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Why Penpot is the best tool for modern Product teams

Penpot is the professional design platform where designers and developers share the same language for better collaboration. Penpot’s self-host deployment 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 a flexible open API, giving teams full control, tool compatibility, and ownership of their design workflows.

Complex projects at scale

Robust design tool built for teams with complex projects. It’s the first to offer 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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Penpot is used by 1M+ users worldwide

Blender
Mozilla
EPFL
Fedora
NTT Data
MIT
Societe Generale
Cisco
NYU College
Fujitsu
Indra
Byte Dance

Connect design and development teams at scale

Designers and developers speak the same language and collaborate without friction in a single, scalable workflow.

Design

  • Scalable design systems
  • Responsive designs with Flex layout
  • Wireframing
  • Advanced interactive prototyping
  • Libraries and templates.

Code

  • Native design tokens
  • Ground-breaking CSS grid layouts
  • Inspect tab with SVG, JSON, CSS and HTML output.
  • API-based customization
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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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