Brandy vs Guidelines

Brandy is a brand asset management platform for organizing brand materials and sharing cloud-based style guides. Teams can sort logos, colors, and fonts into collections, then share a brand link with colleagues, agencies, contractors, or clients. It supports photos, illustrations, fonts, text, and spreadsheets, with metadata, tags, search, approval workflows, and version history. The Free Forever plan includes one brand space, 20 assets, 100MB of storage, and unlimited editors. Pro costs $5 a month and provides one brand space, 50GB of storage, and unlimited assets. Higher plans expand brand-space and storage limits; paid plans also list white-label features. Brand Architect can detect and import logos, colors, and fonts from a brand's online presence. Listed integrations include Adobe Express and WordPress, with WordPress marked beta. Figma Native Embed is listed, but broader Figma integration is under development; embedding can display design files. Brandy is available on web and through an API.

Guidelines is a web platform for creating and publishing interactive brand guides that teams can manage together. Guides can collect logos, colors, typography, icons, and downloadable files in a searchable place. Quick Start uses uploaded logos, selected colors, and fonts to prepare an initial guide draft, while collaborators can be invited to design and manage guidelines. Guides can be shared publicly, password-protected, or restricted through account-based authentication. Integrations include Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, Tailwind, CSS Variables, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and Okta. The ChatGPT connector uses MCP and OAuth; the support page says it reads brand data without write access. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one public guide, one editor, seven published pages, and 100MB of storage. Studio costs $15 a month, billed per editor per month; Enterprise costs $40 a month, also billed per editor per month, and additional SSO fees may apply per monthly active SSO user. Both paid plans offer broader guide management, with Enterprise adding features including SSO, version history, and localization.