Graphically
Vs
Design Pickle
Design Pickle helped bring the concept of an unlimited graphic design service to the masses and they deserve credit for that. However, their packages aren’t perfect. Design Pickle’s pricing, the way they handle their task queue, their turnaround times, and the quality of their overall designs make them less than an ideal choice.
On the surface, you’ll notice that Design Pickle can be quite expensive. That’s the first thing that stands out when you compare them. But the more you dig in, the more you’ll realize some of their other issues (and how we’ve managed to solve them for you).
We built Graphically on the premise that we need to outshine our competitors in every noticeable way, otherwise what’s the point? Once that was taken care of, we set out sights on improving the intangible things and the small details to make our service as smooth and useful for you as possible.
As we’ve grown, more and more people are asking about the differences between Graphically vs Design Pickle. Take a look at what sets Graphically apart from Design Pickle, and you’ll realize why it makes so much sense to give us a try (especially since you can try us for just $1).
Design Pickle vs Graphically: A Quick Rundown
Are you just looking for the key facts to compare Design Pickle to Graphically, a fantastic Design Pickle alternative? No problem, here’s exactly what you’re looking for, so that you can compare these two services at a glance.
| Graphically | Design Pickle | |
|---|---|---|
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$1 Trial Option |
Yes |
No |
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Subscription |
Yes |
Yes |
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Monthly Cost
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$299 to $349 |
$499 to $1695+ |
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Concurrent Tasks |
1-3 at once |
No Queue |
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Revisions |
Unlimited |
Takes up your task time |
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Overall Cost
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Lowest |
Industry-high |
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Turnaround Time |
24-36 hours
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24-48 hours |
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Support |
Fast support via chat, email, or phone |
24/7 support |
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Client Dashboard |
Yes |
Yes |
Graphically vs Design Pickle: The Major Differences
The Price
Let’s start with the price. The first thing most people will ask is “How much does Design Pickle cost?” along with “Okay, then how much does Graphically cost?”
Graphically.io costs $299 per month for our standard plan which includes 1 design task at a time. For an additional $50, you can add 2 additional concurrent tasks, meaning you can have 3 design requests open at any given time. This allows you to get a lot more work delivered, a lot more quickly, and to really make the most of your membership.
Design Pickle, on the other hand, is $499 for their most basic and limited package. The types of design work are limited in this plan, the turn around times are slower, and it’ll be a lot more difficult to get your money’s worth (even though you’re paying a decent amount higher).
Price isn’t the only thing you should look at. Value is another very important consideration. A service that costs 10 cents a month, but you only get 5 pixels at a time, would be utterly useless even though it’s very affordable. Value means that you’re getting great designs, quickly, for a great price and that’s what we do.
At Graphically, we offer the best price for our various subscription packages, especially once you factor in the very high-quality of our designs.
We worked hard to build our in-house team of graphic design professionals in order to offer consistency, value, and industry-leading price points. We aren’t operating as a middle-man who works with a bunch of random freelancers.
Our designers are employed and trained by Graphically, and they give their full dedication to meeting your graphic design needs each and every time you submit a request for a design. This is how we’re able to deliver so much value in each and every project.
Our Team
Design Pickle compares themselves to companies like Uber and Door Dash who are using the gig economy, essentially they sit in-between freelance designs and your business, and they charge a large fee for connecting you to them.
We’ve found that in the structure outlined above, there tends to be a higher churn rate and designers won’t necessarily take their “side gig” as seriously as one of our full-time, staffed designers does.
We have a team of experienced designers who work for us. They are focused on giving our subscribers the best possible designs each and every time. They’re attentive, easy to work with, and happy to stick with it until you’re 100% satisfied with your new designs.
Something that truly sets us apart is the importance and emphasis that we place on collaboration. We encourage our designers to work together, seek advice, ask each other for ideas, and generally to function as a unit.
We believe this creates a more productive and enjoyable work environment, but we’ve seen first hand how much the end designs can benefit from this collaborative style of workflow that we emphasize so strongly.
The Quality
- Our workflow: We’ve created a very intuitive ordering and fulfillment process. You can easily submit your design requests and work closely with our artists and designers to bring your vision into reality.
- Our systems: We have systems in place to ensure that projects are tackled quickly, but never rushed. We’ve made it easy for you to communicate with your designers, so that things are always moving quickly.
- Staying up to date: We stay up to date on all the latest styles and trends in graphic design, but without allowing it to make our work feel dated or too trendy. We’re able to do timeless designs, or something more modern and new if that’s what you’re looking for.
When speaking to the quality of designs that you can expect from Design Pickle, it’s all over the map. One day, you might get something pretty nice if you’re lucky, but the next day the quality might drop off a cliff.
Here’s a review from TrustPilot that compares the quality of work they received from Design Pickle to something from Fiverr:
“I was on one [of] the highest paying packages (Graphics Premium plan). The design quality is about as good as someone you pay 10 USD on Fiverr.
It is just horrible and I can’t get over the audacity that they sell this in a 1.3k package! PLEASE do yourself a favor and DO NOT get on a paid plan.”
