OpenTools

Open source Design & image editing

GIMP

100 · Healthy

Raster image editor for photo retouching, compositing and graphic design, with layers, masks and plug-ins.

Free, share changesGPL-3.0-or-later★ 6.5kLast commit yesterday

Krita

96 · Healthy

Digital painting and image editing app with brushes, layers, animation and color management.

Free, share changesGPL-3.0★ 11kLast commit yesterday

Penpot

92 · Healthy

Browser-based design and prototyping tool for product teams, built on open standards such as SVG, CSS and HTML.

Free, share changesMPL-2.0★ 61kLast commit yesterday

Mermaid

89 · Healthy

Generates flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more from text definitions.

Free to useMIT★ 91kLast commit yesterday

PhotoCraft

83 · Healthy

Photoshop-style desktop image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers and native PSD files.

Free to useMIT OR Apache-2.0★ 25kLast commit yesterday

draw.io

67 · Stable

Diagram editor for flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts and UML, in the browser or on the desktop.

Free to useApache-2.0★ 8.6kLast commit yesterday

OpenPencil

66 · Stable

AI-native editor for designing interfaces, positioned as a Figma replacement.

Free to useMIT★ 8.8kLast commit yesterday

Excalidraw

65 · Stable

Virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams and sketches, with real-time collaboration.

Free to useMIT★ 134kLast commit 2 days ago

Graphite

64 · Stable

Node-based 2D editor for vector and raster graphics, procedural design and motion graphics.

Free to useApache-2.0★ 28kLast commit yesterday

draw.io

Diagram editor for flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts and UML, in the browser or on the desktop.

Alternative to

Will it still be around?

Stable

Score 67/100

Details

Can a business use it freely?

Free to use

Apache-2.0 · open source (permissive)

Details

Flat Rate Deploy

Monthly cost

draw.io on OpenTools
$15
Miro
$200

You save each month

$185/mo

93% less than today

Saving from month one

You save

Over 3 years
$6,660
In year one
$2,220

List price checked 9 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer

Health score: 67/100

Stable · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub

Score v2 · How it works

Activity

45% weight

95/100

  • Last commit yesterday (100/100).
  • 73 commits in the past 12 months (81/100).
  • 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).

Bus factor

30% weight

0/100

  • Top contributor wrote 100% of the last 73 commits (past 12 months).
  • 1 people authored those commits.

Responsiveness

25% weight

96/100

  • 99% of all issues are closed (36 open, 4331 closed) (100/100).
  • 28 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (93/100).

License

Free to use

Apache-2.0 · Open source (permissive)

What you need to do

Use, change, host and sell it for any purpose, commercial included, with no license to buy. Keep the copyright notice.

Apache License 2.0 · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.

Detected by GitHub as Apache-2.0.

GitHub activity

Stars
8.6k
Forks
1.3k
Commits, 12 mo
73
last yesterday
Releases, 12 mo
50+
last yesterday
Contributors
3
1 in last 73 commits
Open issues
36
4.3k closed

Snapshot from 2026-10-09

Top contributors

No pull requests merged on GitHub since 10 October 2025. Some projects, such as Odoo, merge changes outside GitHub's merge button, so their contributors don't show here yet.

Bespoke · we set it up$1,200onceFlat Rate Deploy$15/mo