# Best Mobbin Alternatives for AI Design Research

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Source observed: 2026-10-17T08:55:55.877Z
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# Best Mobbin Alternatives for AI Design Research

We compare Lazyweb, Refero, Page Flows, UX Archive, Screenlane, UI Sources, Pttrns, Appshots, and other options for agentic design research. The page was updated June 2026.

## Ranked shortlist

### Mobbin — [mobbin.com](https://mobbin.com/)

A curated library of shipped iOS and web-app screens, websites, and step-by-step flows for benchmarking UI patterns.

- **Price:** Limited free tier. The pricing page checked October 4, 2026 lists Pro at **$10/month** and Team at **$16/member/month**, billed yearly; Enterprise is custom. Free excludes flows, search, MCP, and API. [Mobbin pricing](https://mobbin.com/pricing)
- **Library:** The homepage states **621,500+ screens, 323,900 flows, and 1,428 apps**. These are vendor-stated catalog figures. [Mobbin homepage](https://mobbin.com/)
- **Platform coverage:** iOS apps, web apps, websites, and interactive flow prototypes.
- **Agent access:** Official MCP is available on Pro, Team, and Enterprise. REST API access is available on Team and Enterprise; the API uses `https://api.mobbin.com`, including `POST /v1/screens/search`, with a Bearer token from Settings → API Keys. [Mobbin MCP](https://mobbin.com/mcp) · [API Quickstart](https://docs.mobbin.com/api/quickstart) · [MCP and API documentation](https://docs.mobbin.com/)
- **Best for:** Broad manual iOS and web-app-flow research, with paid access to flows, search, MCP, and API features.

### Refero — [refero.design](https://refero.design/)

A curated web-and-iOS reference library with screens, user flows, styles, Research mode, and an official MCP.

- **Price:** Limited free preview with three Research mode searches per day. Pro, Team, and Lifetime include MCP. The individual pricing card did not load when checked October 4, 2026, so use the live [Refero pricing page](https://refero.design/pricing) for current individual pricing.
- **Library:** The official MCP page states **142,000+ screens and 12,000+ user flows**. [Refero MCP](https://refero.design/mcp)
- **Platform coverage:** Websites, web apps, and iOS apps, with screens, flows, and styles.
- **Agent access:** Official MCP supports OAuth or Bearer authentication. Pro, Team, and Lifetime include up to **8,000 MCP tool calls per monthly usage period per licensed user**. [MCP Getting Started](https://doc.refero.design/mcp/getting-started)
- **Business access:** Usage-based pricing is listed at **$0.001/request**, with a **$2,000 minimum**—approximately 2 million requests—and volume scaling. Business inquiries use `mike@refero.design`. [MCP for Business](https://doc.refero.design/mcp/business)
- **Best for:** Web and iOS references, styles, and Research mode when paid MCP access is useful.

### Page Flows — [pageflows.com](https://pageflows.com/)

A paid, human-curated library of annotated screen-recording videos showing real user flows from iOS, Android, web, and email apps.

- **Price:** Paid only; no free tier. A **$2.95 non-refundable 3-day trial** is required. Yearly is **$99/year** (about **$8.25/month**), Quarterly is **$39/quarter**, and Team is **$199/year** for 3 seats, expandable to 10. Plans provide unlimited access. [Page Flows pricing](https://pageflows.com/pricing/)
- **Library:** The site states access to **1,000+ apps**. Current first-party counters show approximately **172,682 screenshots, 10,640 annotated user-flow videos, and 20,115 emails**. Older catalog figures and third-party flow counts conflict, so do not treat them as a single official total. [Team pricing and counters](https://pageflows.com/team-pricing/)
- **Platform coverage:** iOS, Android, web, websites, and email. We include web/SaaS flows such as CRM and checkout experiences, as well as marketing-page screens. [Web CRM flow](https://pageflows.com/web/flows/crm/) · [Website pricing-plan screens](https://pageflows.com/web/screens/pricing-plans/)
- **Content format:** Full-screen video recordings of complete flows—not only cropped screenshots—plus screen captures and UX annotations. [iOS onboarding flows](https://pageflows.com/ios/flows/onboarding/)
- **Agent access:** No official MCP, public API, SDK, export, Figma plugin, or browser extension is listed. An MCP registry search returned zero Page Flows servers. The only export-like feature is manual in-product batch screen download. [MCP registry search](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=pageflows)
- **Best for:** Human designers and PMs who want to watch annotated, end-to-end walkthroughs and are willing to subscribe.

