Design Tools, ranked for AI search.

Visual design, prototyping, and creative collaboration. Every site here is scanned for 30+ AEO and SEO signals and ranked by its overall readiness score.

  • 15 of 15 sites scanned
  • Ranked by overall readiness score
  • Re-scanned every week

Every site on the board.

Score is the scanner's overall grade out of 100. AEO is the subset of signals that decide whether an answer engine can cite a page. Unscanned sites sit at the bottom until the next weekly crawl.

RankSiteGradeScoreAEO
1Figmafigma.comB8463
2Sketchsketch.comB8163
3Pitchpitch.comB8156
4Framerframer.comB8156
5Riverive.appB8163
6LottieFileslottiefiles.comB8163
7Zeplinzeplin.ioB8056
8Penpotpenpot.appB8075
9Miromiro.comC7844
10Whimsicalwhimsical.comC7844
11Lucidchartlucid.coC7650
12InVisioninvisionapp.comC7456
13Splinespline.designC7250
14Adobe Creative Cloudadobe.comD6963
15Canvacanva.comD6556

Cited by AI answer engines.

In the week of Oct 25, 2026, b/cited asked ChatGPT (gpt-4.1-mini), Claude (claude-sonnet-4-6) and Perplexity (sonar) 5 design tools buying questions and recorded which sites each answer cited. 15 of 15 prompt-and-engine pairs completed.

This is engine output, not a scanner score. A citation is not a recommendation or an endorsement, and the prompts are a sample, not a census. Counts are out of the prompts each engine actually answered that week.

SiteChatGPTClaudePerplexityBest rank
Figma3 of 54 of 52 of 5#1
Adobe Creative Cloud5 of 52 of 51 of 5#1
Canva2 of 52 of 51 of 5#1
InVision2 of 51 of 50 of 5#2
Sketch2 of 51 of 50 of 5#3
Zeplin1 of 51 of 50 of 5#2
Penpot0 of 51 of 50 of 5#5
Framer0 of 51 of 50 of 5#6

Also cited, not on the board

  • uxdesign.cc — cited on 3 of 15 pairs, best #3 (ChatGPT, Claude)
  • guideflow.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)
  • uxpilot.ai — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)
  • nngroup.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #2 (Claude)
  • bilt.me — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #3 (Perplexity)
  • marq.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #3 (Claude, Perplexity)
  • smashingmagazine.com — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #3 (ChatGPT, Claude)
  • visme.co — cited on 2 of 15 pairs, best #4 (ChatGPT, Claude)
  • comparegen.ai — cited on 1 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)
  • toolradar.com — cited on 1 of 15 pairs, best #1 (Perplexity)

How the scores are calculated.

30+ signals, nine categoriesIndexing, metadata, social cards, structured data, AEO, international, mobile, security headers, and Core Web Vitals.

An AEO score on topWeights the signals that decide whether an answer engine can cite a page: llms.txt, AI crawler allowance in robots.txt, and FAQPage and Author schema.

Re-scanned weeklyEvery domain is crawled again each week. Grades are the scanner's, not editorial picks.

Citations kept apartEach category also shows which sites three answer engines cited on a fixed set of buying questions. Engine output, dated, never a rating.

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