Mokkup.ai vs Pencil Project

Mokkup.ai is a web-based dashboard wireframing tool for data analysts, BI developers and others who create dashboard prototypes. A text prompt can produce an editable wireframe, and the tool can also review a design and suggest changes to its layout, metrics and visual hierarchy. Users can start from templates, choose from more than 20 drag-and-drop elements, or upload a reference image or Excel/CSV data. The Semantic Layer can carry uploaded data into Power BI and Tableau exports, which can include data and formulas. Teams can edit wireframes together using shared links and permissions. The free plan permits one editable project with three screens and 25 coins, for personal use only. Mokkup states that ten coins cover either one screen export or one AI dashboard generation, and purchased coin bundles remain valid for 365 days. Mokkup Pro costs $8 a month when billed annually and includes 350 coins per year plus commercial use. The maker identifies Tableau and Microsoft Power BI as supported BI destinations and says Mokkup is developed by NeenOpal.

Pencil Project is a free, open-source desktop tool for creating GUI mockups, wireframes, and diagrams. Built-in stencil collections cover desktop, web, Android, and iOS interfaces; connectors and flowchart shapes support diagramming. Elements can link to pages in the same document, and those links become hyperlinks in web exports. Drawings can be exported as PNG files, web pages, OpenOffice or LibreOffice text documents, Inkscape SVG, or Adobe PDF. A clipart browser connected to OpenClipart.org lets users add vector clipart by dragging it into a project. Stencil collections and export templates can be installed as add-ons. Pencil runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with downloads for Fedora and Ubuntu, other GNU/Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS. The macOS DMG supports Intel and Apple Silicon. Pencil is published under GNU General Public License version 2; Evolus also describes a commercial source-code license. The site identifies version 3.1.1 as the latest stable release and warns that nightly development builds are unstable. It provides a SHA-1 checksum link for download verification and invites donations to support development.