Built on open standards and available as web-based or self-hosted, it helps organizations connect design systems, design tokens, code, and AI workflows in one interoperable design infrastructure. Available as web-based or self-hosted, Penpot helps organizations 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 teams ship what is actually designed.
What's great
free tier (1)open source (2)potential for improvement (3)design and code collaboration (3)lowers barrier to entry (1)
As a designer, the workspace, the artboards, and drawing tools all felt right at home for me. (Affinity V2 user here!) I recall seeing Penpot on an open source repository and decided to get my toes wet. I wish I knew Penpot existed in community college because it's out of Adobe's ecosystem for me to learn on my own terms! It is nice to see how design elements are rendered into code using Penpot. Penpot is the way to go for designers looking for a no-code prototyping tool with no barrier to entry.
What needs improvement
A dedicated desktop app for Windows and MacOS
A big one @Penpot: please add variable font support!
More in-depth onboarding inside a project for the first time. I made a vertical guide and didn't know how I did it, so I would like more of a walkthrough on commands such as that.
vs Alternatives
FramerI was hard pressed for an alternative to Framer, because, although there is a plethora of content to learn from, the pricing is a reservation I have for Framer.
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15 viewsClose to Figma functionality right now with the potential to become a much MUCH better collaboration tool in the future. Adobe has a very bad reputation for randomly killing products in its portfolio, so as soon as they purchased Figma, I started looking for alternatives. This, I believe, is the most mature and well-designed software project in this category. If done right, we will soon stop comparing it to Figma :)
What's great
potential for improvement (3)alternative to Figma (3)
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21 viewsLove how Penpot positions itself as a collaborative space for designers and devs, that Figma-to-GitHub bridge is a big unlock for real-world teams. Messaging hits well with open-source lovers too. Curious how you’re thinking about community-led GTM vs more traditional PLG here?
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open source (2)design and code collaboration (3)Figma-to-GitHub bridge (1)
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I’ve been wondering what the “best practice” setup looks like in an enterprise IT consulting company like EBCONT.
We typically run many client projects in parallel, with teams made up of our own people, client employees, and often other implementation partners.
I’ve been testing Penpot locally (self-hosted with containers), and so far I’m genuinely impressed. It covers most of what we need for design–development collaboration, and the open standards approach is especially interesting from an enterprise perspective.
It’s definitely on our shortlist as a potential addition to our standard tool stack. I’d be curious how others handle multi-client environments with Penpot.
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