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Penpot — open source alternative

Open source Figma alternative for design-dev collaboration.

Strengths

  • Strong Figma-like UX with design tokens.
  • SVG-native — developer-friendly exports.
  • Self-hostable for confidential work.

Weaknesses

  • Plugin ecosystem is newer.
  • Performance on very large files lags Figma.
  • Collaboration UX still maturing.
License: MPL-2.0 Self-host difficulty: 3/5 Hosted cloud option

Official site · Source on GitHub

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