What's Magicul actually known for?

Magicul is primarily a format converter for design files — Sketch to Figma, Adobe XD to Figma, PSD to Figma, and several other format pairs. Web-to-Figma is a feature they offer alongside the design file conversions, but it isn't the core of their product. If you specifically need web capture as a primary workflow, a dedicated tool like Export to Figma is built for that one job.

Should I use Magicul if I'm migrating from Sketch to Figma?

Yes — that's exactly the case Magicul is built for. Sketch → Figma, XD → Figma, PSD → Figma, and similar design-file migrations are Magicul's strongest workflow. Export to Figma doesn't do those at all. If you're migrating design files between tools, Magicul (or Anima's similar features) is the right choice.

Does Magicul handle modern JavaScript apps in its web capture?

Magicul's web capture is general-purpose. It handles standard marketing pages but isn't specifically tuned for heavy React/Vue/Svelte applications or AI-generated apps. The same server-side-fetch limitations that affect other capture-plugin tools apply — JS-heavy pages often come through as partial or flattened content. Export to Figma reads the resolved DOM in your browser, which makes modern JS sites work.

Can Magicul capture pages behind a login?

No. Magicul's web capture fetches URLs from outside your browser session, so anything that requires authentication is unreachable. Export to Figma uses your existing Chrome session — if you're already signed in, the page captures normally.

Can I use Magicul and Export to Figma together?

Yes — they serve different jobs. Use Magicul for design-file format conversions (Sketch → Figma, etc.). Use Export to Figma for capturing live websites into Figma. No conflict, and many designers have both because they solve different problems.

Magicul has limited free features per format with paid tiers for unlimited conversions. Export to Figma offers 10 free web captures every month, every month, with no card required — and Pro is $1/month during the launch promo for unlimited captures.

Magicul Alternative: Export to Figma (Free Chrome Extension)

TL;DR

Magicul is primarily a design-file format converter — Sketch to Figma, Adobe XD to Figma, PSD to Figma, and similar cross-tool migrations. Web-to-Figma is a feature they offer alongside the file conversions but it isn't where the product's focus lives.

Export to Figma does one thing: capture live websites into Figma as editable layers. If web capture is your primary workflow, a dedicated tool wins on focus, speed, and edge cases. If you're doing design-file migrations and web capture, you'd use both.

What each tool actually does

Magicul

Magicul started and remains best-known as a format converter for design files. The workflows that bring people to Magicul:

Sketch → Figma. A team is migrating from Sketch to Figma and wants their existing files in the new tool with layers preserved. Magicul handles this well.
Adobe XD → Figma. Similar story — XD files into Figma with structure intact.
PSD → Figma. Photoshop files into Figma. More complicated because PSD's structure is less semantic, but Magicul makes it work.

The web-to-Figma feature was added alongside these. It works for static marketing pages, but it isn't the core engineering investment. The same is true of Anima — both products do web capture as a secondary feature alongside their primary value.

Export to Figma

Export to Figma's only product is web-to-Figma. The extension runs inside Chrome, captures the resolved DOM after JavaScript has painted, and pastes the result into Figma as native editable layers.

Because that's the only thing the product does, the engineering attention goes into the cases other tools handle poorly: modern JavaScript apps, AI-generated builders (Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, Claude Code), authenticated pages, element-level capture, capturing on localhost.

Quick comparison

	Export to Figma	Magicul
Primary use case	Web → Figma capture	Cross-format design file conversion
Where it runs	Chrome extension	Web app + Figma plugin
Sketch → Figma		(core product)
Adobe XD → Figma		(core product)
PSD → Figma
Web capture (live URL)	(core product)	(secondary feature)
Captures behind login
Element-level capture
Free tier	10 captures / mo, forever	Limited per format

When Magicul is the right tool

The case where Magicul really shines isn't web capture — it's the cross-format migrations:

Sketch → Figma: Maybe the most common reason teams come to Magicul. Sketch files, Figma migration project, Magicul converts them with structure preserved. Export to Figma doesn't do this at all — wrong direction, wrong source.
Adobe XD → Figma: Adobe sunset XD and many teams are migrating. Magicul handles XD → Figma conversion well.
PSD → Figma: Older brand teams sometimes have important PSD files. Magicul converts these into editable Figma layers.

If any of those describe your current project, Magicul is the right tool and this page can stop here.

When Export to Figma is the right tool

The cases where Magicul's web capture stops working — and where Export to Figma takes over — are the same patterns that affect most server-side capture tools:

Authenticated content

Anything behind a login is unreachable from Magicul's web capture because the renderer fetches URLs from its own infrastructure with no access to your authenticated session. This is the same constraint that affects html.to.design, Anima Web Capture, and the older free "HTML to Figma" Figma plugins.

Export to Figma runs inside Chrome with access to your existing session. SaaS dashboards, admin views, paywalled content, member-only pages — all capture as cleanly as a public marketing page.

Modern JavaScript apps

React, Vue, Svelte, Next.js apps return near-empty HTML on the first request. Server-side capture tools often catch that intermediate state and rasterize it, which lands in Figma as a flat image instead of editable layers.

Export to Figma reads the DOM after JavaScript has finished painting. Modern SaaS UIs, app dashboards, and component-heavy sites capture as real editable layers.

AI-generated app builders

Lovable, Bolt.new, v0.dev, Cursor, Claude Code, Vercel — all produce React-heavy outputs with aggressive client-side rendering. These are the worst case for server-side fetch tools. Magicul isn't tuned for them specifically.

Export to Figma is tested against AI app builders every release. See the dedicated Lovable & Claude Code use case for the full workflow.

Element-level capture

A common designer ask: "I just want this hero" or "I just want this pricing block." Magicul's web capture grabs the whole page; you trim in Figma after.

Export to Figma supports element-level capture — hover the element, click, only that element comes into Figma as its own frame.

Pairing them

These tools don't conflict. A designer might use:

Magicul to convert their team's old Sketch files into Figma during a tooling migration.
Export to Figma to capture competitor sites and AI-generated app previews into Figma for the design work itself.

The use cases don't overlap, so there's no reason to pick one over the other unless you only need one direction.

How to install Export to Figma

Install Export to Figma from the Chrome Web Store — free, 30 seconds.
Pin the extension to your Chrome toolbar.
Open any website you want to capture. Click the extension. Paste into Figma.

Pricing

Export to Figma — Free: 10 captures per month, forever, no credit card.
Export to Figma — Pro: $1/month during the launch promo. Unlimited captures.
Magicul: Per-format pricing tiers. Check their site for current rates — the relevant question for you is whether you need design-file conversion at all.