Whacka vs Magic Patterns
Plans, free access, limits and intended use side by side, taken from each vendor’s own pages. No score and no winner: the facts show where the two differ.
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AI design tool that turns prompts and your design system into interactive React prototypes
- Free access
- Whacka: Free access
- Magic Patterns: Free access
- Paid from
- Whacka: USD 3 per week
- Magic Patterns: USD 0.02 per credit
- Plans listed
- Whacka: 5
- Magic Patterns: 5
- Public API
- Whacka: Not confirmed
- Magic Patterns: Yes
Where Whacka and Magic Patterns differ
On the listed facts these two look alike. The plans, limits and screenshots below show where the details part ways.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| Whacka | Fact | Magic Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableFree · USD 0 | Free accessSame | Free access availableFree · USD 0 |
| USD 3 per weekWeekly | Lowest listed paid plan | USD 0.02 per creditOn-demand usage |
| Free plan with 24 credits a month (apps live 14 days); paid plans from $3 a week or $10 a month | Pricing model | Free with limited monthly credits; Starter $20 and Business $100 per seat a month ($17 and $85 billed annually); extra credits $0.02; Enterprise custom |
| 5 | Plans listedSame | 5 |
| Not confirmed | Public API | Yes |
| Not confirmed | Card to start | Not confirmed |
| Not confirmed | Open source | Not confirmed |
| What it is for | ||
| Non-coders and small teams who want a working booking page, internal tool or client portal built by chat, without running servers | Built for | Product teams that want clickable prototypes in their own design system, then a hand-off to code or Figma |
| Website builders | CategorySame | Website builders |
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| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Prices confirmed · Oct 17, 2026 | Pricing checkSame | Prices confirmed · Oct 24, 2026 |
Official source check for both tools. No hands-on testing and no score: “Differs” marks a documented difference, not a better tool.
Plans and prices
Whacka
Prices confirmed · Oct 17, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- WeeklyUSD 3 per week
- StarterUSD 10 per month
- ProUSD 40 per month
- UltraUSD 120 per month
Magic Patterns
Prices confirmed · Oct 24, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- StarterUSD 20 per seat per month billed monthlyUSD 17 billed annually
- BusinessUSD 100 per seat per month billed monthlyUSD 85 billed annually
- EnterpriseCustom quote with annual commitment
- On-demand usageUSD 0.02 per credit
Strengths and limits
Whacka
Strengths
- Free plan with no card: The pricing page says every account gets 8 credits a day and 24 a month with no card required, and that you keep what you build.
- Infrastructure does not use credits: The pricing page says database, storage, push, social login and real-time messaging never consume credits on any plan.
- Native store publishing on Pro: The App stores page and pricing page list Google Play and App Store publishing from Pro, at 50 credits a build with failed builds refunded.
Limits to plan around
- Free apps go offline after 14 days: What's New and the pricing page say Free apps are online for 14 days after publishing, so Free cannot host a lasting tool.
- Credits per app are not published: The pricing page says build cost scales with the size of the change and gives no per-app credit figure, so a monthly allowance cannot be turned into a number of apps.
- Weekly credits do not roll over: The pricing FAQ says unused weekly credits are cleared each week; only earned and top-up credits last 365 days.
Magic Patterns
Strengths
- Visible spend: Each reply reports its credit cost and model, and the docs publish typical credits for one generation up to a 50-version project.
- Free actions: Manual and visual edits, "Fix with AI", retries, exports and sharing use no credits.
- You own the output: The Terms assign designs, code and interfaces you generate to you; Magic Patterns claims no ownership.
Limits to plan around
- Free credits unquantified: The pricing page and docs say "free monthly credits" without a number, so the free allowance cannot be planned.
- Free work trains the service: The Terms let Magic Patterns train on Free plan inputs and output and show Free designs in public galleries.
- Key hand-off is paid: GitHub sync, MCP and design systems are marked as paid-plan features in the docs.
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