Head-to-head · Tested April 24, 2026

Google Stitch and dMaya on the same prompt. Here's how the comparison actually lands.

Dhairya Purohit

Runs Ekyon and co-founded Contemy. Builds dMaya. Ran both tools on identical prompts in April 2026, from the point of view of an agency that ships real client work.

Published April 24, 2026

What Google Stitch is

Google Stitch is an AI UI design tool from Google Labs. It launched at Google I/O 2025 and received a major overhaul on March 19, 2026 in the update that sent Figma's stock down 8% the same day. It runs on Gemini (Flash or Pro) and turns text prompts, screenshots, or sketches into single-page UI designs that export to Figma or HTML/CSS.

It is free, single-player, and single-model. As a Labs product, it has no production SLA and no commercial roadmap published. It is explicitly an experiment in what prompt-to-UI can look like, not a shipping commitment.

Strengths: free, fast, available without a credit card, and genuinely good for quick visual exploration. Weaknesses: the output is more mood-board than component system, there is no consistency enforcement across multiple screens, and you cannot pick a model other than Gemini.

What dMaya is

dMaya is a prompt-first vibe design platform built for anyone shipping real design work, from agencies and product teams to freelancers and solo builders with a strong idea. You describe what you need in plain language. A canvas fills in with a real UI design tied to a design system that stays consistent across every screen you generate after it. You iterate through chat. You share preview links. You export clean HTML for handoff to Cursor, Claude Code, or whatever coding agent your team already uses.

Model choice is the headline differentiator: Claude (Sonnet, Opus), GPT, Gemini (Flash, Pro), with open-source options like Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 rolling out. Different jobs want different models; dMaya lets you pick per generation.

Pricing: Starter $18/mo (~136 designs), Pro $48/mo (~454 designs), Scale $120/mo (~1,136 designs), all on the default model. Every plan has every feature. See the full pricing page.

At a glance

The same prompt, every way you can stack it

Same prompt, same day (April 24, 2026), three progressively less fair matchups for Stitch. Prompt verbatim:

“I want to make a SaaS for freelancers where they can do project management and invoicing. I want to use the nature green as one of the colors. You can plan out the rest of the details and plan features on your own. I want to start with making Dashboard.”

Round 1. Equal tier: Stitch Flash vs dMaya Flash

Same underlying model. dMaya's output honors the nature-green constraint, spaces components intentionally, reads like a real dashboard. Stitch's reads like a mood-board of one.

Round 2. Handicap reversed: Stitch's best model vs dMaya's cheapest

Now Stitch gets their strongest model, dMaya stays on its cheapest. dMaya's output still lands closer to shippable.

Round 3. What dMaya can actually do

When you reach for higher tiers in dMaya, the output leaves the same chart Stitch is on, because Stitch cannot run these models at all.

The original three-way walkthrough with all videos, stat strips, and decision tree lives in the three-way comparison post.

Feature-by-feature deep dive

What the session actually feels like

Stitch feels like a machine. Input goes in, output comes out. There is no dialogue, no back-and-forth, no sense that the tool is thinking with you. You are not planning a design, you are operating a generator.

dMaya is a conversation. You describe the idea. The agent asks what you want to see. You iterate together. You can plan the information architecture out loud, change direction mid-session, argue with a choice it made. The experience is closer to working with a quick designer than to filling in a form. For anyone who has an idea but is not a trained designer, this is the difference between "the tool made something" and "I made something with the tool."

A preview built for sharing, not just rendering

When Stitch finishes a generation, the output renders inside the tool's interface. There is no separate preview surface for showing to a client, no side menu to navigate between screens of the same project, no shareable link where a stakeholder can see exactly what you see without logging in.

dMaya treats the preview as a first-class artifact. A dedicated shareable link. A side menu that lets anyone (you or a client) jump between screens in a multi-screen project. Works in any browser, no account required. The review loop that usually lives in Figma, email threads, or Loom videos all collapses into a URL.

When your idea is not a template

Stitch ships with a set of design guidance patterns. If your idea fits one of them (a clean mobile onboarding flow, a generic SaaS landing page), the output is reasonable. The moment you bring something of your own (a specific color system, an unusual layout, a domain nobody has templated yet), the quality drops.

Our test prompt is a good example. We asked for a freelancer SaaS dashboard with nature green as one of the colors. A specific constraint, a specific domain, not somebody's template. Stitch's output did not reflect the constraint well. dMaya's did, because dMaya is not trying to match your prompt to a pattern; it is trying to build what you asked for.

This is the gap you feel on the second or third custom project, after the novelty wears off.

The philosophy: lift the skill layer

The deeper difference is about what the tool is for. Stitch is a generator, in the literal sense: a thing that turns a prompt into a picture.

dMaya's bet is that a lot of people have ideas worth shipping and do not have the formal design training to execute them cleanly. The tool lifts the skill layer. You still think, plan, research, argue with yourself about the right direction, and decide. dMaya handles the craft side, the visual grammar, the consistency across screens, the design-system scaffolding. You stay the author. The tool is the skilled collaborator you did not have access to before.

That framing flips what the comparison is really about. Stitch asks "can the AI make a design?" dMaya asks "can a person with an idea make the design they actually wanted?" Those are different products.

When to pick Google Stitch

• You are exploring an idea visually with no deliverable attached.
• Cost sensitivity is absolute: you need something free today, no subscription.
• You will use the output as input to a Figma workflow rather than as a handoff to development.
• You are comfortable starting over on every iteration.

When to pick dMaya

• You have a client, stakeholder, or teammate who needs to approve the design.
• Your project has more than a few screens and needs visual consistency.
• You want to pick the underlying model to fit the job.
• You ship to production through a coding agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Bolt).
• You want a commercial product with a pricing page and a roadmap, not a Labs experiment.

Switching notes

There is no file import to worry about. dMaya is prompt-first, so moving from Stitch usually means bringing the same prompt and re-running it. Most teams find the prompt alone carries enough intent that the first dMaya design lands inside the first fifteen minutes of a new account. If you want the longer version of this path, see the Google Stitch alternative guide.

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