Adobe XD Is Done: 10 Alternatives to Move To

Last updated: August 2026

Adobe XD is no longer a tool with a future. Investment stopped, the standalone plan was pulled from sale, and remaining users are working on something that will not receive meaningful development.

This isn't a "which is better" comparison. It's a migration guide.

The obvious destination

Figma is where most XD users land. The workflow is familiar — artboards, components, prototyping links — and the jump is smaller than it looks. What you gain immediately: real-time collaboration, a far better component system with variants and variables, Dev Mode for handoff, and an ecosystem that isn't going anywhere.

Third-party plugins handle XD-to-Figma conversion with mixed results. Simple files convert reasonably; complex prototypes and component overrides need rebuilding.

Penpot is the strongest option if what you liked about XD was the price. Free, unlimited editors, open source, self-hostable, with open SVG-based file formats — which is exactly the property that prevents this situation happening to you again.

Pixso is a lower-cost collaborative alternative covering similar ground to Figma.

If you want to stay in the Adobe world

There isn't a real XD successor inside Adobe. Adobe's UI design story now runs through Figma, following the attempted acquisition. If you're staying on Creative Cloud for Photoshop and Illustrator, you'll still be designing interfaces somewhere else.

Framer is worth considering if your work is marketing sites rather than product interfaces — it publishes directly, which XD never did.

If you want offline and one-time purchase

Affinity Designer is the closest thing to XD's old value proposition — professional-grade, perpetual licence, fully offline. It is not built for UI design and handoff the way XD was, so this suits illustration, brand and print work rather than product design.

Prototyping-focused options

ProtoPie goes far beyond what XD could do for interaction — sensors, variables, conditional logic, multi-device prototypes.

Origami Studio is Meta's free, powerful prototyping tool.

UXPin builds prototypes from real code components, so they behave like the shipped product.

Visily turns screenshots and sketches into editable wireframes, useful for the early phase.

Moqups handles wireframes and simple prototypes in the browser.

A migration plan that works

1. Export everything now — files, assets, specs, prototype links. Do this today.
2. Pick based on team, not features. If you collaborate, Figma. If cost dominates, Penpot.
3. Rebuild the design system rather than importing it. Converters produce libraries nobody trusts. A week of rebuilding produces something maintainable.
4. Migrate active projects first, archive the rest as static exports. Most old files never get opened again.
5. Choose open formats this time. The lesson of XD is that a proprietary format tied to one vendor's roadmap is a risk you carry silently until the day it lands.

Which one?

• Team, collaboration, industry standard → Figma
• Free, open source, own your files → Penpot
• Marketing sites you publish yourself → Framer
• Offline, perpetual licence, print and brand → Affinity
• Complex interaction prototypes → ProtoPie

See also Figma alternatives and Figma vs Penpot.