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The best draw-a-ui alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to draw-a-ui, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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draw-a-ui

Draw a rough wireframe in a canvas and get HTML/Tailwind code generated from it by GPT-4 Vision.

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    Screenshot to Code

    Open source · MIT · ★ 81k

    Turns screenshots or mockups into code for HTML, React, Vue and other stacks using AI.

    Best for: Developers who want a first draft of a page from a design image; Designers who want to see a rough coded version of their mockup

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    OpenHands

    Open source · MIT · ★ 92.5k

    A self-hosted control panel that runs AI coding agents on your machine, in Docker, or in the cloud.

    Best for: Developers who want coding agents running on a server while their laptop is off; Teams that want a shared agent server for tasks like code review or dependency updates

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    One API

    Open source · MIT · ★ 37.3k

    Self-hosted gateway that exposes many LLM providers through one OpenAI-style API with key management.

    Best for: Developers who want one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for several model providers; Small teams or groups who need to issue and limit API keys to members

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    LlamaGPT

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.9k

    A self-hosted chatbot that runs Llama 2 models locally, so your chats stay on your machine.

    Best for: People who want a private chatbot and don't want to send prompts to a cloud provider; Users with a home server running umbrelOS who want a one-click install

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    CowAgent

    Open source · MIT · ★ 47.8k

    Open-source personal AI assistant that plans tasks, uses tools, and keeps memory across chat platforms.

    Best for: People who want a self-hosted personal assistant reachable from their everyday chat apps; Developers who want an extensible agent framework with skills and MCP support

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    LibreChat

    Open source · MIT · ★ 46.6k

    Self-hosted, open-source chat interface for many AI models, with agents, tools, and multi-user login.

    Best for: Teams that want one shared chat interface across several AI providers; People who want to self-host a ChatGPT-style interface and keep their data on their own server

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    DeepWiki

    Open source · MIT · ★ 18.3k

    Generates interactive wiki-style docs for GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repos using AI.

    Best for: Developers trying to understand a large or unfamiliar codebase; Students exploring how an open-source project is organized

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    OpenWhispr

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.5k

    Desktop app that turns your speech into text at the cursor, with local or cloud models.

    Best for: People who want dictation in any app without sending audio to a cloud service; Users who want to bring their own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Groq API keys

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to draw-a-ui. We don't take payment for placement.