Overview
Ardot is an AI design agent collaboration platform launched by Tencent, supporting macOS client and web version, free to use.
Upgraded from the initial "AI-assisted design tool" to an agent collaboration platform, its core selling point is that natural language generates not images but editable vector design drafts, supporting real-time multi-person collaboration, covering the entire chain from inspiration to code export. It integrates multiple domestic large models at the base and iterates extremely fast.
Key Features
- AI Assistant: Supports intelligent renaming, image generation, link-to-UI, AI search, and AI collaboration in every design step.
- Text-to-UI: Input natural language descriptions, AI automatically generates layouts and components, quickly building draft structures.
- Image to Design Draft: Upload images, intelligently layer them, and convert into editable design drafts.
- AI Local Redraw: Select a local area of the design draft and use AI to regenerate layout and content.
- Multi-Model Ecosystem: Fully integrates multiple domestic large models, with the AI assistant supporting model selection and switching.
- Professional Vector Editing: From W3C-standard skewing and 3D rotation to enhanced shape tools, meeting advanced design needs in one place.
- Dynamic Layout System: Grid layout, percentage positioning, and real proportion locking ensure perfect presentation on any screen size.
- Flexible Design System: Global synchronization of components, colors, and text styles, freely combinable and reusable with one click.
- Enterprise-Grade Security and Collaboration: Intelligent permission center, comprehensive behavior tracking, seamless personnel and asset management, covering the full security process of permissions, records, and handovers.
- Design-to-Development Delivery: Efficiently view annotation information, access all component options and corresponding code, quickly copy CSS/iOS/Android code.
Use Cases
- Primary tool for UI/UX designers in daily design work
- Product managers quickly generate editable prototypes using natural language
- Independent developers integrate rapid design and code export
- Design teams collaborate in real-time with unified asset management
- Domestic teams replacing Figma (no proxy needed, fast speed, data compliant)
Pros
- Free to use, no payment required to experience all features
- Generated results are editable (vector, not images), a key differentiator
- Extremely fast iteration, continuously updated with new features
- Integrates multiple domestic large models, AI capabilities constantly enhanced
- Backed by Tencent, stable domestic access, data compliant
- Supports macOS client and web version, usable offline
- Code export and development mode, bridging the entire design-to-development chain
Pricing
Free to use, supports macOS client and web version.
Summary
Ardot is the biggest variable in the domestic design tool market in 2026. It is not just a domestic alternative to Figma, but a new species that deeply integrates AI Agent capabilities into the design process—its core ability to generate editable UI from natural language is currently unique in China. For teams needing AI-assisted design, prioritizing data compliance, or struggling with Figma access issues, now is the best time to try Ardot.