Looking for an InspoAI alternative

InspoAI is a moodboard tool with a browser extension: right-click or click the extension icon, and the image saves to your InspoAI board. If you've found this page you probably already like that workflow and are looking at one specific part of it.

Usually it's one of three things.

Reason one: you don't want an account

A cloud moodboard means signing up and your references living on someone's server. For a lot of people that's a fine trade — it buys sync across devices and a library that survives a laptop dying.

If it isn't a fine trade for you, you want a local-first tool. Moodly (ours) is a Chrome extension that saves to boards stored in your own browser, with no account at all. The tradeoff is real and worth stating plainly: no sync between devices, no collaboration, and if you clear your browser data without exporting, the boards are gone.

Reason two: you need the references in Figma

This is the one that decides it for most designers. Saving is the easy half. The half that eats your afternoon is getting forty references out of a moodboard tool and onto a Figma canvas — which usually means downloading them individually, then dragging them in, then rebuilding the arrangement by hand.

Moodly copies an entire board to the clipboard and pastes it into Figma as editable layers, in the layout you arranged, with no plugin. If your boards always end up in Figma, that's the difference that compounds.

Reason three: you want less AI in the loop

Auto-tagging and smart search are genuinely useful at scale, and unnecessary friction at small scale. If your boards are project-sized rather than archive-sized, manual organisation is usually faster than correcting an automatic one.

If you want the opposite — heavy automation over a large library — look at Kosmik or Eagle rather than at anything lighter.

Side by side, honestly

Choose InspoAI if you want your library in the cloud, reachable from any machine, with automatic organisation doing some of the filing for you.

Choose Moodly if you want no account, local storage, and a direct path into Figma — and you're willing to manage backups yourself.

Choose PureRef if your references are already files on disk and you want them floating above your design app.

Don't pick a moodboard tool on how nicely it saves. Pick it on what happens the day you need everything out of it.

Features on both sides change; check each product's own site before deciding.