With over 84,000 GitHub stars since its April 2026 launch, Open Design has emerged as the definitive open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. Rather than shipping its own language model, Open Design acts as an agent-agnostic design orchestration layer that auto-detects 25+ coding CLI executables on your PATH — including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen, GitHub Copilot CLI, Hermes, and Kimi — or connects to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via its built-in BYOK proxy at /api/proxy/stream. The platform introduces a file-based protocol where SKILL.md files define composable design workflows and DESIGN.md files establish version-controlled brand systems, currently shipping 31 first-party skills and 72 brand-grade design systems. Output spans web and mobile prototypes, live dashboards, presentation decks, raster images, video, and HyperFrames motion graphics, with export pipelines for HTML, PDF, PPTX, MP4, and ZIP. The daemon architecture uses SQLite for project state and serves a sandboxed iframe preview renderer with vendored React and Babel for JSX artifacts. Deployment options include the native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, local daemon mode via pnpm tools-dev, a single-container Docker Compose path serving both API and Next.js frontend on port 7456, and Vercel deployment for the web layer. On RepoCloud, deploy Open Design on a dedicated VPS with full root SSH access, persistent storage for your design systems and generated artifacts, and complete control over which AI providers and agent CLIs your instance connects to, all under the Apache-2.0 license.

Design posters, social posts, presentations, invitations, resumes, thumbnails, and business cards in your browser with Doory, a self-hosted design editor that keeps your files, fonts, and brand assets on your own server. Start from one of ten starter templates or a blank canvas, then place text, shapes, lines, arrows, emoji, stickers, QR codes, and roughly 27,500 built-in icons anywhere on the page. Photo tools cover cropping, masks, filters, in-browser background removal, and 2x to 4x image upscaling, with stock photo search through Unsplash or Pexels. Layers can be renamed, locked, hidden, grouped, and reordered, while guides, snapping, rulers, per-page sizes, and format resizing keep multi-page designs tidy. Animations add 27 enter and exit effects, 12 emphasis motions, and 16 page transitions, plus Creative Commons music loops and sound effects, so decks can be presented live with speaker notes or exported as MP4, WebM, or GIF. Share links grant view, comment, or edit access with an optional password, and collaborators can pin comments, co-edit in real time, and roll back through version history. Brand kits store your colors, fonts, and logos so recurring posts stay on-brand, and exports cover PNG, JPG, SVG, and print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks. An optional MCP server lets AI assistants create and fill designs from prompts, including bulk template filling from spreadsheet-style rows. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Attribution Assurance License licensed.

Canvix is a self-hosted design studio that lets anyone create social posts, presentations, posters, logos, and thumbnails in the browser with a drag-and-drop editor, 110 ready-made templates, and exports with no watermarks. You start from a template sized for the platform you are publishing to, then drag in shapes, lines, stickers, and your own images, moving, resizing, and rotating everything directly on the canvas. Text gets proper typography controls, with bundled fonts, styles, spacing, alignment, and curved text that arcs across the design. Layers can be reordered and locked while smart guides snap elements into alignment, and a full undo history plus autosave means a closed tab never costs you the work. Finished designs export as PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, or video at up to three times resolution, ready to publish anywhere. Free accounts keep each person's designs private to them, while share links open a design for anyone to view or continue editing. Version snapshots let you roll a design back when an experiment goes wrong. The AI tools, magic edit, magic write, background removal, and translation, run against your own API keys, so nothing is metered. An optional MCP endpoint even lets AI assistants create and edit designs for you. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

OpenPencil is the open-source design editor that reads and writes native Figma .fig files using the same Kiwi binary format — enabling bidirectional copy-paste between Figma and OpenPencil without data loss. The built-in AI assistant provides 90+ design tools through a chat interface, creating and modifying shapes, fills, strokes, auto-layout, components, variables, and boolean operations from natural language prompts, with BYOK support for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI, OpenRouter, Z.ai, MiniMax, and compatible endpoints. A Skia CanvasKit WASM renderer paired with Yoga WASM layout engine delivers Figma-parity rendering with flex and CSS Grid support including gap, padding, and alignment. The headless CLI inspects node trees via XPath queries, lints naming and accessibility, converts between document formats, analyzes color and typography patterns, extracts design tokens, and exports to PNG, SVG, JSX/Tailwind, and HTML. An MCP server exposes all design operations over stdio and HTTP, connecting Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI for AI-assisted design automation. Real-time P2P collaboration via WebRTC with Yjs CRDT synchronization requires no server and no account. The Vue SDK provides headless components for embedding the editor into custom applications. Ships as a 7 MB Tauri v2 desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, or runs in any browser as a PWA. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

