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Penpot vs Xfig

A side-by-side look at Penpot and Xfig. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Penpot

Penpot

Design

Penpot is an open source design and prototyping tool for UI and UX designers. It allows designers to create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes with support for canvas grids, symbols, shared libraries, and sketch imports. Penpot has vector editing capabilities, component libraries, and developer handoff features.

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Xfig

Xfig

Photos & Graphics

Xfig is an open-source vector graphics editor used to draw diagrams and figures. It supports objects like circles, boxes, lines, spline curves, text, etc. and can export to formats like PDF and PostScript. Common uses are drawing diagrams like flowcharts, UML diagrams, network maps, etc.

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