penpot
Web-based design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,236 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.18.5 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Figma.
At a glance
penpot quick facts
- Health score
- 99/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 61,862
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.18.5, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
Top alternatives to penpot
Full rankings: Figma alternatives
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
penpot scores 99/100, #1 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 1,236 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.18.5, 4 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 61,862 stars add 19.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). It scores full marks on every term.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1236 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.18.5 released 4 days ago
- Stars 19.2 / 20
62k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 1236
- Last 90 days
- 5,272
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , just above Reactive Resume (#2) .
Details
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 2.18.5 · 4 days ago |
| Stars | 61,862 |
| Open issues | 821 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | penpot/penpot ↗ |
penpot vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with penpot (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFFiNE Community Edition | 99 | 74k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| penpot (this tool) | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Domain Locker | 93 | 1.6k | MIT | 6 days ago |
| re:Director | 87 | 49 | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
penpot: common questions
What does penpot replace?
Repoly lists penpot as an open-source alternative to Figma. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where penpot stands against the others.
Is penpot still maintained?
penpot had 1,236 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 2.18.5, is from 4 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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