Canvix is a self-hosted design studio that lets anyone create social posts, presentations, posters, logos, and thumbnails in the browser with a drag-and-drop editor, 110 ready-made templates, and exports with no watermarks. You start from a template sized for the platform you are publishing to, then drag in shapes, lines, stickers, and your own images, moving, resizing, and rotating everything directly on the canvas. Text gets proper typography controls, with bundled fonts, styles, spacing, alignment, and curved text that arcs across the design. Layers can be reordered and locked while smart guides snap elements into alignment, and a full undo history plus autosave means a closed tab never costs you the work. Finished designs export as PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, or video at up to three times resolution, ready to publish anywhere. Free accounts keep each person's designs private to them, while share links open a design for anyone to view or continue editing. Version snapshots let you roll a design back when an experiment goes wrong. The AI tools, magic edit, magic write, background removal, and translation, run against your own API keys, so nothing is metered. An optional MCP endpoint even lets AI assistants create and edit designs for you. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Design posters, social posts, presentations, invitations, resumes, thumbnails, and business cards in your browser with Doory, a self-hosted design editor that keeps your files, fonts, and brand assets on your own server. Start from one of ten starter templates or a blank canvas, then place text, shapes, lines, arrows, emoji, stickers, QR codes, and roughly 27,500 built-in icons anywhere on the page. Photo tools cover cropping, masks, filters, in-browser background removal, and 2x to 4x image upscaling, with stock photo search through Unsplash or Pexels. Layers can be renamed, locked, hidden, grouped, and reordered, while guides, snapping, rulers, per-page sizes, and format resizing keep multi-page designs tidy. Animations add 27 enter and exit effects, 12 emphasis motions, and 16 page transitions, plus Creative Commons music loops and sound effects, so decks can be presented live with speaker notes or exported as MP4, WebM, or GIF. Share links grant view, comment, or edit access with an optional password, and collaborators can pin comments, co-edit in real time, and roll back through version history. Brand kits store your colors, fonts, and logos so recurring posts stay on-brand, and exports cover PNG, JPG, SVG, and print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks. An optional MCP server lets AI assistants create and fill designs from prompts, including bulk template filling from spreadsheet-style rows. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Attribution Assurance License licensed.

OpenPencil is the open-source design editor that reads and writes native Figma .fig files using the same Kiwi binary format — enabling bidirectional copy-paste between Figma and OpenPencil without data loss. The built-in AI assistant provides 90+ design tools through a chat interface, creating and modifying shapes, fills, strokes, auto-layout, components, variables, and boolean operations from natural language prompts, with BYOK support for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI, OpenRouter, Z.ai, MiniMax, and compatible endpoints. A Skia CanvasKit WASM renderer paired with Yoga WASM layout engine delivers Figma-parity rendering with flex and CSS Grid support including gap, padding, and alignment. The headless CLI inspects node trees via XPath queries, lints naming and accessibility, converts between document formats, analyzes color and typography patterns, extracts design tokens, and exports to PNG, SVG, JSX/Tailwind, and HTML. An MCP server exposes all design operations over stdio and HTTP, connecting Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI for AI-assisted design automation. Real-time P2P collaboration via WebRTC with Yjs CRDT synchronization requires no server and no account. The Vue SDK provides headless components for embedding the editor into custom applications. Ships as a 7 MB Tauri v2 desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, or runs in any browser as a PWA. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

A budget model, the launch document that explains it, and the slides that present it can live side by side in one self-hosted office workspace that people and AI agents edit together. Personal and Team Spaces organize Sheets, Docs, Slides, relational Bases, and Boards, with Recent, Trash, file import, and export views keeping everyday housekeeping close at hand. Sharing follows role and node aware access control, including anonymous viewing, so a single table or document can be opened to a reader without exposing the whole space. Data and references stay connected across artifacts as the workspace changes, which keeps a figure corrected in a sheet consistent with the document that quotes it. The Workspace Agent drafts and revises content in isolated Worktrees, verifies its own changes, and hands the result to a person for review before anything reaches the trunk. Several review rounds can happen while humans keep editing in the Browser, and nothing merges until someone approves it. The Workspace CLI connects existing agents to your deployment, so automation can create content, inspect data, render screenshots and PDFs, and run layout checks before review. Sign-in accepts passwords, GitHub, Discord, or application OAuth, and files move in and out as XLSX, DOCX, PPTX, and CSV without a separate conversion project. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

