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Waiting for an article dedicated to the legendary Penpot and alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, we offer you some alternatives to Figma given that it was recently acquired by Adobe 1. The news of the acquisition was yet another good reason for many to look for alternatives Open source and free and to try to move away from Adobe permanently.
Figma is a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool. The most important and interesting alternative to Figma is undoubtedly Penpot, also considering that it recently obtained 8 million dollars and has seen a 5600% increase in membership of its project Open source.
Today's article is inspired by the article by It's FOSS, is not a real translation because as always we try to put our own spin on it, however the quote seems correct to us!
Alternatives to Figma
However, Penpot is not the only possible alternative, so here is a list of the most interesting alternatives to Figma.
Penpot
Open source
web application
As already mentioned in the introduction of the article, Penpot is by far the most interesting alternative to Figma. It's a project Open source which raised $8 million in funding 2and it is certainly experiencing its golden moment especially after the acquisition of Figma by Adobe.
Thanks to Penpot you can share ideas and projects by working simultaneously with other people and it allows you to create ArtBoard (like in Illustrator), simple shapes like rectangles and ellipses, but it also allows you to create your own vector shape.
Quant-UX
Open source
web application
As mentioned, there is not only Penpot in the world of prototyping. Quant-UX is a really interesting tool that is at its best when installed in Self-Hosting. However, you can easily try it using the free version available online. Here find some examples of what is possible thanks to Quant-UX!
Plasmic
Open source
web application
We are now starting to enter the world of paid and professional applications (not that the previous ones are less professional, mind you). Plasmic is a project Open source and it has its own free version with some limitations. However, it works perfectly and if you don't have huge needs it can be right for you. The paid versions, however, are very expensive: in fact, they start from 80$ per month.
It allows integration with several applications including Shopify, Figma, Netilfy and more.
Wireflow
Open source
web application
Totally free web application and Open source. It works reasonably well and can be used online without registering. Be careful though because it no longer seems to be maintained (their GitHub is stuck in 2021 3)
It allows integration with several applications including Shopify, Figma, Netilfy and more.
Other alternatives worth mentioning
- Pencil, unlike all the previous ones, it is a software that needs to be installed. Its development, however, is stuck in 2019 4 and there doesn't seem to be much hope for recent updates. If your operating system allows you to install it, you could give it a try: it could come in handy if you are unable to use the online tools.
- ReacType, another alternative Open source interesting for those who need an application to install. It doesn't seem abandoned even though the official reactype.io domain has no longer been reachable since the end of August 2022. We don't know if it's because the project has been abandoned or if it's just a temporary interruption. The application to install, however, works well.
- Mydraft 5, decidedly less professional and with many fewer options than the previous ones. Sometimes, however, it may happen that you have to do very simple things and don't have time to learn applications that are too complex (complex in the sense that they do much more than what we need). So this very simple online application could come in handy.
- Adobe acquires Figma[↩]
- Penpot inks $8M as signups for its Open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move[↩]
- Wireflow on GitHub[↩]
- Pencil on GitHub[↩]
- Mydraft on GitHub[↩]
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