About
Design and prototyping in the browser, the open alternative to Figma. Vector tools, components, prototypes, and files that belong to you.
Notes
Self-hosted Penpot — a real, FOSS Figma alternative. This is the "full" bundle: backend, frontend, exporter, Postgres database and Redis pubsub, all isolated in their own Docker network.
The agent generates the Postgres password and the per-instance app secret on first install. Everything stays local on the device — Obacht never sees the secrets or your design files.
Heavier than the other bundles: needs ~1.5 GB RAM under load and several GB of disk for fonts, exports and project assets.
Alternative to: Figma
Facts
- Version
- 1.1.2
- Source
- Official
- Runtime
- Several containers
- Devices
- Pi · Linux · Mac
- Min. RAM
- 2 GB
- Project
- penpot.app
Install
How to run Penpot yourself
- 01
Connect a device
A Raspberry Pi, a Linux machine or a Mac that is on anyway.
- 02
Install it
One click in your Obacht account. Your device checks the signature before anything runs.
- 03
Open it from anywhere
It gets a web address under your-name.obacht.space, with HTTPS. Add your own domain if you have one.
Open-source contribution
Free
Penpot is funded commercially and takes no donations. We can't forward anything, so this app costs nothing.
Run it on your own hardware.
Obacht is in a closed pilot phase. Put yourself on the list. We let people in a few at a time, so it can take a while.