### UX Archive — [uxarchive.app](https://www.uxarchive.app/)

A web workspace described as “The GitHub for UX Patterns.” We let designers collect app screenshots in Git-style repositories that can be nested, versioned, and forked.

- **Price:** Freemium. Free is **$0/month**. Plus is **$7/month** and includes unlimited private patterns, original-quality downloads, and fork-to-workspace. Pro is listed as **$12/month** and “Coming soon.” No annual option is shown. [UX Archive](https://www.uxarchive.app/) · [Plus plan](https://www.uxarchive.app/price/plus)
- **Library:** The flagship profile shows 9 public repositories and approximately **3,750 screens**; the shared gallery contains approximately 20 community repositories. Visible coverage is mobile-first and heavily weighted toward Korean apps, with ZARA and one clear web product, Perplexity. No official total library count is published. [Flagship profile](https://www.uxarchive.app/u/uxarchive) · [Shared gallery](https://www.uxarchive.app/share/r)
- **Agent access:** No MCP or public API is available. There is no developers/API/docs surface, and sign-in uses Google authentication. Public-page HTML scraping is the only possible access route, while forking and full-quality downloads require authentication.
- **Best for:** An individual designer who wants a lightweight personal workspace for collecting, versioning, and forking screenshot inspiration—not a large prebuilt corpus or structured agent interface.
- **Product distinction:** `uxarchive.app` is separate from the older `uxarchive.com` product associated with Waldo; the older domain redirects to `waldo.com`. [Redirect](https://uxarchive.com/)

### Screenlane — [screenlane.com](https://screenlane.com/)

Screenlane is no longer a standalone product. It merged with Page Collective and rebranded as Page Flows on July 10, 2024; `screenlane.com` redirects to `https://pageflows.com/`. [Rebrand announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/screenlane-and-page-collective-rebrand-to-page-flows-302194234.html) · [Redirect](https://screenlane.com/)

The former product was a paid, video-first library of recorded user flows and app screens. The current Page Flows offer has no free tier, a **$2.95 non-refundable 3-day trial**, individual pricing of **$39/quarter** or **$99/year**, and a **$199/year** team plan for 3–10 seats. It has no official MCP or public API, SDK, export, Figma plugin, or browser extension; manual batch screen download is the export-like feature.

### UI Sources — [uisources.com](https://uisources.com/)

UI Sources was rebranded to ScreensDesign; `uisources.com` redirects to `https://screensdesign.com/`. [Redirect](https://uisources.com/) · [ScreensDesign homepage](https://screensdesign.com/)

The product catalogs approximately **2,538 top-grossing iOS apps** with full onboarding, paywall, App Store, and end-to-end flow videos, plus estimated revenue and install signals.

- **Price:** One Full Pro tier: **$19/week**, **$39/month**, **$199 for 6 months** (about $33/month), or **$399/year** (about $33/month). The exact current ScreensDesign pricing page lists the same weekly, monthly, and six-month amounts and **$399/year**, with credit allocations of 50/week, 200/month, 1,200 per six months, and 2,400/year. [ScreensDesign pricing](https://screensdesign.com/pricing)
- **Agent access:** No official MCP or public API. `/mcp`, `/api`, and `/docs` fall back to the homepage. AI Create hands work off to coding agents but is not an agent-callable interface.
- **Integration:** Appshots Express is a Figma plugin; no other first-party programmatic integration is listed. [Appshots Express](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1462143963469714533/appshots-express)

### Pttrns — [pttrns.com](https://www.pttrns.com/)

A long-running, subscription-only gallery of curated Apple UI patterns and real App Store screenshots.

