Quick answer
Figma Make turns a prompt or an existing Figma design into an interactive prototype inside Figma, ideal for designers who want to test ideas without a developer. Lovable turns a prompt into a full deployable web app with a Supabase backend and a GitHub repo, ideal for founders shipping a product. v0 from Vercel generates polished React and Next.js components and pages, ideal for developers and design engineers who will finish the code themselves. Start from your design: Figma Make. Start from an idea and need users: Lovable. Start from a codebase: v0.
The phrase "vibe design" appeared this year for a reason: designers can now produce a working interface by describing it. The three leading tools look similar in a demo and behave very differently once you try to change something or connect a database.
Figma Make
- Starts from your Figma file, so the output uses your colours, type, and components
- Edit by plain-language prompt or directly in code
- Output is an interactive prototype or small app, shareable from Figma
- Limited free use; included with Figma Full seats, with credits that run out on lower plans
- No production backend — this is for testing and communicating, not shipping
Lovable
- Starts from a prompt and produces a complete app: front end, Supabase database, authentication
- Two-way GitHub sync so developers can take over cleanly
- One-click deploy with a custom domain
- Free credits, Pro from $20/mo; credits are consumed per edit
- Weakness: iterating on fine visual detail is slower than in a design tool
v0
- Generates React, Next.js, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui components from prompts or images
- The most idiomatic, developer-quality code of the three
- Deploys to Vercel instantly; free credits, Premium $20/mo
- Weakness: assumes you can read and finish code; not a designer-first tool
The decision in one question
What happens when you need a backend? In Figma Make, you hand off to developers — it was never meant to be the product. In Lovable, it is already there. In v0, you write it or wire in Vercel's ecosystem. If you are a designer validating an idea, that answer points to Figma Make. If you want customers next week, Lovable. If you sit between design and engineering, v0.
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Bottom line
Figma Make for designers, Lovable for founders, v0 for design engineers. All three are cheap enough to try in an afternoon, and the one that fits will be obvious by the second prompt.
