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Compositor vs OpenDesign

Compare Compositor and OpenDesign - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.

What is Compositor?

A free, open-source Mac image editor for compositing, retouching, and layered design work.

Price: Free

  • Layers, folders, masks, and blend modes
  • Selections, brushes, and retouching tools
  • Adjustment layers and filters
  • PSD and PSB import
  • Open-source Xcode project
  • macOS 26.5 or later
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What is OpenDesign?

Free, open-source design workspace for Mac and Windows that turns your coding agent into a design engine — prototypes, sites, slides, dashboards, images and HTML video, all on one brand system, stored locally.

Price: Free

  • Describe it, get it: prototypes, websites, slides, dashboards, marketing images and HTML video
  • One design system keeps every artifact on-brand; 152+ design systems and 458+ plugins to start from
  • Works with 21+ coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini
  • Live artifact preview and editing in a sandbox
  • Design-to-code, screenshot-to-code and Figma-to-code
  • Local-first: files live on your machine; free and open source under Apache-2.0, you pay only your own model API costs
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