When comparing Mockplus vs Adobe Fireworks, the Slant community recommends Mockplus for most people. In the question“What are the best high-fidelity website design tools?” Mockplus is ranked 10th while Adobe Fireworks is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Mockplus is:
There's a large library of 200 pre-designed components that help you with building mockups as fast and easy as possible.
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Pros
Pro Large ready-made component library
There's a large library of 200 pre-designed components that help you with building mockups as fast and easy as possible.
Pro Easy to use
You can get started easily without learning or training. Beginners can master the tool in a short period of time.
Pro Rapid prototyping without a single line of code
Mockplus has a very intuitive interface that lets you quickly build your prototypes with no programming needed. You are able to create interactive components with the drag and drop feature.
Pro Newly added 3000+ SVG icons
There will be around 3000 icons for your free use, with around 2500+ vector icons integrated with the previous 400+ flat icons. Check for more here.
Pro Creating interactive wireframes/prototypes is fast
You can quickly build interactive prototypes using the drag and drop. A set of pre-designed components, including pop-up panel, stack panel, scroll box, sliding drawer and image carousel, helps you create the prototype faster.
Pro Free version is available
There is a free version available.
Pro Layer Sharing
Features such as 'Layer Sharing' allows you to quickly update shared components such as headers across multiple pages. Other mockup tools such as Mockingbird will require you to manually propagate changes across all the pages.
Pro Can be used for the entire life-cycle of the design
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
Pro Combined Pixel AND Vector editor
Best integration in a graphics editor.
Pro JPG compression preview
Offers a side by side comparison of different JPG compressions in real time with magnifier.
Cons
Con No Linux version
Mockplus is available for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS, but not Linux.
Con Requires paid subscription to export design
If you want to export the HTML, you have to subscribe to a Pro account ($6.50/month).
Con Was phased out by Adobe
Adobe abandoned this product with no single suitable replacement. Unfortunately, a common story with Adobe products. -- Very disappointing.
Con Crashes every once in a while
It is prone to unexpected crashes. Frequent saves are recommended. -- AGREED!
Con Proprietary PNG format
If you created files with their proprietary PNG format and you no longer have Fireworks (they phased it out) then you're out of luck since nothing else will read those files and preserve the layers and other features that Fireworks offered.