Rayzia vs Figma

At a glance

What each tool is actually for

Figma is a UI tool at its core. It is where you lay out screens, build components, wire up design systems and hand work to engineers. It is vector-capable and exports SVG, but the shape tools serve interface work rather than freeform illustration. Its native format is .fig. If your day is spent on product screens and shared component libraries, that focus is a strength, not a limitation.

Rayzia starts from a different place. The document you edit is SVG, so what you draw is the file, with no round-trip conversion between an internal format and an export. That suits logos, icons, illustration and any work where the SVG itself is the deliverable. Rayzia runs GPU-accelerated in the browser through Skia, installs nothing, saves as you go and keeps working offline. If your work is illustration or clean vector output rather than interface layouts, that is the fit.

Collaboration, and being honest about it

This is the clearest split, and there is no point dressing it up. Figma's real-time multiplayer editing is the reason it won its market. Several people work in the same file at once, cursors and all, and the design-system tooling around that is genuinely strong. Rayzia does not try to match this. Rayzia's sharing is view-only links, so someone can open your work and look at it, but two people cannot co-edit a canvas live. If simultaneous team editing is central to how you work, Figma is the right tool.

Where Rayzia leans in is the AI. You connect the Claude or GPT account you already pay for, on your own key, and it draws, recolours, arranges and edits directly on the canvas while you watch. Every change is a single undo away, and Rayzia takes nothing extra for the AI itself because it runs on your key. Figma has its own AI features, but not this model of bringing your own assistant to produce editable vectors on the canvas. If that workflow appeals to you, it is the main reason to look at Rayzia.

So which should you pick?

Pick Figma if your work is team UI and product design, shared design systems, or anything that depends on live multiplayer collaboration. That is what it was built for and it leads the field. Rayzia is not trying to unseat it there, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.

Pick Rayzia if you are doing illustration, logo, icon or general SVG work and want a tool where the file is native SVG from the start. The other reasons to choose it are practical: your own AI drawing editable vectors on the canvas, a flat $8 per month for Pro instead of per-seat pricing, and a browser editor that runs offline on Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS and tablets with nothing to install. The free plan includes every tool, the AI, three cloud files and SVG and PNG export, so you can judge the fit before paying anything. Plenty of people will keep Figma for interface work and use Rayzia for the vector and illustration side. That combination is a reasonable answer, not a compromise.

Rayzia vs Figma: common questions