penpot
penpot is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Utilities category, licensed MPL-2.0 and written mainly in Clojure. It is a self-hosted alternative to Figma, Canva and Adobe Photoshop and ships a Docker image. It has 61,677 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 61,677
- Forks
- 4,284
- Open issues
- 803
- Commits, last 12 months
- 5,288
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 2.18.4Oct 23, 2026
- Created
- Dec 29, 2015
- License
- MPL-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 5,288 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 5,288 |
| Latest release | 2.18.4 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 91 |
| Open issues | 803 |
| Open pull requests | 124 |
| Good first issues | 3 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 29, 2015 |
Health as of , from the GitHub API. A label describes activity, not quality or security. How we label project health · Report a data error
About penpot
Web-based design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/penpot/penpot.
Topics
- ux-design
- ux-experience
- prototyping
- clojure
- clojurescript
- ui
- design
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Is penpot free and open source?
Yes. penpot is open-source software released under the MPL-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run penpot with Docker?
Yes. penpot provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to penpot?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to penpot include Excalidraw, revealjs and tldraw. penpot itself is a self-hosted alternative to Figma, Canva, Adobe Photoshop and Lucidchart.
Is penpot actively maintained?
The most recent commit to penpot was on Oct 26, 2026 with 5,288 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2.18.4, published Oct 23, 2026. It had 803 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.