Knapsack

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Flexible end-to-end design system tool for enterprise teams

About Knapsack

Knapsack is a flexible design systems platform that integrates with your production code and design assets to provide a central source of truth between design and development. The platform provides the core infrastructure, capabilities, and expert guidance necessary to expedite the design system building process.

Teams can work together with automated updates to tokens and components in documents, organized and version-controlled design tokens, and pre-built content blocks to display patterns, themes, and variations. Knapsack supports a variety of workflows, including local or cloud-based work, third-party embeds for real-time views from Figma, Adobe XD, and more.


Key benefits of Knapsack

Centralized Source of Truth: Unified repository for design and code documentation minimizes discrepancies and aligns teams effectively across the organization.

Automatic Documentation Sync: Real-time synchronization with Figma and Git ensures documentation and libraries are always up-to-date, reducing maintenance overhead.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Browser-based environment backed by Git enables real-time collaboration among developers, designers, and product managers, accelerating decision-making.

Component & Pattern Management: Manage components across design and code for enhanced consistency and scalability, allowing teams to visualize and organize patterns comprehensively.

Prototyping & Composition: Utilize production-ready components to build interactive prototypes, facilitating usability testing, accessibility validation, and faster iterations.

Design Tokens & Theming: Centralized management of design tokens and themes ensures brand consistency across products, while role-based access promotes inclusivity for non-technical users.

Security and Permissions Control: Enterprise-grade security controls, including SSO and role-based permissions, ensure effective management of visibility and editing rights.

CI/CD Integration: Integration with CI/CD pipelines automates workflows, streamlining updates and ensuring faster, more reliable deployments.

Scalability for Multi-Brand Organizations: Flexible architecture supports complex, multi-brand environments, enabling content sharing and inheritance while maintaining customization.

Accelerated Production Cycles: Dynamic documentation and streamlined collaboration tools reduce redundant work and misalignments, accelerating design-to-market timelines by up to 30%.


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Knapsack Software - Workspace Theming in Knapsack enables organizations to adjust the look and feel of their site without waiting on or requiring an engineer's time.
Knapsack Software - Knapsack’s token inventory manager introduces the first-ever truly cross-functional end-to-end design token management system. This welcomes the ability for designers and non-technical contributors to manage and curate design tokens all within the UI.
Knapsack Software - A dedicated and enhanced UI in one central spot allows for increased visibility into your design system team, making user management and role changes a snap!
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Knapsack Software - Workspace Theming in Knapsack enables organizations to adjust the look and feel of their site without waiting on or requiring an engineer's time.
Knapsack Software - Knapsack’s token inventory manager introduces the first-ever truly cross-functional end-to-end design token management system. This welcomes the ability for designers and non-technical contributors to manage and curate design tokens all within the UI.
Knapsack Software - A dedicated and enhanced UI in one central spot allows for increased visibility into your design system team, making user management and role changes a snap!

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4.6 /5
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Value for Money
4.5/5
Features
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Ease of Use
4.7/5
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

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Reviewed on 2023/06/26

Web design and development.

Web design and development.

Pros

It only involves drag and drop to build websites.I like that it offers a wide array of free CSS templates.

Cons

WYISWYG editor tools requires to be acquired from third party services like Simditor.

ian
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  • Industry: Dairy
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

"STUDENT'S PERSPECTIVE"

Reviewed on 2024/10/07

Overall experience has been excellent because of the user-friendly interface that is intuitive and...

Overall experience has been excellent because of the user-friendly interface that is intuitive and easy to use.

Pros

Simplicity and Speed: The greedy approach is straightforward and fast.

Cons

I applicability: This method doesn't work for the 0/1 knapsack because taking fractions of items isn't allowed.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A great tool for product managers with great UI/UX

Reviewed on 2023/03/03

I have been using it for the last 4-5 months to manage our design systems and have found it a...

I have been using it for the last 4-5 months to manage our design systems and have found it a great tool. However, the pricing is too high.

Pros

The user interface and experience of this software are indeed amazing. Integration with other tools like Figma is great. As well as it is easy to use due to its great ui/ux. The thing I liked the most is its CI/CD feature.

Cons

I found it li'l bit slow. As well as its pricing is very high.

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  • Industry: Graphic Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Website Builder with Product Management Tools

Reviewed on 2023/07/05

Create and design websites at ease via free CSS templates.

Create and design websites at ease via free CSS templates.

Pros

Knapsack offers drag and drop functionality that makes it a breeze to create and design websites.

Cons

Truth be told, I barely come across errors while utilizing this program at workstation.

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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good for creative design and collaboration

Reviewed on 2023/11/24

Pros

Develops arenas of creativity and innovation through design and collaboration. Provides a wide range of pattern and themes seldom found elsewhere. Saves time through easy collaboration.

Cons

Pricing is based on the number of users, with three packages - Starter, Business, Premium with varied prices. Proves expensive for small groups.

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Knapsack FAQs

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Knapsack offers the following pricing plans:

  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Knapsack offers flexible pricing plans tailored for teams of all sizes seeking a powerful design system platform. The Basic plan is ideal for smaller teams starting with design systems, including essential features like dynamic documentation, real-time code rendering, and Figma integration. The Core plan suits teams with advanced technical or security needs, adding dedicated implementation resources, custom domain configuration, and SSO options. For large-scale digital ambitions, the Pro plan includes multi-workspace support, advanced analytics, and unlimited viewers, empowering extensive collaboration. All plans include comprehensive support options and integration capabilities, making Knapsack a robust solution for accelerating digital product development. Contact our sales team for customized pricing and to see Knapsack in action.

Knapsack has the following typical customers:

51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Knapsack supports the following languages:

English

Knapsack supports the following devices:

Knapsack integrates with the following applications:

Abstract, Adobe XD, Airtable, Angular, Azure DevOps Server, Azure DevOps Services, Bitbucket, Cypress, Diffy, Figma, Framer, GitHub, GitLab, HTML Editor, HTML Website Builder, HTML on Word, Lucidchart, React, Storybooks, Vimeo, Vimeo Livestream, Vue, Whimsical, Whimsical AI, YouTube

Knapsack offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support

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