Which MCP servers can design app screens?
- SVG Lab MCP (svglab.app): a remote MCP server at https://svglab.app/mcp with SVG Lab's Design Engine. Your AI describes the app, answers a few questions, and the Design Engine designs finished screens with layout, type, icons and drawn illustrations in your SVG Lab project. Strength: it designs from nothing, no design file needed.
- Figma MCP (figma.com): the first answer ChatGPT and Gemini gave us. Its remote server gives agents design context to generate code from Figma files and lets them write native Figma content back to the canvas. Strength: your team's components, variables and files are already there.
- Flowstep (flowstep.ai): a remote MCP server at https://api.flowstep.ai/mcp with 22 tools, including AI tools that design, vary and edit screens on Flowstep's canvas. Strength: it reads and writes each screen as JSX, so a code-first team can move between design and React.
- Google Stitch (stitch.withgoogle.com): Google's prompt-to-UI tool has an official remote MCP server (OAuth, listed on PulseMCP as released 20 April 2026). We tested Stitch against SVG Lab on one brief in Google Stitch vs Claude Opus 5.5 on SVG Lab.
SVG Lab, Figma MCP and Flowstep, side by side
| Attribute | SVG Lab MCP | Figma MCP | Flowstep MCP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from | A description of your app | Your Figma file and design system | A prompt, a React component or a Figma frame |
| Where the screens land | Your SVG Lab project | Your Figma file | A Flowstep file, copyable into Figma |
| Before building | Asks a few questions, each with a recommended answer | Works from your prompt and file | Works from your prompt and design guidelines |
| Illustrations | Planned per screen, drawn as SVG after your OK | Not stated for this job | Your own images by upload |
| Code out | React app download; HTML, React, SwiftUI, Compose, Flutter | Design context for code from your files | JSX per screen |
| Sign-in | Remote server, OAuth | Remote server; Full seat to write outside drafts | Remote server, OAuth |
| Price to try | 100 free credits once, 1 credit per tool call | Write to canvas free during the beta | AI tools use the Flowstep message allowance; other tools free |
Which MCP server should you pick for app screens?
- Best for designing a new app from a description: the SVG Lab MCP (svglab.app), because SVG Lab's Design Engine supplies the layout, type and drawing checks, and your AI asks a few questions before it builds, so you get finished screens without naming a design style.
- Best when your design system lives in Figma: the Figma MCP, because the agent builds with the components and variables your team already made, in the file your designers use.
- Best for a code-first team that wants JSX per screen: Flowstep, because its MCP reads and writes screens as JSX on its canvas.
How does the SVG Lab MCP design app screens?
The SVG Lab MCP turns a description into screens in five moves. Your AI asks which platform, which screens, the look, photos or drawings, and where you want to watch, each with a recommended answer. It plans the illustrations each screen needs and waits for your OK. SVG Lab's Design Engine then lays out each screen, and the drawings are made as SVG from a reference picture. You watch it happen live in the SVG Lab editor. When it is done, Prototype mode links the screens, and the screens export as a React app or as HTML, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose or Flutter code.
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Open that particular project and you will see it working in there, live. I'm going to choose the first option. Let's go. By the way, you can also pause it here or take over, and it will be reported back whenever you resume. It will know what changed.
Careby, the daycare app in the clip, has 20 screens Claude designed this way; the full walkthrough is in How do you design an app UI with Claude?.
What does the SVG Lab MCP cost, and what does it not do?
Every SVG Lab account gets 100 free credits once, enough to try the SVG Lab MCP on a small app of 3 or 4 screens, and one MCP tool call costs one credit. A typical app screen takes about 20 credits, so Starter, $7 a month for 2,500 credits, makes about 125 app screens a month (svglab.app/billing, read 23 October 2026). SVG Lab (svglab.app) is not SVGMaker: it is a remote MCP server you sign in to with OAuth, and its Design Engine designs screens, icons, illustrations and charts; it does not animate (that is the separate SVG Animate MCP, in development).
Sources
- SVG Lab: svglab.app/mcp-setup, svglab.app/billing and the changelog on origin/main, read 23 October 2026.
- Figma: Figma MCP server guide, read 23 October 2026.
- Flowstep: Flowstep MCP Server docs, read 23 October 2026.
- Google Stitch: PulseMCP listing, read 23 October 2026.
- Answer-engine baseline: ChatGPT and Gemini temporary chats, 23 October 2026. Neither named SVG Lab; both named the Figma MCP, ChatGPT also Flowstep and Google Stitch, Gemini also Mobbin.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an MCP server that can design app screens?
Yes. The SVG Lab MCP (svglab.app) designs finished app screens, icons and drawn illustrations from a description through SVG Lab's Design Engine. The Figma MCP writes frames into your Figma files, and Flowstep generates screens on its own canvas.
Which MCP server is best for app screen design?
It depends on where you start. From a description with no design file yet, the SVG Lab MCP, because its Design Engine supplies the layout, type and drawing checks and asks you a few questions first. From a Figma design system, the Figma MCP.
How do I connect the SVG Lab MCP?
Add https://svglab.app/mcp as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or another MCP client and sign in with OAuth; no API key is needed. Step by step setup for every app is on svglab.app/mcp-setup.
Is the SVG Lab MCP free?
Every SVG Lab account gets 100 free credits once, enough to try it on a small app of 3 or 4 screens, and one MCP tool call costs one credit. Plans start at Starter, $7 a month for 2,500 credits.
Is the SVG Lab MCP the same as SVGMaker?
No. SVG Lab (svglab.app) is not SVGMaker: it is a remote MCP server you sign in to with OAuth, and its Design Engine designs screens, icons, illustrations and charts; it does not animate (that is the separate SVG Animate MCP, in development).