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The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2016-06-14 · latest 2026-10-24

Mentions per year 12 mentions · busiest year 2016 (4)
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  1. ▲ 4
    Pencil 4.0
    story by pentagrama · 2026-10-24 · 0 comments
  2. good evening, was looking for the source and i find in the home page: https://github.com/evolus/pencil
    comment by rafaelgoncalves · 2023-03-02 · in Pencil ­– an open-source GUI prototyping tool
  3. https://github.com/evolus/pencil
    comment by nooorofe · 2023-03-02 · in Pencil ­– an open-source GUI prototyping tool
  4. Good catch! They seems to follow the git-flow model? https://github.com/evolus/pencil/commits/development Not that active anyway, but yeah.
    comment by flakiness · 2021-05-07 · in Pencil Project – open-source GUI prototyping tool
  5. The code is here: https://github.com/evolus/pencil It is based on Electron. The last commit was 1.5 years ago.
    comment by flakiness · 2021-05-06 · in Pencil Project – open-source GUI prototyping tool
  6. Looks very similar to another open-source prototyping tool: http://pencil.evolus.vn/ https://github.com/evolus/pencil
    comment by k1e · 2019-11-19 · in Uxbox – The open-source prototyping tool
  7. I also use pen and paper a lot. Found Pencil ( https://github.com/evolus/pencil ) which is similar to Inkscape (UI/UX is little better). Will check LucidCharts for teams.
    comment by AshishGupta93 · 2017-06-27 · in Which tool do you use for making software engineering diagrams?
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    Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for all platforms
    story by PleaseHelpMe · 2017-06-25 · 87 comments
  9. Looks like the original creators rebooted it under the github project https://github.com/evolus/pencil .
    comment by murukesh_s · 2016-11-07 · in Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
  10. Seemed active only last summer: https://github.com/evolus/pencil/graphs/contributors
    comment by jstoja · 2016-11-07 · in Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
  11. …they had 3.0 RC1 released in July 2016 http://pencil.evolus.vn/Next.html and their GitHub page at https://github.com/evolus/pencil/ is fairly active.
    comment by josh64 · 2016-11-07 · in Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
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    Evolus Pencil v3
    story by adamveld12 · 2016-06-14 · 0 comments