End-to-end encrypted by design, CryptPad is a real-time office suite where teams write documents, plan on kanban boards, collect answers with forms, and draw diagrams without the hosting server ever seeing their content. Rich text pages come with comments, replies, @mentions, and a document outline, while the Markdown editor adds a live preview, Mermaid diagrams, mind maps, and math. Kanban columns hold colored, tagged cards with Markdown bodies, and the diagram editor exports PNG, JPG, SVG, or PDF. Optional ONLYOFFICE editors add spreadsheets, word-processing documents, and presentations that several people can edit together. The form builder offers text, choice, grid, date, ranking, and poll questions, conditional sections, and separate author, auditor, and participant roles. Documents can be shared with contacts or teams, by link, or as embed code, with view, edit, present, or view-once access. Passwords, expiry dates, owner lists, and access lists limit who gets in, and every edit lands in a history you can step through, restore, or pin as a named snapshot. CryptDrive keeps files in folders, tags, templates, and a trash bin, while teams get their own drive, chat, and member roles. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Real LibreOffice document engineering in the browser: Collabora Online is built by the company employing much of the former SUSE LibreOffice team - not a reimplementation. This deployment runs CODE (Collabora Online Development Edition), the collabora/code server that renders and edits documents entirely server-side while browsers get high-fidelity WYSIWYG output, so layout and formatting survive round-trips that break lesser converters. Four editors ship in one container: Writer for text documents (comments, track changes with comparison and restoration, form handling), Calc for spreadsheets (advanced formulas, macros, pivot tables, per-user sheet views, server-enforced cell protection), Impress for presentations, and Draw for Visio-class diagrams. Format compatibility spans DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, the ODF family, PDF, and dozens more - including Visio and Publisher import. Real-time collaborative editing supports multiple simultaneous editors with visible cursors and commenting. The architectural point: documents are processed on your server and never leave it, which is why Collabora is the engine behind Nextcloud Office and integrates with ownCloud, Seafile, and any WOPI-speaking host - or embeds in your own application via the SDK. An admin console monitors sessions and memory. For organizations that need Google Docs-style collaboration with actual data sovereignty, this is the reference open-source answer.

Half the architecture sketches on the internet trace back to Excalidraw - the MIT-licensed virtual whiteboard whose hand-drawn aesthetic made technical diagramming feel approachable, at roughly 85,000 GitHub stars. The infinite canvas offers rectangles, ellipses, diamonds, arrows with smart binding and labels, free-draw, text, images, and an eraser, with full undo/redo, zoom, dark mode, and keyboard-first ergonomics. Community shape libraries add thousands of pre-built elements - AWS architecture icons, flowchart stencils, UI wireframe kits - and everything exports to PNG, SVG, the clipboard, or the open .excalidraw JSON format that keeps drawings diffable and portable. Live collaboration works on a share-a-link model with live cursors and a laser pointer for presenting, and it is end-to-end encrypted by design: the room key travels in the URL hash, which never reaches the server, so the WebSocket relay only ever sees ciphertext. The architecture is remarkably light - the app is a static bundle served by Nginx, drawings persist locally in the browser, and the stateless excalidraw-room relay handles multiplayer - so a self-hosted deployment gives unlimited boards and collaborators with near-zero resource cost, replacing per-editor whiteboard subscriptions.

The drawing surface inside WebRTC conference tools like Meetzi and the LAMS online-learning platform is Whiteboard (by cracker0dks) - a lightweight Node.js collaborative sketchboard built to be embedded and customized, which also slots into Nextcloud via the External Sites app. Everyone opening the same whiteboardid URL parameter draws on the same board, with remote user cursors visible live, per-user undo/redo, and an indicator showing the smallest participating screen so nobody draws outside a colleague's view. Content handling goes beyond pen strokes: drag-and-drop or paste images and PDFs from any PC or browser, then resize, rotate, and draw over them on canvas or background; add text and sticky notes; hold Shift for angle-snapped lines and perfect squares. Every function has a keybinding - deliberately friendly to pen displays like Wacom and XP-Pen whose hardware buttons map to shortcuts. Boards save to image or JSON (with reload), export directly to Nextcloud via WebDAV, and persist across restarts with the file-database option. A REST API with bundled interactive docs allows full programmatic control, an optional access token locks down uploads, and YAML configuration tunes behavior and performance. MIT-licensed and reverse-proxy friendly.

