Penpot

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams.

4.8•8 reviews•

468 followers

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams.

4.8•8 reviews•

468 followers

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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.

Launch tags:Web App•Design Tools•User Experience

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Promoted

Wow, I am very impressed with the app. I have two questions: - How or where can I stay up-to-date with the latest Penpot news and what's to come? - Being an Open Source app, can I collaborate with the Penpot community? In what way?

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@david_barragan Hi David and thank you so much for your comment. -> How or where can I stay up-to-date with the latest Penpot news and what's to come? There are a lot of ways to follow our progress and news: · Follow us on our Social Networks user @penpotapp (Mostly Twitter and Instagram). There you will find our Developer Diaries and new stuff about the project. · Suscribe to our Youtube channel! We will upload new video tutorials and show new features. · Follow the Github project. You'll find al the project progress and all the discussions related to it (https://github.com/penpot) · Suscribe to our newsletter at penpot.app! We will share by email all the progress and new important stuff (low-traffic) -> Being an Open Source app, can I collaborate with the Penpot community? In what way? If you want to collaborate, you are more than welcome! You can access the project on github and follow the contribution instructions :)

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5yr ago

Promptmonitor

I'm not getting what's this SVG is and how it is different from currently available tools like figma. Can you please explain me in simpler way? The platform runs smoothly on Safari. I liked it.

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5yr ago

Promptmonitor

I can feel some lag while moving the artboard.

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@yogeshdhakal SVG is the data standard for the web and mobile for visual graphics (other than raster formats like jpg, png, gif...). If you have SVG as you standard format, it means you're much much closer to direct code or PDF output. Being so close to actual code allows teams to bridge the gap between design and working software, because the output of Penpot is the input of code. Other tools use their own formats and need to translate. And you what they about being lost in translation...

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@yogeshdhakal is it noticeable? we'd love to reproduce it

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5yr ago

Promptmonitor

@diacritica yes it is. While moving the artboard I can feel lag for few seconds.

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5yr ago

I’m a UX designer and researcher. I am very impressed by this. In its "Alpha" it feels more mature than a lot of product that are released. It does feel coherent and seems to have a clear vision. Its UI is similar to figma’s and I consider this a plus. It feels familiar to figma users and differentiation based on hunches leads usually to hard-to-use products.

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@jan_d the "alpha" tag was wrong in my opinion (don't tell the team I said this). This is Alpha as in Alpha Female. Yeah, sure, you'll find bugs here and there but, I mean, this was super tough to put together and it works. It does give you the confidence that you can be productive with Penpot TODAY. Otherwise, it'd be yet another nice tool, but I see that you feel there's a clear path forward. Figma was a source of inspiration and we made sure the learning curve would not be steep, there are also many best practices to borrow from. I have a question for you, do you work with UI designers and frontend/backend devs?

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5yr ago

@diacritica > I have a question for you, do you work with UI designers and frontend/backend devs? Yes, I do. All 3 roles, although we do not a *lot* of UI design.

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@jan_d OK, I see. One of our hypothesis here is that we need to blur the lines between UX UI & Front Back. When we developed Taiga we made sure UX UI would welcome an agile project management platform. We know want devs to enjoy a design & prototype tool and UNDERSTAND the design process being part of it. We would love to hear from you in the future and how your Penpot experience went in that regard too. Thanks!

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

As part of the Penpot development team, I invite you try out our first release. Don't be daunted by the "alpha" tag, we're just overcautious here ;P. We are very excited to bring to the world of Open Source Design a new platform anyone can use for free. Let us know what you think!

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5yr ago

Llamao

@diacritica Nice one, just added it to Undesign

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5yr ago

@diacritica Guys, this rocks! Looks and feels solid. Just discovered it now.

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4yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@absamma Thanks! We're still largely unknown to the public which means there's still a lot of people like you that basically are like WOOOOW! and we love to see that reaction :)

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4yr ago

Penpot

Maker

We're already seeing people trying Penpot and realising, heck! this is an ALPHA? yeah, we wanted to have something ready that was worth people's attention. People are enjoying a creative vibe with Penpot, it's actually touching after a very tough year...

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5yr ago

Nice! This looks really cool. Thanks for making this effort. Will download, give it a go and report back.

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@mordodemaru yeah! You can either download it and use it on premise (your laptop, fine) or use the cloud option here https://design.penpot.app How does it feel to have BOTH options, right?

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@mordodemaru thanks very much Jordi! No need to download it as it runs on a browser. Looking forward your feedback :)

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5yr ago

@diacritica Hosted version feels even better for collab. Woohoo!

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5yr ago

I am really struggling to see how this isn't just another Figma knock off. UI looks very similar. Is the exportable code the differentiator here?

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5yr ago

Penpot

Maker

@mason_watson it's certainly of the differences but also its open source nature open up tons of possibilities for its evolution and integration. You can have cloud or on premise and its meant to attract devs to the design process. We're already seeing non-designers enjoying the casual learning curve. This is great to get a better understand between different roles. The native SVG feature means that Penpot could be part of a continuous deployment pipeline where a Git repository is synced directly with the designs. Design tools can't just be Figma and some minor competitors, we need to build something different, true.

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5yr ago

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Penpot is highly praised for being an open-source design tool that offers a compelling alternative to Figma, especially after Adobe's acquisition of Figma. Users appreciate its ease of use, generous free tier, and the absence of restrictive pricing plans. The tool is noted for its potential to enhance collaboration between designers and developers, thanks to features like native Design Tokens and CSS Grid. While some users mention missing features, the overall sentiment is positive, with many seeing Penpot as a promising and mature project in the design software space.

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