Google Stitch
Ranked 3 of 5 AI design tools by recommenders
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.
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.
39 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 25
- criticize it
- 14
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 25 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, 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
Good at front-end layouts and prototypes
“Still early but promising for design-to-code workflows.”
Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: MCP servers inside Antigravity are underrated – tried 2 of them” “It works surprisingly well for designing UIs using AI”
Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for UI design?” “Google Stitch is pretty awesome at front end layouts.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Why AI Sucks at Front End” - Comment from 21 Apr 2026 in “Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again”
- Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Design UI Using AI with Stitch from Google Labs”
Works well, sometimes better than Claude
“Google's Stitch works pretty well. Sometimes better than Claude, sometimes worse.”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Viable open source Claude Design alternative?” “has been doing amazing work in this space for a long time now”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Claude Design” “google stitch which is my current preferred tool”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Why AI Sucks at Front End” Good questions and starting points
“I too use Stitch, seems like not many have heard of it. Stitch also asks good questions”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Claude Design” “they give me some starting point”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Inconsistent, weak output quality
“Stitch and a number of other tools I've tried produce inconsistent, wild results”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly vibe-coded” “approachable but ultimately difficult to do what I want with its output”
Comment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Why hasn't AI improved design quality the way it improved dev speed?” “that produced pretty bad results (app)”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design” - Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Claude Design”
- Comment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Claude Design”
Needs many reprompts, gets stuck
“it can get trapped in weird places where whatever you tell it to do it thinks it did it, but it didn't”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design” “It takes so many prompts to get the model to do what I want, what's the point?”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt” “it wastes a lot of my time with reprompting it”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Gemini 3.1 Pro” Buggy, slow, unintuitive interface
“Stitches pages on an infinite canvas is possibly the worst UI I have ever seen.”
Comment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Why hasn't AI improved design quality the way it improved dev speed?” “is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Claude Design” Repetitive, same-looking results
“Google Stitch doesn't seem to know how to make anything else”
Comment from 6 May 2026 in “The Boring Internet” “I tried Google Stitch but it was much of the same”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Qwen 3.0 Image Pro”
Other AI design tools people recommend
The four most recommended other AI design tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Design | 145 | 110 | 57% | 7 | — | — |
| Figma | 113 | 103 | 52% | 12 | — | — |
| Google StitchThis page | 25 | 14 | 64% | 9 | — | — |
| Diffui | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
| Pomelli by Google | 6 | 14 | 30% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 48 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“use Google Stitch to see it in action”
“I tried Google Stitch but it was much of the same”
“All these problems you say are easily solvable with something like Stitch, Impeccable”
“I was very impressed with Stitch, but I've now migrated all my designs to Claude.”
“surprising product that feels non google for me”
“good option maybe using this is as beneficial like claude design”
“Google's Stitch works pretty well. Sometimes better than Claude, sometimes worse.”
“they give me some starting point”
“it integrates both code via Gemini and image UI generation via Nano Banana”
“Google Stitch doesn't seem to know how to make anything else”
“Stitch and a number of other tools I've tried produce inconsistent, wild results”
“I created some decent prototypes with stitch”
“it can get trapped in weird places where whatever you tell it to do it thinks it did it, but it didn't”
“does a better job than this”
“that produced pretty bad results (app)”
“I tried throwing the contents of the ZIP into Stitch With Google, but it didn't work very well.”
“approachable but ultimately difficult to do what I want with its output”
“Stitches pages on an infinite canvas is possibly the worst UI I have ever seen.”
“these tools have quite a low ceiling”
“Some of the new ones do create brand design systems.”
“Looks like their own website has been designed with the tool, and it shows.”
“On Stitch you can just grab a link to the design.”
“I too use Stitch, seems like not many have heard of it. Stitch also asks good questions”
“is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times”
“Half created screens, random buttons.”
“has been doing amazing work in this space for a long time now”
“the generated code to copy and paste the design to fit your own templates, but that's a pain”
“seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?”
“google stitch which is my current preferred tool”
“Google Stitch is pretty awesome at front end layouts.”
“platforms like Stitch 2 are eliminating the barriers for non-technical individuals”
“perfect for prototypes to deployments”
“Downside: This will make it easy to create overstyled pages”
“Still early but promising for design-to-code workflows.”
“I don't use Stitch it doesn't have the context of my codebase”
“it wastes a lot of my time with reprompting it”
“Traditional ETL tools (Fivetran/Stitch) often dump raw JSON into a VARIANT or string column”
“It takes so many prompts to get the model to do what I want, what's the point?”
“It works surprisingly well for designing UIs using AI”
“At present, customers who pay are more desperate than customers who don't”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.