A Node.js server, a large shared canvas, and a URL - WBO (Whiteboard Ophir) is collaborative whiteboarding reduced to its essence. There are no accounts and no setup - to collaborate, you send someone the board's link, and every stroke appears for all connected users in real time over WebSockets, with cursor positions shared so you can see where collaborators are working. Board state persists automatically and continuously, so a diagram drawn in today's lesson is still there next week at the same URL. Boards come in three flavors: a public free-for-all, private boards with random unguessable names, and named boards with custom URLs shared by anyone who knows the name. The tools cover teaching and brainstorming needs - pencil, straight lines, rectangles, ellipses, text annotations, eraser, a full color palette with brush sizes - and boards export as SVG or PNG. Despite the simplicity, the server is production-minded: JWT authentication gates board access with granular capabilities (open, edit, and clear as separate permissions), rate limiting caps per-client message volume, reverse-proxy and subpath deployment are supported, and OpenTelemetry provides metrics, logs, and traces. It works on tablets and touch devices, speaks multiple languages, and consumes minimal resources. AGPL-licensed.

ExcaliDash adds persistent storage, access control, version history, and real-time collaboration to Excalidraw, transforming ephemeral whiteboarding sessions into a managed drawing library your team can rely on. The Node.js/Express backend with React/TypeScript frontend deploys via Docker Compose on port 6767, using Prisma ORM on SQLite for all drawings, users, and metadata. WebSocket-powered collaboration lets multiple users edit the same canvas simultaneously with live cursor presence. Drawing snapshots preserve every revision with visual preview and one-click restore to any previous state. Three authentication modes handle different deployment needs: local email/password for personal use, hybrid mode mixing native credentials with OIDC for gradual enterprise adoption, and enforced OIDC-only for organizations requiring SSO through providers like Authentik or Keycloak. Scoped sharing controls determine whether drawings stay private, shared internally with team members, or accessible via external links without authentication. Collections organize drawings through drag-and-drop grouping, full-text search locates any diagram instantly, and exports use the non-proprietary .excalidraw format ensuring complete data portability. 1,350+ stars since November 2025. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Type a sentence like 'draw a seaside lighthouse under moonlight, with a small sailboat and stars' and Draw Agent Studio sketches it on a live canvas you can then keep editing by chat. Follow-up messages move objects, change colors, delete elements, and undo or redo steps, so refining a diagram becomes a conversation instead of a wrestling match with shape handles. The same canvas accepts direct manual work: select and drag shapes, draw freehand with the pen, or drop text onto the page to finish details the model missed. Researchers and writers use it to build flowcharts from a paragraph of method notes, grouping stages, adding quality checks and feedback loops, and restructuring sections on request. Canvases save automatically as you work, and finished pieces export as PNG, JPG, WebP, or SVG images, or as editable Excalidraw files for further hand editing elsewhere. You bring your own model connection, choosing OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, Ark, DeepSeek, Kimi, Groq, OpenRouter, Bedrock, Vertex AI, or a local Ollama or OpenAI-compatible endpoint. A built-in connection test sends a real image and verifies recognition and tool calling before you save, and your API keys stay encrypted on the server rather than in the browser. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Turning chaotic group brainstorming sessions into structured visual diagrams, TeamMapper provides a real-time collaborative mind mapping workspace that teams and classrooms can join instantly without creating user accounts. Workshop facilitators, teachers, and product squads start from a central root topic and branch outward into hierarchical radial trees, using keyboard shortcuts and full undo-redo history to capture ideas at the speed of conversation. Every node can be styled with custom branch and background colors, adjustable font weights and sizes, external reference links, uploaded raster images, and visual pictograms from the ARASAAC library to reinforce memory and visual association. Sharing a live session takes a single click: hosts distribute either a view-only link, a full modification invite URL, or a scannable QR code so remote colleagues and students in the same room can edit branches simultaneously. When enabled by the administrator, an integrated AI assistant can automatically generate initial mind map branches and subtopics from a text prompt to jump-start planning sessions. Completed maps export cleanly to JSON, Mermaid diagram syntax, scalable SVG vectors, high-resolution PNG images, or printable PDF documents, and existing JSON maps can be re-imported at any time for follow-up workshops. Built-in privacy controls automatically purge inactive mind maps and orphaned image attachments after a configurable retention window, simplifying GDPR compliance for schools and enterprises. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Instead of juggling a chat window, a folder of reference images, and a notebook of half-remembered prompts, Infinite Canvas puts the whole image-making process on one zoomable board. Drop in text, image, video, and generation-settings nodes, then wire them together so every result stays connected to the prompt and references behind it. Add one or several OpenAI-compatible endpoints, choose default text, image, and video models, and set image count, aspect ratio, quality, and transparent backgrounds per node. Batch results arrive as linked nodes that remember their prompt, model, and dimensions, so any of them can be retried later with the same settings. A prompt library searches seven built-in sources plus your own JSON sources and inserts the winner straight onto the board. An asset shelf keeps reusable images, clips, and audio within reach. Projects can be duplicated, exported, and synced between devices over WebDAV. Want a helper? A local Canvas Agent lets Codex read the active board and edit it through MCP, with approvals and permissions shown in a side panel. Plugins add node types, inspectors, and toolbar actions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 84,000 GitHub stars since its April 2026 launch, Open Design has emerged as the definitive open-source alternative to Anthropic's Claude Design. Rather than shipping its own language model, Open Design acts as an agent-agnostic design orchestration layer that auto-detects 25+ coding CLI executables on your PATH — including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen, GitHub Copilot CLI, Hermes, and Kimi — or connects to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via its built-in BYOK proxy at /api/proxy/stream. The platform introduces a file-based protocol where SKILL.md files define composable design workflows and DESIGN.md files establish version-controlled brand systems, currently shipping 31 first-party skills and 72 brand-grade design systems. Output spans web and mobile prototypes, live dashboards, presentation decks, raster images, video, and HyperFrames motion graphics, with export pipelines for HTML, PDF, PPTX, MP4, and ZIP. The daemon architecture uses SQLite for project state and serves a sandboxed iframe preview renderer with vendored React and Babel for JSX artifacts. Deployment options include the native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, local daemon mode via pnpm tools-dev, a single-container Docker Compose path serving both API and Next.js frontend on port 7456, and Vercel deployment for the web layer. On RepoCloud, deploy Open Design on a dedicated VPS with full root SSH access, persistent storage for your design systems and generated artifacts, and complete control over which AI providers and agent CLIs your instance connects to, all under the Apache-2.0 license.

