Visily
Visily is an AI-powered wireframing and prototyping tool that turns screenshots of other apps, text prompts and hand-drawn wireframes into clean, editable mockups. It is built for product managers, founders and small teams who want to communicate a product idea visually without spending weeks in a design tool.
Quick Facts
| Developer | Visily, Inc. |
|---|---|
| First released | 2020 |
| Latest version | Web app, continuously updated |
| Platforms | Browser-based |
| License | Proprietary |
| Pricing | Free plan; paid plans (see official website) |
What is Visily?
Visily is an AI-first wireframing and prototyping tool designed for people who need interfaces fast: product managers, founders, startup teams and agencies. Its signature feature is screenshot-to-design, which takes a screenshot of any app and recreates it as an editable mockup in moments.
Beyond screenshots, Visily generates wireframes from text descriptions and scans hand-drawn sketches, then lets you restyle everything with themes and a large component library. Everything happens in the browser, with real-time collaboration, comments and sharing built in.
The tool positions itself as a bridge between raw ideas and professional design. Teams use it for MVP wireframes, competitor teardowns and stakeholder communication, then hand the results to designers or developers for the production work.
Key Features
- Screenshot-to-design: recreate any app screenshot as an editable mockup
- Text-to-design: generate wireframes from a description
- Hand-drawn wireframe scanner for paper ideas
- Themes and style presets for instant restyling
- Component library with common UI patterns
- Real-time collaboration, comments and link sharing
- Export options for presentations and developer handoff
- Generous free plan for real projects
How to get started
Sign up for a free Visily account and you can start with whichever input suits you: paste in a screenshot of an app you like, describe the product you are building, or upload a photo of a hand-drawn wireframe. The AI does the conversion and lands you in the editor with editable layers.
From the editor you can rearrange components, apply a different theme, add screens to build out a flow and invite teammates to comment. When the wireframe is ready, export it or share a link for feedback.
- Create a free Visily account
- Upload a screenshot, sketch or type a description
- Let the AI build the editable mockup
- Restyle with themes and refine components
- Share a link or export for handoff
Use cases
- Redesigning an existing app from screenshots
- MVP wireframes for early-stage products
- Competitor teardowns and UX benchmarking
- Communicating product ideas to stakeholders
- Concept testing with users before development
- Developer handoff with clean, structured mockups
Pricing and licensing
Visily is proprietary software with a genuinely useful free plan that covers a good number of projects and AI generations, which makes it easy to evaluate in real work. Paid plans add unlimited projects, team features and advanced AI capabilities.
Exact prices and plan limits change over time, so check the official website for the current details before committing.
Pros and cons
Visily is at its best when you need to go from a reference screenshot to a shareable mockup in minutes. It is beginner-friendly, the free tier is meaningful, and the collaboration features cover small teams well.
The limitations are the mirror image of its strengths: generated designs need polishing for production, the tool lacks the depth of a professional design platform like Figma, and AI output quality varies with the complexity of the input.
Alternatives
- Uizard: AI design generation with sketch and screenshot scanning
- Figma: full professional design platform with its own AI
- Balsamiq: deliberately rough wireframes for fast feedback
- Whimsical: lightweight flows, wireframes and whiteboards
- Moqups: simple wireframing and diagramming in the browser