Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

#1

Post by selvan » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
github.com

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

#2

Post by b3ing » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 3:50 AM UTC

I think Figma stole the grid layout idea from penpot, but it’s common in software to do that

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

#3

Post by echelon » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 3:59 AM UTC

I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles.

I love this team. It's so endearing.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Post by Myzel394 » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 3:59 AM UTC

I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Post by tyleo » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 4:01 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #3

I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles. I love this team. It's so endearing.

While I agree, I'm not sure it's a team, it looks like mostly one dude :)

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Post by jhancock » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 4:06 AM UTC

tyleo wrote: post #5

echelon wrote: post #3

I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles. I love this team. It's so endearing.

While I agree, I'm not sure it's a team, it looks like mostly one dude :)

Thats Clojure...one person can look like a whole team ;)

couldn't help being cheeky...actually there are quite a few contributors.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Post by WillAdams » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 4:17 AM UTC

For folks who want a stand-alone desktop release:

https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop/releases

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Post by 8organicbits » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 4:59 AM UTC

tyleo wrote: post #5

echelon wrote: post #3

I was immediately drawn to the emoji in the commit message titles. I love this team. It's so endearing.

While I agree, I'm not sure it's a team, it looks like mostly one dude :)

I'm seeing several contributors: https://github.com/penpot/penpot/graphs/contributors

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Post by v3ss0n » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 5:03 AM UTC

Unstable, very crash prone with just a few users designing 10 plus pages. And a huge memory hog too.

I run it on Dedicated server with 64GB Ram , it starts to lag as soon as a 5-6 pages and memory 20GB, lagging out the whole team and then crashes.

Re: Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

#10

Post by zonghao » Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 5:33 AM UTC

Myzel394 wrote: post #4

I tried to self host penpot a few months ago but the app would crash after a few minutes and not properly show the canvases. So a no for me

They seem to update very frequently; I don't know if it still crashes now — I'm planning to try it myself.