Google Stitch vs Krea

Option A

Google Stitch

Google Labs tool that turns a prompt, screenshot, or URL into UI screens and exportable frontend code.

Best for

• Founders mocking multi-screen app flows
• Prompt or screenshot to UI
• Early IA arguments before engineering estimates

Strengths

• Fast enough to use in a meeting
• Free with a Google account
• Closer to an app than to a poster generator

Trade-offs

• Not design-ops
• Exported code still needs a developer who cares about the real system

Verdict

Stitch is an ideation tool for interfaces. Canva and Krea remain the right tabs for marketing visuals. Uizard remains the other sketch-to-UI option. v0 remains the better next step when the artifact should already be React. Use Stitch when you need several screens that look like software, not a poster, and you are fine throwing the first code away. Do not staff a product team as if Stitch were Figma plus a senior frontend. Check what the current Labs build actually exports on your prompt — the surface moves.

Option B

Krea

Realtime design canvas: iterate image generation fast enough for a live critique.

Best for

• Live visual exploration
• Designers iterating style in a session
• Concept speed runs

Strengths

• Fast enough for critique
• Designer-shaped loop

Trade-offs

• Not a marketing suite
• Plan gates models

Verdict

Krea is a live canvas. Midjourney is a gallery culture. Leonardo is a production room. Firefly is a CC layer. Use Krea when the meeting is happening now. Export a shortlist, then leave. Confirm which models your plan actually includes before you promise a look. Use Krea for live critique. Finish in Photoshop. Midjourney if you wanted a gallery culture. Confirm which models the plan includes before you promise a look. If the critique is tomorrow in Figma, export tonight. The canvas is not a delivery. Confirm plan models before you promise a look in the meeting.