Penpot vs Carbon

Both in Design — compared item by item

Penpot

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration.

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They support exactly the same usage modes; the difference is in ecosystem and implementation details.
Penpot has a clearly larger community (60.3k vs 36.1k), so answers, plugins and tutorials are easier to find.
Penpot was updated more recently (2026-09-22).
Different licenses (MPL-2.0 vs MIT) — check the terms before commercial use.