So Google quietly built a tool that turns your messy napkin sketches into actual, working UI — and honestly, it’s kind of wild. [Stitch](https://stitch.withgoogle.com/) came out of Google Labs, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, and it just hit [#1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/stitch-by-google) with over 500 upvotes. After spending some time with it, I get why people are excited.
The pitch is simple: throw in a hand-drawn sketch, a text description, or even a screenshot of an existing app, and Stitch spits out a polished UI design with clean front-end code in seconds. Not minutes, not hours — seconds. You get three core workflows here: sketch-to-UI, text-to-design, and screenshot-based iteration where you can upload something existing and tweak it through conversation. That last one is particularly useful when you’re trying to riff on a competitor’s layout or rethink your own app’s flow.
What really makes this interesting is the export pipeline. You can paste designs directly into Figma for further refinement with your team, or grab the generated HTML/CSS and start building right away. Google recently added [MCP integration](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/stitch-a-new-way-to-design-uis/) too, which means you can export straight into coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code — that’s a pretty compelling handoff workflow.
Pricing? There isn’t any. Stitch is completely free, no credit card required. You get two modes: Standard mode runs on Gemini 2.5 Flash with 350 generations per month, while Experimental mode uses Gemini 2.5 Pro but caps you at 50 monthly generations. For most prototyping needs, that’s more than enough runway.
Now, the obvious question: does this kill Vercel’s v0 or Bolt? Probably not overnight, but it’s serious competition. Google has the advantage of deep Gemini integration and the Figma export angle, which neither v0 nor Bolt handles quite as smoothly. The designs aren’t perfect — you’ll still want a human designer to polish things, and some [reviews note usability gaps](https://blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/i-tried-google-stitch-heres-what-i-loved-hated/) if you rely on Stitch output without refinement. But as a starting point? It’s remarkably good.
If you’re a solo developer, a startup founder sketching ideas at 2am, or a designer who wants to speed up the wireframe-to-prototype phase, Stitch is worth your time. The fact that Google is offering this for free feels like a strategic land grab in the AI-to-UI space, and honestly, we all benefit from that kind of competition.

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