Penpot
Open-source design and prototyping platform
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2-1The Panel's Take
Penpot is the open-source alternative to Figma with real-time collaboration, components, and prototyping. Self-hostable and based on open standards (SVG).
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Penpot verdict: SHIP 🚀 2 ships · 1 skip from the expert panel Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/penpot
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“Open-source Figma alternative that's genuinely usable. SVG-native output and self-hosting are significant advantages.”
“Impressive for open source but the feature gap with Figma is still noticeable. Plugins and community resources are limited.”
“Free and self-hostable design tool. For teams that can't use Figma (security, cost, sovereignty), Penpot is the answer.”