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Underrated Tools: Screen Studio, tldraw, and Excalidraw With AI
Screen Studio polishes screen recordings; tldraw and Excalidraw turn rough drawings into apps via AI.
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- 1The big idea
- 2Screen Studio
- 3tldraw
- 4Excalidraw
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Section 1
The big idea
Three tools you probably haven't heard of that punch way above their weight: Screen Studio (Mac, $89 once) makes any screen recording look like a polished tutorial. tldraw and Excalidraw let you sketch a UI on a virtual whiteboard and have AI generate working code from the drawing. Great for portfolios.
Some examples
- Screen Studio: record yourself coding for your Instagram, but it auto-zooms on the cursor and looks pro.
- tldraw: draw a wireframe of a login form on the canvas, click 'make real,' get working HTML.
- Excalidraw: same vibe, with their 'Mermaid to Excalidraw' AI for diagrams.
- Combine all three: sketch the app on tldraw, build it in Cursor, record the demo with Screen Studio.
Try it!
Try Excalidraw + AI today (free, browser). Sketch a tiny UI, hit 'wireframe to code,' see what comes out.
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