Styles Gallery vs VisBug
VisBug · built at Google · 200,000 users · No new release on GitHub since 2020
VisBug is a design toolbar for the browser: point at an element and change its padding, colour, font or position with the keyboard. It is a precision instrument, and it is aimed at one element at a time.
Styles Gallery answers a different question. Instead of “change this element”, it asks “what should this whole page look like?” — you pick a direction from a curated gallery and it lands on your real, running site in one click.
The clearest way to say it: this is not a per-element editor, and it is not trying to become one.
Side by side
| VisBug | Styles Gallery | |
|---|---|---|
| What you point at | One element you click | Whole page at once (design tokens), never one element at a time |
| Where the design comes from | You decide every value yourself | Pick a direction from a curated gallery — 83 styles, 127 palettes, 102 pairings — and see it on your live page. |
| Typography | Change the font on the element you selected | 102 curated pairings plus all 1,800+ Google Fonts, headings and body separately, with weight / letter-spacing / line-height sliders |
| Comparing directions | Not a feature — you undo and try again | Park 2–4 directions and flip between them with 1–4 or the arrow keys |
| Taking it to code | Copy the CSS of the element you changed | Copy the direction as CSS, or as a build-ready prompt with exact token values for Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable, Bolt or Copilot |
| Surviving a reload | Changes are gone on refresh | Pin a site and your picks reapply on every reload (Pro) |
| Maintenance | No new release on GitHub since 2020 | Actively developed |
What VisBug does better
Element-level control, a well-designed keyboard model, and inspection tools (guides, accessibility checks, distance measurement) that have no equivalent here.
Stay with VisBug if you want to nudge one component's padding, drag an element around, or measure spacing between two things. Styles Gallery changes design tokens — colours, type, corners, shadows, tempo — across the whole page, and it will never move a single button by four pixels for you.
Privacy
Styles Gallery collects no browsing data. It reads the page you are looking at, in your tab, to restyle it — and that is all. Your picks are stored locally in your browser; no page content or history leaves your machine. See the privacy policy.
Try it on the site you have open
Free for every palette, font pairing, font search, the compare bar, screenshots and export, plus ten curated design directions. It works on every site — exactly on Tailwind v4, approximately everywhere else (what that means).
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