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Figma-alternative projects on GitHub
Open source design tools positioned as Figma alternatives.
As of , the most-starred Figma-alternative projects on GitHub are open-design (102.6K stars), penpot (61.4K stars) and open-pencil (9.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Figma-alternative repositories with 188.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 19 was open-design, with +344 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 19
+344open-design
nexu-io/open-design · ★ 102.6KOpenDesign is a collaborative, open-source design agent workspace: your existing coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, DeepSeek Harness, and 20+ others) becomes the design engine that turns a brief into real prototypes, dashboards, slide decks, images and video.
penpot
penpot/penpot · ★ 61.4KPenpot is an open-source design platform for product teams, letting them design UI, prototype, and build design systems with full self-hosting control instead of relying on a proprietary SaaS tool.
openpencil
ZSeven-W/openpencil · ★ 6.3KOpenPencil is the world's first open-source AI-native vector design tool, built around Design-as-Code: you describe a UI in natural language and it appears live on an infinite canvas, with concurrent AI 'Agent Teams' building different sections in parallel.
+24open-pencil
open-pencil/open-pencil · ★ 9.1KOpenPencil is an open-source AI-native design editor and Figma alternative. It opens .fig and .pen files, has built-in AI, and doubles as a programmable toolkit with a headless Vue SDK for building custom editors.
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6 projects · by stars
- 102.6K
#1 · nexu-io/open-designopen-design
OpenDesign is a collaborative, open-source design agent workspace: your existing coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, DeepSeek Harness, and 20+ others) becomes the design engine that turns a brief into real prototypes, dashboards, slide decks, images and video.
- 61.4K
#2 · penpot/penpot
penpot
Penpot is an open-source design platform for product teams, letting them design UI, prototype, and build design systems with full self-hosting control instead of relying on a proprietary SaaS tool.
- 9.1K
#3 · open-pencil/open-pencilopen-pencil
OpenPencil is an open-source AI-native design editor and Figma alternative. It opens .fig and .pen files, has built-in AI, and doubles as a programmable toolkit with a headless Vue SDK for building custom editors.
- 4

open-codesign
8.1KOpenCoworkAI/open-codesign · TypeScriptAn open-source, MIT-licensed desktop app that turns prompts into polished prototypes, slide decks, and marketing assets — positioned as an alternative to Claude Design, v0, Lovable, and Figma AI.
- 5

openpencil
6.3KZSeven-W/openpencil · RustOpenPencil is the world's first open-source AI-native vector design tool, built around Design-as-Code: you describe a UI in natural language and it appears live on an infinite canvas, with concurrent AI 'Agent Teams' building different sections in parallel.
- 6
open-pencil-cloud
564yoohoo360/open-pencil-cloud · TypeScriptAn AI-native, open-source Figma alternative: a product fork of the OpenPencil design editor. It keeps the upstream engine (.fig/.pen, CanvasKit rendering, SceneGraph) and adds a React shell, cloud documents, and internal deployment.
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