Your local competitor just launched with professional branding while your tech startup struggles to look credible alongside established players in your market? The unlimited design subscription market has matured significantly, with established services like Design Cloud serving different business needs than international providers, but choosing the wrong service structure wastes months dealing with complex pricing that doesn’t match your growth patterns.
This review compares Design Cloud and Reel Unlimited based on which business contexts they serve best. Design Cloud excels at serving established small businesses that benefit from structured design partnerships across multiple specialized services. Reel Unlimited focuses on tech companies and agencies that need competitive design quality without pricing complexity while establishing market credibility.
What is Design Cloud?
Design Cloud, founded by James Rigby in 2020 and based in Manchester with 50+ employees across the region, provides unlimited graphic design services to over 700 small businesses and major brands including Sage, YouGov, Oak Furniture Land, and UK Sport. With a full-time team working standard business hours, Design Cloud built their reputation delivering reliable design support for established small businesses across multiple industries.
Their sweet spot is established small businesses, marketing teams, and agencies that have predictable ongoing design needs and benefit from specialized service categories. Think local retail businesses needing consistent seasonal campaigns, established consultancies managing professional presentation materials, or small agencies managing multiple client accounts that benefit from reliable white-label design support with dedicated account management.
Design Cloud earned their reputation by solving a specific challenge for small businesses: accessing professional design quality with reliable turnaround times through specialized partnerships that integrate into established business workflows and provide consistent creative support across graphics, video, and UI/UX work.
Design Cloud Services
Design Cloud provides comprehensive unlimited design services across three separate specialized categories. Their graphic design services cover social media graphics, digital advertising, presentation design, document creation, branding, print materials, email design, and general design help. Higher tiers include document design, presentation creation, data visualization, packaging design, and complex ongoing creative work.
Their motion/video services focus on social media content, digital ads, logo animations, GIFs, UI animations, explainer videos, product demos, animated infographics, showreels, podcast editing, and long-form video work. UI/UX services include marketing websites, landing pages, wireframes, e-commerce websites, membership platforms, desktop and mobile app design, and UI component design.
All services operate through their proprietary platform with dedicated designers working Monday-Friday, 9am-5:30pm GMT, providing structured project management and daily updates on design progress.
Design Cloud Pricing
Design Cloud operates three separate pricing structures across their specialized services:
Graphic Design Services:
- Essential: £699/month – Simple design work, 1 active request
- Agency: £899/month – Adds document and presentation design
- PRO: £1,099/month – Complete graphic design including branding and packaging
Motion/Video Services:
- Essential: £899/month – Basic video and animation work
- Agency: £1,099/month – Adds explainer videos and UI animation
- PRO: £1,299/month – Complex video production and editing
UI/UX Design Services:
- Essential: £1,099/month – Marketing websites and landing pages
- Agency: £1,299/month – E-commerce and membership websites
- PRO: £1,499/month – Desktop and mobile app design
All plans include unlimited requests, unlimited revisions, one active request at a time, and 7 days notice to cancel. Slack communication with designers costs £99/month extra for Essential and Agency plans, included with PRO plans. Pricing decreases with longer-term contracts.
How Reel Unlimited Serves Different Business Types
Reel Unlimited provides unlimited design services for tech companies, B2B SaaS platforms, and agencies serving enterprise clients. We focus on businesses that need competitive design quality to establish market credibility without pricing complexity while competing in sophisticated business environments.
Different Small Business vs Tech Company Design Needs
Design Cloud serves established small businesses that benefit from specialized service categories with structured creative partnerships. When a retail business executes seasonal campaigns or a consulting firm creates client presentations, they have predictable workflows, established brand systems, and benefit from specialized partnerships that understand their industry operations deeply.
Reel Unlimited works with tech companies and agencies that need competitive design quality to establish market presence while operating with dynamic growth priorities. When a B2B SaaS company prepares enterprise sales campaigns or an agency delivers client work, their design needs are more strategic, budgets prioritize simplicity, and they need creative quality that immediately signals credibility without operational complexity.
The business contexts are fundamentally different. Established small businesses succeed through specialized creative partnerships that integrate into predictable workflows. Tech companies succeed by accessing competitive design quality that builds market credibility without service complexity.
Why Service Structure vs Simplicity Matters
Design Cloud’s specialized pricing across three separate service categories works well for businesses that have predictable creative needs across multiple disciplines. When you have consistent seasonal campaigns, established workflows, and value specialized partnerships across graphics, video, and UI/UX work, their category-based approach provides targeted expertise.
We focus on tech companies and agencies operating in competitive markets where design quality directly impacts business success but operational simplicity remains crucial. When startups compete against established enterprises with expensive brand systems, every design interaction must build credibility without navigating multiple pricing structures or specialized service categories.
