When Adobe acquired Frame.io, the investment shifted toward Premiere Pro and the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. That makes sense for Adobe. It doesn’t help editors who chose DaVinci Resolve Studio — a direct Adobe competitor — as their primary editing environment.
Krock.io has a native DaVinci Resolve Studio plugin — the Frame.io alternative DaVinci Resolve editors actually want. Upload your video, send clients a review link, collect frame-accurate timecoded feedback, and sync those comments back to your Resolve timeline as markers — all without losing your editing context.
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Frame.io’s DaVinci Resolve plugin still exists. The integration is technically functional. But since the Adobe acquisition, it has fallen behind: slower updates, slower bug fixes, and a development roadmap that prioritizes Premiere Pro.
More commercially: Frame.io’s team membership pricing runs $15–25 per member per month — and the plan caps (5 members on Pro, 15 on Team) mean growing teams hit paywalls fast. For editors who don’t live inside the Adobe ecosystem, that price is hard to justify for a tool that’s increasingly optimized for Premiere Pro.
The result: A lot of professional DaVinci Resolve editors are looking for what to use instead.
The Krock.io DaVinci Resolve review plugin integrates directly into DaVinci Resolve Studio. The workflow is straightforward:
Your playhead goes to the exact frame the marker belongs to. You fix it. You mark it resolved. The round is done.
Requirement: DaVinci Resolve Studio (paid version). The free version of DaVinci Resolve is not supported.
| Krock.io | Frame.io | |
| DaVinci Resolve Studio plugin | ✅ Actively developed | ⚠️ Exists, limited investment |
| Comments sync to Resolve timeline as markers | ✅ | ✅ |
| Client review (no account needed) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Frame-accurate timecoded comments | ✅ | ✅ |
| Unlimited client reviewers | ✅ All plans | ✅ All plans (via share links) |
| Adobe lock-in | ❌ None | ✅ Adobe CC ecosystem |
| Storyboard + production workflow | ✅ Built-in | ❌ Review only |
| Starting price | $10/user/month | $15/user/month (Pro, up to 5 members) |
| Free plan | ✅ 2 projects, unlimited reviewers | ✅ Limited |
Switching from Frame.io to Krock.io doesn’t mean learning a new review approach from scratch. The client-facing experience — click a link, watch a video in a browser, leave a frame-accurate comment — is essentially identical. Clients never knew what “Frame.io” was; they knew how to click a link.
The editor experience inside DaVinci Resolve Studio is the same loop: upload, share, collect feedback, bring it back to the timeline. The difference is that the comments actually transfer back in Krock.io, the reviewer seats don’t cost extra, and the plugin isn’t deprioritized in favor of Adobe’s ecosystem.
| Plan | Price | What’s Included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 2 projects, unlimited reviewers, video review, storyboard |
| Pro | $10/user/month | Unlimited projects, 2 TB+ storage, 4K playback, DaVinci Resolve plugin |
Frame.io Pro plan: $15/user/month, capped at 5 members. Team plan: $25/user/month, up to 15 members. Both plans include free reviewer access via share links, same as Krock.io.
At 5 users, Krock.io Pro is $50/month. Frame.io Pro is $75/month. Compare full pricing vs Frame.io →
“We switched from Frame.io after the pricing started climbing when we added client reviewers. Krock.io works the same way inside Resolve — upload from the timeline, comments come back to the timeline — and we’re paying half as much.”
“The plugin install is simple. Five minutes. The workflow is exactly what we were doing in Frame.io, except the reviewer seats don’t add up every time a client brings in two extra stakeholders.”
Install the plugin: Download from krock.io/davinci-resolve-studio-integration/ and follow the setup guide.
Watch the walkthrough: How to use Krock.io with DaVinci Resolve Studio
Full how-to article: Set up your client review workflow in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Compare Frame.io alternatives: Best Frame.io alternatives for video teams
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No. The plugin requires DaVinci Resolve Studio (the paid, licensed version from Blackmagic Design).
No. Clients receive a link and can leave timecoded, frame-accurate comments in their browser without signing up or logging in.
Through the Krock.io plugin panel inside Resolve Studio. Sync your project, and timecoded comments from Krock.io transfer directly to your timeline. Click any comment to jump to that frame.
Yes. Krock.io Pro is $10/user/month. Frame.io’s Pro plan is $15/user/month (capped at 5 members); Team is $25/user/month. Both platforms give client reviewers free access via share links — the saving on Krock.io is on the per-member seat price.
Finish your current Frame.io review cycles, then start new projects in Krock.io. There’s no data migration — you start fresh. Most editors are running their first Krock.io review within the same afternoon they install the plugin.
