About OpenDesign

OpenDesign is an open-source, local-first design tool, an open alternative to closed AI design products. This is the short version of what it is, why it exists, and who is behind it.

The origin

OpenDesign began as a simple objection: the best AI design tools were closed. You rented access, worked against a weekly allowance, and sent everything you made to someone else's server. There was no open, local-first place to generate a UI and get real code back.

So we built one. No account. No allowance. Bring your own model. Your work lives on your machine, and the whole thing is out in the open.

Open, and staying open

OpenDesign is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. That is not a badge. It is a structural commitment. Copyleft means the community's version of OpenDesign can never be closed off, taken private, and sold back. Whatever else happens, the free edition stays free, and the source stays available. You can read the details on the License page.

Open core, honestly

Free software still has to be sustainable. OpenDesign follows an open-core model, the same shape used by projects like ComfyUI and AltTab. The open app is the product, released under the GPL. On top of that, the steward, MAECLY, reserves the right to build a commercial edition with additional features under a separate license.

We would rather be direct about the trade-off than tuck it into a footnote:

• Within this project, only the steward can commercialize the combined work. That is what the Contributor License Agreement enables, and we say so plainly.
• The free edition is not a crippled demo. It is the real product, the same one we use. The commercial edition, if it exists, adds to the free core; it never subtracts from it.

The steward and contributors

OpenDesign is stewarded by MAECLY, Miguel Angel Esparza Calero (GitHub, maecly.com), its creator and lead. He is joined by contributors like Martín Larrea (martin76ec), a software engineer working on the core.

Right now, the project is built by two people. That shapes how it moves: we work deliberately, we ship when things are ready, and we do not publish dates we cannot honor. You can see exactly where things stand on the Roadmap. It is grouped by what is shipped, in progress, planned, and still being explored, and nothing on it pretends to be further along than it is.

Get involved

OpenDesign is built in the open, and it is better with more hands.

• Code and issues live on GitHub: open an issue, file a bug, or send a pull request.
• Before you use the name or the logo, read the Brand & Trademark guidelines.
• For the legal picture, see the License and Terms of Use.

If you have been waiting for a design tool that respects your machine, your model, and your work, come build it with us.