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Free Design Manager Drag & Drop Template (Clean 6 Alternative)

shiyon — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:11:16 GMT

Hi everyone,

Can you help me to find a free drag & drop template built in Design Manager —not page-editor only.

Something similar to Clean 6 would be ideal with below features:

1. Modular sections

2. Developer-friendly

3. Free (no paid licensing)

If you’ve used a solid free option, GitHub repo, or starter boilerplate, I’d really appreciate a recommendation.

Thanks

Shiyon

Re: Free Design Manager Drag & Drop Template (Clean 6 Alternative)

BérangèreL — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:42:10 GMT

Hi @shiyon and Happy Wednesday! 🤗

Great question, thanks for asking the HubSpot Community!

Here are some resources that might help you:

- The HubSpot CMS Boilerplate
- Drag and Drop areas overview
- Getting started with themes

I'd love to put you in touch with our Top Experts: Hi @Anton, @MichaelMa and @sylvain_tirreau do you have recommendations to help @shiyon, please?

Thanks so much and have a wonderful day! 🌞
Bérangère

Re: Free Design Manager Drag & Drop Template (Clean 6 Alternative)

Anton — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:52:46 GMT

Hey @shiyon,

Clean 6 is a so-called Template pack.

Template packs are not supported by HubSpot anymore as they got replaced by Themes (page-editor dnd experience) in early 2020.

Furthermore:

Template packs were removed from the marketplace around 2022/2023.
Almost all Template pack developers either removed their Template pack or migrated it to become a Theme.
Unless you find somebody with an old portal with a Template pack that was free back then, and copy it to your portal (copying paid Templates violate the Marketplace and most likely Creator license), you have no chance of getting an old Template pack. I'd say the chance of finding somebody who still got a Template pack in the portal and is willing to give it to you is below 1%.

As HS development is currently in an evolution state and CMS React/React themes got introduced earlier this year, I'd recommend to switch to a theme from the marketplace in the near future as the current themes might become somewhat outdated around 2027 (only an assumption based on the previous evolution).

A few free Marketplace themes are:

Vertical by Lynton
Accelerator by Drive Web Studio
Redwood Apex by Growth Operations Firm

Furthermore:

you can easily spin up a HubSpot boilerplate theme from the Design Manager and start customizing it to your needs or get a theme developer who would create a custom theme for you

hope this helps

best,

Anton