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Pencil

Alan Pope (popey) Publisher Star developer Star developer

Install latest/stable of Pencil

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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sudo snap install pencil

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Details for Pencil

Package name

  • pencil

License

  • GPL-2.0-only

Last updated

  • 29 November 2023 - latest/stable
  • 11 March 2026 - 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.

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Where people are using Pencil

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Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 26.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 25.10
Zorin OS 18
Fedora 44
Linux Mint 22.3
Debian 13
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Ubuntu 25.04
Zorin OS 17
Debian 12
Ubuntu 24.10
KDE Neon 24.04