Zugo Templates: 25 Starting Points in 5 Categories

Zugo's template gallery holds 25 ready-made templates across 5 categories — games, landing pages, multi-page websites, online stores, and web apps, with five in each. A template is a finished, working page, not a theme to fill in. Pick the one closest to your idea, and Zugo clones it into a fresh project so you can change the details in plain language and publish.

Clicking "Use template" copies that built page into a new project of your own. It costs no credits and calls no AI, and the page opens in the builder as yours to change. From there it behaves like any Zugo project: you describe a change in chat, the agent rebuilds, and the result loads and renders in a sandbox before you see it. A template just skips the blank page and hands you a good structure to start from.

What do the 5 categories cover?

Five templates per category, twenty-five in all. Each maps to a tab in the gallery.

There is no sixth category and no platform template — that gap is deliberate, and the "What templates won't do" section below explains it.

Games

Five playable browser games, each a different arcade genre: Neon Drift is a neon dodge-racer, Blockfall drops falling blocks with combos, Starforge is a wave-based space shooter, Hop Quest is a vertical platformer, and Gem Match is a match-3 with cascades. You open one, watch it run, then reshape it by chat the same way you would edit a site: change the speed, the palette, the scoring. If you want to understand how prompting for games actually works before you touch one, the how to make a game with AI guide walks through it.

Landing pages

Five single-page starters, each built around a real offer: QuoteKit is a SaaS landing for sending proposals, Frame is a conference page with speakers and tickets, Pulseboard pairs product-analytics copy with a live dashboard, Loopmail is email-automation with a campaign console, and Ledgerly handles freelance invoicing with a small workspace. Every brief already names its sections — hero, features, pricing, FAQ — so the shape holds when you swap in your own business. Site builds also open with three design directions shown as previews, so you choose the look before generation runs.

Multi-page websites

This is where a template earns its place, because multi-page structure is the hardest thing to describe from an empty prompt. The five starters are Noire (a dark photography portfolio), Forno (a restaurant with a menu and table booking), Northbound (a branding studio with a client portal), Meridian (a clinic with a patient portal), and River Park (a residential development with floor plans and a mortgage calculator). Look at how specific Noire is — oversized type, a hero manifesto, a project grid with covers, an about block — and you get that level of intent without writing the brief yourself. For a portfolio specifically, the AI portfolio website guide goes deeper.

Online stores

Five storefront starters: Maison for home goods, Glow Lab for skincare, Volt for gadgets, TKAN for a fashion brand that sells in drops and preorders, and Verdant for plants with care notes. Each produces product cards with prices and add-to-cart buttons, plus the supporting blocks a shop needs — delivery terms, a size or care guide, a bestseller shelf. These are storefront pages. To take real money you connect Stripe, one of Zugo's built-in connectors; the AI online store builder guide covers that end to end.

Web apps

Five app starters with actual state: Continuum is a habit tracker with a weekly grid, Upvote is a feature-voting board, Coinpath is a budget with expenses and categories, Nimbus is a notes app with search and pinning, and Orbit is a CRM with a deal pipeline and contacts. Notice what every brief spells out: data that persists between visits. Saying that explicitly is what separates an app that remembers from a demo that forgets — worth copying into your own prompts.

When should you start from a template instead of a prompt?

Start from a template when your idea rhymes with one of the 25. Reshaping "skincare store" into "candle store" is one sentence, and the structure survives the swap. Templates are also the fastest way to learn what a strong brief looks like: each one names the user, the screens, and the actions — the same prompt structure we recommend in how to build an app with AI.

Start from a blank prompt when your idea is specific enough that reshaping a template would cost more than describing it fresh — a niche calculator, an unusual game mechanic, anything where the template's structure fights you.

And for anything larger than a single page or screen — a platform with a database, accounts, and payments — skip the gallery and use Plan mode. Plan mode shows the structure the agent intends to build before any credits are spent, then runs the build with checkpoints and a live process log. Simple builds land in about a minute; platforms take a few minutes.

How does editing a template work?

Picking a template creates your own project — you never edit a shared copy. After that:

1. The clone is instant and free: the page you previewed becomes your project, with no build to sit through.
2. You change it in chat: "rename it to Driftwood, swap the menu for brunch, warm up the palette." Each edit costs one credit, gets rebuilt, and is re-verified in the sandbox before you see it.
3. Nothing is locked. A template is a starting point, not a skeleton you must keep — remove sections, add screens, push it somewhere the original never intended.
4. When it is ready, publish in one click to your-name.zugo.run. Free publishes carry a "Made with Zugo" badge; paid plans add custom domains.
5. If you want the code, export to GitHub as a real repository — src/, package.json, vite.config — and take it anywhere. Connectors cover Supabase, Stripe, Google Analytics, Resend, and Vercel, and Zugo Cloud gives generated apps a built-in database.

What templates won't do

Three honest limits. First, 25 is a curated set, not a marketplace — you won't find four hundred niche variants here, because the freeform prompt covers that ground instead. Second, templates give you structure, not content: the copy, products, and photos still have to become yours, through edits or your own assets. Third, there is no template path to a full platform. Multi-page platforms vary too much for a fixed starting point to help, so that is prompt-plus-Plan-mode territory by design, not an oversight.

Where to start

Open the gallery, pick the card closest to your idea, and describe what makes yours different. Starter credits are free and no card is required; Pro is $25/month for 200 credits (roughly 16 full platforms or 33 quick builds) with custom domains, and Business is $99/month. The interface works in English and Russian. If you'd rather see finished projects first, the showcase has live builds you can open and remix.