Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Silk 2
Draw beautiful flowing mandala-like art
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Silk 2 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Trickle - Magic Canvas ▲1,064Hey HN! Introducing Trickle Magic Canvas: the world’s first Agentic Canvas, where you can visually co-create apps and websites with AI, from idea to production. Why is a canvas better? Most AI tools today rely on linear chats or text prompts. We believe that limits creativity and clarity. Canvas changes the game. 1. Every version & page at a glance. Each page and sub-page lives on a timeline. You can quickly browse, edit, and preview progress like a living, visual document — no more digging through chat logs or scattered states. 2. The canvas is the context. Unlike linear chats, you can…
2025 · trickle.so · its alternatives →
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Create beautiful flowing art with Silk.
2012 · new.weavesilk.com · its alternatives →
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Draw with radial symmetry, or generate a mandala from 19 motif types, 24 palettes and 9 colour harmonies. One page, nothing saved, no accounts.
Sep 2026 · mrdee.in · its alternatives →
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Silk + import.io▲220Turn millions of Web pages into your own visualizations
2015 · its alternatives →
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MandalaGaba is a free online mandala creation suite for designing, sharing and collaborating on mandalas, drawings, sketches, doodles and works of digital art!
2018 · mandalagaba.com · its alternatives →
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Mandala▲5An interactive and addictive app for drawing mandalas
2016 · mandalagaba.com · its alternatives →
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Make 8-Bit Art!▲107An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.
2014 · make8bitart.com · its alternatives →
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Sketch2Code▲407Turn hand-drawn design into a HTML with AI. By Microsoft.
2019 · learn.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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CanvAi▲224Draw, compose, and generate AI art on an infinite canvas
Dec 2025 · canvai.co · its alternatives →
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Free Art, Music (even Code) for Indie Game Devs
2015 · opengameart.org · its alternatives →
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →
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