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Best Open Source Design & Prototyping Tools

Ranked by GitHub stars — actual adoption, not editorial taste. All 10 are free, open source and self-hostable; license and last activity on every entry.

  1. 1
    open-design ★ 106K

    🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine:

    Apache-2.0 TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  2. 2
    ant-design ★ 100K

    An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

    MIT TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  3. 3
    manim ★ 96K

    Animation engine for explanatory math videos

    MIT Python pushed 2026-09-09 details →
  4. 4
    hyperframes ★ 78K

    Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

    Apache-2.0 TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  5. 5
    anime ★ 74K

    JavaScript animation engine

    MIT JavaScript pushed 2026-08-21 details →
  6. 6
    daisyui ★ 43K

    🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼  The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

    MIT JavaScript pushed 2026-10-31 details →
  7. 7
    tabler ★ 42K

    Tabler is free and open-source HTML Dashboard UI Kit built on Bootstrap

    MIT Astro pushed 2026-10-29 details →
  8. 8
    motion ★ 35K

    A modern animation library for React and JavaScript

    MIT TypeScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  9. 9
    layui ★ 31K

    一套遵循浏览器原生态开发模式的 Web UI 组件库。

    MIT JavaScript pushed 2026-11-02 details →
  10. 10
    lottie-ios ★ 27K

    An iOS library to natively render After Effects vector animations

    Apache-2.0 Swift pushed 2026-10-06 details →
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Frequently asked questions

What is the best open source Design & Prototyping tool in 2026?

open-design leads the ranking with 105,526 GitHub stars, ahead of ant-design. Rankings use live GitHub star counts, refreshed nightly.

How is this list of Design & Prototyping tools ranked?

By GitHub stars — a proxy for adoption and community size. Each entry also shows its licence, primary language and last commit date, so you can judge maintenance activity rather than trusting the ranking alone.

Are the best Design & Prototyping tools free?

Every project on this list is open source and free to self-host. Some also offer paid managed hosting, but the software itself carries no licence fee.