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Should you use it?

Visily is an AI wireframing tool that turns text prompts, screenshots, and sketches into editable UI mockups, aimed at non-designers rather than trained design teams. Pick it for fast, cheap first-draft wireframes and PM-to-dev handoff, especially with its Visily MCP server feeding coding agents. Skip it if you need Figma-grade fidelity or a mature design system.

  • Buy ifProduct managers and founders who need a clickable mockup without a designer
  • Pick$0-$29/editor/month + custom
  • Skip ifProduction-grade design systems with deep design tokens

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What to buy

Best plan$0-$29/editor/month + custom

Watch: Free Starter plan caps at 2 editable boards and...

Price range$0-$29/editor/month + custom

Starter $0, Pro $11/editor/mo annual, Business $29/editor/mo annual, Enterprise custom

Upgrade only ifNot for production-grade design systems with deep design tokens

Free Starter plan caps at 2 editable boards and...

Current pricing source: Visily pricing

Fit

Use it for this, skip it for that

Best for

  • Product managers and founders who need a clickable mockup without a designer
  • Converting screenshots or hand sketches into editable wireframes
  • Teams that want a lighter, cheaper on-ramp than Figma for early concepts
  • Developers who want an MCP-connected design source for Claude Code or Cursor

Avoid if

  • Production-grade design systems with deep design tokens
  • Pixel-accurate, high-fidelity visual design work
  • Teams already standardized on Figma with no wireframing gap to fill
  • Solo users who cannot commit to annual billing for Business-tier security features
Watch out
Free Starter plan caps at 2 editable boards and watermarks exports; AI credits are metered per editor per month and heavy prompt-and-regenerate workflows burn through the Pro allowance faster than expected. Business requires annual billing with no monthly option, and a site-wide '50% off annual plans' countdown banner was live at verification time, so confirm the actual checkout price before buying.

Recent changes

Only what affects the decision

  1. All tiers

    Verified live pricing...

    Visily pricing
  2. Product

    Release notes v4.5 (Mar 6, 2026) added code generation from designs and Plan Mode for Pro/Business, plus Figma import improvements for unsupported font replacement

    Visily release notes

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  • Utility7/10

    How much real work it can do for a competent operator, end to end.

  • Value7/10

    What you get for the dollar relative to the closest alternative.

  • Moat5/10

    How hard it would be for a competitor to replicate the underlying advantage.

  • Longevity6/10

    How likely the product is to still be best-in-class 24 months out.

Verified facts

  1. Best ForAI-powered wireframing and UI mockup tool built for non-designers: product managers, founders, and cross-functional teams who need to visualize an idea fast. Text-to-UI, screenshot-to-UI, and sketch-to-UI generation, plus Figma import/export and a Visily MCP server that feeds designs to coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.
    highDrifts2026-07-02Visily homepage
  2. Pricing AnchorPro at $11/editor/month billed annually (or $14/month billed monthly), 3,000 AI credits/editor/month, unlimited boards, Figma import/export, export to code, and the Visily MCP server. Business is $29/editor/month, annual-only, with 10,000 credits/editor/month and SAML SSO.
    highVolatile2026-07-02Visily pricing
  3. Watch Out ForFree Starter plan caps at 2 editable boards and watermarks exports; AI credits are metered per editor per month and heavy prompt-and-regenerate workflows burn through the Pro allowance faster than expected. Business requires annual billing with no monthly option, and a site-wide '50% off annual plans' countdown banner was live at verification time, so confirm the actual checkout price before buying.
    mediumVolatile2026-07-02Visily pricing
Full review notesLong-form details, FAQ, and source history

Visily is an AI-powered UI design tool built for non-designers: product managers, startup founders, and cross-functional teams who need a clickable mockup without learning Figma. The core loop is generative: a text prompt, a screenshot, or a hand-drawn sketch goes in, and an editable board of wireframes or hi-fi screens comes out.

Founded in 2021 and based in Atlanta, Visily has stayed an independent, venture-backed product (seed-stage, Floodgate and Service Provider Capital among investors) rather than being folded into a larger design suite. Its most notable recent move is Visily MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor pull design context directly from a Visily board, positioning Visily as a design source for AI-assisted development rather than just a mockup tool.

System Verdict

Pick Visily if you need a fast, editable wireframe and you are not a trained designer. server gives engineering teams a way to hand that context straight to a coding agent.

