Alternatives to Figma

AI generates editable, beautifully designed PPTX from any document — no design skills needed | 15 examples, 229 pages

ppt-master turns any document — PDF, DOCX, URL, Markdown — into editable PowerPoint presentations with AI. Drop in a file, get beautifully designed slides in 16:9, social media cards, or marketing posters.

The Inter font family for UI

Inter is the UI font that quietly took over the internet. Designed specifically for screens, with tall x-height and open apertures that stay readable at small sizes.

Open source design and prototyping platform

Penpot is the open-source Figma that designers actually want to exist. Browser-based collaborative design with a killer differentiator: it uses real CSS Flexbox and Grid for layouts, not proprietary auto-layout.

Build cross-platform desktop apps with JS/HTML/CSS

Electron packages a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime so you can ship web apps as desktop applications. VS Code, Discord, Slack, Figma, Notion — the apps you use daily are probably Electron under the hood.

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn diagrams

Excalidraw makes diagrams that look hand-drawn, and that's exactly why people love it. No perfectly straight lines, no corporate clip art — just sketchy boxes and arrows that feel like a whiteboard session.