Google Stitch vs v0

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

v0

UI drafts that speak React and Tailwind — a component accelerator, not a company OS.

Best for

• React/Tailwind UI exploration
• Teams already near Vercel
• Component-level speed

Strengths

• The artifact is code you recognize
• Fast layout directions

Trade-offs

• Not an app company
• A11y still on you

Verdict

v0 is React UI drafts. Framer is marketing URLs. Lovable and Bolt are product shells. Cursor finishes the app. Use v0 to explore layout, then own the code. Confirm the current export path. If you needed a published campaign site, Framer is less engineering. Use v0 to explore React layout, then own a11y in the repo. Framer for marketing URLs. Lovable for a product shell. Cursor to finish. Confirm the export path. If the artifact should not be React, you opened the wrong generator.