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 (MPL-2.0)
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- UI Design
- Prototyping
- UX Design
- Real time collaboration
- Ad-free
- Cloud Sync
- Dark Mode
- Create UI Components
- Interactive Prototyping
- No Coding Required
- Support for Layers
- Color Picker
- Design handoff
- Live Preview
- Self-hosted
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Auto Layout
- Design System
- Wireframing
- No Tracking
- Built-in Color Picker
- Works Offline
- AI-Powered
- API Integration
Penpot News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Penpot
Penpot 2.13 update: box shadow tokens, improved i18n, and enhanced file managementPenpot 2.13 introduces box shadow tokens, allowing users to apply customizable shadow styles. i18n ...
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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...
Recent activities
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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
Kaleidos 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 4.7Alternatives
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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.
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.
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.