Design Pickle vs Penji
Design Pickle overview
Design Pickle – Unlimited Graphic Design Service
- You have your own design team
- You get your design the same-day or 1-2-day turnaround
- Unlimited graphic design
- Unlimited revisions
- All the plans include access to great stock photos
- You get complete ownership of the files delivered
- They provide real human customer support 24 hours a day and 5 days a week
- 30-Day 100% money-back satisfaction is guaranteed
- The monthly output is capped, it is not really “unlimited”
- Revisions are also considered as new requests, so being choosy will reduce the number of deliveries per month
- Limitations on the basic plan. Logo design, website design, infographics, and motion design are not entertained
Penji overview
Penji – Unlimited Graphic Design
- No hidden fees
- Only 2% of the top designers are hired
- 15-day money-back guarantee
- The customer support of Penji is exquisite
- Excellent turnaround of usually within 24-48 hours
- Your designs are available on their dashboard via sharable links
- Penji runs a special charity where they serve non-profit organizations for only $1/month
- Penji is worth subscribing to if you have an average of 10 designs per months
- Communication with designers is done via email or via the Penji dashboard
Features comparison
We highlight the main differences
between Design Pickle and Penji
Ease of use
Design Pickle and Penji both use their own project management systems. No third party software is used. The communication and file exchanges, everything is done on their dedicated platform.
This makes it much easier to view the files created and to centralize everything.
🏆 Winner: Both
Features
In terms of Design scope, Penji is really well above Design Pickle. They can create Web templates in PSD, so it can be suitable for people using WordPress and wanting a particular WordPress theme design.
Penji offers for only $100 bucks per month more ($499/month), custom illustrations such as hand-drawn designs + website & app design + infographics. The same features at Design Pickle cost $995/month!
🏆 Winner: Penji
Design Quality
Regarding their portfolio we can see that the quality and beauty of the designs is equal. It’s rather difficult to decide between them but if we had to give a winner, we would say that Penji wins. But it’s all about taste and color, maybe you think Design Pickle is better.
Anyway as long as they are using stock photos as a basis for their designs, logically the designs are not ugly from the start.
🏆 Winner: Penji
Turnaround
In both cases they are tied. They cannot be separated and this can vary according to the designs and requests.
They usually deliver the designs within 1 or 2 business days.
🏆 Winner: Both
Customer support
Penji and Design Pickle use a live chat system for their support, this allows for ease of use and great efficiency.
Penji offers a 24/7 support while Design Pickle offers a 24/5 support only.
🏆 Winner: Penji
Automation
Penji doesn’t integrate any automation such as Zapier.
With Design Pickle you can integrate the possibility of automating the process with Zapier or API. So you will be able to create Zap to automate as you wish.
🏆 Winner: Design Pickle
Features overview
Pricing comparison
Compare the price between
Design Pickle and Penji
Design pickle and Penji don’t offer a free trial but give you respectively a 15 days and a 30 days 100% money-back guarantee, so if you don’t like it, you can ask for a refund.
They both give you the choice to subscribe monthly or annualy so it can be cheaper if you subscribe annually.
If we compare the features of the Team plan of Penji at $499/month only, the equivalent with Design Pickle will costs you $995/month.
Finally, Penji is really cheaper than Design Pickle.
🏆 Winner: Penji
Latest User Reviews
Design Pickle Reviews
Penji Reviews
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Penji – Unlimited Graphic Design - Start at $399/month
Reviewed on November 13, 2020 by Mattie5The entire service was easy to work with. I’ve worked with several of these unlimited services and Penji is the best by a mile. Do not waste anytime with any other service.
Design quality100Management system100Turnaround100Support100Value for money100+ PROS: Ease of use Deliverables were exactly what I wanted- CONS: Wish I had the funds to upgrade
Who’s the winner?
Regarding the comparison of the features between Penji and Design Pickle, if we had to pick one, we would choose Penji. They have a better Portfolio, give more features such as web design.
But if you need automation such as Zapier or API integration, then Design Pickle will work out for you!