Penpot

Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration

What Penpot does

  • Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
  • Built-in MCP server and plugin API for AI design-to-code workflows
  • Free cloud or self-hosted; design tokens support

Penpot — straight answers

What is Penpot?

Penpot is listed under Presentations & Design, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at penpot.app.

Is Penpot free?

Penpot is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Penpot do?

Penpot does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source (mpl-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration; built-in mcp server and plugin api for ai design-to-code workflows; free cloud or self-hosted; design tokens support.

What is the best free alternative to Penpot?

Google Pomelli is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Presentations & Design sub-category and is free. Ming-Image (Ant Group), Presenton and Adobe Express also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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