Penpot vs JitBlox: what's the difference?

Looking for the right prototyping tool for your next web project? Both JitBlox and Penpot could be a good choice. It mostly depends on how much you value creative design freedom over easy, developer-friendly design handoff.

Penpot is a prototyping tool, intended for designers who need an alternative to vector drawing tools such as Figma. The advantage of prototyping tools compared to vector drawing tools is that, like JitBlox, they minimize the gap between designers and developers.

JitBlox is a web app builder. Unlike prototyping tools, web app builders focus on quickly creating interactive and dynamic web apps (single-page applications) without coding. Compared to a prototyping tool, whose output is often static, JitBlox lets you design fully functioning web apps (and prototypes!) that leverage modern front-end technologies and may even include real-world data.

Compare JitBlox with Penpot

​Penpot is an open-source design and prototyping platform. Similar to JitBlox, it allows designers to develop reusable components and design systems to maintain consistency across projects, and even allows real-time collaboration on the same project. Unlike JitBlox and other web app builders, Penpot does not provide a toolbox of prebuilt components or UI blocks, which can make designing a prototype a time-consuming exercise.

If you're looking for a nice, very attractively priced alternative to Figma, Penpot is definitely a good option. But if you want to build a modern web app that uses UI libraries and design systems that developers are already familiar with, JitBlox is still an affordable choice that is easy to learn.

Below is a comparison between JitBlox and Penpot on price and key features. Curious about what makes JitBlox unique or how it compares to other alternatives? Compare JitBlox with other tools.

  JitBlox Penpot
General

Category
Web app builder
Design tool

The kinds of apps this tool is best suited for.

Price
$15/mo inc taxes
$7 per editor /mo

Minimum price based on a plan similar to JitBlox Pro.

Free plan
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Really free, so not a free trial.

Focused on
Developers and designers
Designers

The primary target audience.

Cloud based
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Design your app without leaving your browser.
Productivity

Live preview
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See a real-time preview of your app.

Pre-built templates
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Pre-built templates to start your design from.

Prebuilt UI blocks
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Pre-built UI blocks that you can drop into your app.

Custom components
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Organize your app into reusable components.

AI assistant
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Generate screens and components with UI.
Developer friendliness

Supported UI libraries
Tailwind CSS, Material Design, Bootstrap, Shoelace
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Supported component libraries and CSS utilities.

Source code inspection
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SVG, CSS and HTML

Preview a component's or screen's source code without downloading.
Design handoff

Full source code download
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Download the full source code of your app.

Git support
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Sync the source code of your app to Git.

Target framework(s)
Angular
Static HTML

The supported SPA (single-page app) framework(s).
Customization

Custom branding
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colors and typhographies only

Create custom themes or style tokens.

Custom code
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Add custom logic or styling through code.

Event handling
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Attach actions to, for example, click events.
Data integration

Dynamic data
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Connect your UI to data from a data source.

Data modeling
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Create custom data types and fields.

Data sources
Mock data, API Stubs 2
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Data sources you can connect your UI to.
Sharing & collaboration

Sharing
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Share your design with stakeholders for feedback.

Collaboration
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Invite others to collaborate on your project.
Hosting

Hosted
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Host your app on the provider's infrastructure.

Self-hosting
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Download all assets required to self-host your app.
  • 1) AI assistant for generating pages and UI blocks planned for Q3 2025.
  • 2) Integration with backend APIs planned for Q2 2025.

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