Now would be the time for Penpot to add the functionality to import Figma artboards so it's easy for people to move over to Penpot.

Just learned that Penpot is already working on implementing Auto Layout ('Layout' in Penpot). I might be switching right away once it's done. Let's make Penpot the Blender of UX/UI Designing Tools!!

this is such unfortunate news. i don't think i have ever been this upset by an acquisition. i love figma

Adobe seems so scammy. You sign up you have to agree to a contract and then when you try and cancel they're like, "Wait, if you stay we'll give you the next three months free." "No thanks", "Okay, what about if we give you 6 months free."

I switched to Penpot from XD and I'm surprised at how stable it is and how many features they've already added. I've not used Figma but it is a very nice XD alternative (and catching up fast)

Hi Scott, I'm going to tell you something funny and painful at the same time. I closed my account in a bank here in Spain because I started to feel they did some unfair things. After a couple of years as a client in another bank, it was acquired by the first one. Then, I moved my account to another bank. One year later, the same story, this bank was acquired for the first one. With Adobe, it happens exactly the same. I'd been for years running away from them, and always, always, they became buying my preferred tools and destroying them. Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and now Figma.

Just imagine how much Adobe must of hated figma. That makes me roll over laughing

If penpot has auto layout and components, I'm in.

I use framer over figma, but this looks promising. 👌

Wow. Thanks for the shout out Scott. That was unexpected :D

Adobe sucks! Full disclosure; I grew up with Adobe software, they did amazing things, right up until they forced my hand by demanding that I rent their software for a monthly subscription. I turned my back on them when I started freelancing and vowed never to subscribe to their dark arts. Now that they have acquired Figma, I fear that the best features of Figma will be locked behind an extortionate monthly subscription. A dark day for design. 😢 I'm going to try Penpot tonight!

Nice, I have a current project in Figma I have to finish. For the next one I'll give this a try. Thanks, Scott!

Thank you for covering this! Penpot looks great. After you get familiar with it please make a tutorial.

Adobe just had no choice - Figma had been pushing their products out of the market.

Holy cow man haha you are so talented - already pumping a video out for this #legend Super sad about this news too. Thanks for the recommendation! Signing up

Totally Loved it!!! Created an account ASAP!! I share exactly the same feeling you have with Adobe and with this acquisition. I wanted to look for an alternative and this video came in just in time.

I've been using PenPot (self-hosted) for a while now, and truly enjoy using it. But even I have been doing the bulk of my design work with Figma simply because "everyone else is using it." I'm looking forward to Penpot's gaining popularity, though, as I do believe the more people make the switch, the better it will be. Its biggest hurdle in gaining acceptance will be in the migration of existing projects from closed-format Figma to open-format PenPot files, though. Looking forward to seeing what a larger community can do for it!

Just came across this video - 11mo later... I'm curious how this aged?

I just signed up and started working with Penpot. I'm genuinely impressed. It feels very Figma-like 👍👍👍

Alright, gonna go all in on Affinity Designer from today!

I'm definitely moving to PenPot too. Going to give it a try. Perhaps even contribute to some of the development as well. I became a CS student for exactly this reason... to know how to make the programs that are costing me an arm and a leg just to have access to them... If I ever make something as good as Figma / Photoshop, etc. I would definitely make it free for individuals for life, but any company is going to have to pay up. Because I know how companies mistreat open source devs as well as their software. But individuals who have a passion for design are left with having to pay insane amounts to express their passion in a digital form

I don’t know why Adobe is so much money angry. They are run it like mafias. I am from a developing country and you know sometimes you barely make money, paying for these services is pain. Figma had give me freedom and love. I hope penpot will help.

Would love to hear your opinion about Penpot after some extended use.

There’s also Lunacy which is also free and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

"I'm not in the business of giving Adobe any money" My man 💪 what a god awful company is that.

i will love to see more tutorials on penpot

is there going to be a way to copy and paste images from say pexels and paste it directly into the artboard? That was one of my favourite aspects of figma.

Hey, another one substitute may worth to take a look is Lunacy. Interface quite closer to Figma, and some more features than Pinpot Still didn't decide which one is better

Thanks for indication.

I fully support in lovers of Figma switching over to Penpot. Since Figma is fading into the hands of Adobe, it's right time PenPot Devs start warming and leveling up to make Penpot peoples loved choice. The next target is moving this App from Alpha version to a Stable version. I'm really loving this App (Penpot)

Affinity and Figma *have been* my Adobe alts. Hello Penpot, let's you and I do the UI dance now.

Cool. Thanks Scott!

Ironically enough, I never heard of Figma until it was mentioned in a blog post introducing Penpot 🙂thanks for a little more insight. God bless,

This looks GREAT! Like many here, I switched away from Adobe products. I now use Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher. I've never looked back, either. Each of them are only currently $56 USD and they upgrade for free. Also run half price sales frequently. Much more intuitive interface as well as much better functionality. I bought Macromedia Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash before Adobe acquired them, too. Still going strong!! Time for Adobe to realize that even the "mighty" can be brought down. Anyone remember when WordPerfect was king???

I'll give it a try. Thx

Penpot appears to be On-line only. I like to work off line. What about Vectormator?

I would like to see it `plasmic app` will do some integration for Penpot. I need to find more about this news as I have moved from Adobe a few years ago to Affinity. I have used Figma time to time to collaborate with designers and figure out if I will be able to use several templates I have bought in past for Branding docs or if my money went out of chimney. Hmm....

Penpot Tutorial? Count me in!

