Why Penpot is the best tool for Product teams
Penpot is the professional design platform where designers, developers and AI agents share the same language for better collaboration.
The only design tool with self-host deployment, Penpot gives teams the flexibility and security they need to work at scale.
No more disconnect between teams, tools and workflows
Design and code shouldn't feel like two different worlds.
Cloud privacy concerns?
Unclear ownership and exposed IP mean no control over where or how your data is stored.
Not in control. Locked-in by a tool?
Restricted designs, limited formats, and closed integrations, hold your team back.
Only designers in mind?
Without developer-friendly tools, collaboration breaks and design loses impact.
Cluttered UI platform?
Your design tool doesn't offer the complexity you need for your designs or it is too
complicated to use.
Open Source and open standards make Penpot the ideal tool to avoid most of the challenges teams and organizations encounter today.
The importance of Open Source and team collaboration
Self host for privacy and security
Multiple deployment options— restricted cloud, dedicated cloud, or self-hosted including air-gapped environments. Get full control and security over your design files.
Open standards mean flexibility
Penpot is built on open web standards (SVG, CSS, HTML, JSON) and an open API gives teams full control, tool compatibility, and ownership of their design infrastructure.
Complex projects at scale
It’s the first to offer best leading native Design Tokens for design systems, helping designers and developers speak the same language.
Transparent pricing
Openness guides everything we do—including pricing. Penpot keeps it simple, transparent, and free of hidden costs.
Devs feel at home
Penpot is the only design tool where developers truly feel comfortable with design expressed as code, intuitive inspect tab, and a flexible library and plugin system.
UI translated to over 45 languages
Used by millions across the world, Penpot is ideal for global teams that need to collaborate from anywhere.
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They love Penpot
Tens of thousands of organizations of all sizes proudly use Penpot, including many popular open-source projects.
I wanted to give @penpotapp a try for my product team and self-host it, and I’m honestly amazed at what the team has done to make this platform accessible.
Such a game changer for open source design. Viva, open source and Penpot!
Angela Oduor
@AngieNicoleOD
Oh my gosh - I love it. The controls felt very intuitive to me - way more intuitive! They map nicely to the mental models of actual CSS. I LOVE the wrapping options as well.
I also really appreciate how developer-friendly this is, so hand-off becomes simple!
Brett Haymaker
@BrettHaymaker
Building a design tool on top of web & dev standards is super clever. @penpotapp
Imagine autolayout behaving like css flexbox and no more design & dev back and forth. 🪄🤹
Using all these open standards. Chef💋
Sil Bormüller
@svorklab
Connect design and development teams at scale
Designers, developers and AI agetns speak the same language and collaborate without friction in a single, scalable workflow.
AI Workflows
- Multi-directional workflows
- MCP compatible with any agent
- No risk of data exposure (self-hosted, air-gapped environments)
- Free and open MCP server
- Open world-class plugin API
Design
- Scalable design systems
- Responsive designs with Flex layout
- Wireframing
- Advanced interactive prototyping
- Libraries and templates.
Full control of data, workflow, and deployment
Penpot is the only design & prototype platform that is deployment agnostic.
Use it or deploy it anywhere.
Restricted
cloud
Different kinds of deployment
Self-hosted including
air-gapped environments
Penpot offers the flexibility to adapt to any team and organization’s needs—including SSO integration.
Most common self-host install options:
There’s no difference between Penpot’s SaaS and self-hosted platforms.
Same features, same capabilities.
What designers and developers say about Penpot
Penpot is taking great approach in teaching designers code by using native CSS language.
Vlad_RDX
@vlad.RDX
Thank you very much. Finally a good alternative to FIGMA ;)
I'm really thrilled, keep up the good work!
EM
John Doe
@EM-br3sw
Penpot has brought the perks of open source conventionally enjoyed by developers to designers.
Cate Lawrence
@Cate_Lawrence
I have installed it on my custom server and it works like a charm!
Penpot is not just 'free' as in free beer most important free as in Freedom 🎉
Fabio Rotondo
@fsoft
Dear designer friends: leave Figma, Adobe XD, invisionApp, etc. I introduce you the future: Penpot.
Open-source, free, you can self-host it so your own company has its own.
Only advantages. You can import templates, third-party tools, etc. Perfect.
Cloud I/O Fernandes 👨💻
@HeroDjou
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