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Someone Vibe Coded a Free Knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite

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Someone Vibe Coded a Free Knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite

To get this out of the way, you should probably be more cautious than I’ve been about downloading and using a vibe coded piece of software today. Having said that, holy toledo, someone vibe coded their own entire version of Adobe Suite and dumped it on GitHub as open-source software.

Using Claude Opus 5.5 and the programming language Rust, the creator of these apps, Atlanta-based Brandon Thomas, says he recreated Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, After Effects, and InDesign, and made them free to use. The new versions are technically called Photocraft, Vectorcraft, Filmcraft, Lightcraft, Printcraft, Effectcraft, and Designcraft. The overarching umbrella project is titled Artcraft.

One of Thomas’ Reddit posts announcing the release is not coy about the Adobe connection, boasting that AI “help me recreate 7 of the top Adobe apps.”

Adobe, whose industry-standard creative software has long been a source of irritation for creatives—particularly the company’s behavior after it shifted to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Earlier this year Adobe agreed to a $150 million settlement after the feds sued it back in 2024, alleging that it had been “trapping” people in subscription plans that weren’t maximally beneficial to consumers. The settlement came with an injunction fix alleged violations.

The only one of these I’m adept enough to test out quickly is Photocraft, the Photoshop knockoff, and here’s what I’ll say: it feels like using glitchy, but real, Photoshop. As someone who can’t justify the monthly cost just so I can use Photoshop twice a year to make my kids’ birthday party invitations, I rely on free, lightweight in-browser alternatives like Photopea, which are fine for basic tasks, or the notoriously convoluted open source alternative, Gimp.


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