Tapflare review
Graphic design, Illustration, Product and UX · San Jose, California, US
Tapflare is owned by IntuitionLabs and lists an address in San Jose, California, while its terms say the creative team is based in the Philippines. Each client gets a dedicated project manager who assigns requests to a senior designer or developer in that specialism and reviews the work before it is sent. It says all its designers, developers and project managers are employed full time.
Each plan is a daily allowance of design time. Lite, at $649 a month, gives two hours a day of design. Pro, at $899, gives two hours a day of design and web development, and Premium, at $1,499, four hours a day plus AI tools trained on your brand. Lite and Pro work on one active project; Premium lists multiple.
Development covers mockup to HTML, WordPress page builders, Shopify theme files and custom code. Its scope page lists what it does not do: content writing, 3D modelling, hosting and complex animation.
Who Tapflare is for
Start-ups, ecommerce shops and agencies that need a mix of graphics and website changes, and are happy for a project manager to route the work. The daily hour allotment suits a steady trickle of small tasks more than a large build.
Sites that need development should budget for Pro at $899, since Lite covers design only, and teams wanting several projects moving at once need Premium.
Strengths and limits
What it does well
- Publishes all three plan prices and defines each by hours of work per business day
- States that its designers, developers and project managers are full-time employees
- Its terms transfer ownership of each month's graphics and design files once that month is paid, with editable files delivered
- Includes website development, from page builders to custom code, in the Pro plan at $899
Where it falls short
- Lite and Pro work on one project at a time, so a large request holds up everything queued behind it
- Nothing on the site mentions pausing a subscription
- The 15-day refund covers a first subscription only; later or additional plans are not refundable
- Its terms say the team works Monday to Friday, closes on Philippine public holidays and does not guarantee delivery times
Tapflare pricing
Lite is $649 a month for two hours a day of design, Pro $899 for two hours of design and development, and Premium $1,499 for four hours plus AI tools. Lite and Pro include three users and one active project; Premium adds unlimited users, multiple active projects, bi-weekly video calls and its premium AI tools.
There are no annual prices or contracts, and you cancel in the client portal. New subscribers can claim a full refund within 15 days. A newsletter sign-up offers $100 off the first month.
How many at once, whose files, whose hands
How many requests run at once
One active request at a time
“Your projects will be queued on a ticketing system, with unlimited revisions per project, but the projects will be produced one at a time.”
Who owns the files and the rights
Says the work and its rights are yours
“Once payment for a given month of service is received in full, you own all graphics and design files created by Tapflare during that billing cycle.”
Who does the work
Says its own people do the work
“All Tapflare designers, website developers, and project managers are employed full-time with fair wages and benefits.”
This records what Tapflare publishes about itself, read in September 2026. It is not an assessment of what the company does in practice.
Verdict
Start-ups and small agencies that want design and light website work from one supplier for under $1,000 a month are the natural buyers for Tapflare. The full-time staff statement, the ownership clause and the published hour allotments are all specific enough to hold it to.
Two hours a day on one project at a time is thin for anyone launching a campaign or rebuilding a site in a hurry, and only Premium lifts the one-project limit. Buyers who expect to pause in quiet months should ask first, since the site never mentions it.
Others worth a look
Awesomic$1,490/mo · Matched within up to 24 hours, then an update on each active task every business day
Design Shifu$549/mo · Most requests within 24 hours, six days a week; motion 24 to 48 hours; not guaranteed under its terms
Draftss$530/mo · 24 to 48 hours for most simple tasks
NoLimit Creatives$500/mo · 1 to 3 business days for most graphics and 2 to 4 for video, per its FAQ
This is an independent review. Tapflare is not a client or a partner, we have no affiliate relationship with them, we earn nothing if you hire them, and nobody pays for placement in the directory. Prices were read from the company's own pages in September 2026 and change without notice.