Many of us are sick of Adobe doing everything it can to empty our pockets; well, ArtCraft built almost every App that Adobe makes using Rust.
No subscription traps, no cancellation fees, no mandatory cloud sync spying on your assets, and zero bloated Electron shells. Just lightning-fast, native binaries compiled directly to bare metal—running locally on your machine, completely offline, and open-source.
The flagship leading the charge is PhotoCraft, but they didn’t stop at an image editor. ArtCraft took on the entire creative monopoly with clean-room reimplementations of the tools professionals use every single day:
The Recreated Suite
- PhotoCraft (Replaces Adobe Photoshop)
The full Photoshop replacement you already know how to drive. Features true non-destructive editing, layers, masks, smart filters, layer styles, and 16 adjustment layers. It handles 8/16/32-bit documents in RGB, CMYK, and Lab, with GPU acceleration over Metal, Vulkan, DX12, and WebGPU. Best of all: it reads and writes native.psdand.psbfiles with tested byte-for-byte round-tripping. - VectorCraft (Replaces Adobe Illustrator)
Vector illustration built for raw performance. You get the pen tool, direct selection, Boolean path operations, snapping, envelope warps, and gradient meshes—capable of drawing 20,000 shapes in under 30 milliseconds at Retina resolution. Full SVG and PDF import/export without missing a beat. - FilmCraft (Replaces Adobe Premiere Pro)
A professional non-linear video editor rebuilt from the ground up. Multi-track timeline, 3-point editing, ripple trims, 50+ video effects, transitions, keyframing, and full color grading with curves and LUTs. Rather than relying on generic wrappers, it implements custom Rust decoders for ProRes, H.264, HEVC, and VP9. - LightCraft (Replaces Adobe Lightroom)
Non-destructive RAW photo development and library management. Features an 8-band color mixer, tone curves, 3-way color grading, and luminance/sky/subject masks. Includes custom Rust decoders for virtually every major camera RAW format (DNG, ARW, CR2, NEF, RAF, and more). - PrintCraft (Replaces Adobe Acrobat)
A fast, dedicated PDF workbench. Merge, split, rotate, extract, and reorder pages while preserving form fields, bookmarks, layers, and hyperlinks. It handles encrypted documents up to AES-256 with instant search, atomic autosaves, and zero cloud uploads. - EffectCraft (Replaces Adobe After Effects)
Motion graphics and VFX in pure Rust. Packed with 250+ built-in effects, particle simulations, keying, 3D composition layers with virtual cameras and lights, JavaScript expression support, and multi-format rendering including 32-bit EXR and ProRes. - DesignCraft (Replaces Adobe InDesign)
Publication layout without the bloat. Spreads, parent pages, threaded text frames, paragraph styles, swatches, and automatic text wrap. It uses a Knuth–Plass paragraph composer for clean typography and exports print-ready, archival PDF/A with bleed and crop marks.
Why This Matters
Every single app in this lineup follows the same core rules:
- Your machine, your files: Everything executes locally on your hardware. No forced logins, no remote telemetry, and no AI training on your private files.
- Familiar muscle memory: The shortcuts, panels, menus, and tools mirror the conventions you’ve spent years learning. No retraining required.
- Cross-platform & Free: Available for macOS, Windows, Linux, and even runnable straight in the browser via WebAssembly.
Stop renting your creativity. Check out PhotoCraft to see what image editing feels like when the software works for you instead of a board of shareholders.
via FujiAddict