The reason for this could be due to the size and scale of Design Pickle. They’re huge, and they’ve recently raised 25 million dollars in funding. Growing that quickly can mean they can’t be as picky or choosy when bringing designers into their ecosystem, which means there’s going to be a lot of misses for every hit.
They certainly have some number of designers who do solid work for them, but at that size, there’s a lot of room for things to slip through the cracks and that’s just not acceptable for you to have to deal with.
Turn Around Time
Most subscription design services boast a similar turnaround time, but the problem is that when you need something to really be polished, you don’t want a designer who is going to cut corners.
It’s important to acknowledge that more advanced projects are going to take longer.
Thanks to our systems and workflows, even for complex projects, our designers are able to get started right away without wasting any time. However, they also know not to rush things, and that it’s more important to get it perfect instead of rushing the design process.
It’s All thanks To Our In-House Infrastructure
The designers that take on your projects actually work for us, and most of them have worked for us for a long time. We aren’t churning through designers like in the gig economy, we would rather build long term partnerships with our staff and with our clients alike.
Some unnamed design services are more like a revolving door of talent. They’ll hire people fast, throw them in, and see who sticks around. We prefer to carefully train and support our staff so they can put out the best quality work for your business and your projects, time and time again.
The advantage of the way we do things is that there’s a higher level of consistency for our clients.
A major issue with an ever-revolving group of designers at Design Pickle is that you could end up with a variety of different people working on your projects, especially if you stick with them for a while. You’ll miss out on having a consistent design language.
Why Use a Graphic Design Subscription Service, Anyways?
Now that we’ve gone over how we stack up against Design Pickle, let’s talk about why this type of service is so useful in the first place.
Even a simple business has a lot of moving parts, things you need to keep track of, people you need to hire, and so on. When you can pick a piece of your business and leave it up to someone else, that frees you to focus on what you do best.
When you outsource all of your graphic design work to us, you can avoid hiring an in-house designer or working with a single freelancer who won’t always be available when you need them, and will likely end up costing you quite a bit more.
Even if your business needs new graphics designed everyday for social media (or anything else), we can stay on top of things so that you can improve the flow of your business.
Having A Fixed Cost
As a business owner, a fixed-cost service helps you forecast your expenses and helps you to make smart business decisions. Having one low, flat monthly rate for all of your graphic design needs for your entire business means you can anticipate the costs, and that you’ll never have to go over-budget on your design.
Knowing what your entire month’s worth of graphic design is going to cost you before the month even starts is invaluable – especially when it’s such a small monthly fee for the quality and quantity of work you’ll receive.
Graphically & Design Pickle both offer fixed-cost monthly plans.
- Graphically: With Graphically, you’ll be able to order many more design projects than you would get with Design Pickle, and you can have up to 3 of those projects being worked on at any given time.
- Design Pickle: They’ll only work on one project at a time, and with their longer turnaround times, that means you’ll get notably less work done each month for a higher price.
Having A Consistent Brand Identity
We can create your brand assets and ensure that your designs are consistent across projects. Our designers will collaborate with you and with each other to ensure that every piece of media that’s meant to represent your brand does exactly that.
If you put up posts to your social media pages one week and they look a certain way, and then the next week’s posts look completely different, it’s going to make your business look unprofessional.
Having a consistent visual brand identity helps carve out a space for you in the minds of your customers, just like with the world’s largest brands who have colors and design traits that are instantly recognizable.
Graphically does a better job of building and maintaining a brand language for you.
- Graphically: Our in-house team is trained to deliver high-quality and consistent work. The consistency part is very important in maintaining your brand’s design language.
- Design Pickle: The nature and scale of their operation means there are a lot of different designers working on a lot of different projects, and it’s hard to maintain a consistent brand identity and design language.
It’s A Visual World
Writing an article just isn’t good enough when you need to put your brand out there on the internet. There’s still a place for blogs, press releases, and traditional marketing tools like pamphlets… However, the internet is becoming increasingly visual. These things need to look good.
People want to see images, photos, illustrations, especially on social media where great design is crucial in helping you stand out, and it’s just as important on your website and blog.
Graphically and Design Pickle both offer a wide scope of service.
- Graphically: We can design just about anything you can imagine, including basic animations and whiteboard videos, logos, business cards, advertisements, t-shirts, product packaging, and much more.
- Design Pickle: Their $499 plan only includes graphic design and illustrations. If you want motion graphics and presentation design, you will need to sign up for their $1695/mo plan.
What About Other Design Pickle Competitors?
There are numerous other competitors to Design Pickle out there who all check slightly different boxes, but ultimately offer something either very similar, or a bit less polished, at an equally high price and with a value proposition that is often lacking.
We’re confident that we offer the best service of this type, for the best price, and that we deliver the nicest designs with the most consistency. That’s a big claim to make, so we encourage you to check out Design Pickle and all of the Design Pickle alternatives out there.
Just don’t forget to sign up with our $1 trial and take us for a spin before you commit to a contract with a much more expensive alternative and discover their designers are slower than you expected, the results aren’t as nice as you were hoping, and inconsistent.
