# Google Stitch

25 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Stitch and 14 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for quickly generating front-end layouts and prototypes from prompts, with code and image output. Common caveat: output is often generic or inconsistent, and steering it takes many reprompts.

## Why people recommend it

- Good at front-end layouts and prototypes (5 comments): "Still early but promising for design-to-code workflows." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384773)) "It works surprisingly well for designing UIs using AI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301056)) "Google Stitch is pretty awesome at front end layouts." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740171))
- Works well, sometimes better than Claude (3 comments): "Google's Stitch works pretty well. Sometimes better than Claude, sometimes worse." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142070)) "has been doing amazing work in this space for a long time now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808435)) "google stitch which is my current preferred tool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754733))
- Good questions and starting points (2 comments): "I too use Stitch, seems like not many have heard of it. Stitch also asks good questions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810453)) "they give me some starting point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129014))

## What people warn about

- Inconsistent, weak output quality (5 comments): "Stitch and a number of other tools I've tried produce inconsistent, wild results" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887604)) "approachable but ultimately difficult to do what I want with its output" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813633)) "that produced pretty bad results (app)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820627))
- Needs many reprompts, gets stuck (3 comments): "it can get trapped in weird places where whatever you tell it to do it thinks it did it, but it didn't" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820683)) "It takes so many prompts to get the model to do what I want, what's the point?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745797)) "it wastes a lot of my time with reprompting it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084897))
- Buggy, slow, unintuitive interface (2 comments): "Stitches pages on an infinite canvas is possibly the worst UI I have ever seen." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813603)) "is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809610))
- Repetitive, same-looking results (2 comments): "Google Stitch doesn't seem to know how to make anything else" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039722)) "I tried Google Stitch but it was much of the same" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203193))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Design](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-design.md): 145 recommend
- [Diffui](https://hackerapproved.com/p/diffui.md): 7 recommend
- [Pomelli by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pomelli.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://stitch.withgoogle.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google Stitch", https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-stitch/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).