Artcraft releases open source clones of Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and other apps built with Claude

Developer Brandon Thomas's Artcraft has launched seven open source apps in Rust that aim to replicate the interfaces and tools of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro.

Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build the clean-room replacements, with WebAssembly versions available for browser use. The apps remain in a "super early alpha" state, and commenters have pointed out many current shortcomings.