Brandy

Brandy is an Electron-based application focused on bringing all the brand assets in one place and making them as accessible as possible for both you and your small design team.

Even from the first minutes spent working with Brandy, it’s quite clear that all its fundamentals are spot on: it lives in your computer’s taskbar (making it easy-to-access and quite unobtrusive), it has cloud-sync (making it perfect for small teams who often need to share assets), a stylish graphical user interface (always nice to have), and a few nifty little features which we’ll cover after we explain what this app is all about.

Marketing itself as a brand asset manager, Brandy kit revolves around allowing you to create “brands.” A brand can have any number of logos, colors, gradients, and fonts, in short, pretty much everything a web-designer needs.

The tool is all about enabling you to organize assets in order to improve your or your team’s productivity. Hence, almost all the content in your brands can be dragged and dropped conveniently.

For example, you can drag and drop logos and copy hex codes to your computer’s clipboard by clicking on the so-called "swatches.” It’s also worth noting that the assets can be edited later once added.

We already mentioned that Brandy has a modern and stylish GUI. And, as most modern apps of this sort, Brandy also has a Dark Mode which allows you to keep using the app even in low-light work conditions.

Another nice feature is the real-time content updates. Brandy uses a cloud server to update all the changes in the asset bank, making them almost instantly available for all team members. As a “manager,” you can also choose who should have simple access to the content and who can actually edit them.

It might seem a very niche app, but Brandy is actually a very versatile app despite its relative simplicity. Its main selling point is that it allows any small team of designers to have access to the same work content. It can undoubtedly even boost productivity as it allows members to grab them directly from one source and not having to bounce between various folders, other tools, or online mediums.