Pencil

Alan Pope (popey) Publisher Star developer Star developer

Install latest/stable of Pencil

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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Install using the command line

sudo snap install pencil

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Details for Pencil

License

  • GPL-2.0-only

Last updated

  • 29 November 2023 - latest/stable
  • 21 May 2025 - latest/edge

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Sketching and GUI prototyping/wireframing tool

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


Install Pencil on your Linux distribution

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Where people are using Pencil

Users by distribution (log)

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 25.10
Ubuntu 25.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Linux Mint 22.2
Debian 12
Fedora 43
Manjaro
pop 22.04
Ubuntu 24.10
Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu 18.04
Debian 13
Linux Mint 21.3