What Figma Make is
Figma announced Make at Config in May 2025 and made it generally available on 24 July 2025. It is a prompt-to-app tool inside Figma: describe a screen, or start from a design or image, and it builds a working prototype. Full use needs a Full seat, and each prompt spends AI credits (credit FAQ).
You can download Make’s code as a zip or push it to GitHub. The push is one-way: changes made on the GitHub side are overwritten by the next push from Make. If you plan to keep working on the code outside Make, that one detail matters most.
The alternatives at a glance
| Tool | What it makes | Where the code lives | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovable | Full-stack apps from chat | In Lovable, with two-way GitHub sync | Shipping a new app without a separate backend setup |
| v0 | Next.js, Tailwind and shadcn/ui apps | Deploys, or opens a pull request | React teams who want generated code in review |
| Bolt | Apps and websites from chat, with hosting and databases | In Bolt | Quick full-stack prototypes |
| Google Stitch | UI designs and front-end code from prompts or images | Exports code, or pastes to Figma | Exploring UI ideas, free, from Google Labs |
| Magic Patterns | Generated UI for product teams | In Magic Patterns | Product managers prototyping features |
| Caret | Pages as real React in your own repo | Your repo, in .caret/ | Designing for an app that already exists |
Lovable
The most common comparison. Lovable builds full-stack apps from chat, including a database and deploys. Its GitHub integration syncs both ways on one branch: changes in Lovable are pushed to GitHub, and changes pushed to that branch come back into Lovable. The code is stored and managed on Lovable’s platform.
v0
Vercel’s v0 generates Next.js with Tailwind and shadcn/ui, can start from a screenshot or Figma file, and can open a pull request for review. There is a free tier with a daily message limit.
Bolt
Bolt builds apps and websites by chat and handles hosting and databases for you.
Google Stitch
A Google Labs experiment that turns prompts and images into UI designs and front-end code, which you can paste into Figma.
Magic Patterns
Magic Patterns describes itself as an AI design tool that helps product teams go from idea to production by generating UI.
Figma Make vs Lovable
| Figma Make | Lovable | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A prompt, or a design already in Figma | A prompt |
| Back end | Prototypes and web apps, with an optional Supabase backend and publishing | Full stack, with a database and deploys |
| GitHub | One-way push | Two-way sync on one branch |
| Best when | Your team already designs in Figma | You want a full-stack app from scratch |
Short version: Make fits best when the design already lives in Figma, and Lovable when you want a full-stack app and are starting from nothing. Both charge per use through credits, so a long back-and-forth costs more than the plan price suggests.
If you already have an app
Every tool above is strongest at the start of a project. They generate a new codebase, or a new prototype, and work best while they own it. The harder case is a product that already exists, with its own framework, components and business logic, where you want to change how it looks without handing it to another platform.
That is the case Caret is built for. It is a free, open-source desktop app that keeps the design inside
your existing repo, as real React in a .caret/ folder beside your app:
- you design on a live canvas, by clicking and editing, or by marking a region and describing it;
- every change is a file in git, so nothing is overwritten by a push from somewhere else;
- when you are ready, an agent makes your app match, in whatever framework it already uses, and keeps your app’s data and API wiring as it was.
Nothing is hosted. There is no credit meter in Caret itself: you connect a model you already pay for, such as a ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot plan, or an API key.
Questions
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Is there a free alternative to Figma Make?
Google Stitch is free, with monthly generation limits, while it is a Google Labs experiment, v0 has a free tier, and Caret is free and open source, though you supply the AI model.
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Can I export code from Figma Make?
Yes, as a zip or by pushing to GitHub. The GitHub push is one-way.
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Which one gives me the most control over the code?
The ones where the code lives in your own repo from the start: v0’s pull requests, or Caret, which never leaves your repo at all.