Brandpad alternative with AI design check
Brandpad comes from Norway and is built for design agencies that want beautiful guideline pages. Branddoq covers what happens after publishing as well: an AI design check against the guide, a media pool with ZIP downloads and hosting in Germany.
Who Brandpad is for, and who Branddoq is for
Brandpad is a brand guideline tool from Norway focused on design agencies: a free Starter tier, paid plans on request, design-led pages. If you mainly want to hand a polished guide to a client and stop there, Brandpad does that well.
Branddoq is brand guidelines software for agencies and in-house teams that need the guide to keep working after handover: a website built from modules, a media pool with ZIP downloads, and a check of every new layout against the guide. As a Brandpad alternative, Branddoq is less about presenting the guide and more about whether people follow it.
Branddoq vs Brandpad at a glance
| Branddoq | Brandpad | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus / target group | Living brand guides plus compliance check for agencies and in-house teams | Design-led guideline pages for design agencies |
| Pricing model | Fixed monthly plans, published prices | Free Starter tier, paid plans on request |
| Entry price | €0 trial, paid plans from €69 per month incl. VAT | Free Starter; paid plans: check the vendor's website |
| Brand guidelines builder | Modular, vertical stacking, live preview, draft and published state, PDF export as 16:9 slides | Yes, design-led pages |
| AI design check | Yes: JPG, PNG, WebP or PDF on six criteria | Not known to us |
| Media pool / downloads | Folders and ZIP downloads | Check the vendor's website |
| Client portal | Yes (German UI today): usage, check history, guide settings | Check the vendor's website |
| Hosting location | Germany (EU) | Check the vendor's website |
| Contract term | Monthly, cancel any time | Check the vendor's website |
| Free trial | Trial plan at €0, no credit card | Free Starter tier |
Where Branddoq is the better fit
You want the guide to enforce itself. Anyone can upload a JPG, PNG, WebP or PDF (up to 10 pages) and have it compared with the guide on colours, typography, logo, imagery, layout and tone. Colours are measured (ΔE2000), fonts and vector colours are read from PDFs, the rest is judged by Claude against the guide's rules. Every finding names the rule; the verdict is deterministic. Four real results are at /ai-check.
You want structured brand rules, not just pretty pages. The logo module stores variants, clear space, minimum size, allowed backgrounds and forbidden uses. The colour module carries HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone and RAL. Typography modules host your own fonts. The design check reads exactly these fields.
You need one place for guide and assets. The media pool has folders and ZIP downloads, so guide and files sit under one login with admin, editor and viewer roles.
Hosting in Germany matters to your clients. Hosted in Germany, self-hosted fonts, only necessary cookies, data processing agreement available.
Where Brandpad is the better fit
If you want to start free and put the visual presentation of the pages above everything else, Brandpad is a reasonable choice. Branddoq's editing workspace is German today (the landing page is EN/DE), guides live under branddoq.io/your-slug without custom domains, and there is no SSO, API or Figma plugin yet.
Pricing compared
Branddoq, per month incl. VAT, no minimum term:
- Trial, €0: 1 guide, 3 pages, 10 basic modules, 1 GB, no AI, no checks, no credit card.
- Standard, €69: 1 guide, unlimited pages, 5 GB, 5 design checks a month.
- Premium, €149: 3 guides, 10 GB, 100 checks a month, AI guide creation from PDF, AI page builder, 3,000 AI credits a month.
- Enterprise, from €499: unlimited guides, 20 GB, unlimited checks, 10,000 credits, individual contract and DPA.
Credit packs: 1,000 for €10, 5,000 for €45, 12,000 for €99 (1 credit = 1 cent). Payment via Stripe.
Brandpad has a free Starter tier; paid plans are on request (check the vendor's website).
How to switch from Brandpad to Branddoq
- Export your content. Collect texts, colour values, fonts and logo files from your Brandpad pages; screenshots serve as a checklist.
- Rebuild pages with modules. Try the sandbox at /demo, then create your guide from ready-made modules; on Premium and Enterprise the AI drafts it from your PDF.
- Move your assets. Upload logos, templates and images into media pool folders.
- Invite team and client. Assign roles, set public or protected, publish, run a first design check.
questions & answers.
Branddoq has a Trial plan at €0 with 1 guide, 3 pages, 10 basic modules and 1 GB, no credit card. AI features and design checks start with paid plans from €69 per month.
Not as far as we know. It is the main functional difference: Branddoq compares uploaded layouts with your guide on six criteria and references a guide rule for every finding.
Yes. Premium includes 3 guides, Enterprise unlimited, each with its own slug, visibility and roles; the client portal shows usage and check history.
The landing page is in English and German, the editing workspace is German today. Published guides can be written in any language.
see it for yourself.