If you’re a designer looking to speed up your workflow, add polish to your visuals, and take your Figma game to the next level, you’re in for a treat.
Here are 20 Figma plugins that can become essential tools in daily design work. Whether you’re wireframing, prototyping, or preparing high-fidelity designs, these plugins will save you time and elevate your creativity.
1. HTML to Design
This one’s a game-changer. Imagine being able to convert any website into a fully editable Figma design. No more manual tracing or redrawing interfaces from scratch. With just a few clicks, HTML to Design captures the layout, structure, and components of any site—perfect for:
- Competitive analysis
- Gathering design inspiration
- Quickly prototyping based on existing layouts
Say goodbye to tedious recreations and hello to instant editable designs!
2. Icons8 Background Remover
If you don’t have access to Figma’s native AI tools, this plugin is your go-to for removing image backgrounds. Just select the image, click remove, and boom—clean, transparent background in seconds. Perfect for mockups, profile images, and product shots.
3. Beautiful Shadows
Want to add some sleek depth to your UI elements? Beautiful Shadows helps you create realistic, smooth shadow effects that elevate your designs from flat to fabulous. It’s all about that subtle 3D feel that makes interfaces pop.
4. Pexels
Need stunning imagery? Pexels gives you direct access to millions of high-quality, royalty-free photos inside Figma. Perfect for mockups, backgrounds, or hero sections, and totally free for personal and commercial use.
5. Mesh Gradient
Take your backgrounds and illustrations to a new level with mesh gradients. This plugin lets you create beautiful, complex gradient patterns that bring sophistication and artistic flair to any design.
6. Autoflow
Creating user flows doesn’t have to be a hassle. Autoflow makes it easy to connect frames and screens to visualize journeys, app flows, and site navigation. A must-have for UX and interaction designers.
7. Vectorize Bitmap
This plugin is pure magic. It converts raster images (like PNGs and JPEGs) into scalable vector graphics. Great for:
- Logo redesigns
- Icon creation
- Repurposing low-res images
No more blurry, pixelated assets!
8. Stark
Accessibility matters, and Stark ensures your designs are inclusive and user-friendly. It includes:
- Contrast checkers
- Color-blind simulators
- Touch target analysis
Design with empathy—and compliance—in mind.
9. Mockup Studio
Transform your designs into realistic device mockups right inside Figma. With tons of templates and easy customization, Mockup Studio helps you present your work in the most professional way possible.
10. Tailwind CSS Color Generator
Struggle with color palettes? This plugin generates Tailwind-compatible color scales from a single hex code. It also creates variables and styles so you can focus on design instead of setup.
11. Content Reel (by Microsoft)
Say goodbye to placeholder overload. Content Reel lets you insert realistic content like names, job titles, avatars, and even images into your mockups. It’s especially helpful for UX flows and presentations that feel real from the start.
12. Lorem Ipsum
Sometimes you just need clean, simple dummy text—fast. This plugin gives you one-click access to placeholder content, with customizable lengths and structure.
13. Rename It
Tired of chaotic layer names? This plugin helps you batch rename layers, frames, or components using smart patterns and numbering. Perfect for cleaning up files before developer handoff or collaborating in teams.
14. Design Lint
Your secret weapon for clean design. Design Lint scans your file and flags:
- Inconsistent text styles
- Missing spacing
- Incorrect fills or strokes
It’s like a spell checker for your Figma project.
15. Blush
Want gorgeous illustrations with zero effort? Blush brings you editable, hand-drawn artwork from top illustrators—all customizable in Figma. Use them in onboarding screens, marketing pages, or anywhere that needs personality.
16. FigGPT
AI in your canvas! FigGPT acts like a ChatGPT assistant within Figma, helping with:
- Generating UX copy
- Writing alt text
- Renaming messy layers
- Giving design feedback
A major productivity boost.
17. Color Palettes
This plugin offers beautifully curated color palettes or lets you generate your own from images. Great for exploring new branding directions or enhancing visual harmony.
18. Chart
Bring data to life inside your designs. Chart supports real-time graph generation from CSV, JSON, or manual input. Ideal for dashboards, admin panels, and data-driven UIs.
19. Image Palette
Paste in any photo, and this plugin will extract its dominant colors into a palette. Great for moodboards or deriving brand colors from visual inspiration.
20. Instance Finder
Ever wonder where a component is hiding? Instance Finder reveals every usage across your Figma file, helping you manage large design systems or clean up unused elements.