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What's New in Pluck: Studio, Hosted Generation, the Desktop App and MCP

October 16, 2026·Pluck Team·5 min read
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It has been quiet on this blog since May. It has not been quiet in the product. Over the summer Pluck grew from a browser extension that copies components into a design tool with a library, a canvas, image generation, a desktop app and an MCP server for coding agents. This post is the roundup. Each section links to a deeper post we are publishing over the next three weeks.

The extension still does one job well

Nothing about the core workflow changed. Click the Pluck icon, hover over any element on any website, click to select it, and copy it as an AI prompt, as editable Figma layers, or as raw HTML. The AI prompt carries the full element tree with computed styles for every node, a record of how the component changes at each responsive breakpoint, and a screenshot copied alongside the text. That is still the fastest way we know to hand a real design to Claude, Cursor, Codex, Lovable, Bolt or v0.

What changed is where a pluck goes after you copy it.

Pluck Studio: a library and a canvas

Every pluck is now saved to your library in Pluck Studio, with its screenshot, source page and full style data. The library is a reverse-chronological list you can filter by site, so the pricing table you grabbed three weeks ago is one click away instead of lost in a clipboard.

Studio also has boards. A board is a canvas with four kinds of card: plucks, uploaded images, prompts and generations. You connect plucks and images into a prompt as references, run the prompt, and new generation cards appear to its right. Connect two or more generations back into a prompt and you can revise each one separately or combine them into a single image.

The point is to mix. Take the hero from one site, the card style from another, your own logo, and write a brief that pulls them together. We wrote up the whole model in Introducing Pluck Studio, and there is a start-to-finish walkthrough in Redesign a Landing Page with References.

Hosted generation, paid with credits

Prompts on a board can run on our servers. Pick a model or leave it on Auto, which prefers models that render UI text cleanly for text-heavy briefs and picks one that accepts all of your references. The hosted lineup today is Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2, Seedream 5 Pro, Seedream 5 Lite, Ideogram V4 and Recraft V4.1.

Hosted runs spend credits. A standard-quality generation costs roughly 8 to 40 credits depending on the model, and Studio shows the exact cost before you click run. One credit is about one cent. Plucking never spends credits, on any plan.

Aspect ratio, quality and templates

Each prompt card now has two run settings. Aspect ratio can be Auto or a fixed shape, from 1:1 and 16:9 through 9:16 and 21:9. Quality is Draft, Standard, High or Max, and each model maps those tiers to its own options, so Nano Banana 2 goes from 0.5K to 4K while Ideogram V4 goes from Turbo to Quality. If a model does not offer a tier, the nearest one is used.

Above the individual run, there are prompt templates in Account → Image generation. Generic is the default and follows your prompt as written while keeping connected images faithful. Website frames results as a 16:9 web page, Mobile app as a 9:16 screen, Graphic design for posters and social assets, and Custom lets you write standing instructions that apply to every run. Each generation remembers which template produced it.

Details in Prompt Templates in Pluck Studio and Aspect Ratio, Quality and Model.

The desktop app, and free generation with Codex

Pluck Studio also ships as a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, available at /download. It is the same Studio, with one addition: a prompt set to the Local model runs through the Codex CLI on your own machine, at no cost in credits. Install Codex, sign in, open the board in the desktop app, and run. We explain the setup in Generate Designs for Free with the Pluck Desktop App and Codex.

The desktop app updates itself, so you only install it once.

Board chat

Every board has a chat panel. Ask it what is on the board, or tell it what to change: "add the two navbars from stripe.com as references", "duplicate this prompt and run it at 9:16", "combine the last three generations". The chat uses the same tools that external agents get, so anything an agent can do, you can ask for in plain language.

MCP for coding agents

Pluck has an MCP server at https://api.pluck.so/mcp. Add it to Claude Code with one command:

claude mcp add --transport http pluck https://api.pluck.so/mcp

Sign in with OAuth in the browser the first time, and your agent can list boards, create them, search your library by site or text, add plucks to a board, run prompts, and view the resulting images. There is also a local option that runs the MCP server bundled with the desktop app using a personal access token, with the exact command generated for you in Account → Agent access.

This is the piece we are most excited about. Your library of real UI becomes something an agent can pull from while it builds. The setup guide is Connect Pluck to Claude Code, Cursor and Codex with MCP.

New plans

The old $9.99 a year Unlimited plan is retired for new signups; existing subscribers keep it. In its place:

  • Free: 20 prompt plucks and 3 Figma plucks a month, HTML copies, the Studio library and boards, and free local generation with the desktop app. No credit card.
  • Starter, $10 a month: unlimited plucks in every mode and 1,000 credits every month.
  • Pro, $29 a month: 3,500 credits every month and a priority generation queue.
  • Studio, $79 a month: 10,000 credits every month.

Yearly billing gets two months free, and any paid plan can top up 1,000 credits for $10. We go through the reasoning and the maths in Plans and Credits.

What is next on this blog

We are publishing a post a day for the next few weeks: setup guides for Claude Code, Lovable, v0 and Bolt, a tutorial that rebuilds a pricing table in Tailwind, a plain-language piece on the legality of copying website designs, and explainers on how Pluck captures breakpoints and why screenshots make poor prompts.

If you have not tried Pluck since spring, the extension is free on the Chrome Web Store, and Studio is waiting with whatever you pluck next.