Graphic assets are a crucial part of any brand’s marketing and promotion. It’s simply essential to have a beautiful website, catchy advertisements, a presence on social, and attention-grabbing promotional items.
When you need consistent design work for your company, doing it yourself can be a lot to handle. You may not have the time, expertise, or programs necessary to create the quality assets you need.
That’s where an unlimited graphic design subscription can be an incredible investment.
Here, we’ll discuss two major brands in the flat-rate graphic subscription industry- Flocksy and Design Shifu.
Both Design Shifu and Flocksy offer the graphic services you need to keep up with your competition and engage your audience. However, what you’ll get with each company is very different and can make or break your success, particularly if you’re trying to remain budget-conscious while still getting all your creative content managed.
While we both offer unlimited graphic design for a flat monthly rate that you can cancel at any time, one of us gives you a lot more.
In this Design Shifu vs Flocksy review, we’ll cover:
Let’s dive in.
A Design Shifu vs Flocksy Comparison Table
To begin, here’s a side-by-side comparison:
| Features | Design Shifu | Flocksy |
| Least Expensive Package | $399/m | $1195/m |
| Most Expensive Package | $1,499/m | $2395/m |
| Graphic Design Included (yes/no) | Yes | Yes |
| Video Editing Included (yes/no) | No | Yes |
| Voiceovers Included (yes/no) | No | Yes |
| Copywriting Included (yes/no) | No | Yes |
| Custom Illustrations Included (yes/no) | Yes, on higher tiers | Yes |
| Motion Graphics Included (yes/no) | Yes, on highest tier | Yes |
| Average Turnaround Time | Graphics- 24 to 48 hours Video- 48 to 72 hours | Graphics- 24 hours or less Video- 24 to 48 hours |
| Money Back Guarantee (days) | 14 days | 14 days |
| Production Coordinator? | Yes | Yes (with select plans) |
Cost
The first tier on Desigh Shifu, the Unlimited plan, is $399 a month. You’ll get up to five active requests at a time and can choose how many you want from a dropdown. Each additional active project does have an associated fee. You’ll get unlimited revisions and brands as well. Each project offers a turnaround time of roughly 24 hours, is considered a basic project, and does not include custom illustrations.
Their next tier is the “Unlimited Plus” plan for $599. This tier also offers one to five active projects, and you’ll get unlimited revisions and brands. You’ll also get work on more complex projects, including illustrations, with a 24 to 48-hour turnaround.
Their most expensive plan is their “Unlimited Pro” plan. Here, you’ll get everything mentioned above and motion graphics services. This highest tier only offers one active project at a time because it assumes it will likely be a motion graphics request, which comes with a 48 to 72-hour turnaround time.
In all three monthly plans, there is no long-term contract, and you get full email support, a dedicated designer, unlimited team members, stock image licenses, and onboarding and project managers.
Our plans:
With Flocksy’s plans, you get a dedicated creative team that knows your brand inside and out, ready to tackle anything from design to copy to motion graphics.
2 Daily Hours – $1,195/month
Perfect for steady, focused creative support. Submit unlimited projects, and we’ll work through them one at a time with same-day progress on anything submitted before noon EST.
3 Daily Hours – $1,795/month
Boost your creative output and speed. Includes all 2-hour services plus:
- An additional hour of daily output
4 Daily Hours – $2,395/month
Double your creative power and get a Production Coordinator—your dedicated point of contact to organize projects, keep timelines tight, and ensure everything matches your brand.
Every subscription includes:
✔ 140+ creative services
✔ A dedicated creative team for brand consistency
✔ Unlimited users & brand profiles
✔ Stock photos included
✔ AI-assisted project creation and copy generation
✔ Same-day progress on projects submitted before noon EST
All plans come with a 14-day Monday Back Guarantee.
Onboarding Process
Design Shifu offers pre-subscription demos, and you’ll have an onboarding manager (included in the Gold Plan and up) to guide you through the setup process and learning the dashboard. Then, you’ll be able to work with your assigned project manager to begin requesting projects, or you can reach out to them if you have questions.
Here at Flocksy, we’re here to answer any questions you may have. If your subscription includes a Production Coordinator, you’ll have a dedicated point of contact for organizing your queue, keeping projects on track, and ensuring consistent quality. You can communicate with them directly through the message center or via your preferred platform, such as Slack or Teams.
We can also set up demos for each user you’d like on your account, so your team is ready to start submitting requests right away. No need to spend time figuring it out on your own, we’ll walk
Submitting a Design Request
When managing projects on the Design Shifu platform, you use the main menu on their dashboard to look at your projects and their status. You’ll be able to see how many active projects are going and navigate to new requests. If submitting a new project, you’ll want to detail your needs in their intuitive request form.
