Google Stitch vs Visily: pricing, features and which to choose

Google Stitch is a browser based UI design experiment from Google Labs, introduced on May 20, 2025 and rebuilt as an AI native infinite canvas on March 18, 2026. It turns text, images, screenshots, sketches, code fragments, and voice instructions into web and mobile interface designs, prototypes, and frontend output. A user can begin with a product description or rough reference instead of a blank design file. Stitch targets designers, developers, founders, and small teams exploring product flows. Its current scope runs from early ideas through connected prototypes and developer handoff. Google publishes no Stitch specific user, revenue, funding, or company scale figures. Because Stitch remains a Labs experiment, its long term availability is less certain than established design software used for lasting archives.

A typical Stitch workflow starts with a product description, screenshot, sketch, image, code fragment, or voice instruction. Generated screens appear on an infinite canvas, where users can request conversational edits, variants, critiques, layout changes, alternate palettes, and logical next screens. Screens can connect into clickable flows, and Play previews interactions. Stitch can extract design rules from a URL, while DESIGN.md transfers those rules between Stitch projects and coding tools. Users can paste output into Figma, export frontend code, and connect development workflows through the Stitch MCP server and SDK. Google also documents exports toward AI Studio and Antigravity. The March 2026 release added project wide canvas context, a design agent, an Agent manager for parallel directions, and voice design, extending work beyond single generated screens.

Stitch suits rapid product exploration and design to code handoff, especially for designers, developers, founders, and small teams that want free multimodal generation and connected prototypes. Figma remains stronger for established collaboration, permissions, version history, review processes, design systems, and shared libraries. Framer is a stronger choice for publishing responsive websites, while Visily focuses on accessible wireframing and diagram to UI work. Stitch can transfer designs into Figma, but generated layouts and frontend code require accessibility and engineering checks. Changing quotas make budgeting difficult, and experimental status creates uncertainty for long lived archives. Pick Google Stitch if free prompt, image, and voice exploration plus Google developer integrations matter most; pick Figma for mature team controls, or Framer for responsive website publishing.

Visily is a browser based workspace for brainstorming, wireframing, diagramming and prototyping product interfaces. It targets product managers, founders, engineers, designers and non designers who need editable concepts without beginning in a blank design file. Users can start with a text prompt, screenshot, diagram or canvas selection, then refine editable screens and components on boards containing screens, diagrams or prototypes. Themes, custom fonts, interactive transitions, comments and real time co design support early discovery and handoff preparation. The browser extension converts captured interface screenshots into wireframes. Visily also lists Notion, Jira and Slack integrations, Figma import and export, code export and an MCP server for retrieving assets. The service is active now, but its announced October 31, 2026 shutdown defines any current evaluation.

Visily describes AI as a collaborative layer combining text, screenshots and canvas selections, without naming one public foundation model. Release notes list multimodal AI, diagram to design, auto prototyping, custom fonts, browser capture and improved screenshot conversion during 2025. Design Instructions and Deep Design arrived in January 2026, Figma import in February, and code generation with Plan Mode in March. AI and template actions consume credits, while Deep Design uses more credits than standard generation. Visily says Version 4.0 improves detailed instruction handling and previews themes with updated palettes, fonts and layouts. This makes Visily useful for product teams creating editable interface concepts quickly, especially non designers converting screenshots into wireframes. It does not replace a mature design system process when teams need stable collaboration, long term files or continued cloud access.

Visily competed most directly with Uizard, Figma and MockFlow. Uizard is the closest comparison for prompt and screenshot driven interface concepts, while Visily adds boards containing diagrams and prototypes, Figma exchange, code export and an MCP server. Figma has the stronger long term file and collaboration position for design handoff. MockFlow remains a browser based option for wireframes and prototypes. Visily’s Starter plan is free, and paid plans offer more credits, unlimited boards and elements, exports and collaboration features, but those benefits are constrained by the announced shutdown and scheduled data deletion. Existing users should export their work before closure. Uizard should be picked for rapid AI wireframing, Figma for durable design collaboration, and Visily only by existing users completing exports before shutdown.