Design Cloud pairs you with a dedicated graphic designer. Hatchly gives you a designer, creative account manager, and Creative Director — all working together under one subscription.
When one person is designing, interpreting briefs, managing a queue, and quality-checking their own work, things inevitably slip. A team-based model shares those responsibilities across specialists — so each part of the process gets the attention it deserves.
A simple, structured approach designed to keep your design moving without adding complexity.
Send your design requests through your dedicated dashboard. We align on priorities and work through tasks based on what matters most to you. Simple. Structured. No chasing.
Your work is handled by a dedicated team who understand your brand inside out. We deliver, refine, and iterate until it’s exactly where it needs to be. Fast turnaround. Pixel-perfect execution.
As your volume or priorities shift, we adjust with you. Scale up for campaign launches. Dial down when things quieten. No hiring. No freelancer management. No bottlenecks.
Generally yes, Design Cloud's plans start lower — from £699/month vs Hatchly from £995/month. But the prices cover different things. Design Cloud includes one designer on one request at a time. Hatchly includes a designer, creative director, and creative account manager on daily capacity. Teams needing more throughput from Design Cloud may need additional subscriptions — which could bring the total above Hatchly's price without adding creative direction or account management.
Design Cloud finishes one request before starting the next. Hatchly's designer can work across multiple tasks in a day based on your priorities. If you need a LinkedIn carousel and email headers the same week, Hatchly progresses both — Design Cloud would finish one first before starting the next.
Design Cloud assigns a designer who handles both design and quality review. Hatchly includes a separate creative director who reviews all output before delivery — a second pair of eyes to push the design to be as good as can be, mitigate errors and keep the brand consistent and aligned.
If you're happy with a single designer managing your work end-to-end without creative direction or quality review, Design Cloud can offer that at a lower price, depending on output level. If you're a marketing team with competing deadlines, varied work, and a need for consistent quality across everything from a team that genuinely cares, Hatchly is built specifically for that — with creative direction and creative account management included.
Both services share designers across clients — that's how subscription design works. The difference is what else your fee covers. With Design Cloud, the daily design capacity is not advertised on their website but state "x1 request at a time" whereas we advertise as "daily design capacity" which varies depending on how much output required.
We are loving everything that Hatchly has been doing for HealthHero, the speed, quality and communication of their service is awesome. We needed a partner to help us ramp up our output and get more campaigns live and that's exactly what we got. Everything is delivered on time, excellent quality and on brand. Would not hesitate to recommend them any time.
Hatchly's online platform is easy to navigate which makes submitting design requests a seamless process. The team are always quick to respond and interpret our briefs with ease. What's more, projects are delivered quickly without compromise on quality.
Overall, a fantastic service - I cannot recommend Hatchly enough!
We have been using Hatchly since September 2023, and their support has been an enormous help in our operations. We have submitted briefs to them for print and digital designs, ranging from banners and flyers to large, complex publications and data-heavy calendars, and their team have always been friendly, professional and eager to help. They have shown great patience with our amends and review process, and are very responsive to any and all changes that we request or suggest to their designs (which have always been of very high quality, no matter the service or purpose). We cannot fault their service and look forward to continuing our partnership moving forward.