I remember when Adobe bought Soundforge, an audio editing application that was in many ways superior to Audacity. Before Adobe acquired them, I had purchased it because it was so good I thought it was worth it to have the full version. At the time I paid about 50 as I recall. After Adobe acquired it they exploded the price to about 300 (going off my recall, I think that's about right -- just know it was ridiculously expensive) dollars. That's when my hate boner for Adobe started. I welcome Penpot to the opensource community!

Holly sh... . You already made a video about a blog that I just read out just now.

Potential upside as an AEM dev is a future headless + react + figma implementation, but even then - lukewarm at best on today's news. Just love Figma so much, but thanks for the alternative!

I think they have auto layout and variants/states on their road map.

Nice find!!! 🤩

Sad is that there are no community people anymore who can come up with any free open source complex desktop application.

I just start learning Figma recently and avoid Adobe for so long because Adobe monthly subscription cost in my country in extremely expensive. I'm afraid I have to say goodbye to Figma.

I was paying attention to the news on Twitter... your Twitter. :D

Good insight.

Had a look on penpot a week ago (before figma) and found it cool but saw, that they won prices 3 years ago already. Seemed not to be fast progress - without components an design libraries it makes no sense to switch (from Sketch). But I will keep an eye on it.

Figma integration of import/export would make it a no-brainer to switch since a lot of my works are mostly on Figma

Back to sketch!! :)

Why not Sketch? I'm in no way implying that Penpot isn't worthy, just wondering your thoughts on Sketch.

I looked into the app it seems like the people who made it put some thought into it. They give you a tutorial section that is easy to access. I need auto layout and components and even padding sight. Figma was becoming soooo good! How sad. Guess I'll have to wait a few months to make the switch.

so only sketch vs adobe???

As a person/student living with parents and having 0 money for paying for stuff on the internet, I hope this open-sourced tool will help. I’ve been making school posters and learning materials on Figma and boy, I hated when big greedy corporations decide to buy them and make them unavailable for everyone. Ugh, it’s annoying, despite many reasons for the acquisition.

I use(d) Figma almost daily for the past years - same reaction like you XD - the only real features I miss in Penpot are the quick (&dirty) image editing magic moves I got addicted to in figma, as they are so efficient for the daily grind. PS only for final production, but now I hope Penpot catching up soon

First Heroku, then the Queen, now Figma. For fuck sake. What a couple weeks.

Hi can you donwload Penpot?

Thank you for your service of not giving Adobe any money 😄 great video

Penpot should make Figma plugins compatible with Penpot

Noww...how can we get rid of google? they started charging for google Photos, and also charged for Gmail with your Domain... how long until they start charging for regular Gmail?

but it is not giving a way to convert the design into HTML CSS like figma

Thank you for this intro on Penpot! I will also be moving away from Figma considering what Adobe did with Fireworks after its acquisition in 2005. Fireworks was a big threat to Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver products combined and Adobe promised not to kill it but ultimately did so just a few short years later. They even stopped development of the product just within the first 2 years.

There's another FOSS design tool, similar to this. Quant-UX

Have the same feeling about this as when Trello was consumed by atlassian.

anyone here tried both Penpot and Lunacy, and finally choose Penpot? because i tried and found lunacy give me better UI and tools, but Penpot is opensource wich i hope this app will continue dveleoped and be better in the recent future

Please, do same review about Lunacy 🙏🙏

it is developed in Cloujure... how I am supposed to contribute! I want it to be developed with JS

what about pixso over penpot?

"Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.” -Lenina Huxley

Figma... ... ... ... how come I cant turn this into a 'deez nuts' joke?

Try Akira

my mom is a CPA. she got a company provided new laptop and with it came windows 11 & the newest adobe & Microsoft suites. she uses Adobe Acrobat all day everyday. somehow they broke it. completely. no one is happy. i googled it for her and everyone hates it.

Adobe's acqusition of Mixamo is going great. I mean it went 'beta' for years, didn't work right with windows 10, and generally never got updated. Other than that, great.

Lunacy is also another interesting free alternative to Figma

I try penpot It is amazing

not long after PenPot matures to v 2.0, adobe shits the bed LOL. Love it.

Yes. Adobe killed it. Moving on.

is the deal confirmed? like confirm confirmed?

Pixso is like twin brother of Figma

A killing alternative to Figma with its Hello square

But can we port penpot to svelteKit 🤔 Only kinda joking

I am tired of being ripped off Adobe too. Gave them probably 10 G-babies

Oh, lord frick adobe, now no figma anymore

I bet that MS and Apple has stocks from Adobe or maybe they are in the main board so they ensure that Adobe never make a version for Linux.

Why not sketch Scott?

we are being manipulated by all software providers

Adobe couldn't handle the fact that Figma stole Ai's thunder and that it is in many ways better than Ai without the insane costs attached to Adobe's CC... Now they bought it only to destroy it and make their Ai program #1 again...

Lets us join the penpot comunity

This is too bad, sorry to hear Figma has been consumed by the dark side... :( Kind of sucks i have a tool that would allow you to draw my pages in Figma and then convert it onto React, and then Svelte... Would be interested if there is an export model like Figma has.

I have to try this. Never gonna use Adobe shit

Penpot, check for ui-editor

Let's see if Adobe get that deal because they are trying to buy a direct competitor ( in fact the main competitor ) they are likely to face problems with regulations. The deal is not settled yet!

Open source alternative: inkscape->pureref, and back it up with git.

All PenPot needs is auto layout and I'm good to go.

is being open source a definite garanty of nether being acquired by adobe?

Goodbye Figma 😢

Adobe has a history of buying products and destroying them!

Open Source is the future 🙌

figma is great , def not dead.. they just made ui messy and complicated lately .. but they arent going any where .. still the leader forever .. its not dead cmon

Well, now we have to look for alternatives for real, f*ck Adobe, I'm sure it's gonna be expensive for some of us😭😭😭😩