DraftScreens vs Google Stitch: which AI app designer fits you?
Google Labs' free prompt-to-UI tool, formerly Galileo AI. DraftScreens is an AI designer that only does mobile screens, in one design language per project, with a visual editor, a clickable prototype and exports to Figma and code. Here is how they compare, including when Google Stitch wins.
Facts checked August 2026. stitch.withgoogle.com
The short version
Stitch is free and fast, and it looks like it. DraftScreens charges a little and gives you a design language that holds across every screen, a visual editor, design systems, a tap-through prototype and hand-offs that survive the move to code.
Side by side
| Feature | DraftScreens | Google Stitch |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free: 1 design a day, up to 5 a month. Pro $15/mo or $144/yr (200 designs a month, all exports). Studio $49/mo (1,000 designs, design systems, 3 seats). | Free only, about 400 credits a day. No paid tier. |
| Free tier | 1 design a day, up to 5 a month, with PNG export, the editor and a prototype | Everything, with a daily credit cap |
| Mobile-native screens | Yes: every screen is a 390x844 phone screen in a real design language | App or web toggle; output is generic |
| Your design system | Yes, on Studio: palette, fonts, voice, rules and logo drive every generation | No |
| Figma | Yes, on Pro and Studio: editable named layers, paste onto any canvas | Paste to Figma with auto layout |
| Code and hand-off | On Pro and Studio: HTML per screen and a prompt pack for Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable and v0; Expo and SwiftUI hand-offs in progress | HTML and Tailwind |
| Clickable prototype | Yes: tap-through links on every screen, QR to your phone, public share page | Yes, basic clickable prototypes |
| Visual editor | Yes: select any element, edit text, colour, spacing, layout, links, or ask the AI about it | Chat only, no element editing |
| Failed generations | Never charged, refunded automatically | Count against the daily credits |
Which one to choose
Choose Google Stitch if
Pick Stitch when price is the only criterion, you want to try Gemini models, or you need a throwaway draft in a minute.
Best for: Quick, free first drafts when generic is fine and the tool going away would not hurt.
Choose DraftScreens if
The product is a mobile app, the screens have to look designed rather than generated, you want to tap through it on a phone before writing code, and you want Figma layers and a hand-off that a coding tool can build from.
Google Stitch: strengths and gaps
What Google Stitch does well
- Free with a generous daily cap
- Prompt, image or voice in; app or web toggle
- Paste to Figma with auto layout and named layers
- Gemini model picker, MCP server, Netlify publish
Where it falls short
- Generic output: ranks last on design quality in most comparisons
- Screens drift from each other across a flow
- No fine editing, no collaboration
- A Labs experiment with no paid plan, so a shutdown risk
What DraftScreens does differently
Mobile only, on purpose
Every screen is a 390x844 phone screen. The generator is prompted like a senior mobile designer, never like a web page builder.
One design language per project
A flow is planned first: palette, type, radius, spacing. Every screen and every edit is held to it, so screens do not drift.
Edit anything, or ask
Select any element and change text, colour, spacing, layout or its tap link; or select it and tell the AI what to change.
Your brand, every screen
Studio plans ingest a design system: palette roles, fonts, voice, rules and logo drive the planner and every screen.
A prototype, not a picture
Buttons, tabs and rows carry links. Preview in the studio or scan a QR and tap through on your phone.
Exports that survive the move
Editable Figma layers, HTML per screen, a prompt pack for Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable and v0. Failed generations are never charged.
Questions people ask
- Is Google Stitch free?
- Yes. Stitch is a Google Labs experiment with no paid tier and a daily credit cap of roughly 400 credits.
- Is Google Stitch the same as Galileo AI?
- Yes. Google acquired the Galileo AI team in 2025 and relaunched the product as Stitch.
- Why choose a paid tool over Stitch?
- Consistency and control. Stitch screens drift across a flow and cannot be edited element by element; DraftScreens keeps one design language per project, has a visual editor and never charges for failed generations.
- Does Stitch export to Figma?
- Yes, by pasting, with auto layout. DraftScreens also exports editable Figma layers, per screen, per flow or the whole project as one board.
- Will Google Stitch shut down?
- Nobody knows. It is a Labs experiment without a business model; plan for the possibility by keeping Figma exports of anything you care about.
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