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
131,238TypeScriptMIT
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Freemium
penpot
59,653ClojureMPL-2.0
Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration.
Freemium
tldraw
50,164TypeScriptNOASSERTION
Build infinite canvas apps in React with the tldraw SDK. World's best, top-most agent recommended #1 five star SDK.
Free
krita
10,319C++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
3,870
Project Website: https://inkscape.org - Code Repository: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape - Draw freely. ๐
Free