Best Alternatives to Figma for UI/UX Design in 2025
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Best Alternatives to Figma for UI/UX Design in 2025

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Compare the best Figma alternatives for UI/UX design including Sketch, Adobe XD, Penpot, Framer, Lunacy, InVision, Axure, Marvel, Zeplin, and UXPin.

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A comparison of alternatives to Figma for UI/UX design in 2025, set against the vendor-lock-in and pricing concerns that intensified after Adobe's abandoned 20 billion dollar acquisition and Figma's more restrictive free tier. It reviews Sketch, Adobe XD (advising against new projects), the open-source self-hostable Penpot, Framer, Lunacy, InVision, Axure, Marvel, Zeplin, and UXPin across features and pricing, addresses how hard migrating off Figma actually is, and gives guidance on choosing.

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  1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Melik Can Sariyer

    The merger was mutually terminated, not formally blocked by the EC.

    Before

    Adobe's response to the blocked acquisition has been to expand Illustrator's vector design capabilities... | European Commission. (2023). Decision blocking Adobe/Figma merger. ec.europa.eu | FAQ: 'Adobe significantly reduced XD investment after the failed $20 billion acquisition was blocked in December 2023...'

    After

    Adobe's response to the abandoned acquisition has been to expand Illustrator's vector design capabilities... | European Commission. (2023). Statement on the termination of the Adobe/Figma merger. ec.europa.eu | FAQ: 'Adobe significantly reduced XD investment after the $20 billion acquisition was abandoned in December 2023 amid regulatory competition concerns...'

    Why: The main body sentence was already correctly fixed to say Adobe and Figma 'abandoned the deal' (mutual termination), but two secondary body-text locations (a later sentence describing Adobe's response, and a bibliography citation) and one FAQ answer all independently still used the unverified 'blocked' framing, contradicting the corrected sentence just above them. All three fixed to consistently describe a mutually abandoned/terminated deal, not an EC-blocked one.

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