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open-design vs penpot

5 of 12 recorded facts differ. Everything below is source-reported with a capture date. Niched has not published a buyer verdict for this pair, so nothing here declares a winner. A winner only exists inside a defined buyer niche with stated constraints.

open-design

🎨 The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 ex. open-design is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under Apache License 2.0. Its repository has 82.7K GitHub stars and 9.6K forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in AI coding assistants & agents, UI design & prototyping.

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penpot

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration. penpot is open source, written primarily in Clojure, released under Mozilla Public License 2.0. Its repository has 57.8K GitHub stars and 3.8K forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in UI design & prototyping.

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Fact	open-design	penpot
GitHub stars	82.7K	57.8K
Forks	9.6K	3.8K
Open issues	715	752
Primary language	TypeScript	Clojure
License	Apache License 2.0	Mozilla Public License 2.0