Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool

psygn89 | karma 138 | avg karma 2.16 · 2023-03-01 17:09:58

It's interesting they update the software but the site looks mostly frozen in time with copyright notice, templates, and the design.

dzogchen | karma 609 | avg karma 6.15 · 2023-03-01 18:18:49

Have you tried it? Might be best to suspend judgement until you have.

Not saying I disagree with you.

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Valodim | karma 478 | avg karma 4.35 · 2023-03-01 18:30:37

I dunno about that, the stencils & templates page has screenshots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich...

dopeboy | karma 3279 | avg karma 4.65 · 2023-03-01 18:50:28

Big fan of Pencil back in the day. Have donated funds to them. I moved away because I need multiplayer tools these days.

jvalencia | karma 320 | avg karma 2.12 · 2023-03-01 19:01:45

All of the adware around the page gives me a cringe feel, like trying Pencil will 100% result in malware on my system.

app4soft | karma 10934 | avg karma 3.12 · 2023-03-02 03:31:40

> All of the adware around the page

Wow, I not seen it as has uBlockOrigin installed.

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throwaway2037 | karma 4332 | avg karma 1.49 · 2023-03-01 19:06:46

Is this tool open source?

nooorofe | karma 36 | avg karma 0.68 · 2023-03-01 19:46:58

https://github.com/evolus/pencil

rafaelgoncalves | karma 13 | avg karma 0.46 · 2023-03-01 19:50:29

good evening, was looking for the source and i find in the home page:

https://github.com/evolus/pencil

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oneplane | karma 6399 | avg karma 2.47 · 2023-03-01 19:06:49

This was a great option a few years ago, but I wouldn't recommend this. It seems stagnated, based on legacy infrastructure, doesn't really fit into modern UI usage patterns anymore, and doesn't collaborate easily.

At some point I thought they would overtake a combination of Gliffy and StarUML, but right now even draw.io is a better option.

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KRAKRISMOTT | karma 1657 | avg karma 2.17 · 2023-03-01 22:43:45

Penpot

v3ss0n | karma 1164 | avg karma 1.72 · 2023-03-01 19:11:02

Pencil was good but too old now.

Plasmiq opensource and Penpots are better opensource alternative

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gatkinso | karma 134 | avg karma 3.53 · 2023-03-01 19:58:53

the fucking ads

jeffreportmill1 | karma 646 | avg karma 4.31 · 2023-03-01 20:58:31

If this project is mostly JavaScript, why isn’t there a browser version?

ralusek | karma 4542 | avg karma 2.77 · 2023-03-02 04:27:55

> makes GUI prototyping tool

> demos the worst UIs in existence

> shows fullscreen ads on navigate

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brunno | karma 80 | avg karma 4.0 · 2023-03-02 05:56:52

If you try to use it as a GUI designer like Figma it's pretty outdated but I still use it for low-fidelity mockups sometimes and I like it for it's simplicity.