Compare · Godly → Recent · July 2026
A Godly alternative you can actually build from.
Godly was the taste bar of the web-design gallery world — a hard curation line and gorgeous full-page captures. In 2026 it sunset into Recent. If you're searching for a godly.website alternative, the honest answer depends on one question: do you want to look at great design, or ship it?
01 · Credit where it's due
Godly earned its reputation.
No astroturf here: Godly was genuinely loved. The curation bar was unusually hard, the full-page screenshots were high-resolution, and the product itself was praised as craft — “godly.website itself is a very well-executed web app. Super snappy site here” (Hacker News). On Reddit it was simply “my new go-to for everything” (r/web_design). Its successor, Recent, carries the same curator's eye into motion and branding work — and it's free.
If what you want is a daily feed of ambitious visual work to keep your taste sharp, Recent is the true heir. Bookmark it. This page isn't here to talk you out of that.
02 · The complaint that never went away
The most-upvoted criticism of taste galleries is a build problem.
“I can't get inspired by something that I can't replicate without a team of multidisciplinary people doing 3D design, WebGL, etc.”
— Hacker News discussion of godly.website (88-comment thread)
Assembled all together, most of these felt the same. I got numb. A big sans-serif claim, gradient-colored text, sometimes a big 3-D toy to fumble about with
— Hacker News, same discussion
Even if you set the filter to web UI, it tends to showcase the sales page and not the UI
— Hacker News, same discussion
None of this was Godly's failure — it was the ceiling of the format. A screenshot ends exactly where your build begins. You can see that a hero is beautiful; you can't see that it's beautiful because the heading is 64px at weight 510 with −1.41px tracking, or that the palette holds one accent reserved for actions. Godly itself never offered an API, exports, or an agent surface — it was, by design, a feed for human eyes.
03 · What “replicable inspiration” looks like
Mozaika decodes the screenshot into a spec.
Mozaika indexes 300+ real production sites — Stripe, Linear, Vercel, Ramp, Supabase — and measures each one from the live DOM: exact type sizes, weights and tracking; color roles with usage semantics; spacing, radii, buttons; section by section. Your agent queries it over MCP while it builds. Measured, not eyeballed.
your product
{
"heading": {
"font": "Inter Variable",
"size_px": 64,
"weight": 510,
"tracking": "-1.41px"
},
"palette": [
{ "#08090A" // canvas },
{ "#F7F8F8" // heading text },
{ "#5E6AD2" // action — sole accent }
]
}
04 · The honest triage
Where Godly's audience should actually go.
05 · Is Mozaika your Godly replacement?
What Mozaika is — and isn't.
Mozaika is for you if…
- You (or your agent) build web products and want output that doesn't look AI-generated
- You kept saving Godly shots and thinking “how do I make this?”
- You work in Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and want design context over MCP
- You'd rather read one accent color, a type scale and real radii than eyeball pixels
It isn't, if…
- You want experimental 3D/WebGL agency showpieces — that's Recent's territory, not ours
- You need iOS/Android app screens — we index web products only (Mobbin owns mobile)
- You want the biggest possible library — ours is ~330 products and growing, not 621k screens
- You want a pure moodboard — our gallery browses fine, but the product is the decoded spec
See it rather than take our word: the side-by-side proof runs the same prompt with no reference, a free DESIGN.md, and a Mozaika spec — or open a free decoded system like Linear's or Stripe's right now, no account needed.
06 · FAQ
Quick answers.
What happened to godly.website?
In 2026, godly.website began redirecting to recent.design with a “Godly is now Recent” notice. Recent is the founder's successor project — a free curated feed of motion and branding work, oriented at human browsing rather than APIs or agents.
Is Recent.design the same as Godly?
It's the official successor and carries the same curator's taste, but it's a new product with a broader motion/branding focus. Like Godly, it's a visual feed: no API, no MCP, no exports — screenshots and clips for human browsing.
Is Mozaika a free Godly alternative?
Partly. Browsing the gallery is open, public decoded design-system pages (like /ds/linear) are free, and the MCP has a genuinely free tier — 25 metered tool calls a month, no card, with a rotating 30-system open shelf. Full-library access is paid: $9/month, $60/year, or a $59 founder lifetime license.
How is Mozaika different from a screenshot gallery?
Galleries show you pictures of great design. Mozaika measures the design itself from the live DOM — exact type sizes and weights, color roles with usage semantics, spacing and radius sets — and serves those specs to you and your AI coding agent over MCP, so what inspired you can actually be built.
Free tier · no card
Get inspired by something you can replicate.
25 free tool calls/month · search unmetered · 30-system open shelf · cancel anytime · no credits, ever