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Penpot

Open-source design platform offering web-based and self-hosted workflows, code inspection in HTML and CSS, adaptive layouts with CSS Grid and Flex, real-time collaboration, auto layout features, reusable components, design tokens, layer support, plugins, and no tracking.

Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams that build digital products at scale.

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
Collaborative UI design platform ideal for teams that need to scale complex products with design and code.
Penpot is the only tool that integrate native design tokens. A single source of truth to improve efficiency and collaboration between product design and development.
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Manage states, styles, and sizes in a simple, developer-friendly way—making your design system cleaner and easier to scale.
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  UI Design
  2.  Prototyping
  3.  UX Design
  4.  Real time collaboration
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Cloud Sync
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  Create UI Components
  9.  Interactive Prototyping
  10.  No Coding Required
  11.  Color Picker
  12.  Live Preview
  13.  Self-hosted
  14.  Support for Layers
  15.  Design handoff
  16.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  17.  Design System
  18.  Wireframing
  19.  Built-in Color Picker
  20.  Works Offline
  21.  Auto Layout
  22.  Hardware Accelerated
  23.  No Tracking
  24.  Non Destructive Editing
  25.  API Integration

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Penpot earns praise as an intuitive, professional, open-source and privacy-conscious alternative to Figma, Sketch and XD. Users value its SVG foundation, component editing, collaboration, self-hosting, web-standard approach and cross-platform workflow. Several say it is easy to learn and increasingly capable, though some still report missing features, awkward setup and mobile limitations. One detailed critique cites freezes, unreliable undo/redo, unintuitive path editing, bugs and excessive friction, showing that daily usability remains uneven.
Top Positive Comment
glotzbach
6

Penpot is really intuitive: I never used such kind of application but managed to quickly prepare an interactive set of mock-ups of a mobile app feature. Particularly the creation of components (groups of elements) and the editing of one specific instance of such component is really convenient (as well as the updating of instances with the latest version of the master component). Big plus also that it's open source and free for everyone to use.

Top Negative Comment
CosmoMyzrailGorynych
2

Unfortunately it's raw as a butchered chicken at the moment; the functionality may be good but the user experience is just awful. Freezes when working with images, editing paths is unintuitive, undo/redo changes random stuff, shapes jump and twist when moving/transforming them, and everything has sooo much friction. And SVG code exported is too complex for a regular shape with an outline. Shortly, it's riddled with tiny bugs, and covered in questionable hotkey choices. Fun to look at, rage-inducing when you actually use it.

Viktor Korobov
0

I haven't switched from Figma completely yet, but Penpot has improved a lot over the last couple of years. I'm curious if anyone here is using it as their main design tool and how it's working out in day-to-day projects.

nazarzajya
0

Sadly no Android & ios support. Working on mobile devices deals with PC native fronted. Also i am missing some workflow visualization like automatically attaching arrows of views for schematic design. The Setup was pretty tricky, using Podman. but worked after some github issue research. Rich templates are are fine feature. But i still miss default notion like Markdown Notes support. Would be a great nice feature - and would lead up penpot more into the merge of Figma & Miro boards with LogSeq - like AFFinE.

cel
0

The dev actively collaborate with active FOSS project to get actual feedback, like the current colaboration with KDE Visual Design Group community.

Juri
0

Although I'm not a designer i can say this app is very good. Ive used it in some designs and it was a bit difficult, but its easy to learn

Subscribe6225
0

Give it a try! Easy to use, intuitive interface, FOSS, European.

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What is Penpot?

Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams that design, build, and scale digital products.

Available as web-based or self-hosted, Penpot helps connect design, code and AI workflows. Because design in Penpot is expressed in code such as HTML, CSS, JSON and SVG, AI agents can read it more easily through Penpot MCP, helping developers ship what is actually designed. That same code-readable foundation makes Penpot especially powerful for teams managing design systems at scale, with world-class design tokens acting as the source of truth across complex product workflows, and shared design infrastructure.

As an open-source self-hosted platform, Penpot also gives organizations the flexibility, security, and ownership that other tools cannot, so they can scale without vendor lock-in friction.

Key features & Use cases:

  • Collaborative UI design
  • Components & Variants
  • Native design tokens
  • CSS Grid & Flex layout
  • Design expressed as code with SVG, CSS, HTML and JSON standards
  • Wireframing, prototyping, Design Systems, UI design, Code inspect.

Penpot: Full-stack Design.

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Penpot information

  • Developed by

    ES flagKaleidos

  • Licensing

    Open Source (MPL-2.0) and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $7 and $950 per month + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7 (23 ratings)

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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • Spanish
    • German
    • Indonesian
    • Portuguese
    • Polish
    • Hebrew
    • Russian
    • Arabic
    • Croatian
    • Turkish
    • Chinese
    • Persian

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  •  60,099 Stars
  •  4,109 Forks
  •  816 Open Issues
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