HyCanvas folds graphics, presentations, videos, whiteboards, documents, and spreadsheets into one self-hosted browser editor, covering work that usually takes several separate design subscriptions. Start from one of 140 templates across social, print, events, business, and presentations, or import a PowerPoint file and keep editing it. The canvas carries shapes, frames, tables, nine chart types, QR codes, image filters, crop and masks, background removal, and Magic Resize for one-click reformatting. Video projects get a multi-track timeline with trims, transitions, keyframes, styled captions, green-screen keying, and screen or webcam recording. Whiteboards add sticky notes, connectors, a shared timer, and dot voting, and a finished board converts straight into a slide deck. Teammates co-edit in realtime with presence cursors, comments with mentions, version history, and approvals, while share links open view-only, comment, or edit access. Brand kits hold your colors, fonts, and logos, and a brand lock warns or blocks off-brand edits before they ship. Connect your own AI provider key to generate decks, documents, images, and charts from a prompt, then export PNG, JPG, PDF, SVG, PPTX, MP4, or GIF with no watermark. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Sketch a wireframe, get working code: Draw a UI turns hand-drawn layouts into web interfaces. It pairs the open-source tldraw canvas with an OpenAI vision model: you sketch a layout - boxes, labels, buttons, arrows, whatever communicates the idea - select the drawing, and click Make Real. The app snapshots your selection as a PNG, sends it to the vision API with instructions to return a single HTML file styled with Tailwind CSS, and renders the result in an iframe directly on the canvas next to your sketch. The loop is iterative: annotate the generated prototype or redraw parts of it, select both the sketch and the previous result, and generate again - the model receives the earlier HTML as context and produces an updated version. Built by Figma engineer Sawyer Hood as one of the first viral GPT-4 Vision demos and the basis for tldraw's "Make Real", it is a Next.js app that runs against your own OpenAI API key. Self-hosting matters here: the upstream demo ships without authentication, so a private deployment keeps your API key from being drained by strangers. MIT-licensed.

Describe a topic in a sentence, or drop in a document, and get back a finished slide deck that you can still edit slide by slide. You write a brief, pick a design from the template gallery, and review an outline of every slide before generation starts, so the story is settled before any layout work happens. The editor then shows each slide on the canvas with thumbnails on the left and a side panel for blocks, text, charts, tables, images, and shapes. Charts, icons, and speaker notes arrive with the slides, and an AI panel sits beside the canvas for further changes. Finished decks export as PowerPoint or PDF files, and a dashboard keeps every deck you have made. Any text model works, from hosted services at OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Azure, or Bedrock to local ones on Ollama or LM Studio, and image sources include AI image models and stock libraries. A custom template builder turns an existing PowerPoint file into reusable layouts, and a REST API and built-in MCP server let other tools generate decks on demand. Use it for sales reports, weekly status reviews, training material, or pitch decks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Webstudio delivers a professional-grade visual website builder that outputs semantic HTML and clean CSS without inline style pollution or JavaScript-heavy render paths. The live canvas editor provides direct manipulation of all CSS properties — flexbox, grid, spacing, typography, transforms, and filters — with real-time preview across responsive breakpoints. The component system supports reusable instances with variants and overrides, while design tokens maintain consistent colors, fonts, and spacing across the entire site. Data bindings connect to external content sources through native integrations with Strapi and Supabase, plus a generic CMS interface for any REST API backend. The Scroll Timeline API powers animations at 120 FPS off the main thread, with presets for rotate, scale, translate, opacity, color, and filter effects. Projects build as dynamic Remix applications with server-side rendering or export as static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. The Webstudio CLI generates Docker-ready builds that run a Node.js server on port 3000, with Nginx reverse proxy configuration for SSL termination via Let's Encrypt. The builder requires minimum 1 GB RAM and 1 CPU core for Docker builds. MCP integration enables AI agents to create and modify websites programmatically. On RepoCloud, deploy Webstudio projects on a dedicated VPS with root SSH access, persistent storage, and complete control over your hosting, custom domains, and deployment pipeline, all under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Design a website on a canvas, manage its content in spreadsheet-style tables, and publish plain HTML, all from one self-hosted Instatic server. Designers see several breakpoint frames side by side, or switch to live mode and edit one full-size page in place. A built-in design system expands one brand color into a full shade scale, generates fluid type and spacing scales, and writes the utility classes into a single small stylesheet. Reusable Visual Components take typed parameters and named slots, templates set site-wide or per-post-type layouts, and loops repeat a design over posts or media. Editors work in custom post types and data tables, and posts move through draft, scheduled, and published states. Forms on the site save their submissions to tables of your own. An AI agent can do the building, placing real, editable nodes on the canvas using Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or Ollama with your own key, and an MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, and other remote agents work on the site too. Super Import converts a whole static site into pages, styles, tokens, and media. Teams get roles built from 38 capabilities, TOTP two-factor sign-in, and an append-only audit log, plus site branches with private copies, shareable preview links, and merge review. Everything published is baked to plain HTML and CSS on disk. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.