About Doop
Doop is an open-source alternative to Paper.design: a multiplayer design canvas for humans and AI agents. Each design lives on a shareable canvas that holds frames, which are artboards rendering real HTML in sandboxed iframes. People edit in the browser while AI agents edit through the built-in MCP server and stream their designs in live.
Everyone sees cursors, presence, frame edits, agent status and an activity feed as it happens. Clients such as Claude Code can connect once and sketch, stream and self-review designs next to your cursor, and a built-in Doop Agent can take cards or role mentions without any client. It runs on the server's Anthropic key for a few free tasks, then on a ChatGPT subscription or OpenAI key each user connects. Other features include comments pinned to elements, undo and redo, and a design memory that distills style rules agents follow.
Canvases are private by default, with access by email invitation or link sharing, and agents inherit their human's access. Doop is licensed under AGPL-3.0, written in TypeScript and built with bun. You can self-host with docker compose up, or run bun run dev with embedded Postgres and no other services.
Key features
- Shared design canvas with live cursors
- HTML frames rendered in sandboxed iframes
- Built-in MCP server for AI agents
- Built-in Doop Agent for design tasks
- Design memory with distilled style rules
- Self-host with docker compose
Good fit for
- →Designing alongside AI coding agents
- →Collaborative UI mockups with live editing
- Built with
- TypeScript
- Tags
- design-tool
- ai-agents
- mcp
- multiplayer
- canvas
- self-hosted
- claude-code
- design-canvas
Doop: questions and answers
- What is Doop used for?
- Doop is an open-source multiplayer design canvas where people and AI agents design together, with a built-in MCP server and one-command self-hosting. It is a good fit for designing alongside AI coding agents and collaborative UI mockups with live editing.
- Is Doop open source?
- Yes. Doop is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Its source code is on GitHub at kgoedecke/doop and is written mainly in TypeScript.
- Is Doop free?
- Yes. Doop is open source, so the software itself is free to use.
- Can I self-host Doop?
- Yes. Doop can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure.
- What is Doop an alternative to?
- Doop is an open-source alternative to Figma, Sketch, UXPin and Marvel. Other open-source alternatives to Figma include OpenPencil and Penpot.
- Is Doop actively maintained?
- Yes. The most recent commit to Doop was on 1 October 2026, and the latest release is v0.7.0, published on 1 October 2026. The project has 789 stars on GitHub.
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