GIMP
100 · HealthyRaster image editor for photo retouching, compositing and graphic design, with layers, masks and plug-ins.
Open source Design & image editing
Krita
96 · HealthyDigital painting and image editing app with brushes, layers, animation and color management.
Penpot
92 · HealthyBrowser-based design and prototyping tool for product teams, built on open standards such as SVG, CSS and HTML.
Mermaid
89 · HealthyGenerates flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more from text definitions.
PhotoCraft
83 · HealthyPhotoshop-style desktop image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers and native PSD files.
draw.io
67 · StableDiagram editor for flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts and UML, in the browser or on the desktop.
OpenPencil
66 · StableAI-native editor for designing interfaces, positioned as a Figma replacement.
Excalidraw
65 · StableVirtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams and sketches, with real-time collaboration.
Graphite
64 · StableNode-based 2D editor for vector and raster graphics, procedural design and motion graphics.
OpenPencil
AI-native editor for designing interfaces, positioned as a Figma replacement.
Alternative to
Will it still be around?
Stable
Score 66/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free to use
MIT · open source (permissive)
Flat Rate Deploy
A 25-full seat team on Figma Professional pays about $400 a month. OpenPencil on OpenTools costs $15 a month, setup included, so you save $385 a month, about $13,860 over three years.
Monthly cost
- OpenPencil on OpenTools
- $15
- Figma
$400
You save each month
$385/mo
96% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $13,860
- In year one
- $4,620
List price checked 9 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 66/100
Stable · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 2997 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 35 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight5/100
- Top contributor wrote 96% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 4 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight77/100
- 83% of all issues are closed (53 open, 259 closed) (88/100).
- 21 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (70/100).
License
Free to use
MIT · 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.
MIT License · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
Detected by GitHub as MIT.
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 8.8k
- Forks
- 886
- Commits, 12 mo
- 3.0k
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 35
- last 21 days ago
- Contributors
- 39
- 4 in last 100 commits
- Open issues
- 53
- 259 closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-09 · Funding: custom
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into OpenPencil and reviews of them since 15 September 2026 (older history is still loading). Building something another user asked for earns more.
