Design · paid tool
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Mac design app for interfaces, icons, and interactive prototypes.
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Penpot
Ranking score 91.8/100
Open-source design and prototyping for product teams.
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
- Platforms
- web, self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Repo activity
- Last release October 26, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 61,699
- Last verified
- October 24, 2026
Why this rank
Score breakdown for Penpot Factor Points Weight Licence opennessMPL-2.0 licence (open); self-hostable 25 25% Repository activityLast activity 0 day(s) before 2026-10-26 25 25% Popularity61699 GitHub stars 20 20% Feature coverage10 of 15 curated capability tags covered 13.3 20% Costopen-core pricing model 8.5 10% Points add up to the score. Factors without data are left out and the remaining weights are renormalised.
Plasmic
Ranking score 89.9/100
Visual builder for interfaces that exports clean React components.
- Licence
- MIT
- Platforms
- web, self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Repo activity
- Last commit October 26, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 7,127
- Last verified
- October 24, 2026
Why this rank
Score breakdown for Plasmic Factor Points Weight Licence opennessMIT licence (open); self-hostable 25 25% Repository activityLast activity 0 day(s) before 2026-10-26 25 25% Popularity7127 GitHub stars 16.4 20% Feature coverage6 of 8 curated capability tags covered 15 20% Costopen-core pricing model 8.5 10% Points add up to the score. Factors without data are left out and the remaining weights are renormalised.
Quant-UX
Ranking score 84.6/100
Browser prototyping tool that turns interface mockups into testable flows.
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Platforms
- web, self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Repo activity
- Last commit October 11, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 2,746
- Last verified
- October 24, 2026
Why this rank
Score breakdown for Quant-UX Factor Points Weight Licence opennessGPL-3.0 licence (open); self-hostable 25 25% Repository activityLast activity 14 day(s) before 2026-10-26 25 25% Popularity2746 GitHub stars 14.6 20% Feature coverage4 of 8 curated capability tags covered 10 20% Costfree pricing model 10 10% Points add up to the score. Factors without data are left out and the remaining weights are renormalised.