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Stitch + Bolt: Google's AI Design Tool Now Ships Directly to a Builder

Google Stitch added a one-click 'Send to Bolt' button, letting you go from AI-generated UI mockups to functional apps without manual handoff.

Google Stitch now has a “Send to Bolt” button that exports AI-generated UI designs straight into Bolt.new for building. No downloading files, no copy-pasting code, no Figma-to-dev handoff ritual.

The integration works two ways:

  • Full project export — send an entire Stitch project into a new Bolt build
  • Single page import — bring one Stitch page into a Bolt project you’ve already started
  • Functional layer added in Bolt — once the design lands, Bolt handles data storage, user auth, and hosting

Stitch generates high-fidelity UI from natural language prompts — Google positions it as an “AI-native software design canvas.” The tool produces mobile and web mockups, but mockups don’t run. That’s where Bolt fills the gap. You describe an app in Stitch, iterate on the visual design with prompts, then push it to Bolt where it becomes functional code.

Bolt CEO Eric Simons framed it directly: “The design and the build are now the same motion.”

This is the vibe-coding pipeline getting shorter. The old version: prompt an AI for a design, screenshot it, paste it into a builder, re-describe what you want. The new version: prompt Stitch, click one button, build in Bolt. Two tools, one seam.

NOTE

Stitch is still a Google Labs project — free to use at stitch.withgoogle.com, but expect the typical Labs caveats around availability and feature stability.

The practical move: if you’ve been using Bolt with text prompts or screenshots as your starting point, try designing in Stitch first. The structured export gives Bolt more to work with than a screenshot paste, and iteration on layout is faster in a dedicated design tool than in a code builder’s chat window.