Website Builders tools

Visual tools for designing and publishing websites.

Open-design

Website Builders

Open Design is a local-first desktop app that uses coding agents and design systems to create prototypes, dashboards, decks, images, and videos with.

Penpot

58,636

Website Builders

Penpot is an open-source collaborative design platform for creating responsive interfaces, prototypes, and scalable design systems with developer handoff.

Html-anything

8,308

Website Builders

HTML Anything is a local AI-assisted editor that turns text and data into designed HTML pages, decks, posters, reports, prototypes, and social graphics.

Open-pencil

7,800

Website Builders

Open-source design editor for creating and editing .fig and .pen files with AI-assisted tools, components, auto layout, collaboration, and desktop or browser.

Plasmic

6,959

Website Builders

Plasmic is an open-source visual builder for creating apps, websites, and content with drag-and-drop editing, reusable components, and codebase integration.

Canva-clone

512

Website Builders

A self-hostable visual design SaaS with templates, drag-and-drop editing, drawing tools, AI image features, project management, exports, and subscriptions.

Open-AI-Design-Agent

318

Website Builders

Open AI Design Agent turns natural-language briefs into branded posters, social graphics, presentations, ads, and videos using self-hosted AI workflows.

How to choose open-source Website Builders software

Start with the workflow you need to replace, then compare feature coverage, deployment documentation, project activity, data portability, and support. Repository popularity is useful context, but it should not outweigh fit or the project's maintenance history.

Capabilities and use cases

Across the reviewed tools, common documented capabilities include Template-based multi-format graphic content design, AI-assisted writing, image, and video creation, Presentation creation and delivery, Collaborative design workflows, Collaborative interface designs on a shared canvas, Design systems, Interactive prototyping, Brand Kit and brand management. Verify the exact workflow on each profile before migrating production data.

Licensing considerations

Licenses represented in this category include Apache-2.0, MIT, MPL-2.0. Check redistribution, modification, and hosted-service obligations against your intended use.

Self-hosting tradeoffs

7 of 7 reviewed tools are confirmed as self-hostable, and 2 document Docker support. Compare upgrade, backup, monitoring, and security work alongside hosting cost.

Related software categories

Design Tools Image Editing Video Editing Digital Whiteboards Prototyping Vector Graphics