Target Market Reality Check
Choose Design Cloud When:
- You’re an established small business with predictable ongoing design needs across multiple categories
- You benefit from specialized service partnerships and structured workflow integration
- You have consistent seasonal campaigns or established brand maintenance needs
- You value category-specific expertise across graphics, video, and UI/UX work
- Examples: Retail businesses, established consultancies, local service providers, small agencies with ongoing client work
Choose Reel Unlimited When:
- You’re a tech company or agency establishing market credibility in competitive environments
- You need design quality that matches sophisticated business standards without pricing complexity
- You operate with dynamic growth priorities and need operational simplicity
- You compete against established enterprises that have expensive marketing systems
- Examples: B2B SaaS companies, tech startups, agencies serving enterprise clients, bootstrap companies competing against well-funded players
Reel Unlimited Services
We provide three simple service areas designed specifically for tech companies and agencies competing in sophisticated markets:
Graphics (£595/month) Unlimited graphic design including branding, marketing materials, illustrations, social media graphics, plus video editing and motion graphics. Perfect for tech companies establishing comprehensive visual identity and marketing presence. Supports 2 concurrent projects.
Websites (£965/month) Unlimited UI/UX, website, landing page, and app design, plus complete Webflow development and Figma/PSD to Webflow conversion. Ideal for tech companies needing sophisticated web presence matching enterprise competitors.
Bundle (£1,485/month) All Graphics and Website services combined, including graphic design, video editing, motion graphics, and Webflow development. Popular choice for tech companies and agencies needing comprehensive creative support while establishing market presence. Supports 3 total concurrent projects.
All services include 7-day trial, 48-hour delivery, extended business hours support, and no long-term contracts. Slack communication included free for all plans, even during trial period.
See If Our Quality Matches Your Competitive Standards
Our 7-day trial delivers one completed project with unlimited revisions before any subscription decision. This lets you see if our design quality matches the competitive standards needed for your market positioning without navigating complex pricing structures or specialized service categories.
Design Cloud vs Reel Unlimited: Service Philosophy
Specialized Categories vs Unified Simplicity
Design Cloud optimizes for specialized expertise across three distinct service categories with category-specific pricing and partnerships. Their approach works well for businesses that have established creative workflows and benefit from specialized partnerships across graphics, video, and UI/UX disciplines.
We optimize for unified simplicity that delivers competitive design quality without operational complexity. When tech companies compete against established enterprises, the design quality must signal professionalism and business sophistication without navigating multiple service categories or specialized pricing structures.
Structured Integration vs Flexible Access
Design Cloud’s category-based structure provides specialized partnerships for businesses that have predictable creative workflows and established design needs across multiple disciplines. Their approach suits companies that benefit from specialized account management, category-specific expertise, and integrated creative partnerships supporting ongoing business operations.
We operate with unified pricing that tech companies and agencies can understand immediately while accessing competitive design quality. Our approach suits businesses that need professional creative work establishing market credibility without service complexity or multiple pricing decisions.
When Design Cloud Makes Perfect Sense
If you’re an established small business with predictable design needs that benefit from specialized creative partnerships across multiple categories, category-specific expertise, and structured workflow integration, Design Cloud’s specialized approach provides exactly the targeted design support and operational structure you need.
When Reel Unlimited Works Better
If you’re a tech company preparing enterprise sales materials or an agency competing against well-funded enterprises, our approach delivers competitive design quality that establishes market credibility without specialized service complexity or multiple pricing structures.
Which Service Actually Works for Your Business
The best approach is evaluating services with projects matching your actual business context and operational priorities. Established small businesses should evaluate based on specialized partnership benefits and category-specific expertise value. Tech companies should evaluate based on competitive positioning and operational simplicity needs.
Current Design Cloud customers exploring tech-focused design work get 50% off their first month with Reel Unlimited. Provide a receipt showing payment to Design Cloud within the last 3 months when you:
- Start your 7-day trial and mention the discount offer during signup
- Contact us via live chat with your receipt
- Email us with your payment proof
This lets you compare specialized category structure against unified simplicity to see which approach better fits your business context and design needs.
The Key Question: What Business Growth Stage Are You At?
Both services deliver quality work for their target business contexts. The question is whether you need specialized creative categories or competitive market positioning.
If you’re an established small business with predictable workflows that benefit from specialized partnerships across graphics, video, and UI/UX categories, Design Cloud’s structured approach makes perfect business sense. If you’re a tech company that needs design quality capable of competing against established enterprises without existing market credibility, you need creative work that establishes professional positioning immediately.
Start your trial with Reel Unlimited to see if our design work matches the competitive standards your business needs to succeed in sophisticated markets. The trial includes one completed project with unlimited revisions, letting you evaluate whether our approach fits your competitive standards before any subscription decision.
For current Design Cloud customers curious about tech-focused design work, our 50% discount combined with the trial provides a risk-free way to compare approaches and determine which design service better fits your market positioning needs and business growth priorities.
