Design Taste vs Mobbin

Visual taste, not screen patterns.

Design Taste is 12,427+ hand-tagged design references — branding, editorial, posters, packaging, web. Search by industry, mood, style, or palette from the web, Figma, or Claude Desktop.

They solve different problems

Mobbin is the right tool when the question is “how do real apps handle this screen?” It catalogs end-to-end flows from shipped products — onboarding, paywalls, empty states, settings — so you can see how mature teams resolved a specific UI problem. If you’re designing an app, it pays for itself fast.

Design Taste is the right tool when the question is upstream of that. Before you reach for a settings layout, you’re deciding what the brand feels like — the palette, the type, the mood, the shape. The catalog is hand-tagged across industries and visual mediums, not just app screens. The two stack: Design Taste for taste, Mobbin for product patterns.

At a glance

 Design TasteMobbin
What it coversBranding, editorial, posters, packaging, web — visual taste broadly.Mobile and web app UI patterns, captured from real products.
Unit of referenceA single hand-tagged image with industry, mood, style, and palette.Whole user flows and screen-by-screen captures of shipped apps.
Best used forSetting visual direction: brand mood, palette, typography feel.Designing app screens: onboarding, settings, paywalls, empty states.
Where it runsWeb, Figma plugin, and Claude Desktop via MCP.Web app, iOS app, and Figma plugin.
Library size12,427+ hand-tagged references.Hundreds of apps captured at the flow and screen level.

Which one you want

If the question is “how should this paywall behave,” that’s Mobbin’s job. If the question is “what should this brand feel like before I open Figma,” that’s Design Taste’s.