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tldraw AI

Sketch a UI on a whiteboard — AI turns it into working React code.

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What is tldraw AI?

tldraw's "Make Real" feature watches you sketch wireframes on its infinite canvas and turns them into working HTML/React components live. The viral 2024 demo that proved sketch-to-code was real, now baked into their open-source whiteboard.

Key features

  • Infinite whiteboard canvas
  • Sketch → working React component
  • Annotations refine the output
  • Open source SDK
  • Multi-cursor collaboration

Pros

  • Genuinely magical for early-stage UI work
  • Open source — embeddable in your own app
  • Lowers UI prototyping barrier to zero

Cons

  • Output is starter code, not production-ready
  • Free tier rate-limits AI calls
  • Sketch quality matters more than expected

Best for

UI designers prototyping ideasPMs sketching specs for engineersEducators teaching UI conceptsHackathon teams