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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree

VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.

AI tool that converts code into interactive flowcharts, sequence and class diagrams with plain-English explanations.

👁 12K/mo
Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.

👁 35M/mo69K
Angular.dev
✓ verifiedFree

Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.

👁 1.1M/mo
v0.dev
✓ verifiedFreemium

Vercel's AI app builder that generates and deploys full-stack React web apps and UI components from natural-language prompts.

👁 176K/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (3 flowcharts/day)
Monthly: $9.99/mo (unlimited)
Lifetime: $66.99 one-time (unlimited)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo ($5 included monthly credits, 7 messages/day limit)
Team: $30/user/mo ($30 included monthly credits per user)
Business: $100/user/mo ($30 included monthly credits per user, training opt-out by default)
Core features
  • in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
  • workspace source-code context sharing
  • support for custom, user-defined assistants
  • secure management of the user's OpenAI account
  • Code-to-flowchart, sequence, class and user-journey diagrams
  • AI code explanations
  • Support for major languages
  • Export to PNG, SVG, PDF
  • Editable, customizable diagrams
  • Shareable links; code not stored
  • Chat-to-app and website generation
  • Real-time prototype building
  • One-click deploy and hosting
  • Templates to start projects
  • Credit-based building with shared workspaces
  • You own your code and data
  • Signals-based fine-grained reactivity
  • Built-in control flow and deferrable views
  • Server-side rendering and hydration
  • First-party routing, forms and dependency injection
  • AI-forward tooling and MCP resources
  • In-browser tutorials and playground
  • Prompt-to-app generation of full-stack web applications
  • One-click deployment to Vercel hosting
  • GitHub sync for pushing generated code to a repository
  • Visual design mode for fine-tuning generated UI
  • Prebuilt templates for apps, dashboards and landing pages
  • Agentic building with automatic database and API connections
  • iOS app for building and editing on mobile
Use cases
  • getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
  • using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
  • quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
  • Understand and debug complex logic
  • Learn programming concepts visually
  • Create diagrams for documentation
  • Explain code in reviews
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • Building scalable single-page apps
  • Enterprise web application development
  • Performance-critical front ends
  • Learning modern web development
  • Developers rapidly prototyping and deploying web apps
  • Teams generating UI components and design systems from prompts
  • Non-technical founders building MVPs without writing code
  • Students and hobbyists building and publishing small projects
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