Carthagine is an AI tool focused on converting Figma designs into React code. According to the official introduction, it can turn design files into production-grade code within minutes, which it calls "the biggest paradigm shift in the front-end field in the AI era."
Purpose Carthagine's core purpose is to bridge the gap between design and front-end development. It is aimed at developers and teams that need to quickly turn Figma designs into React code, with goals including: eliminating the handoff cost between design and development, experimenting with and iterating on user experience at extremely high speed, giving every developer full-stack capabilities, and ending the long-standing inconsistency between Figma and codebases.
Main capabilities
- Pixel-level fidelity: The official description says its output is almost completely consistent with the Figma design, down to colors and padding.
- Reasonable component hierarchy: Unlike simple conversion tools, Carthagine outputs a deeply nested functional component hierarchy with props, events, and state.
- State awareness and placeholder logic: Components have state awareness, and placeholder logic is managed centrally, waiting to be connected to application state.
- Complete properties and events: From task images to the events of every clickable element, all props are already in place.
- Follows coding style: The output follows the user's coding style.
- Agent workflow: Its novel agent workflow gives rise to complex reasoning and planning in these tasks, which the official description considers beyond the reach of today's AI programming tools and even few-shot prompting of frontier models, and its scalability as task complexity increases is significantly better than the existing state of the art.
How to use Users input a Figma design, and Carthagine (version c1) outputs production-grade React code for an entire web application screen in about 5 minutes. The final output in the official demo was not cherry-picked or edited, and there was no human guidance.
Use cases
- Quickly convert a full-screen static design into a usable React component hierarchy.
- Quickly experiment with and iterate on UX before or during development.
- Provide acceleration for front-end implementation for full-stack developers.
Current status and limitations The official description clearly states that Carthagine's beta phase has ended. Its engine has now been merged into Mowgli, rebuilt and better than ever. Carthagine's Figma import technology is now inside Mowgli, and after rebuilding it can handle even the largest Figma files—hundreds of frames on a single canvas. Mowgli has pixel-level React code export capabilities, and can also iterate on the output, design more screens in the same style, and make quick modifications. The official description also provides several explanatory links about Mowgli, including how Mowgli handles Figma import, using Mowgli's code export to provide Claude with pixel-level references, polishing designs or supplementing missing screens and new features, and learning about Mowgli and its motivations.
Other information The official description provides contact emails hello@carthagine.ai and press@carthagine.ai, and the copyright information is © 2025 Carthagine. Apart from the above, facts about pricing, platform support, specific installation steps, and so on are not yet provided in the materials.
