# Figma Make 6 Hacker News commenters recommended Figma Make and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it for quickly generating app concepts and prototypes that need little adjustment in Figma. Critics say its output often ignores existing components, tokens and brand guidelines. ## Why people recommend it - Quick prototypes and one-shot pages (3 comments): "I've found that Gemini 3 in Figma Make works very well at one-shotting a page when it actually works" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038326)) "Pretty good at making app concepts that are well designed, and you can try it out on a free plan." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852527)) "can make pretty good prototypes that need very little adjustment back in Figma" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834899)) - Free plan to try it (2 comments): "Pretty good at making app concepts that are well designed, and you can try it out on a free plan." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852527)) "Figma Make was at least useful for the free tokens." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926991)) ## What people warn about - Ignores components, tokens and brand guidelines (2 comments): "It generates pages that ignore your components, skip your tokens, and treat every screen like a fresh snowflake." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813174)) "I couldn't even import our brand guidelines into make which is already a .fig" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432333)) - Only generates React or HTML code (3 comments): "figma make to do these things, and it's much worse. It can only generate react code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814350)) "Figma Make first renders an HTML/React app with your design." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808609)) "it is very limited in the types of code bases it can work on" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927141)) - Weaker than rival prompt tools (2 comments): "I didn't want yet another lovable.dev or v0 with figma make" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841356)) "a strictly more powerful design prompt than figma make" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446160)) - Underwhelming, walled-garden tool (2 comments): "stays in their walled garden without practical utility" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819358)) "The Figma Make thing was incredibly underwhelming" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807406)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Lovable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lovable.md): 73 recommend - [Replit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/replit.md): 51 recommend - [Bolt.new](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bolt.md): 20 recommend - [v0 by Vercel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/v0.md): 19 recommend - [Sites in ChatGPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sites-in-chatgpt.md): 17 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.figma.com/make/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Figma Make", https://hackerapproved.com/p/figma-make/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).