Skip it if you need Figma-grade fidelity or a real design system. Visily’s component and token model is shallower than Figma’s, and the free tier’s 2-board cap and watermark make it a scratchpad rather than a workspace. Teams that already have design ops maturity will find Figma or a code-first generator like v0 more useful.

Who pays which tier: access. Business at $29/editor/month billed annually (annual-only) for teams that need SAML SSO and centralized team management. Enterprise is custom for larger security and support needs.

Key Facts
CompanyVisily, Inc. (Atlanta, founded 2021 by Buu Nguyen)
Core AI featuresText-to-UI, Screenshot-to-UI, Wireframe/sketch scanning, AI Deep Design, Plan Mode
Free tier300 AI credits/mo, 2 editable boards, 2,500 elements/board, watermarked export
Pro$11/editor/mo (billed annually), 3,000 AI credits/editor/mo, unlimited boards
Business$29/editor/mo (billed annually only), 10,000 AI credits/editor/mo, SAML SSO
Code exportReact/Vue/HTML export from designs (added March 2026)
MCP serverVisily MCP feeds board context to Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents
FigmaImport assets from Figma; export designs out
Version historyNone on Starter, 7 days on Pro, 30 days on Business

What it actually is

Visily sits in the wireframing-and-mockup layer, one step below a full design tool like Figma and one step above a whiteboard sketch. The pitch is explicit: it targets people who find Figma’s learning curve too steep, not people replacing Figma.

Text-to-UI generates a set of editable screens from a natural-language description of an app or flow. Screenshot-to-UI takes an existing app screenshot or reference image and converts it into an editable board, useful for competitive teardown or redesign work. Hand-drawn wireframes can be scanned and digitized the same way.

Deep Design and Plan Mode (added January and March 2026) are the more recent additions. Plan Mode lets a user work through requirements with the AI before generation, intended to avoid burning AI credits on generations that miss the brief. Deep Design produces more polished, less generic-looking output on Pro and Business tiers.

Visily MCP is the newest strategic feature: a Model Context Protocol server that exposes a Visily board’s design context to coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, so a developer can pull layout and component intent directly into a code-generation session instead of re-describing the design from scratch.

When to pick Visily

  • You are not a designer and need a mockup fast. PMs, founders, and engineers get more out of the text-to-UI and screenshot-to-UI flows than a trained designer will.
  • You have a reference screenshot or paper sketch. Screenshot-to-UI and sketch scanning turn an existing visual into an editable board faster than rebuilding it by hand.
  • You want a cheaper on-ramp than Figma before hiring a designer. Pro at $11/editor/month annual is a fraction of Figma’s per-editor pricing for early-stage validation work.
  • Your dev team is already using Claude Code or Cursor. The Visily MCP server is a genuinely distinct feature: it lets a coding agent read design intent straight from the board instead of a static export.
  • You need quick Figma-to-editable conversion or vice versa. Import/export support on Pro and higher smooths the handoff between a rough Visily concept and a Figma file a designer will finish.

When to pick something else

  • Production design systems and pixel-accurate work: Figma. Deeper component model, real design tokens, and industry-standard handoff.
  • Similar text/screenshot-to-mockup workflow with a Miro-backed team layer: Uizard. Overlapping feature set (Autodesigner, Screenshot Scanner, Wireframe Scanner); compare pricing and credit allowances directly since the jobs are close.
  • AI UI generation with higher fidelity output: Galileo AI for more polished first-pass visuals.
  • Web-specific design with live publishing: Framer AI. Visily produces mockups; Framer produces a live, hostable site.
  • Code-first output over a mockup: v0 or Bolt when the buyer wants working React/app code rather than an editable board.

Pricing

Pricing verified 2026-07-02 via visily.ai/pricing:

PlanPriceAI creditsBoardsVersion historyWho’s it for
Starter$0300/mo (workspace-level)2 editable, unlimited view-onlyNoneTesting a single idea
Pro$11/editor/mo billed annually ($14/mo billed monthly)3,000/editor/mo (600/guest editor)Unlimited7 daysMost individual PMs and founders should land here
Business$29/editor/mo, annual billing only10,000/editor/mo (2,000/guest editor)Unlimited30 daysTeams needing SAML SSO and centralized team management
EnterpriseCustomCustom allocationUnlimitedCustom retentionLarger orgs needing dedicated account management

Pro adds Figma import/export, export to code, the Visily MCP server, private folders, unlimited custom fonts, and watermark-free high-resolution export. Business adds everything in Pro plus SAML SSO, custom team management, and priority support. A 50% off all annual plans promotional banner with a countdown timer was live on the pricing page at verification time; treat this as a limited-time offer and confirm the price shown at checkout before committing to an annual plan.

