I learned this week that the Annotations feature in Figma is not accessible for people with free accounts. Instead, you need to have a paid account with Dev Mode access.

This is a major hindrance and disincentive to use the feature. While I understand that Figma will want to drive subscriptions, and I’m happy to pay for the tool, this is one more stone on the “Figma alternatives” side of the scale.

It was even more frustrating to learn this after our team had been using annotations for a while. I’m sure the documentation and announcements of the feature may have explained the paid-account requirements, we missed this and you may have too.