Curated UI references for coding agents · MCP + CLI
References your agent can see.
swaggin delivers curated design references as actual images into a coding agent's vision context.
- Open source
- Web-first
- Free to search
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How it works
01 · search
The agent searches free metadata
Styles, categories, patterns and written captions. No account, no OAuth, no key — search and taxonomy are unauthenticated.
02 · pick
It picks the references that fit
Queries arrive as feel — “make it feel like a terminal dev tool” — so the primary axis is aesthetic style, not app name.
03 · see
Screenshots land in its vision context
Image bytes, not links. The agent reads the typography, spacing and shadows off the pixels and builds from them.
Styles
The vocabulary agents are prompted in. Every style ships with written visual cues.
Terminal / dev-tool
Monospace-forward, dark canvas, dense information, hairline borders, keyboard-first affordances.
Elegant consumer
Generous whitespace, soft geometric or humanist type, warm canvas, restrained accent used only on links and focus.
Enterprise SaaS
Dense functional layouts, data tables, sidebars, tight vertical rhythm, blue-leaning trust palette.
Brutalist
Raw structure made visible.
Editorial
Magazine logic applied to software.
Minimal / Swiss
Grid-disciplined, neutral grotesque type, near-monochrome, almost no ornament.
Playful
High-personality colour, rounded forms, illustration and motion used liberally.
Glass / depth
Translucent layered surfaces, backdrop blur, inset highlights and tinted borders that simulate physical material.
Retro computing
Deliberate references to pre-web UI: beveled chrome, pixel type, CRT artefacts, window furniture.
Luxury
Slow, spacious, high-contrast.
Data dense
Charts, grids and numbers as the primary surface.
Marketing landing
Conversion-shaped long-scroll pages: hero, social proof, feature sections, pricing, CTA.
Gradient / vibrant
Mesh gradients, glows and saturated colour fields carrying the visual weight, usually over a dark canvas.
Mobile native
Platform-idiomatic mobile UI: tab bars, sheets, large titles, thumb-reachable actions, native motion curves.
Pricing
Metadata and search are free and unauthenticated. A license gates only hosted screenshot delivery.
Open source
Free
MIT, forever
- Full metadata and taxonomy
- Search over every curated site
- Capture screenshots yourself with the CLI
- MIT licensed tooling and captions
Lifetime
$199
one payment, forever
- Hosted screenshot delivery
- 10,000 image requests / month fair use
- swaggin login <key>
- Every future registry release
Monthly
$9.99
per month
- Hosted screenshot delivery
- 10,000 image requests / month fair use
- swaggin login <key>
- Cancel any time
Found something beautiful?
Design taste should be crowdsourced — and credited. Send a URL and one sentence on what a designer would steal from it; accepted finds carry your name in the registry data, permanently.
