What is TypeUI?
TypeUI is a library of structured prompt files — 'design skills' — that you give to AI coding agents to constrain how they generate UI. Instead of getting generic-looking interfaces from Claude or Cursor, agents following TypeUI skills produce output that respects a consistent visual system: spacing, typography, component patterns.
The free base library covers the essentials. Pro unlocks 67 skills and 267 prompts.
Who it's for
Developers using AI coding assistants who want generated interfaces to look designed rather than assembled. Also useful for design system teams who want to encode their standards in a form agents can actually follow.
Pricing
Freemium. Pro: $30/month or $120/year.
What is TypeUI?
TypeUI is a library of structured prompt files — 'design skills' — that you give to AI coding agents to constrain how they generate UI. Instead of getting generic-looking interfaces from Claude or Cursor, agents following TypeUI skills produce output that respects a consistent visual system: spacing, typography, component patterns.
The free base library covers the essentials. Pro unlocks 67 skills and 267 prompts.
Who it's for
Developers using AI coding assistants who want generated interfaces to look designed rather than assembled. Also useful for design system teams who want to encode their standards in a form agents can actually follow.
Pricing
Freemium. Pro: $30/month or $120/year.
Alternatives to TypeUI
Antigravity
Google Antigravity is an agentic IDE built on a forked VS Code that lets AI agents autonomously plan, write code, run the terminal, and test in a browser with minimal hand-holding. It pairs with Google Stitch (their text-to-UI design tool) to form a full design-to-code pipeline. Available free in public preview with generous Gemini 3 Pro limits; also supports Claude and OpenAI models.
Bolt.new
Browser-based AI coding platform powered by StackBlitz's WebContainer technology — a full Node.js environment running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. Describe an app, and Bolt generates, runs, edits, and deploys it without local setup. Went from $80K to $40M ARR in five months; Bolt V2 adds cloud databases, auth, and edge functions. Powered by Claude.
Efecto
A design tool where AI agents are first-class, not bolted on. Artboards, layers, auto-layout, and 66 MCP tools — Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf can design directly in the canvas. Built on React and Tailwind under the hood, with hosting included. Free.
Elyx
A local-first, cross-platform design tool built around a human-readable design file format (.elyx) instead of a proprietary cloud format. Design files live in git alongside code, are meant to be broken up and reused like source files, and are structured so AI agents can read and edit them directly rather than guessing from screenshots. GPU-accelerated native editor with components, variants, themes, and tokens. Currently in private beta.