements of web designers, developers, and digital marketers. Among its myriad features, some of the most exceptional and crucial ones include:
- Leave Comments on Live Websites: Ensure frequent feedback coming from your colleagues so that you all will try your best to be reliable and prove that you can get the job done effectively as a supportive team.
- Client Commenting: Require receiving no registration, thereby stimulating common efforts and joint work. The given sentence has been humanized to minimize uncommon language and improve the grammatical structure for better clarity and readability.
- Static Image Review: Crop and resize, add filters, overlays, and frames and make your images look exactly the way you want; and, see how it looks immediately on different social media platforms to make sure it’s looking good.
- Replace Images on Live Website: Quickly update images on live websites for immediate visual enhancements.
- Inspect CSS: Develop CSS for website elements with good views, ease up developing tasks, and debugging.
- Make Edits on Live Websites: Assure to put on display all materials, like elements for font, spacing, and alignment, on the website instead.
- Edit Website Content: Create something live as for example, you can make editing online faster.
- Bug Tracking: Help to spare valuable time through the bug tracking and management of the website and mobile apps to ensure the quality is always top-notch.
- Integrate with Needed Tools: Receive notifications and integrate with wide-raming project management tools.
- Chat Live with Your Team: Encourage team members interaction and teamwork using real-time messaging platforms/tools.
- Fastest Video Annotation: The Annotate Video intersection with Ruttl, enables us to mark the video resources in rapidly.
- Annotate Videos with Precise Timestamps: Add detailed scripts into videos for burnt commentaries that will be shot later.
- Upload Video File: MP4 video file can store voice and leave feedback before you press the button.
- Share Project Link: Provide views of project pages, where participants can put forth the edits and also suggest some constructive comments.
- Add Your Team: Development of stations where the team members will work on their projects as a group in a small team environment- this will expose them to practicalities and give them all the chance to participate.
Pricing
Free Plan
This plan costs $0 per month per user. It includes up to 5 users, 1 project, unlimited guests, and all integrations.
Pro Plan
This plan costs $4 per month per user billed monthly or $3 per month per user billed yearly. It includes all features in the Free plan, 1 admin + up to 50 users, unlimited projects, unlimited guests, 10 mins of video commenting, and a dedicated success manager.
Team Plan
This plan costs $30 per month per user billed monthly or $25 per month per user billed yearly. It includes all features in the Pro plan, admin users with project management abilities, centralized project management, a dedicated team workspace, and SAML support coming soon.
Enterprise Plan
This plan is custom-priced and billed annually. It is designed to streamline the process of website feedback with unlimited projects and collaborators, run Ruttl on your custom domain, and customize it in your brand colors.
Pros and Cons
Like any tool, Ruttl has its strengths and areas for improvement.
Pros
- Ease of Use: Customers have announced that Ruttl is very intuitive and easy to operate.
- Efficiency: Ruttl has won many brows, being very fast and streamlined for the user.
- Integration: Ruttl gives you the ability to change your notes to the tasks on your favorite working tool.
- Intuitive Interface: Ruttl’s user-friendly interface makes it easy for users to navigate and use the platform.
- Continuous Development: Ruttl is committed to continuous development and regularly updates its platform with new features and improvements.
- Cost-Effective: The Ruttl app does cost a buck more but, the money spent on this app is totally worth the value.
- Quick and Helpful Support: The Ruttl support team is promptly responsive and willingly assists users in facing all their usability challenges. This is a major contributor to the great user experience.
Cons
- Learning Curve: Though Ruttl is intuitive, there will be a find-a-way-through period to enable the new users.
- Technical Issues: Several already reported technical bugs while the platform was active.
- Poor Support: While the majority of the users have stated Ruttl’s service in the role of support in a positive way, a few have struggled with bad support.
- Limited Integration: The tool may lack extensive integration capabilities with other design software. The platform is primarily designed for creative content, which may limit its applicability for more technical or web-based project feedback.
- Occasional Breakdowns: Ruttl is good when it works, but users have reported that out of nowhere a new feature would be added but something else would break. The fix for this issue then takes weeks, or promises are made about when issues will be rectified and it takes constant follow-up to get an update.
- Incorrect Tag Selection: Sometimes the inspect tool would choose the wrong tag, and then editing wouldn’t work.
Summary
Ruttl is a robust tool that revolutionizes the way feedback is collected and managed in the realm of web design and development. Its unique features, coupled with its ease of use and efficiency, make it a valuable asset for web designers, developers, and digital marketers.
About the Author
Anna Malik – digital nomad, enthusiast of everything online and in the cloud, productivity maniac. She travels around the world reviewing web applications and other resources for Web People for our blog.