Pencil vs Google Stitch vs 1UI vs Variant

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Pencil
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Google Stitch
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Pencil
pencil.dev
Pencil, now called pen.dev, is an agentic design canvas where designers and AI agents build interfaces together and ship the result back to code.
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Competitor Google Stitch
stitch.withgoogle.com
Stitch is a Google Labs experiment that turns simple prompts and image inputs into UI designs and front-end code in minutes.
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Competitor 1UI
1ui.dev
Designers and developers can drop a screenshot into 1UI and watch it generate an identical, editable interface in seconds
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Competitor Variant
variant.ai
Variant offers a free plan to get started with its design generation capabilities
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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MoM change
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▼ 67.5%
6-month growth
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-99.3%
Global rank web
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#8,873,975
Avg. last 3 months
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779
Bounce rate lower is better
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PencilGoogle Stitch1UIVariant
021.4K42.8K64.2K85.6KVariant · 26KVariant · 24.2KVariant · 85.6KVariant · 64.7KVariant · 18.7KVariant · 23.4KVariant · 1.8KVariant · 5741001K10K100KVariant · 26KVariant · 24.2KVariant · 85.6KVariant · 64.7KVariant · 18.7KVariant · 23.4KVariant · 1.8KVariant · 574Nov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJun
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Free
Starting price
$16per month · free tier available
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$25per month · free tier available
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $16/moUltra $48/moEnterprise Custom
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Basic $29/moPro $99/moEnterprise CustomAPI Free Free+2 more
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextWeb pages
ImagesText
ImagesText
Text
Output
CodeImages
CodeImages
Code
Images
Skill level
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Categories
Design & CreativeAI UX Design
Design & CreativeDevelopment & CodeAI App BuilderAI UX Design
Design & CreativeDevelopment & CodeAI Coding AssistantAI UX Design
Design & CreativeAI UX Design
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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UI design
UX design
Design
Screenshot to code
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Design creation
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Image to code
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Image to UI
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Design ideas
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Frontend development
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Graphic design
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Image to HTML
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Screenshot web-conversion
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UI code generation
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UI icon design
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Agents
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CSS
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Collaborative design
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Creative discovery
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Moodboards
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Prompt optimization
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React components
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SVG illustrations
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Wireframes
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.