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There is in fact an effort to make a desktop application!

Source (& releases): https://github.com/author-more/penpot-desktop

Topic on penpot forum: https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-desktop-road-to-1-0/72...





I am referring to the convenience of being able to download it from the store and start using it immediately. If it were as effortless as I described, they would reach a much larger number of users

https://penpot.app/ you don't have to download it at all :)

Thanks for the information, but I was talking about the advantage of local usability.

> If it were as effortless as I described, they would reach a much larger number of users

Almost certainly not. If you need this kind of tool, you'll either self-host it, use the hosted version or use Figma. There are no comparable offline-only alternatives. What users are they using exactly?




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