Per‑asset versioning inside multi‑asset projects
Hi BugSmash team,
first of all, I really like your tool and the way projects and versions work for single assets (one website, one PDF, one image, etc.).
However, in real client work there is one major limitation for me: handling multiple variants inside one project.
Typical use case 1 – Logos
When I design a logo, I often present several logo concepts in parallel, for example 5 logo options in one round for the client. I upload all 5 logos so the client can comment directly on them. The client might only request changes on 2 of those 5 logos.
If I now upload a “new version” of the project, the entire project gets a new global version number, even though only 2 logos have actually changed. This makes it hard to compare “Logo 2 – old vs. Logo 2 – new” directly on a per‑logo basis, because the versioning is tied to the whole project, not to each individual asset.
Typical use case 2 – multiple layout proposals
The same happens with website layouts:
I might present 3 layout proposals (A, B, C) in one project so the client can compare and comment on all of them. Later I only revise layout B and C, not A. Again, a single project version number for everything is not ideal, and it becomes confusing if we want to do precise before/after comparisons per layout.
What I would love to see
I would really appreciate a feature that allows per‑asset versioning inside a project when a project contains multiple images (or screens). In other words:
A project can hold multiple assets (e.g. Logo 1, Logo 2, Logo 3, Logo 4, Logo 5).
Each asset can have its own versions (Logo 2 – V1, V2, V3), with direct visual comparison between versions of that specific asset.
The project itself is then more like a “container” for related assets, but the version logic works on the level of each asset, not only on the whole project.
From my perspective, this would avoid the need to create a separate project for every single logo or layout variation, which quickly becomes messy for clients. At the same time, it seems conceptually close to what you already do for single‑asset projects with version comparison, just applied per asset instead of globally.
Is this something you could consider adding to your roadmap?
For agencies and designers who work with multiple concepts in parallel (logo sets, layout sets, visual explorations), this would make BugSmash much more practical.
Thank you very much for considering this and for your great support.
Best regards,
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Team BugSmash
May 12
Hi Roman,
Thank you so much for writing this feature request in such detail! Along with the use-case. Really appreciate it. Let me discuss this internally and plan the best use-case around this.
As of now, the simplest structure would be to treat a Folder as a Project and simply drag-drop all the logo files into a folder - Then share this folder url directly to your client. In this way they see each file individually and you can create their versions separately.
Also for version comparision -
In the version comparison window, we have kept an open option where you can manually select which image/page of v1 to be compared with which image of v2. So that scenarios like this can be catered.
I’ll still do some brainstorming with the team based on your detailed use-cases mentioned above.
Thanks once again Roman!
~Nabil
b00rn
May 12
yes, exactly, I do it currently, but as mentioned, when I upload a newer version of an image, the entire workspace gets a new version number instead of the actual image.
The main problem here is that, for example, if I have 10 images and image number 3 and number 5 get changed and I re-upload both, those the workspace and not the images has a new version number, but on top of that, the image numbers won't match up anymore either. Because the images won't be number 3 and number 5 anymore, they'll be number 1 and number 2. Total confusion for the dlients.
Team BugSmash
May 14
Okay understood. Thanks for explaining the numbering part too.
Will brainstorm this internally.
As of now, would it be possible for you to use the “Rename“ feature for the images? It’s available when you hover over the thumbnail top right corner. Using that, the 1-2-3 can be changed to anything custom which can match to previous version too to avoid confusion.
I’ll still brainstorm this internally 💯