Supernova

Supernova is a shared workspace for design systems, documentation, code data, and AI context. It suits teams that need designers, engineers, and product managers to work from the same product knowledge. Its main strength is connecting those workflows; teams that need only token management or handoff may find its breadth unnecessary.

Overview

Supernova brings design-system management, collaborative documentation, integrations, and automation into one workspace. Component health tracking, design tokens, and multi-brand support give teams a way to manage shared systems, while documentation can be edited collaboratively, kept with page history, and published. This joined-up approach is most useful when system upkeep and team knowledge need to stay connected.

Key features

Design systems and documentation

Support for multiple brands and component health makes Supernova relevant to teams maintaining systems across products. Real-time editing, publishing, and page history help keep documentation active rather than static. Free's 20-page cap and seven-day history, however, may be restrictive for teams with extensive documentation or a need to revisit older decisions.

AI context and code automation

Filtered design-system context can be distributed to AI tools through MCP, including Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code. That is a practical advantage for teams wanting AI tools to draw on relevant system context. Automation can export tokens and open a pull request when system changes are made, linking design updates with a code-review workflow.

Integrations and support

Pre-built integrations include Figma, Storybook, Tokens Studio, GitHub, Azure, Bitbucket, GitLab, and VS Code, and all are included in Free. All plans have in-product support chat; Enterprise adds priority support and onboarding. The breadth of integrations helps teams connect existing tools without reserving that access for a paid plan.

Pricing

Free costs nothing and allows up to five seats, one design system, two AI contexts, one automation pipeline, and up to 10 skills and 100 feedback captures. It includes 1,000 workspace credits per month, plus 20 documentation pages, three Figma data sources, one Storybook data source, seven-day page history, and 30-day documentation analytics. That is a useful starting point, but the page, history, and system limits make it better suited to a small team or a bounded evaluation than a large, established system.

Pro costs $35 a month, billed per editor seat; the page also shows Yearly (-22%). It raises the limits to 15 seats, 25 MCP consumers, 3,000 workspace credits per seat, two design systems, 10 AI contexts, and five automation pipelines, and includes unlimited documentation viewers. Pro suits teams that need more system capacity or AI consumers while allowing wider documentation access. The per-editor charge means costs rise with the number of editors, even though viewers are unlimited.

Enterprise has custom pricing and supports unlimited seats, custom MCP consumers, 5,000 workspace credits per seat, and unlimited design systems, contexts, and pipelines. It adds SAML SSO, priority support, and onboarding. This is the fit for organizations needing expanded capacity and enterprise security controls; GDPR, ISO, SOC 2, CCPA, and USDP are also listed alongside SCIM provisioning and granular permissions.

Platforms

Supernova is available as an API and web application. Supernova Portal also has a desktop app, currently available only for Mac. The Mac-only desktop option may not suit teams that need a desktop app across other operating systems.

Who it's for

Design-system teams, engineers, designers, and product managers working from shared product knowledge are the clearest fit. Supernova is especially relevant when documentation, integrations, token automation, and AI context belong in the same workflow. A team looking for a narrow, standalone tool should weigh that breadth against its per-editor Pro cost and Free limits.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Design-system management, documentation, integrations, and AI context share a workspace, which can keep team reference material close to system work.
• Pro: All pre-built integrations are included in Free, so teams can connect listed tools without upgrading for integration access.
• Pro: Token export and pull-request automation connect design-system changes to code review.
• Con: Free is capped at one design system and 20 documentation pages, with only seven days of page history.
• Con: Pro's $35 a month price is per editor seat, so adding editors increases the bill.
• Con: The desktop app is currently Mac-only.

Alternatives

For a lighter or more specialized option, Particles UI has a free plan, a free trial, and a maker-described MIT-licensed CLI with local token management and export that work without an account. Zaklad is another freemium option, with web, Android, and iOS platforms. Terrazzo is free to use forever and describes its tools as MIT-licensed and open source.

Bezel may suit teams comparing a credit-based free tier: its Free plan has 75 AI credits, one project, one theme, and 1,000 design tokens, though it is not yet open for signup. Carbon Design System is a free, open-source design system for anyone to use and contribute to, with no paid tiers stated. Design Tokens offers a free plan with Figma variable sync, CSS/SASS export, W3C JSON import/export, up to three themes per workspace, two workspaces, and two users. Fenly is a free option whose maker says paid Pro and Team plans may be introduced in the future.

For broader category comparisons, see Design System Software, Web Design Software, and Developer Handoff Software.

Verdict

Choose Supernova if your team needs design-system upkeep, documentation, integrations, and AI context tied together, and values automation that turns token changes into pull requests. Look elsewhere if you need only a focused tool, cannot use a Mac desktop app, or find Free's system and documentation caps too tight and Pro's per-editor pricing hard to justify.