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.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- UI Design
- Prototyping
- UX Design
- Real time collaboration
- Cloud Sync
- Dark Mode
- Create UI Components
- Interactive Prototyping
- No Coding Required
- Support for Layers
- Color Picker
- Design handoff
- Live Preview
- Self-hosted
- Auto Layout
- No Tracking
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Design System
- API Integration
- Wireframing
Tags
- Mockups
- design-tools
- UI/UX Design Tool
- free-apps
- Web Design
- self-hosted-apps
- design-tokens
- uxdesign
- selfhosted
- DevOps
Penpot News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Inkscape
Beyond Adobe's pricey products: my graphic designer’s toolbox on LinuxI've spent years polishing my craft with Adobe’s heavyweight suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesig...
- Fla published news article about Penpot
Penpot 2.10 introduces Variants for components and new design tokensPenpot 2.10 introduces Variants, a feature that lets users group similar components, such as button...
- POX published news article about Penpot
Penpot 2.9 adds typography design tokens, smarter text resizing, and other improvementsThe latest Penpot update, version 2.9, places a strong emphasis on streamlining design system workf...
Recent activities
- does not think Lightweight is a important feature of Penpot
- Maoholguin updated Penpot
- CosmoMyzrailGorynych reviewed Penpot
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,...
- crse reviewed Penpot
The dev actively collaborate with active FOSS project to get actual feedback, like the current colaboration with KDE Visual Design Group community.
- paranoiddownloader liked Penpot
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What is Penpot?
Penpot is the open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.
Web-based or self-hosted and based on open web standards (SVG, CSS and HTML), the app gives you ownership of your files.
Hand-off drama disappears with Penpot. Workflows are seamless thanks to features such as flexible responsive layouts - CSS Grid and Flex Layout. Designs are expressed as code on the Code Inspect tab - in HTML and CSS. Developers feel right away at home and can ship fast.
Designers can create stunning visuals, interactive prototypes, design systems at scale, native design tokens, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code.
Product teams can scale design systems natively with Design Tokens, reusable Components, and Variants that keep design and code in sync.
Penpot is free for all users. For medium teams needing unlimited design power and premium support and for enterprises, check our pricing deals https://penpot.app/pricing
Enjoy the power of designing in collaboration with your team. Design and code faster together.
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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 4.8Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
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.
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.
The dev actively collaborate with active FOSS project to get actual feedback, like the current colaboration with KDE Visual Design Group community.
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
Give it a try! Easy to use, intuitive interface, FOSS, European.
It's like an open source figma, which is needed because figma is starting to become more like adobe.
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