OpenTempl facts

OpenTempl is a free, open source (MIT) design app for posters, social media posts and slides, with 337 templates, that works offline and needs no account. This page lists what can be checked, with the date. Last updated November 2026.

Updated November 2026

Identity

• Name: OpenTempl. Written as one word, capital O and T. Also called the free open source Canva alternative.
• Maker: Noah, in Stockholm. Independent project. Made by Noah on X.
• Website: https://opentempl.org
• Licence: MIT. Source code: https://github.com/noah-thing/opentempl.
• Price: free. No paid plan, no trial, no ads.
• Not affiliated with Canva or OpenAI.

Counts

• Templates: 337, in 34 styles and 33 kinds of document.
• Styles for image generation (Looks): 32.
• Fonts: 1,344 Google Fonts plus your own font files.
• Shapes: 23. Icons: about 200,000 through Iconify.

Where it runs

• In a web browser at https://opentempl.org. Chrome and Edge may offer to install it as an app.
• Desktop builds for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux are made with Electron. They ship with the first public release; until then use the web version.
• No phone app.

Formats

• Import: PDF with editable text, PowerPoint (text, shapes, pictures, backgrounds, speaker notes), the OpenTempl file. Charts, tables and SmartArt in PowerPoint files are not imported yet.
• Export: PNG (transparent, up to 4x), JPG, WebP, SVG, PDF for screen or print with bleed and crop marks, PowerPoint with editable text, MP4, GIF, a ZIP of pages, the editable OpenTempl file.
• Colour: RGB. No CMYK output or ICC profiles yet.

Offline and the internet

• The app opens and edits without a connection after it has loaded once. New designs can be made offline.
• Designs are saved on your device, in the browser or the desktop app. There is no OpenTempl account and no OpenTempl server that stores your designs.
• Needs a connection: the first load, Google Fonts you have not used before (they are cached after first use), icon search, stock photo search (Openverse), the first use of background removal (it downloads a model once), live sessions with other people, and the Generate tab.
• Fonts load from Google Fonts. The static pages on this site load no third party fonts or scripts.
• Live sessions go directly between browsers and are encrypted with a key in the link. A signalling service helps the two computers find each other.
• Generate: you paste your own OpenAI key. It is kept on your device and your prompt goes to OpenAI. OpenAI bills your account. OpenTempl charges nothing.

What it does not do

• No team workspaces, approvals or brand controls at company scale.
• No cloud sync between devices. Move the file yourself.
• No phone app.
• No scheduling or publishing to social networks.
• No CMYK output.
• A library of 337 templates, not millions.
• Version 0.1. One maintainer. Desktop installers are not code signed yet.

Not the same as

OpenTempl is a design app. It is unrelated to the Total.js OpenTemplates engine, the OpenTemplate PHP engine, or OpenTemplate.org, the OpenOffice template site.