# 🎨 Seven free programs that do Adobe's job — ArtCraft, plus nine more to install today

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### 🔓 Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere — rebuilt free, and open source

 ![what it replaces and what it costs](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/d/1/d15e7c9a5bf0f8ec97b8d5a51af388e5c57e374a.png)

**ArtCraft** is seven desktop programs written in **Rust** by one team, free and open source. Native on macOS, Windows and Linux — no Electron, no browser wrapper. Six of the seven also run in a browser tab.

- **[PhotoCraft](https://getartcraft.com/apps/photocraft)** → Photoshop · opens and saves layered **PSD** and **PSB** , and **134 of 135** real Photoshop files round-trip byte for byte
- **VectorCraft** → Illustrator
- **FilmCraft** → Premiere Pro
- **LightCraft** → Lightroom
- **PdfCraft** → Acrobat Pro
- **EffectCraft** → After Effects
- **DesignCraft** → InDesign

[All seven on one page](https://getartcraft.com/apps) · [the source code](https://github.com/storytold) · [the Discord](https://discord.gg/artcraft) where the next rebuild gets voted on.

Every one of them also answers to a **command line** , a **JSON channel** and an **MCP server** , so a script or an AI agent can drive the same tools your hands drive.

**The one thing to know before you install:** the seven programs are free. The AI image and video studio on the same site runs on paid credits — their [pricing page](https://getartcraft.com/pricing) starts at $8 a month. The desktop programs cost nothing.

### 🧰 Nine more free programs for the same jobs

**Photoshop** → [Photopea](https://www.photopea.com/) (nothing to install) or [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/)

**Illustrator** → [Krita](https://krita.org/)

**Premiere Pro** → [DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve) or [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/)

**After Effects** → [Blender](https://www.blender.org/)

**Lightroom** → [darktable](https://www.darktable.org/)

**InDesign** → [Scribus](https://www.scribus.net/)

**Figma** → [Penpot](https://penpot.app/)

Sixteen programs. One bill — none.