Pencil – Multi-platform GUI Prototyping and Wireframing

Interested, but not enough to build it just to see. The new project needs to show me <i>something</i>. For a visual tool to provide no visuals is poor presentation. A feature list and sample screenshots are a minimum.

Pencil is great, you should definitely give it a go if you need to do any diagrams or GUI mockups.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on a prototyping app for a while (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ux-app.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ux-app.com</a>). It&#x27;s more geared toward interactive prototypes. If anyone has any feedback about ux-app then I&#x27;d be keen to hear about it :)

I&#x27;m using Pencil right now to map out an upcoming project. It&#x27;s one of the few useful GUI prototyping apps I&#x27;ve found that&#x27;s free. Most of the competition is for-pay, and I just don&#x27;t do enough of this stuff to justify paying for squares and arrows on a PNG (I use it for exporting UML and page flows ATM.)<p>If you don&#x27;t want to build it, just use the original project&#x27;s pre-built installation (RPM, Bundle, EXE here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pencil.evolus.vn&#x2F;Downloads.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pencil.evolus.vn&#x2F;Downloads.html</a>). The difference between this reboot project and the original is likely minimal, so if you like the original, it&#x27;s probably worth coming back and building the reboot project.

Pencil is awesome. Being a fulltime Linux user, finding a Visio like diagramming tool is hard to find. I used Pencil to draw and maintain a finite state machine for a startup I was working on. Best of all, it is free.

I just used pencil in my company to create a mockup for a recent web project and it was a good experience.<p>PRO: It gave good results to us. With Bootstrap + FontAwesome stencils we were able to create more realistic pieces and gathered better feedback.<p>CONS: The linked repository version had a glitch which caused FontAwesome stencil disappear forever after few minutes using the application and being unable to reimport it. Evolus Pencil version worked well.

I&#x27;ve been using Pencil for some years now to pre-visualize new features for our Saas app. It&#x27;s a great piece of software. Before that I used Balsamiq mockups and I&#x27;m glad I changed over to Pencil.

I wonder why the Windows installer has grown from 22MB in case of original to 40.5MB in the reboot project. Anyway it&#x27;s great that someone made an effort to reanimate this tool.

If someone who used Pencil could share what they&#x27;ve liked at it, that could be more helpful than the current documentation.