- **Platform coverage:** The pattern library covers **iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch**; it is Apple-focused rather than an Android pattern library. [Apple pattern library](https://pttrns.com/ios-patterns?scid=24)
- **Price:** **$12/month**, **$27/quarter**, or **$72/year** in USD. Each includes a **3-day free trial**. There is no one-time purchase option. [Pttrns membership](https://www.pttrns.com/)
- **Library:** Advertises **7k+ patterns and counting**. “Over 40,000 designers” is a user-count claim, not a screen count.
- **Agent access:** No MCP or public API, integrations, or export are listed. It is a human-facing, login-gated gallery.
- **Best for:** Focused Apple mobile-pattern research organized by pattern type, such as sign-up and onboarding. [Sign-up patterns](https://pttrns.com/patterns?scid=9)

### Appshots — [appshots.design](https://appshots.design/)

A freemium UX-research library of curated iOS, Android, and web app flows shown as recordings of complete user journeys.

- **Price:** Free sign-up, followed by a Full Pro plan billed through sibling product ScreensDesign: **$19/week**, **$39/month**, **$199/6 months**, or **$399/year** (about $33/month). Plans include AI Create credits. [Appshots pricing route](https://screensdesign.com/pricing)
- **Library:** The homepage claims **1,000+ flows across 400+ apps and 120,000+ screens**, growing by approximately **5 apps and 1.6K screens weekly**. The sibling iOS-focused ScreensDesign library lists **2,538 apps**. [Appshots](https://appshots.design/) · [ScreensDesign library](https://screensdesign.com/library)
- **Platform coverage:** iOS, Android, and web references. “Web Onboardings” on ScreensDesign means onboarding funnels for mobile apps, not general web-app product flows. [Web onboardings](https://screensdesign.com/web-onboardings)
- **Agent access:** No MCP or public API. The site is a JavaScript app with an internal, authentication-gated backend. The only first-party integration listed is Appshots Express for Figma.
- **Important distinction:** An unrelated CLI named `appshot` ships an MCP server; it is not Appshots. [Unrelated appshot CLI](https://github.com/chrisvanbuskirk/appshot)

## Feature matrix

| Criterion | Mobbin | Refero | Page Flows | UX Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Best for** | Broad manual iOS and web-app-flow research, with paid flows, search, MCP, and API access. | Web and iOS references, styles, Research mode, and paid MCP access. | Watching annotated video walkthroughs of leading apps’ end-to-end flows. | Personally collecting, versioning, and forking screenshot inspiration in a Git-style workspace. |
| **Pricing** | Limited free tier. Pro **$10/month**; Team **$16/member/month**, billed yearly; Enterprise custom. | Limited free preview. Pro, Team, and Lifetime include MCP; individual price was unavailable when checked October 4, 2026. | Paid only. **$2.95** non-refundable 3-day trial; **$99/year**, **$39/quarter**, or **$199/year** Team for 3–10 seats. | Free **$0/month**; Plus **$7/month**; Pro **$12/month**, listed “Coming soon”; no annual option shown. |
| **Library depth** | Vendor states **621,500+ screens, 323,900 flows, 1,428 apps**. | Vendor states **142,000+ screens and 12,000+ flows**. | Current counters show approximately **172,682 screenshots, 10,640 annotated flow videos, and 20,115 emails**; the site also states 1,000+ apps. | Approximately **3,750 screens** across the flagship profile and about 20 community repositories; no official total. |
| **Platform coverage** | iOS apps, web apps, websites, and interactive flow prototypes. | Websites, web apps, and iOS apps, with screens, flows, and styles. | iOS, Android, web, websites, and email, including SaaS flows and marketing-page screens. | Mobile-first, with some web; visible repositories include Korean apps, ZARA, and Perplexity. |
| **MCP/API** | Official MCP on Pro, Team, and Enterprise; REST API on Team and Enterprise. Free excludes both. | Official MCP with OAuth or Bearer authentication; up to **8,000 calls per monthly usage period per licensed user** on Pro, Team, and Lifetime. | No official MCP or public API; registry search returned no Page Flows server. | No MCP or public API; no developer documentation; Google-authenticated workspace. |
| **Agent readiness** | MCP returns screen images, annotations, and metadata and supports natural-language search in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and v0, with paid authentication. | Official MCP and research-oriented agent skill for products, styles, screens, and flows, with paid authentication. | Low: no MCP, API, or data export, and the video library is login-gated. | No structured agent access; scraping encounters authentication barriers for forking and full-quality downloads. |

