Ditto

What Is Ditto?

Ditto is a design tool in the **Design** category that manages product text across teams, serving as a single source of truth from draft through design to development. It operates on a freemium pricing model, allowing basic access for free with premium features available via subscription. Ditto integrates into design workflows via its web app and Figma plugin, enabling designers to capture, edit, and organize text strings directly within Figma files. For developers, Ditto provides infrastructure to handle string keys, localization, and formatted exports, ensuring text consistency across project stages.

What Ditto Does

• Links text items in Figma designs to reusable components in Ditto projects, updating all linked instances when edits occur.
• Manages text metadata including status, notes, tags, and activity logs to track changes and reviews.
• Supports variable interpolation, pluralization, and platform-specific formatting for strings in JSON, ICU, iOS, Android, and other formats.
• Generates localization-ready files using variants for different languages and locales, with options for in-house translation or API integrations.
• Provides developer tools like API for fetching text, CLI for local updates, and webhooks for event-based automation in CI pipelines.
• Exports copy to spreadsheets, JSON, or CSV directly from the app or via API for handoff to development.

How Ditto Can Be Used

• Designers link common UI text like buttons ("Back," "Next") to Ditto components in Figma, enabling bulk updates across multiple files by editing once.
• Teams search for text by terms like "CTA" or "button" to locate and review instances, then apply status changes such as "in review" globally.
• Content creators add notes, alternatives, or character limits to text items in the Figma plugin, syncing changes bidirectionally to the Ditto web app.
• Developers use the CLI in pipelines to pull formatted strings or webhooks to automate updates when text status changes in Ditto.
• Workflows integrate Ditto with design systems by mapping text components to visual components, maintaining consistency from prototype to production.

Who Is Ditto For?

Ditto serves UX writers, designers, and developers working on product copy management in collaborative teams. It fits roles involved in creating reusable text libraries for Figma-based workflows, handling localization, or automating string handoff to code. Experience levels range from individual designers needing text organization to larger teams requiring developer integrations for scalable consistency. Projects with frequent text iterations, multi-language support, or design-to-development pipelines benefit from Ditto's component-based approach.Visit Ditto