MarkupGen vs. Anima: Which Figma-to-Code Tool Fits Your Workflow?

Anima and MarkupGen both start from the same place — a Figma file — but they've grown in different directions. Anima has expanded into a wider AI app-building platform, while MarkupGen has stayed narrowly focused on one job: turning a Figma frame into clean, production-ready HTML, CSS or React. Which one fits depends on how much platform you actually want around that conversion step.

Quick answer: if you want a whole app scaffolded, hosted and wired to a database from a prompt or a design, Anima's broader toolset covers that. If you just want a Figma frame converted into clean, semantic HTML/CSS/Tailwind or React — nothing more, nothing less — MarkupGen is the more direct path.

What Anima does well

Anima started as a Figma plugin for exporting React, HTML/CSS and Vue code, and that core conversion capability is still there. On top of it, Anima has added an AI UX Design Agent that can generate a full interface from a description or a URL, a "Prompt-to-App" flow that scaffolds a working prototype from plain text, a built-in database that provisions storage automatically, and one-click publishing to a live URL. In practice, Anima today reads more like an AI app builder with Figma import as one entry point, rather than a converter you drop a design into and get code back out.

That breadth is genuinely useful if you want fewer tools in the stack — design, backend, and hosting handled in one place. It's less useful if all you actually need is the conversion step done well, since you end up paying for and navigating a larger platform to get there.

What MarkupGen does differently

MarkupGen does one thing: export a Figma frame with the plugin, let AI generate HTML, CSS and (optionally) React from the design's actual structure, refine content and layout in an in-app editor, then export. No app builder, no database provisioning, no hosting layer bundled in — just the design-to-code step, done thoroughly.

That focus shows up in the output specifics: Auto Layout maps directly to Flexbox instead of an approximation, responsive breakpoints come from the design's own resizing constraints, and you choose from six CSS output formats — Vanilla CSS, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Bulma, Materialize or Pico CSS — not just React and Vue. Every export also gets an automatic quality score, so you can judge how close it is to shippable before you commit to it.

Where each one fits

If you're building a whole product and want design, backend and hosting under one roof, Anima's broader platform is built for that. If you just need a Figma design turned into clean, editable frontend code — and want the widest choice of CSS output formats to match your existing stack — MarkupGen's free plan is the faster way to find out if the output holds up.

For a wider look at how the major Figma-to-code tools stack up, see Best Figma to Code Tools in 2026, or read the step-by-step guide to converting a Figma design to HTML.