Rebuilding UI that already exists, eyeballing spacing values, and manually recreating every button, card, and nav component in Figma, sucks💩. So we built Web Mode: a browser extension that captures any website and converts it into structured, editable Figma files.
Not screenshots. Not flat images. ❖ Actual layers, extracted styles, and semantic naming.
I What can Web Mode capture?
Public websites, Localhost (localhost:3000), Staging environments behind VPN, Authenticated pages after login, Specific states (modals open, dropdowns expanded, error messages visible) If your browser can render it, Web Mode can capture it.
II How Web Mode Works:
Capture, Convert, Design
1. Capture: Install the browser extension (Chrome, Safari, or Firefox). Navigate to any page. Click the Clone Website .
2. Convert: Open the Web Mode Figma plugin. Click Paste from Extension. Web Mode reconstructs the captured DOM as native Figma elements: Colors, typography, and shadows map to extractable Figma styles. Images and SVGs embed as assets. Layer names derive from semantic HTML class names."
3. Design: Your capture arrives as an editable frame. Change copy. Adjust spacing. Swap colors. Everything behaves like you built it yourself—because in Figma's eyes, you did.
III When is needed?
Design system drift. Your team shipped features faster than you could document them. The Figma library is now a museum of what you intended to build, not what's actually live. You need to reverse-engineer production to catch up.
Competitive analysis theater. You're "analyzing" a competitor's interface by taking screenshots and squinting. You can't measure their spacing. You can't extract their colors accurately. You can't overlay their patterns against yours.
The missing source files problem. The client's website/saas exists. The original design files don't. Before you can propose improvements, you need to rebuild what's already there from scratch.
Dev-design drift. Miss-match between production and mockups. Now there's no single source of truth, and every conversation about "what it should look like" involves someone sharing their screen and saying "well, actually..."
Every hour spent rebuilding existing UI is an hour not spent on decisions that matter.
IV Limitations worth knowing
No tool handles everything. Web Mode is powerful, but not magic. Here are some current limitations:
Animations don't translate - Figma doesn't support layer-level animation. If the font isn't installed locally or available through Figma's font service, you'll get a fallback. Canvas and WebGL may rasterize. Dynamic content captures as static. React state, real-time data, conditionally rendered elements, you get a snapshot of the current render.
For typical marketing pages, dashboards, and SaaS interfaces: expect 80-95% accuracy. The remaining 5-20% is usually edge cases that would need manual cleanup regardless of how you captured them.
Or you can apply for Founder's Club, our early-access program available to users who are the perfect match, and not mind occasional bugs.