Open Source Penpot AlternativesUI Design & Prototyping Tools like Penpot

The best open source alternative to Penpot is Pencil Project. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Penpot and ten of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Penpot are Penpot Desktop, Akira, Aktivisda and Quant-UX.

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  1. Pencil Project icon
     416 likes

    Pencil is a standalone app that lets you create diagrams or UI mockups. It doesn't have collaboration/multi-user features.

    78 Pencil Project alternatives

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
    • Pencil Project is the most popular Open Source alternative to Penpot.

    • Pencil Project is Free and Open SourcePenpot is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Akira icon
     28 likes

    Akira is a native Linux Design application built in Vala and GTK. Akira focuses on offering a modern and fast approach to UI and UX Design, mainly targeting web designers and graphic designers. The main goal is to offer a valid and professional solution for designers who want to...

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK+
     
  3. Aktivisda icon
     11 likes

    Aktivisda is a web application to facilitate the creation of visuals that use the graphic charter of an organization, and the spreading of this graphic charter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Aktivisda is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Penpot.

    • Aktivisda is Free and Open SourcePenpot is Freemium and Open Source
  4. Quant-UX icon
     10 likes

    Quant-UX is an integrated Prototyping and Analytics software. It allows you to design, test and analyze interaction prototypes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. AI-powered prototyping tool enabling product teams to quickly generate UI aligned to existing styles, import design systems, collaborate live, gather user feedback, test new features, support data-driven decisions, and ensure enterprise-level security and compliance.

    56 Magic Patterns alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Alva icon
     15 likes

    Alva works with your production frontend components, adding up-to-date, responsive, and interactive designs to your living styleguide.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Core2D icon
     2 likes

    Core2D is a multi-platform application for making data driven 2D diagrams. The application has built-in wyswig vector graphics editor where you can bind data to shapes, share data across multiple documents, edit documents using layers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Theory Maker icon
     3 likes

    Theory Maker is a free web app by Steve Powell for making any kind of causal diagram, i.e. a diagram which uses arrows to say what contributes to what. You make the diagrams just by typing the names of the elements (called variables) in a structured way into a (resizeable)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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