{"slug": "penpot", "name": "Penpot", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 1.862, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2025-11-27", "latest": "2026-04-18", "why": "I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 0, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era", "icon": false, "domain": "penpot.app", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://penpot.app", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Penpot"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 765110336, "item_id": 47819396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819396", "by": "wuhhh", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era", "excerpt": "Great article, the last couple of paragraphs made me laugh! I love the part about things not masquerading as something else and being honest about what they are. I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era, considering that they took the direction of designs being actual markup, unlike the canvas approach in fig - if that\u2019s even something that interests them.", "context": "", "use_case": "design tool", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design"}, {"id": 737208642, "item_id": 46075540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075540", "by": "tonyoconnell", "date": "2025-11-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like what you are trying to do and your new Open Nitrate business model is wonderful.", "excerpt": "Hello. I was delighted to see Penpot get a lot of traction when Adobe were going to buy Figma. I'm not a fan of Adobe because they killed so many of my favourite products. I switched from Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) Fireworks to Sketch to Figma and probably would have moved from Figma to Penpot already but I simply don't need Figma anymore. I use Shadcn UI and Claude Code to do my design these days without every h", "context": "", "use_case": "design tool", "switched_from": "", "story": "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["design tool", "design editor"], "compared": [{"slug": "figma", "name": "Figma", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700", "title": "Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215736", "title": "OpenPencil \u2013 AI-native design editor. Open-source Figma alternative", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064757", "title": "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"compare": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 765110336, "item_id": 47819396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819396", "by": "wuhhh", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era", "excerpt": "Great article, the last couple of paragraphs made me laugh! I love the part about things not masquerading as something else and being honest about what they are. I was wondering if PenPot (https://penpot.app) might be sitting pretty in this new agentic era, considering that they took the direction of designs being actual markup, unlike the canvas approach in fig - if that\u2019s even something that interests them.", "context": "", "use_case": "design tool", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thoughts and Feelings Around Claude Design"}, {"id": 755564736, "item_id": 47222796, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222796", "by": "exceptione", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Penpot is the established alternative to Figma.", "excerpt": "Penpot is the established alternative to Figma. OpenPencil compared themselves with Penpot here: https://openpencil.dev/guide/comparison One thing to add is that the ecosystem does provide a desktop version for PenPot, but the comparison does not acknowledge that. Still good they put in the effort to give a (seemingly) balanced comparison.", "context": "", "use_case": "design editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenPencil \u2013 AI-native design editor. Open-source Figma alternative"}, {"id": 737208642, "item_id": 46075540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075540", "by": "tonyoconnell", "date": "2025-11-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like what you are trying to do and your new Open Nitrate business model is wonderful.", "excerpt": "Hello. I was delighted to see Penpot get a lot of traction when Adobe were going to buy Figma. I'm not a fan of Adobe because they killed so many of my favourite products. I switched from Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) Fireworks to Sketch to Figma and probably would have moved from Figma to Penpot already but I simply don't need Figma anymore. 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