Creative teams use Shumai to review video, images, 3D models, and documents with feedback pinned to the exact frame, on a server they control instead of a rented review cloud. Pause on any frame, draw on the picture, and leave a timecoded comment with the markup attached, then let threaded replies, mentions, and resolve states carry it to a decision. Every cut stacks into a version stack, and any two versions open side by side to compare changes. Layered PSDs and camera RAW review at full resolution, 3D models spin with comments pinned to the viewing angle, and documents page through as converted PDFs. Clients open a share link with a password and expiry date, downloads switchable, and can comment as guests with no account. Watermarks render into the media on your server rather than layering in the browser, so they stay put wherever the file travels. Comments export as Premiere Pro XML, DaVinci Resolve EDL, Final Cut Pro, or Avid files with correct drop-frame timecode for the editor. Mention the AI agent in a comment and it examines the same frame under discussion, or chat privately about a folder using your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini key. Originals live on local disk or any S3-compatible bucket, with GPU transcoding and workers that scale up for a delivery and back to zero. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Passive slide decks put audiences to sleep, which is why Claper turns any presentation into a two-way live session where every attendee can vote in polls, submit questions, and react in real time from their phone. Speakers upload existing PDF or PowerPoint decks directly into the web studio and interleave interactive poll, quiz, form, and web embed slides between their static pages without rebuilding presentations from scratch. Conference organizers and educators share a short join code or QR link so hundreds of participants can enter the attendee room instantly from any mobile browser without installing an app or creating an account. During the talk, the presenter console displays incoming audience questions sorted by upvote popularity, alongside moderation controls to approve, pin, hide, or mark inquiries as answered on the main screen. Live polling supports multiple-choice, rating scale, and open-text prompts that animate into real-time bar charts and percentage breakdowns as votes arrive, while timed quizzes grade participant responses automatically. Integrated real-time speech transcription generates live captions and searchable session transcripts so international and hearing-impaired attendees can follow every spoken word. Universities and corporate training teams connect Claper directly to Moodle or OpenID Connect identity providers via LTI 1.3 to synchronize student rosters, push quiz scores to gradebooks, and export complete CSV engagement reports after every session. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.