Tools

Adobe's generative AI app for images, video, and audio. Runs Adobe's commercially safe Firefly models plus partner models from Google, OpenAI, and others, and feeds straight into Photoshop and Illustrator.

StackBlitz's prompt-to-app generator that spins up a full-stack project in the browser. Fast for throwaway prototypes, dangerous as a stand-in for a design system.

A Mac app for running several coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in parallel, each in its own isolated workspace. The moment one agent stops being enough, this is the layer you are missing.

AI search engine for peer-reviewed research. Ask a question, get a cited answer drawn from 250M+ papers.

A free, browser-based AI image generator (formerly DALL-E Mini) with quick generators for logos, posters, clipart, and simple edits. Ads and watermarks on the free tier.

OpenAI's image generation inside ChatGPT. DALL-E 3 has been retired and replaced by the GPT Image models, which handle text in images, multi-turn edits, and reference photos far better.

Open-source MCP server by Southleft for design system work in Figma: two-way token sync, component creation, Figma-to-code parity checks and accessibility audits. Write access, unlike read-focused servers.

Node-based canvas for AI image and video generation, formerly Weavy, acquired by Figma in October 2025. Chain models from Google, OpenAI, Runway, Black Forest Labs and others with pro editing tools in one workflow.

Turn text, scripts, and blog posts into videos with AI voices in 80+ languages.

Website builder for designers with an AI agent that creates editable pages, sections, copy and code components inside your project. Publishes real sites with CMS, SEO and localization.

Google's agent-first development platform: a desktop app, IDE and the agy CLI that replaced Gemini CLI for individual users in June 2026. Free for individuals, with built-in browser agents for checking UI.

AI meeting notes that actually work. Granola transcribes, summarizes, and organizes your design reviews, critiques, and stakeholder meetings automatically.

Agentic video editor: describe edits in plain words and apply them on a real multitrack timeline.

AI workspace for data analysis: upload spreadsheets, ask questions in plain language, get charts, reports and presentations.

Real-time AI image and video generation on a live canvas, plus one of the best upscalers available. Generation you steer with your hands, not just with prompts.

AI logo maker and brand kit generator for small businesses: logos, brand guidelines, social assets, and an AI-generated website. Free to explore, pay to download.

Prompt-to-app generator with a built-in backend (Lovable Cloud, built on Supabase). Best-in-class at full-stack generation. Worst-in-class as an excuse to skip having a design system.

Generates real React components from prompts and screenshots, and can work against your own component library. Prototyping that speaks your design system's language.

All-in-one AI assistant for chat, writing, translation, PDFs and images, available as a browser extension, desktop and mobile app.

Open-source visual editor for React and Next.js apps. Edit the running product on a Figma-like canvas with AI chat, and changes write back to your code.

OpenAI's coding agent, included in ChatGPT plans. Runs as a desktop app, CLI, IDE extension and cloud agent, so designers can turn specs and screenshots into working UI in a real codebase.

A design tool where the canvas is real HTML and CSS, with an MCP server so coding agents can read and write the canvas. What you design is what ships.

Agentic design canvas, formerly Pencil, that stores designs in an open JSON format next to your code. Design with Claude, Codex or Gemini on the canvas, or drive it from your coding agent through MCP.

Turn text, blogs, slides, and recordings into videos with AI voices, avatars, and captions.

AI code review and governance platform (formerly CodiumAI). Review agents check pull requests against your team's rules, in Git and in the IDE.

An image generator aimed at designers rather than prompt hobbyists: proper vector output, consistent brand styles, and icon sets that belong to the same family.

AI that generates sitemaps, wireframes, and style guides from a project brief, built from a library of over 1,000 components, with export to Figma, Webflow, and React, or hosting on Relume itself.

Research assistant with Smart Citations that show whether later papers support or contrast a study.

Official MCP server from shadcn/ui. Lets coding agents browse, search and install components from shadcn, third-party and private registries using plain language.

Stability AI's open-weight image model family. Download it and run it on your own hardware, fine-tune it, or use it through the API, with free commercial use for small teams.

Google's AI design canvas that turns prompts, sketches, and voice into mobile and web UI, clickable prototypes, and code. Fast for early exploration, and it improves a lot when you feed it a proper design brief.

Storybook's official MCP server. Gives coding agents your real component docs, story previews and component tests, so generated UI reuses your design system instead of inventing new components.

A design canvas on top of your codebase. Design with real React and Tailwind components, then let Claude Code or Codex implement the change locally, with git branches and pull requests.

Design system platform for tokens, components and documentation that now serves scoped design system context to AI agents through MCP. Free plan for up to 5 editors.

AI video and avatar platform: turn docs, slides, or links into presenter-led videos in 140+ languages.

AI UI generator for wireframes, high-fidelity screens and multi-screen flows, with a Figma plugin, code export and custom design systems. Built for product designers rather than developers.

The AI code editor formerly called Windsurf, renamed Devin Desktop by Cognition in 2026. An agentic IDE plus a command center for running local and cloud coding agents side by side.