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Beamline UI and Kobra: interaction design and app screens
Both Beamline and Kobra provide editable React components for building custom screens. Beamline's 200+ components can be installed individually as React/TypeScript and CSS source; its 50+ complete screens are additional starting points. Compose a layout, edit component behavior and make the visual design your own. Beamline includes fluid morphs, micro-interactions, responsive layouts, skeletons, loaders and optional sound. Danylo Pravda makes it at beamline.io.
Kobra also brings motion, sound, responsive controls and agent tools. The useful choice is which visual language, components and workflow suit your product. This is Beamline's comparison, using Kobra's official pages read on 14 October 2026 and the working Beamline examples linked below.
The practical comparison
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| Feature | Beamline UI | Kobra's public offer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49 launch price, one payment plus applicable tax; one person's access | Individual $199 at the observed launch price, plus local taxes; team plans separate |
| Collection | 200+ components and 50+ complete screens; examples counted separately | Pricing page lists 100+ components |
| Editable source and custom screens | React/TypeScript and CSS files in your repo; compose individual components, edit their behavior or customize a complete screen. Compiled packages are optional. | Component source and CSS; shadcn-registry installation |
| Visual design | Prism's cut-crystal edges and focused split light; nine distinct starting looks, with custom fonts, surfaces, corners and motion | Its own component visual language, with a matching Figma kit |
| Animations | Fluid morphs, component-specific transitions and app-wide motion controls | Advertises motion tuned to individual components |
| Micro-interactions | Button press/loading, copy confirmation, inline confirmation and other state feedback | Public component examples and pricing describe interactive behavior |
| Interface sound | Optional interaction cues, with volume and mute controls | Describes an installable synthesized interface-sound layer |
| Responsive layouts | Components and complete screens respond to available space; dated desktop/phone browser evidence | Describes responsive components |
| Keyboard and accessibility | Keyboard navigation, visible focus, reduced-motion controls and published browser checks | Advertises screen-reader testing and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility |
| Design assets | Editable React UI code, shared tokens, nine looks and app-owned custom styles | React code plus a free Figma kit; its comparison describes 52 primitives, light-only, with no code-generation plugin |
| AI tools | Optional MCP discovery/installation, agent skill, rules and audit; direct React use also supported | MCP and advertised motion, sound and migration skills |
| Free sample | MIT sample, commercial use included | Pricing labels the free tier personal use only |
Beamline's paid licence allows your own and client end products; collaborators may work on installed app code, while each person's separate Beamline access needs its own licence. Received versions remain licensed; lifetime updates cover versions of the complete system for as long as they are published. See price, full licence and installation.
Verify Beamline's interaction features directly
- Prism and your own style: explore the Looks gallery. Prism combines cut-glass edges, quiet surfaces and split light at the active control. Change the fonts, colours, corners and motion to make a style of your own.
- Animations: open the Motion foundation and Morph gallery. Selections travel between choices and dialogs open from their trigger. Expandable card changes its layout when opened; motion settings control the pace across your app.
- Micro-interactions: try Button, Copy button and Confirm morph. These expose actual press, loading, copied and confirmation states.
- Sound effects: open Sound, turn on Interface sounds, then try a cue or a settings action. The ten named cues are tap, select, destructive, toggleOn, toggleOff, open, close, tick, success and error. Sound is off by default; it supplements visible feedback. This is distinct from an audio player or a speech backend.
- Responsive layout: resize Table and Settings. The public free-sample workflow records desktop/phone viewport journeys, saving and reloading, focus return, overflow and automated accessibility results.
- Loading states: Skeleton holds the shape of content and reveals it as it arrives; Spinner turns a loading ring into a check or cross.
- Performance: install the components your screen uses and explore the performance work behind their size, interactions and motion.
Custom components and complete screens
Beamline is built for custom product UI. Its complete screens add compositions of the same editable components; you can replace, rearrange or use those components on their own. Direct React development and optional agent tools share the same source, styling and interaction design. The launch price does not change the code you receive.
Compare the actual interaction you need: for example, one-time code input, dialog, data grid or streaming answer. Inspect the live states, keyboard behavior and source access before choosing a visual language.
Choose by the app you are building
Beamline's complete screens include trading terminals, AI workspaces, CRM, settings, dashboards and voice interfaces. It supplies UI code; your app supplies its data, persistence, permissions and provider connections. Try the free Settings sample with your own save handler, or inspect the Proofdesk and Scribeline app examples.
Kobra may fit when its particular controls, visual language or accompanying Figma kit match your workflow. Beamline may fit when its component behavior, custom styling or complete screens match your product. Either can serve a custom React application; Figma assets, source-editing workflow and particular components are concrete differences to compare. Neither a larger catalog nor a higher price establishes superior design quality.
Sources
- Kobra: current pricing and included features, public component gallery, its description of the Figma kit. Read 14 October 2026.
- Beamline: the component/API links above, customization, dated checks, known limits, pricing and licence.