Business has no monthly billing option, annual commitment only. Enterprise pricing is not published; contact support@visily.ai.

Against the alternatives

Visily ProUizard ProFigma
Monthly (annual billing)$11/editor$12$16/editor
Text-to-UIYesYes (Autodesigner 2.0)Figma AI (weaker)
Screenshot-to-UIYesYes (Screenshot Scanner)No native
Sketch-to-UIYesYes (Wireframe Scanner)No native
Code exportReact/Vue/HTML (Mar 2026)Component-level React/CSSPlugins/Dev Mode
MCP server for coding agentsYes (Visily MCP)Not documentedNot documented at editor level
Design-system depthShallowShallowDeep (industry standard)
Best viewed asNon-designer wireframing with a dev-agent bridgeNon-designer first-draft mockupsProduction design platform

Failure modes
  • AI credits run out faster than expected on complex prompts. Multi-screen generations and re-rolls consume the monthly allowance quickly, especially on Starter’s 300 credits.
  • Free tier is a demo, not a workspace. 2 editable boards and watermarked exports make Starter unusable for real project work beyond a proof of concept.
  • Business tier is annual-only. Teams that want SAML SSO but prefer monthly billing have no option; it is annual commitment or nothing.
  • Output is first-draft quality. Like most AI wireframing tools, Visily boards need a design pass before anything ships to production; treat it as a starting point, not a deliverable.
  • Overlap with Uizard is real. Both tools target the same non-designer buyer with nearly identical feature names (screenshot-to-UI, sketch/wireframe scanning). Compare current credit allowances and per-seat pricing directly before choosing, since the gap is thin.
  • Promotional pricing banners can obscure the real price. The live “50% off annual plans” countdown seen at verification is a marketing pattern that should not be assumed permanent; always check the checkout price.

Recent developments

Visily shipped code generation (React/Vue/HTML export) and Plan Mode in the March 6, 2026 release (v4.5), following Design Instructions and Deep Design mode in the January 8, 2026 release. Figma import support landed February 4, 2026, with unsupported-font replacement improved in the March release.

The most strategically significant recent move is the Visily MCP launch, announced on the Visily blog as “the design brain for your coding agent.” It connects Visily boards to coding agents including Claude Code and Cursor via the Model Context Protocol, letting a developer pull design context into a coding session instead of manually re-describing layout intent. This is listed as a Pro-and-above feature on the current pricing page.

System verdict

Visily is a credible, independent player in the AI-wireframing niche, distinct from Figma (production design) and positioned almost directly against Uizard (same non-designer buyer, overlapping feature names). Its differentiator going into mid-2026 is the Visily MCP server, which turns a mockup tool into a design-context source for AI coding agents, a genuinely useful bridge for small teams running Claude Code or Cursor. Pricing is competitive at the Pro tier but the annual-only Business plan and credit-metered AI usage mean buyers should model real usage before committing beyond Starter.

FAQ
Is Visily free? Yes. The Starter plan is free with 300 AI credits per month, 2 editable boards, and watermarked exports. It is best treated as a demo tier rather than a working plan.
How is Visily different from Uizard? Both target non-designers with text-to-UI, screenshot-to-UI, and sketch-to-UI generation, and both sit below Figma in fidelity. Visily's differentiator is the Visily MCP server for coding-agent handoff and native React/Vue/HTML code export added in March 2026; Uizard's differentiator is Miro ownership and its Autodesigner 2.0 engine. Pricing is close ($11/editor/mo Visily Pro annual vs $12/mo Uizard Pro annual); compare current credit allowances directly since both change often.
What is Visily MCP? A Model Context Protocol server that connects a Visily board's design context to coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor, so a developer can generate code informed by the actual design rather than a static screenshot or manual description. It ships as a Pro-tier-and-above feature.
Can Visily export real code? Yes, as of the March 2026 release Visily can generate React, Vue, and HTML code from designs on Pro and Business tiers. Treat generated code as a starting point that needs a developer review pass, consistent with other AI-to-code design tools.
Does Visily require annual billing? Pro offers both monthly ($14/mo) and annual ($11/mo effective) billing. Business is annual-only at $29/editor/month, with no monthly option documented.
Who is Visily best for? Non-designers: product managers, startup founders, and cross-functional teams who need a clickable, shareable mockup without learning a full design tool. Trained design teams with production design-system needs should use Figma instead.

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