About Trace UI
Trace UI is browser extension first dev and design tool that reads any website and automatically extracts UI components, design system and assets. It refines the messy computer generated code of any website into clean usable code and design ready to copy-paste directly in projects or AI agents. Tweak them according to your design system, save them permanently to your library, export visual components as clean React + Tailwind or HTML + CSS code, push design tokens to Figma, connect the entire UI library to AI coding tool like Claude, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, etc. via MCP and start shipping proven UIs with few clicks.
One tool replaces ColorZilla, SVG Grabber, MiroMiro, and more. Designed for creatives and built for coders.
Product Story
Trace UI is built to solve one problem: how can we design and develop proven and tested UIs that could guarantee 100% usability and provide the best user experience. The simple answer is to take inspiration from UIs of well-established products and brands that are used by millions of users.
“Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well.” - George Foreman
This is the exact premise upon which Trace UI is built. We’ve experienced it ourselves in our workflow while doing competitive research or simply looking for inspiration. Whenever we came across any well-designed UI, we either saved it by taking screenshots or saving its link for reference. And to implement them in our projects, we had to either use the Figma design and ask the AI agent to create one by providing the Figma design or a screenshot, or by providing the inspected code from the webpage. This did the job with 80% accuracy, but the process kept repeating, so we initially built it to solve our own problem. After observing similar workflows among many designers and developers, it grew into Trace UI.
The goal is to make UI inspiration actionable, not just collectible. Every saved UI component, color, font, icon, asset, typography, etc should be one click away from your codebase, Figma file, or AI agent. It is built by designers and developers, shaped by the people using it. If something breaks or you want something added, write to us — we read every message.
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What Trace UI does
- TraceHover any element on any page and click it. TraceUI reads it and converts it into clean, usable code, stripped of the extra wrapper divs and utility classes of the original.
- EditEdit the component visually using the presets panel, with AI, or directly in the code, with a real-time visual preview.
- ExportGet clean code in React, Vue, HTML, Tailwind, or CSS, or hand a clean prompt to your AI agent. Push the same component to Figma as a real, editable design.
- LibraryEvery capture is saved to your library, named and synced, so the component you liked last month is still there when you need it.
- AssetsIcons, images, gifs and videos are extracted as-is, colors and sprite definitions intact. Copy the markup, or save the file.
- Design systemColors, type scale, spacing, radii and shadows from any webpage, exported as CSS variables, JSON, or a prompt for your AI agent.
