Design Tools
Design Tools tools -- a subcategory of Office & Productivity
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9 Tools
tldraw
46KInfinite canvas whiteboard with real-time collaboration. Embed in your app as a React component or use as a standalone drawing tool. No signup required.
Penpot
45KPenpot is the open-source design and prototyping platform that bridges designers and developers with web-native standards, real-time collaboration, and no vendor lock-in.
Nextcloud
34KThe most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe.
Onlook
25KOpen-source desktop app for visually editing React applications with changes written back to code in real-time.
Graphite
25KOpen-source 2D vector and raster editor with a nondestructive, node-based workflow that runs in the browser.
Screenity
18KScreenity is a screen recorder for Chrome with no limits. Capture, draw, edit videos and more – all with no sign in needed, completely private and open source
WebStudio
8.4KSelf-hosted design tools tool that provides powerful no-code platform for building responsive websites. Combines visual editing.
Plasmic
6.7KPlasmic gives you create, customize, and deploy web interfaces without coding. integrate on your own infrastructure.
selfh.st/icons
781Selfh.st/icons lets you run dashboard icons with support for custom colors entirely on your own server.
Why Self-Host Your Design Tools?
Figma charges $12-75/editor/month, Canva Pro costs $120/year, and Adobe XD is part of the $55/month Creative Cloud bundle. These tools also require constant internet connectivity and store all your design files on their servers. Self-hosted design tools give you collaborative design capabilities without subscription fees, with your design assets stored on your own infrastructure.
Penpot is the leading open-source design tool, providing vector editing, prototyping, and real-time collaboration comparable to Figma. It runs entirely in the browser and supports SVG as its native format, making designs portable and interoperable. tldraw provides an infinite whiteboard for diagramming and quick sketches — a self-hosted alternative to Miro and Microsoft Visio for collaborative visual thinking. Webstudio and Plasmic offer visual website builders, replacing parts of the Squarespace and Webflow workflow.
For teams, self-hosted design tools solve the access problem. On Figma, every editor seat costs money, so organizations restrict who gets editing access. With Penpot, everyone in your organization can be an editor at zero additional cost. Onlook provides a visual editing interface for React components directly in the browser. Screenity offers screen recording and annotation. Graphite provides a pixel-based image editor. Selfh.st Icons provides a curated icon library for dashboards and applications. The self-hosted design ecosystem is smaller than other categories but covers the core use cases — vector design, whiteboarding, visual editing, and screen capture — without recurring fees.