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Onlook for Web

Onlook for Web

Open source Cursor for designers

Overview

What it is

Onlook is the first-ever developer tool for designers.

Intent

I need it when

Get AI assistance for UI design decisions while maintaining full creative control and visual precision

Onlook's AI understands React components and design tokens, offering suggestions and generating code that matches project patterns. Designers retain visual control—they can select elements, edit manually, or collaborate with AI, ensuring human creativity drives the final design.

Rapidly prototype product ideas and validate concepts with working interactive applications

Onlook's AI prototype generator creates fully functional React prototypes with real interactions, forms, and data handling from natural language descriptions. Teams can deploy prototypes instantly to gather user feedback and test product concepts without building from scratch.

Maintain design system consistency across a React codebase while collaborating between designers and developers

Onlook centralizes design tokens, color palettes, typography, and component libraries so designers can apply brand guidelines consistently across projects. Real-time collaboration features and code-as-source-of-truth approach ensure designers and developers work from the same foundation.

Design and build React web applications visually without writing code manually

Onlook provides a visual editor that lets designers drag, drop, and style React components directly in the browser while automatically generating clean, production-ready code. Users can edit elements visually and see real-time code updates in their actual codebase, eliminating the need to write JSX manually.

Edit existing React codebases visually without refactoring or breaking developer workflows

Onlook imports existing React projects and allows visual editing while preserving the original build process and architecture. Changes are written directly to source files, so developers can continue using their standard tools and workflows without disruption.

Drop

Not a fit when

  • User needs a traditional design tool like Figma with no code involvement—Onlook requires React/code as the source of truth
  • Project uses non-React frameworks or non-Tailwind CSS styling—Onlook is optimized specifically for React and TailwindCSS
  • Team lacks React development expertise and cannot maintain generated code—Onlook outputs real production code requiring developer oversight
  • User requires offline-only design work—cloud version requires internet; self-hosted option exists but requires GitHub setup
  • Organization needs design-to-code without any developer involvement—Onlook bridges design and development but requires developer integration
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Pricing

Freemium with paid cloud hosting. Free self-hosted version available on GitHub. Cloud version requires contacting sales team for custom pricing. View pricing