Once you submit a graphics request, the system will match it with a dedicated designer who will handle the project from beginning to end, including revisions.
Your dedicated designer will send you a draft for you to review. From there, you can ask them for revisions, or you can sign off on the design and get your final files, including source files.
Once you’ve received your project documents, you can close out the request and start using the design however you wish. You’ll get each file type you need for the various places your asset will go. Last, the next project in your queue will become active, and the process will start again.
At Flocksy, we also have an internal dashboard and a similar process. You can begin projects in just a few clicks, view statuses, message your team, comment revisions on your designs, and see all your assets and files stored for future use and reference by our team.
When starting a new project, it’s easy, no matter what type of request you’re opening. The intelligent briefs will walk you through what information to provide and give you several fields where you can include the important details and references. We also give you unlimited brand profiles to store your brand guides, colors, logos, and relevant files. Attaching them to your briefs is one click and done. These are especially useful when you’re working with multiple brands.
Flocksy creatives can also look at previously approved designs for reference and inspiration, showing them the styles you like.
Turnaround Time
At Design Shifu, you choose how many active projects you want on the first two tiers, which can affect turnaround times. How quickly a design comes back varies based on not only your active projects but also the project’s complexity.
In most cases, they promise to get drafts back to you in 24 to 48 hours, with simple designs on the first tier coming back within 24 hours.
For motion graphics, or what they refer to as video, the turnaround time is 48 to 72 hours.
Here, we’ll get your graphics in the same timeframe, as well as almost all of our other services, not just design.
Flocksy delivers projects in less than 24 hours for simple designs. We have a 24 to 48-hour timeframe when you have something more detailed. When you’ve approved your designs, you’ll immediately be able to download them and start using them.
Quality of Work
Quality is subjective. Both Design Shifu and Flocksy can get you content you love so that you can focus on other responsibilities. However, at Flocksy, we can also ensure you work with a pre-vetted team member who is held to the highest quality standard.
We also hire our creatives from every walk of life and work hard to offer diverse individuals who can provide various viewpoints and skills. You won’t get the same templated designs. Instead, you’ll be working with an experienced creator who understands current trends and can provide a unique perspective as they get to know your brand.
Here is an example of our work:
Here is an example of Design Shifu’s work:
Storing Completed Projects
It’s unclear whether Design Shifu will house your completed project files. However, they do offer Zapier integration, which means you could pair your projects to your Google drive for file storage.
We allow you to manage projects and reopen any you want from our dashboard. You can copy completed briefs to start a new one, update or add new buckets whenever you need, and store your projects, files, and conversations for as long as you’re a client. Whenever you need to download something again, it’s easy.
Communication with the Design Team
Design Shifu offers 24-hour customer support and provides a project manager. You’ll also be able to communicate with your team on Slack using the Zapier integration. They provide a live chat feature as well.
Flocksy, you are able to message your team in the Message Center. You can chat with your creatives directly in a general thread or within a specific project. This makes organizing your messages easier because you can talk about a certain project in one thread and ask general questions in another.
You can also provide feedback on Flocksy designs with the point-and-click tool on the platform and leave comments for video editors, etc.
The biggest difference is that through our consistent communication, we build relationships. We’re all about coming together with our clients for the best possible outcome. Your team of creatives will always be there to deliver incredible work, refine designs, and comprehensively learn about your brand. Thanks to your fantastic relationship with your team, you’ll get amazing results fast.
Wrapping Up
Design Shifu offers fair rates for an unlimited graphic design subscription and can get your designs back pretty quickly. However, they don’t provide many related services, and if you compare their rates to an all-in-one provider, their price seems much more expensive for what you’re getting.
Flocksy offers graphic designs, custom illustrations, copywriting, video editing, motion graphics, and more for nearly the same amount as the Design Shifu Unlimited Pro plan. With Flocksy, you’ll not only get everything Design Shifu offers, but you’ll also get so much more.
We can handle all your creative needs, from art to video to motion graphics, and we can do it all under one roof so that you don’t have to juggle several agencies or freelancers. When you need consistent content of multiple types, which is typical for nearly every brand, you’re better off with an all-inclusive service. For the highest quality and broadest array of unlimited services, trust Flocksy.
To learn more about starting a project with Flocksy for yourself, be sure to check out the Services and Pricing pages. You can also shoot us an email through the contact form or reach out over the phone at (877) 263-7389.