Fabric vs. Frame.io

Last updated April 2026

Frame.io is for reviewing work. Fabric is for understanding it over time. Frame.io lets creative teams upload video, leave time-stamped feedback, and manage approvals. Fabric stores all your content, understands what's inside it, connects it to everything else, and keeps it useful long after the review is done. One gives you feedback on the current cut. The other gives you context across every project you've ever worked on.

Comparison table

What is Frame.io?

Frame.io is a video review and collaboration platform owned by Adobe. Creative teams upload video, images, and other media, then leave time-stamped comments and drawing annotations directly on frames. Reviewers can comment without creating an account. Version stacks let editors compare iterations side by side. Camera to Cloud sends footage from set to Frame.io the moment the director calls cut. The platform integrates with Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro, so comments appear directly on the editing timeline. Free plan gives you 2 users and 2GB. Pro is $15/user/month. Team is $25/user/month. Frame.io is built for one workflow: getting creative work reviewed, revised, and approved.

What is Fabric?

Fabric is an AI workspace that combines file storage, note-taking, search, tasks, collaboration, and publishing. The Fabric Memory Engine automatically extracts, enriches, and maps relationships between everything you save. Fabric supports annotations on any content type, threaded comments, real-time co-editing, and publishing with analytics. Where Frame.io handles the review cycle for a single project, Fabric builds a connected library across all your projects.

Key differences

Giving feedback vs building context

Frame.io is designed for a specific moment: the review. A video is uploaded. Stakeholders leave time-stamped comments. The editor revises. The client approves. The project moves on. Frame.io handles this loop well. Comments land on exact frames. Threads separate internal notes from client feedback. Approvals are tracked.

Fabric handles feedback too. Annotations on images, PDFs, video, slides, design files. Threaded comments. Real-time chat. But it also handles what comes before and after the review. The research that informed the creative direction. The brief that kicked it off. The meeting notes from the client call. The reference images that inspired the edit. In Fabric, the review feedback lives alongside everything that gave it context. In Frame.io, the feedback exists on its own.

AI

Frame.io has no AI. You watch, you comment, you approve. Manual from start to finish.

Fabric's AI understands your entire library. It can search inside video by transcript timestamp, summarise meeting recordings, answer questions across all your saved content, and map relationships between projects. If you want to find "that client call where they mentioned the colour palette change," Fabric can locate it. Frame.io can't search inside its own video content that way.

Search

Frame.io searches within projects by file name and basic metadata. If you remember which project a file was in, you can find it. No semantic search, no search inside video content, no way to search across projects by meaning.

Fabric searches by meaning across everything. Semantic search finds content even when you describe it differently. Inside-video search finds moments by transcript. Visual search finds similar images. Colour search finds assets by palette. Cross-platform search pulls from Google Drive, Notion, and Dropbox alongside your Fabric library. For a creative team with hundreds of projects and thousands of assets, finding things by meaning changes the workflow.

Content types

Frame.io is video-first. It handles images, audio, and PDFs as secondary content. The entire interface is optimised for video playback and frame-level feedback.

Fabric handles video alongside PDFs, images, documents, slides, spreadsheets, audio, ePubs, links, and emails. Everything is extracted, enriched, and searchable. If your creative work involves briefs, research, reference images, slide decks, and meeting recordings alongside video, Fabric holds all of it. Frame.io holds the video.

Version control

Frame.io's version stacks with side-by-side comparison are purpose-built for iterative creative review. Upload a new cut, compare it to the previous version, track which comments have been addressed. For video editing workflows, this is a specific capability Fabric doesn't replicate.

NLE integration

Frame.io integrates with Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro. Comments sync directly to the editing timeline. Camera to Cloud uploads footage from set to Frame.io in real time. For post-production teams, this integration is part of the editing workflow itself.

Fabric doesn't integrate with video editing software. If your workflow centres on the editor-reviewer loop inside NLE tools, that's a step where Frame.io is the right tool.

What happens after approval

This is where the products diverge most. Frame.io's job is done when the project is approved. The comments, the versions, the feedback threads stay in Frame.io but don't connect to your next project. The reference images that inspired this edit don't link to the ones that will inspire the next one. The client feedback from this campaign doesn't inform the AI about the next campaign's brief.

Fabric keeps everything. Every project's assets, feedback, research, briefs, and meeting notes become part of a growing library the AI understands. Your hundredth project draws on the context of every project before it. Creative work has memory. Frame.io doesn't provide it. Fabric does.

Pricing

Frame.io's per-user pricing adds up. Pro is $15/user/month for up to 5 users. Team is $25/user/month for up to 15. A 10-person creative team on Team pays $250/month for a review tool. Storage upgrades are separate.

Fabric includes annotations, comments, AI, file storage, search, collaboration, publishing, and tasks. [Insert Fabric pricing details.] You're paying for a workspace, not a review pipeline.

When to use each

Use Fabric if you want your creative work to build context over time. You need annotations and feedback on all content types, not just video. You want AI that understands your entire project library. You need semantic search, notes, publishing with analytics, and a spatial canvas for moodboarding. You want the research, briefs, meeting notes, and reference material to live alongside the work they informed.

Use Frame.io if you're a post-production team in the Adobe or Final Cut Pro ecosystem and need frame-level video review with timeline integration. Camera to Cloud is part of your production workflow. You need side-by-side version comparison for iterative video editing. The review-revise-approve cycle is the specific problem you're solving.

Use both. Collect research, briefs, references, and meeting notes in Fabric. Run the video review cycle in Frame.io with its NLE integrations. After approval, keep the project context in Fabric where it connects to future work. Frame.io handles the review loop. Fabric holds the long-term memory.

Why people move from Frame.io to Fabric

Projects didn't connect. Each project in Frame.io is an island. The references, feedback, and context from one campaign don't inform the next. Fabric connects everything across projects and over time.

They needed more than video review. Briefs, research, reference images, client meeting recordings, slide decks. Frame.io doesn't handle the full range of content a creative project involves. Fabric does.

They wanted to find things. Searching across hundreds of projects by meaning, not by remembering folder names. Fabric's semantic search and inside-video search handle what Frame.io's project search can't.

They wanted AI. Summarising client feedback across projects, finding patterns in creative direction, answering questions about reference material. Fabric's AI works across your entire library. Frame.io has none.

Storage costs escalated. Frame.io's storage pricing and account suspension when limits are exceeded frustrated teams with large media libraries.

FAQs

Does Fabric support video annotations like Frame.io?

Fabric supports annotations on any content type including video. You can pin feedback to specific moments and leave threaded comments. Fabric doesn't offer frame-level drawing annotations with NLE timeline sync. For post-production frame-by-frame review inside Premiere Pro or Final Cut, Frame.io is more specialised for that step.

Does Fabric integrate with video editing software?

No. Fabric doesn't integrate with Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Final Cut Pro. For the editing-review loop, Frame.io or a comparable tool handles that step.

Is Fabric free?

Fabric has a free tier with limited storage and AI.

Does Frame.io have AI?

No.

Can Fabric replace Frame.io?

For general creative review with annotations and comments across all content types, yes. For frame-level video review with NLE timeline integration and Camera to Cloud, no. Many creative teams use both: Fabric for the broader project context, Frame.io for the video editing review loop.

Does Frame.io work on Android?

Frame.io has iOS and iPad apps. No Android app. Fabric is available on all platforms including Android.