Gemini Canvas
Shares rank 10 of 14 AI app builders by recommenders
People use Gemini Canvas to turn a prompt into a working app, script or visualization in minutes.
People use Gemini Canvas to turn a prompt into a working app, script or visualization in minutes.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Builds working apps and tools quickly
“Gemini Canvas is really powerful as it makes usable app/tool inside Gemini”
Comment from 20 Jan 2026 in “Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment repeated and awful news for software stocks” “Google Gemini Canvas put it all together for me, slick as snot.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 on Hacker News “< 5 minutes later I have such a thing.”
Comment from 31 Jul 2026 in “CodePen 2.0” Good for interactive visualizations
“Using Gemini's canvas for chord progressions is a great example of this.”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm” “is great at these visualizations”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm”
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| Squarespace | 23 | 23 | 50% | 11 | — | — |
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| Gemini CanvasThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“< 5 minutes later I have such a thing.”
“Google Gemini Canvas put it all together for me, slick as snot.”
“Using Gemini's canvas for chord progressions is a great example of this.”
“is great at these visualizations”
“Gemini Canvas is really powerful as it makes usable app/tool inside Gemini”
“not recommended due to potential for "drift"”
“One week I created 4 different scripts with Gemini Canvas to automate some tedious work”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.