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WebCode is a vector drawing app that instantly generates CSS+HTML, JavaScript+Canvas or SVG code.

http://www.webcodeapp.com/

If you have a Mac, WebCode is a great alternative to Fireworks.

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Interestingly, they also make an app called PaintCode which outputs Objective-C code: http://www.paintcodeapp.com

I'm sure they used to be part of the same app; I'm not sure when that changed or what the logic was behind it.

We just launched WebCode about a month ago (been selling http://www.paintcodeapp.com/ for more than a year). The two apps obviously share a lot of internals. We decided to make WebCode a separate app because it has an entirely different target audience.

Avid PaintCode user here, just learned about WebCode. Interestingly, more than once I wished I had the ability to export from PaintCode to something web with CSS or Canvas. Great to know there's now an app for that, but wouldn't it make sense to kinda also have it as additional functionality (maybe in-app purchase) for Paintcode?

Technically, this is entirely possible. We have developer builds which support both kinds of code generators in a single app. We're still considering this.

From my own personal perspective it might be a good idea, because I think it really messes with your branding -- I saw the WebCode page and knew it felt familiar and thought it was "that cool app that outputs Obj-C code" but looked in the feature list and couldn't find it, got very confused, and then did a google search...

It doesn't help that, as far as I can see, PixelCut doesn't have its own homepage, and there's no link from the one app page to the other app page so I didn't even know they were made by the same developer without looking at the copyright notice at the bottom!

Just my opinion anyway. Great app either way :)

Sketch is also wonderful. The thing is, Fireworks has the Bitmap editing involved too which is really nice to have on hand in the same program.

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