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Penpot

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Penpot is the open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.

Powerful interaction design tool for designers and developers.

License model

  • Freemium • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • ES flagSpain
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Online
  • Self-Hosted  [https://penpot.app/self-host](https://penpot.app/self-host)
Penpot expresses designs as code. The final product reflects the designers' initial vision.
Penpot is the first tool to integrate native design tokens. Scale your design systems easily with Penpot Design Tokens.
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CSS Grid and Flex layout. Flexible responsive layouts that help developers work faster.
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4.9 / 5 Avg rating (29)
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16comments
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7news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

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.  Design handoff
  11.  Live Preview
  12.  No Coding Required
  13.  Support for Layers
  14.  Color Picker
  15.  Auto Layout
  16.  No Tracking
  17.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  18.  Design System
  19.  API Integration

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    POX added Penpot as alternative to Magic Patterns
    •6 days ago
  • ElonBodyodor, szabobalazs and Longsing liked Penpot
    •14 days ago
  • Subscribe6225 reviewed Penpot  
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    •21 days ago

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

  • Subscribe6225 added No Tracking as a feature to Penpot
    •21 days ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Penpot is praised for being an open-source and free alternative to Figma and Sketch, offering a professional UX/UI design experience with features like component creation, SVG usage, and platform agnosticism. Users find it intuitive, with positive mentions of community support and a promising future. However, some note missing basic functionalities like gradients with multiple colors and issues with text undos.
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•Feb 28, 2021
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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.

Subscribe6225
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•Apr 8, 2025
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Give it a try! Easy to use, intuitive interface, FOSS, European.

ub
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•Jul 27, 2024
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It's like an open source figma, which is needed because figma is starting to become more like adobe.

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•Jul 17, 2024
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Penpot Caveats (some reported}:

  • undos sometimes ignore text changes
  • masks work backwards (photos above frames)
  • scaling an import needs pixel or percentage input (but they do have a keep ratio button)
  • export to pdf may be their better option (some lesser-used pdf readers ignore masks)

Penpot Wins:

  • platform agnostic
  • start on phone (import assets)
  • move to tablet or lap/desktop
  • simplifies review (single link)
  • multi size-agnostic pages (Boards)
  • some key commands akin to illustrator
  • easy asset update & handoff/collab?
  • comment/templating system
  • can use css flex & grid
  • self hostable (but web based is free too)
Tobias
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•Jan 6, 2024
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Really love it. Unfortunately, it still lacks some basic functionality like gradients with multiple colors.

Korbs
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•Jul 27, 2023
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Looking for an open source alternative to Figma, this is it! Not only it is the open source alternaitve to Figma, but it can also be self hosted on your own computer and servers. I also took the time to build a desktop application for Penpot, Penpot Desktop, should be easy to find and is here on AlternativeTo.

Guest
•Mar 14, 2023
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Open source, polished, based on web standards

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What is Penpot?

Penpot is the open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.

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.

Web-based or self-hosted and based on open web standards (SVG, CSS and HTML), the app gives you ownership of your files.

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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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 4.9 (29 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    61 alternatives listed

  • News

    7 news article related to Penpot

  • Supported Languages

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

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GitHub repository

  •  37,731 Stars
  •  1,943 Forks
  •  445 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 24, 2025 
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Our users have written 16 comments and reviews about Penpot, and it has gotten 194 likes

Penpot was added to AlternativeTo by David on Nov 20, 2019 and this page was last updated Apr 24, 2025. Penpot is sometimes referred to as UXBOX.