Discover the best open source apps for designers and creators on desktop and mobile.
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21 Top Open Source Apps
Skills for Designers and Engineers — Free MIT-licensed agent skills for designers and engineers, covering animation taste, performance, and small interface mistakes.
Stageshow — Free MIT-licensed agent skill for faux product UI stills, cursor animations, and bento grids, in React and plain CSS.
agent-desktop — Free Apache-2.0 CLI from Vercel Labs. Coding agents read and operate desktop apps through the OS accessibility tree.
fun-isometric — Free, open-source agent skill that turns any object into an animated isometric sticker by asking Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
AI App Playbook — Blake Anderson’s free MIT-licensed playbook for building useful, profitable apps in 2026. Point a coding agent at AGENTS.md.
Supabase — The Postgres development platform, with a database, auth, storage, realtime, and functions.
EveryApp — Open-source business apps that run in your own Cloudflare account, behind one Gateway sign-in.
Firecrawl — Open-source web data API for AI agents and LLM apps that searches, scrapes, and interacts with the web.
OpenDuet — Open-source, self-hosted template for a proactive agent that works with any AG-UI harness.
bygga — Coming soon. Turns an IKEA product name into 3D assembly steps with optional voice guidance. Not publicly available yet, and not affiliated with IKEA.
ChromaDB — Open-source AI-native vector database and retrieval for AI apps.
Hermes Agent — Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that lives in your terminal and desktop — persistent memory, scheduling, subagents, and sandboxed execution.
HyperFrames Studio — The video editor built for agents: describe a video and a local agent builds it, then revise by typing, pointing, drawing or commenting.
Nancy — Light, private, instant clipboard manager for Mac — search 200+ recent copies, paste from the keyboard, pin what you reuse, and nothing ever leaves your machine. Free and open source.
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.
ChippyTea — Free, open-source Mac app that finds the build folders, project dependencies and old installers eating your disk, shows you the size of each, and clears only what you approve.
Krita — Free, open-source digital painting app — 100+ brushes, animation tools, and full PSD support.
Zen Browser — Privacy-focused, beautifully designed browser built on Firefox — split views, workspaces, and a minimal UI for focused browsing.
Compositor — A free, open-source Mac image editor for compositing, retouching, and layered design work.
FluidVoice — Open-source, local-first voice dictation. The Mac app is available now; Windows and iPhone are in beta.
OpenScreen — Free open-source GPU-accelerated screen recording/demo editor for Windows, macOS and Linux.