## Why Lazyweb is different

We are not trying to be just another gallery. We build Lazyweb so agents can run competitive analysis, inspect real references, and read app-tree context and screen-version history while deciding what to build.

Our current limitation is that we do not yet have web-app flows, and our UI is less advanced for people who only want manual filtering.

## Source links

- [Mobbin MCP](https://mobbin.com/mcp)
- [Mobbin API Quickstart](https://docs.mobbin.com/api/quickstart)
- [Mobbin MCP and API documentation](https://docs.mobbin.com/)
- [Mobbin pricing](https://mobbin.com/pricing)
- [Mobbin homepage](https://mobbin.com/)
- [Refero MCP](https://refero.design/mcp)
- [Refero MCP Getting Started](https://doc.refero.design/mcp/getting-started)
- [Refero MCP for Business](https://doc.refero.design/mcp/business)
- [Refero pricing](https://refero.design/pricing)
- [Page Flows pricing](https://pageflows.com/pricing/)
- [Page Flows team pricing and current counters](https://pageflows.com/team-pricing/)
- [Page Flows homepage](https://pageflows.com/)
- [Page Flows Learn More](https://pageflows.com/learn-more/)
- [Page Flows MCP registry search](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=pageflows)
- [UX Archive homepage](https://www.uxarchive.app/)
- [UX Archive Plus plan](https://www.uxarchive.app/price/plus)
- [UX Archive profile](https://www.uxarchive.app/u/uxarchive)
- [UX Archive shared gallery](https://www.uxarchive.app/share/r)
- [Appshots homepage](https://appshots.design/)
- [ScreensDesign pricing](https://screensdesign.com/pricing)
- [ScreensDesign library](https://screensdesign.com/library)
- [ScreensDesign homepage](https://screensdesign.com/)
- [Pttrns homepage](https://www.pttrns.com/)
- [Pttrns Apple pattern library](https://pttrns.com/ios-patterns?scid=24)
- [Appshots Express Figma plugin](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1462143963469714533/appshots-express)

## TL;DR

We provide a sourced comparison of Mobbin alternatives for AI design research. Mobbin has the broadest stated catalog among the listed tools and offers official MCP and API access on paid plans. Refero combines web/iOS references, styles, Research mode, and an official MCP, but current individual pricing was unavailable at the observation date. Page Flows is subscription-only and strongest for full-screen annotated video journeys across iOS, Android, web, and email, but has no official MCP or public API. UX Archive is a small Git-style screenshot workspace with free and $7/month Plus access, not a large catalog or structured agent interface.

Screenlane now redirects to Page Flows. UI Sources now redirects to ScreensDesign, an iOS-focused library with AI Create but no MCP/API. Pttrns is a paid Apple-only pattern gallery with 7k+ patterns. Appshots is a freemium iOS, Android, and web-flow library with 1,000+ flows, 400+ apps, and 120,000+ screens; its Figma plugin is the principal first-party integration.

Lazyweb differentiates itself through agent-oriented competitive analysis, real UI references, app-tree context, and screen-version history. We do not yet provide web-app flows, and our human-facing filtering UI is less advanced than some gallery products.

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