Best Free Design Tools (5 Picks)
Design tools for UI design, prototyping, diagramming, and whiteboarding. Alternatives to Figma with SVG-native output and self-hosting to avoid vendor lock-in on design data.
5 tools
excalidraw
120,486TypeScriptMIT
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Freemium
tldraw
46,246TypeScriptNOASSERTION
very good whiteboard infinite canvas SDK
Free
penpot
45,241ClojureMPL-2.0
Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration
Freemium
krita
9,570C++GPL-3.0
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Free
inkscape
3,337
Project Website: https://inkscape.org - Code Repository: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape - Draw freely. π
Free