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The Developer Tool for Visual Engineers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your code with AI • World's best, top-most agent recommended #1 Developer tool for Designers and Visual Engineers to design with Real Code.

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

Onlook at a glance

Category
Coding agents
Website
onlook.com

Is Onlook growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Onlook ranked #339 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #102 in Coding agents, with a momentum score of 23 out of 100.

New GitHub stars per week for Onlook12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 63, 56, 66, 54, 89, 53, 56, 53, 70, 73, 76, 80 new stars, an average of 66 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for Onlook
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 202663
Aug 16, 202656
Aug 23, 202666
Aug 30, 202654
Sep 6, 202689
Sep 13, 202653
Sep 20, 202656
Sep 27, 202653
Oct 4, 202670
Oct 11, 202673
Oct 18, 202676
Oct 25, 202680

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

Onlook alternatives

Other AI coding agents on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Coding agents ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1CindyCindy is an open-source AI agent app for desktop and mobile that combines Claude Code, Codex and Pi across your connected devices.8.8k–
#2OpenMausBotOpenMausBot is an open-source desktop chat app where each contact is a local Claude, Codex, or Grok CLI agent with its own computer.9.6k–
#3OrcaOrca is a desktop agent development environment for running Claude Code, Codex, and other CLI coding agents in parallel, each in its own…111.7k–
#4OpenBotOpenBot is an open-source, self-hosted template for AI coworkers that each get their own browser, files and granted tools, with every…9.1k–
#5Agent ReachAgent Reach is a Python CLI that lets AI agents search and read platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili and…107.2k–
#6Skill RecorderSkill Recorder is a desktop app that records your on-screen work session and turns it into a reusable agent Skill or Automation.5.6k–

All AI coding agents, ranked

Onlook FAQ

How popular is Onlook?

Onlook has 27.1k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 80 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 66 a week. That made it #102 among AI coding agents on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Onlook?

Other AI coding agents on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: Cindy (#1), OpenMausBot (#2), Orca (#3), OpenBot (#4), Agent Reach (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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