Same promise, different craft
Figma proved that serious design tools belong in the browser. aukimi takes that premise somewhere else: art, 3D, video, sound and a game engine rather than interface design.
These two are rarely an either/or. Figma is where an interface is designed and handed to developers. aukimi is where the artwork, the models, the sound and the game itself are made.
Side by side
| Criterion | aukimi | Figma |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Art, 3D, video, audio, game production | Interface design, prototyping, design systems |
| Where it runs | A browser tab | A browser tab, plus a desktop wrapper |
| Real-time collaboration | Yes, with read-only guests | Yes — the benchmark for it |
| Vector editing | Vectra — illustration, SVG/PDF/EPS export | Excellent, tuned for interface work |
| Raster painting | Inkwell | Not a painting tool |
| 3D | Sculpt, Retopo, Pigment, Render, Matter | None |
| Video and audio | Fusion and Pulse | None |
| Game engine | Engine, with native export | None |
| Prototyping and developer handoff | Not offered | Core strength: prototypes, specs, code inspection |
| Plugin ecosystem | None yet | Large and active |
Both are browser-native, and that is not a coincidence
Figma made the case that a demanding creative tool can live in a tab and be better for it: nothing to install, a link instead of a file, and several people in the same document. aukimi is built on the same conviction, applied to disciplines that used to demand a workstation — sculpting, rendering, video, a game engine.
Where the overlap actually is
Vector drawing is the only real overlap. Vectra is an illustration tool — bezier work, boolean operations, typography on paths, gradient meshes, export to SVG, PDF and EPS. Figma's vector engine is tuned for interfaces: constraints, auto-layout, components and variants. Neither is a good substitute for the other.
What aukimi has that Figma does not attempt
A 3D pipeline, a video editor, a digital audio workstation, a game engine that exports native builds, and multiplayer servers for the games you make with it. Figma has never claimed any of these, and this page is not pretending it fell short at them.
When Figma is the right choice
For interface work, it is not close:
- You are designing an app or a website and need prototypes, flows and states.
- You maintain a design system: components, variants, shared libraries, tokens.
- Developers work from your files — inspection, specs and handoff are the point.
- Your team already lives there, with comments and review in the same document.
A common answer is both: the interface in Figma, the art, sound and 3D in aukimi.
Comparisons
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Bring the art side into the browser too
The same immediacy you already expect from a design tool, applied to 3D, video and sound.
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