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24 alternatives to The League of Moveable Type

An open-source type foundry

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The League of Moveable Type launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Precursor▲227

   A real-time collaborative prototyping tool

   2014 · prcrsr.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Open Foundry▲12

   A new platform for open-source fonts

   2016 · open-foundry.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Paperhouses▲67

   Open-source architecture

   2014 · paperhouses.co · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Tinycon▲197

   A small library for manipulating the favicon

   2014 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Restyaboard▲197

   An open source alternative to Trello

   2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Sketchbook Project▲87

   A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Chipsetter ONE▲73

   A desktop pick-and-place machine

   2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Payola▲83

   A Rails engine for Stripe

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Snabbt.js▲129

   A minimalistic animation library

   2015 · daniel-lundin.github.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    LittleBits - the bitLab▲84

    The Marketplace For User-Generated Hardware

    2014 · edu.sphero.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Atom▲145

    A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

    2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Papers We Love▲90

    A repository of academic computer science papers

    2015 · paperswelove.org · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Perch▲70

    A New Paradigm for Product Display

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Patternry▲65

    A tool for building living UI libraries

    2014 · pathmode.io · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Microcosm▲72

    A modern forum platform

    2014 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Littlebits▲93

    Programmable modules that snap together

    2013 · edu.sphero.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    RancherOS▲59

    A minimalist distribution of Linux

    2015 · rancher.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Helios▲66

    An extensible open-source mobile backend framework

    2014 · globalli.io · its alternatives →

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    AirType▲85

    The keyless keyboard of the future

    2014 · miraclegroupauto.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Pt▲75

    A code experiment on point, form, and space

    2015 · williamngan.github.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    SeamlessDocs▲74

    Next Generation Form and eSignature Platform

    2014 · seamlessdocs.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Nextt Experiments▲86

    A community for open and permissionless innovation

    2017 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Flinto▲52

    Super easy tool for prototyping

    2014 · flinto.com · its alternatives →

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    Innoz▲88

    Connecting the unconnected

    2014 · offlineinternet.org · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →