Is This The Figma Killer? - This Free Tool Can Really Compete! 

Yes! With this update, the tool comes much closer to Figma than ever before :) This competition will drive Figma license prices down hopefully. More competition, the better for the users.

Yes exactly! Competition brings better products and pricing too. I've been using Figma for most of my stuff. However, I like experimenting with tools like Penpot or protopie from time to time.

Yes! They have some extentions and libraries, but the plugins concept is missing. Hoping they will soon launch that

Thanks! Always will !

Thanks great feedback! True, i also feel that a lot of companies rely on self made plugins, for which there is no feature yet. Hoping they launch an update soon.

Learn typography iconography grid systems hig guideline and material design differences etc.

You should learn a no code tool like framer

Yes, getting loser to its big brother.

I do agree with some of your points. Also, I feel for a free and open source project and a team that doesn't make big bucks yet, they are doing a good job. I see a future where there is more than one UI design tool that can compete fairly in the space.

Not anytime soon. Figma is now at industry standard level, so go for Figma for sure :)

@@PunitChawla thankyou ❤️

learn figma

Thanks for sharing your experience. More people/companies should try it out once.

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It's getting closer. If you compare pricing and org structure then Figma fails. It's all about evening the odds and is a personal preference at the end of the day. Figma has plugins, better teams, better prototyping features etc. for sure. But I've seen some teams barely use 50% of Figma features but are paying the higher pricing. This could be a cool alternative.

Actually, PenPot has two foundational advantages: 1. Direction: Figma is more like a huge container transport truck trying to do a 180 degree turn. They’ve started by making a prototyping software centred around designers and now trying to make it dev friendly. The way auto layout works, the fact that there’s no css grid, that they don’t even seem to be thinking about units other than pixels, and that there’s no box model (separate margin and padding with the ability to set negative margin) are exactly remnants of that and I don’t know if they’re ever going to be fixed. Or anyway sooner than penpot which started as a dev platform. Penpot is a rapid electric car. 2. Licensing. Figma to *insert web dev platform here* and Figma plugins rely heavily on the end points that the Figma team gives you access to, because the rest of the platform is completely closed source. Penpot started as an open source app and plan to keep it that way which means that when plugins/code transformers do come out they are going to integrate much more smoothly and be way more powerful. Also means that .penpot files have a better integration chance with any other design software than .fig files will ever have.

Luckily for now people can access it on their web platform. But I feel this will be good feedback for them.

Let's see how AI pans out into these design tools.

they will make money just like blender...

Yea the blender model is what I feel they might use in the future.

Penpot for more UI and code work. Lunacy is great for graphics and assets.

Or Creatie?

Hahah! Their deal didn't go through. So you don't have to worry about. This could be a less expensive alternative for people in the future.

Still a lot of tweaks needed, fortunately you can communicate your issues with the Penpot team.

Yes, we can still stay with Figma not loosing out panties but also explore this new Pot. Who knows we can use it to share multiple files with clients for free. Not possible in figma . Simply for this it’s a winner.

@@WithUsersInMind true! The more options we have the better the products we get

@@WithUsersInMind free for now, but not forever! If you work with clients 15$ for month is free

Luckily penpot has some plugins etc on the way too. They already have a dedicated community in place, so hopefully we get to see more in the coming months

I disagree. It's all about the fundamentals. I tried very hard to make PenPot work but ended up just burning a tonne of time and went back to Figma. Wishing the team all the best as would honestly love to see them succeed. However, Figma is so polished that $12 a month pales into insignificance when I put a value on my productivity.

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Thanks for the speed!

It's just in left channel, it happens sometimes bro. Chill, its managable.

I do review the vids since I edit them myself. It sounded OK in my speaker, might be an issue with normalisation