The Best Figma Alternatives in 2026

Best for teams who want Figma’s workflow without the lock-in.

Penpot is open source, runs in the browser, and is the alternative that feels most like home if you’re coming from Figma. Components, variants, design tokens, flex and grid layout, comments, prototyping, inspect mode for developers. It’s all there, and the layout model maps to real CSS, which developers tend to love.

The big draw is control. You can use the hosted version or self-host it on your own servers, which matters if you work somewhere with strict data rules. The free Professional plan is fully featured rather than a teaser, and the paid tiers mostly buy you bigger teams and longer version history.

The weak spot is the ecosystem. Figma has years of plugins, community files and UI kits behind it, and Penpot’s library is much thinner. Big files can also feel slower than they do in Figma, so test it on your heaviest project before you move the whole team.

Price Free. Unlimited is $7 per editor a month, capped at $175 a month however big the team gets.

Best for Mac-based teams who want a fast, native app.

Sketch is the tool Figma learned from, and it’s still a pleasure to use. It’s a proper Mac app, so it’s quick, it works offline, and it doesn’t fight you on big files. Symbols, smart layout and a mature plugin scene cover most day-to-day UI work.

It has quietly caught up on collaboration too. There’s real-time editing, browser-based viewing and inspect for developers who aren’t on a Mac. Still, the editor itself is Mac only. If anyone on your team designs on Windows or Linux, Sketch is out, full stop.

The pricing is refreshingly flexible. Alongside the subscription there’s a one-off Mac-only licence that’s yours to keep, which is rare in this category now.

Price Standard is $12 per editor a month, billed yearly. The Mac-only licence is $120 per seat with a year of updates. 30-day free trial.

Best for designers whose end product is a live website.

Framer started as a prototyping tool and turned into a website builder that designers actually enjoy. You design on a canvas that feels a lot like Figma, then hit publish and it’s a real, fast site with a CMS, animations and hosting included.

That’s also the limit. Framer is brilliant for marketing sites, portfolios and landing pages, and much less suited to designing a complex app that engineers will build in their own codebase. There’s no handoff story to speak of, because the idea is that you skip handoff entirely.

If you’re a solo designer or a small team shipping websites, it can replace Figma and your site builder in one go. Pasting frames straight in from Figma makes the move easier.

Price Free to design and publish on a Framer domain. Site plans start at $10 a month, and extra editors are $20 a month each.

Best for prototypes that need real logic, states and data.

UXPin is aimed at a different itch. Where Figma prototypes are mostly linked frames, UXPin lets you add variables, conditions and expressions, so a form can validate input or a checkout can calculate a total. User tests feel far more real as a result.

Its Merge feature goes a step further and lets you design with your team’s actual coded React components, so what you mock up is exactly what ships. For a design system team, that’s a strong pitch.

The catch is price and polish. UXPin costs a lot more than the others here, and for pure visual design work most people find it slower and less pleasant than Figma or Penpot. It earns its place when interaction fidelity matters more than pixel pushing.

Price Core is $29 per seat a month billed annually ($49 monthly). Growth is $40 a month billed annually. There’s a limited free plan and a 14-day trial.

Best for a free desktop design app that works offline, on any OS.

Lunacy from Icons8 is the underdog on this list, and a surprisingly capable one. It’s a native app for Windows, Mac and Linux, it works offline, and it opens Sketch files directly. Components, auto layout, prototyping and real-time collaboration are all included.

It also comes stuffed with built-in assets (icons, photos, illustrations) from the Icons8 library, which is handy for quick mockups. Just read the terms. Free use of those assets generally requires a link back to Icons8, and the high-resolution versions and AI tools sit behind the paid plan.

Where it falls short is the team side. Few companies use it, so hiring, handoff and sharing files with clients all get harder, and the plugin ecosystem is tiny. For a student, freelancer or anyone on Linux, though, it’s a great free pick.

Price Free for the core app. A paid Pro plan unlocks AI tools and high-resolution assets.