Design · Alternatives
Penpot alternatives
As of 16 Oct 2026, the panel rates Sketch (2.5/5), Frontify (2.5/5) and Figma (2.5/5) highest among the other 13 Design products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Sketch (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
European alternatives to Penpot
European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.
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Sketch
EU-MadePanel rating
Sketch — a native Mac design app with a web workspace from Sketch B.V.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Frontify
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Frontify AG of St.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Framer
EU-MadePanel rating
Framer B.V., an Amsterdam design tool that publishes production websites, scores highest on design and prototyping (6 to 7) and collaboration and handoff (6 to 7), where judges cite documented component variants with resettable overrides, libraries whose updates propagate to every project, free commenting viewers, branching with a documented merge API, and a staging environment.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 1 Oct 2026
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Collaboard
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Collaboard, an online whiteboard from IBV Informatik, Beratungs und Vertriebs AG, scores highest on collaboration and handoff at 4 to 6 and file ownership and portability at 4 to 6, resting on free browser guests, password-protected expiring invitations, terms naming the user sole owner of the data, and import from Miro, Mural and Conceptboard.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Europe
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026
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Kittl
EU-MadePanel rating
Kittl is a graphic design platform built on 10,000+ templates and AI generation, and the scoring favors buyers whose deliverable is finished visual assets.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 1 Oct 2026
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CELUM
EU-MadePanel rating
CELUM, from CELUM GmbH of Linz, Austria, is judged as a European digital asset management and brand content hub.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Conceptboard
EU-MadePanel rating
Conceptboard, an online whiteboard for ideas, tasks and projects hosted in Germany, scored highest on sovereignty (5 to 7) and file ownership and portability (4 to 7), and lowest on design and prototyping (a uniform 2) and AI and content rights (0 to 2).
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
Other alternatives
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Figma
Rest of worldPanel rating
Figma scores highest on design and prototyping and collaboration and handoff, both clustering at 6-7: shared styles for color, text, grids and effects, team-wide libraries, AI-generated component sets landing as fully editable layers bound to the customer's tokens and variables, Dev Mode with an MCP server on Professional, and free viewers taking measurements and copying CSS, iOS and Android code without a billing account.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026
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UXPin
Rest of worldPanel rating
UXPin, a browser-based design tool from UXPin Inc., a Delaware corporation, is judged strongest at prototyping and developer handoff and weakest on sovereignty and pricing transparency.
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Miro
Rest of worldPanel rating
Miro — RealtimeBoard Inc.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 1 Oct 2026
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Brandfolder
Rest of worldPanel rating
The bench scores Brandfolder, a Smartsheet company, as a brand asset library, not a design tool.
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Lucidspark
Rest of worldPanel rating
Lucidspark — Lucid Software Inc.'s whiteboard, from South Jordan, Utah — scores strongest on collaboration and handoff, clustering at 4-5 on five documented roles from owner to view, folder inheritance, guest collaborators, chat and comments, sharing and document APIs, and more than 100 custom-built integrations.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026
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Mural
Rest of worldPanel rating
Mural, a visual collaboration whiteboard from Tactivos, Inc.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026