A plugin now bridges your Figma and Penpot files

A community-built Figma plugin lets you export files across to Penpot, so you can test the open-source alternative without abandoning your existing Figma work. It's unofficial and early, so treat it as an experiment, not a production workflow.

If you're already juggling Figma and Penpot (a lot of juniors are, given cost pressures on teams), this Penpot Exporter plugin removes some of the friction of trying Penpot properly — you don't have to rebuild a file from scratch just to poke around. It's community-maintained, not built by either company, so expect rough edges: components and constraints won't always translate cleanly. We're calling this **adoption**, not hype — it exists because enough designers wanted to move files between the two tools, not because a vendor is pushing it. Good excuse to actually compare the two properly instead of just reading hot takes about which is 'better'.

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