Flinto review

Flinto is a Mac app for making interactive, animated prototypes of app designs. It is aimed at designers who want to show how screens connect and how elements behave, rather than produce a finished app.

You can import vector shapes and editable text from Sketch and Figma, then build screen-to-screen transitions in the Transition Designer. Flinto also supports in-screen behaviors such as animated buttons and switches, looping animations, and gesture-based navigation. Groups can be made scrollable, with animations tied to scrolling.

To review a prototype, you can preview it on an iOS device with the Flinto Viewer app or share it through the viewer. The listed Flinto Lite plan costs $20 per month, or $18 per month equivalent when billed yearly, and includes unlimited prototypes and sharing. A 30-day free trial is listed. That makes Flinto fairly easy to evaluate, but the ongoing cost matters if you only need occasional prototypes.

Flinto’s clearest strength is the detail it offers inside a prototype. It covers both screen-to-screen transitions and smaller interactions within a screen, so designers can represent more than a sequence of static mockups. Gestures, scrollable groups, and scrolling animations help show how an app responds to taps, swipes, and movement through content.

Importing editable text and vector shapes from Sketch and Figma is useful when the prototype needs to stay close to the source design. The iOS Viewer also gives teams a way to preview on a device, while sharing with anyone is included in the listed plan. Flinto Lite includes unlimited prototypes, and the pricing page says team collaboration is available.

That feature mix may suit individuals or teams who specifically need animated app prototypes and micro-interactions. One Reddit user looking for a replacement said they valued Flinto’s ability to create micro-transitions within a screen. That is a useful signal about what users may miss when switching, though it is one person’s report, not a broader measure of product quality.

The price is the main hurdle: Flinto Lite is listed at $20 monthly, or $18 per month equivalent with annual billing. The plan includes unlimited prototypes and sharing, but those caps may matter less to occasional users than the recurring cost. Team collaboration is available, while additional team members are listed at $20 per month each. The pricing material does not specify how many collaborators are included or give a separate team-plan price.

Support and reliability are harder to assess from the available information. In one Reddit thread, a Flinto user reported major bugs with behavior groups and said support offered little help. That is an individual account, not proof that all users will hit the same problems, but it is a reason to test the workflows you depend on during the 30-day trial.

Switching also has trade-offs. In the same discussion, a commenter who tried ProtoPie said it imported layers as images and described a limitation around shadows on scroll groups. Those are user reports, not verified product comparisons. Flinto remains appealing for micro-interactions, but at $20 a month it is harder to justify without stronger support signals.

Flinto lists one plan, Flinto Lite, at $20 per month. Paying yearly lowers the equivalent monthly price to $18, a 10% saving, according to the published pricing details. There is no published higher tier, so there’s no tier-to-tier price jump to compare; the main cost increase comes from adding team members.

The plan includes unlimited prototypes, sharing with anyone and team collaboration. But team members are listed separately at $20 per member per month. That can make a shared workflow cost more than the headline price suggests: check how many paid seats your team needs before comparing Flinto with another prototyping tool.

There’s no free plan, but Flinto offers a 30-day free trial. The pricing information does not spell out the trial’s feature limits or the exact billing mechanics for annual payment, so confirm those before subscribing. If you need a permanent free option or want to avoid per-member fees, Flinto’s listed pricing is a poor fit.

Switching to Flinto may be simplest if your designs are already in Sketch or Figma: Flinto says it imports vector shapes and editable text from both. You’ll still need to build the prototype behavior—transitions, gestures and in-screen interactions—in Flinto. The available information does not specify how much interaction work transfers from another prototyping tool, or whether imports preserve every design detail.

Before moving a project, check which files and behaviors the import supports, and keep the original design files available. Flinto supports sharing prototypes through its viewer and previewing on an iOS device with the Flinto Viewer app, but its data-export options and what happens to shared prototypes after cancellation are not published on the vendor's site. Treat those as questions to resolve before committing.

We can’t responsibly say what tends to make users leave based on Reddit: no Reddit posts or comments were provided for this review. The clearest reasons to compare alternatives are the $20 monthly starting price, extra per-member fees and the lack of published export details—not a documented pattern of user complaints.