photocraft
by storytold
PhotoCraft is an open-source photo editor written in Rust, offering a clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop's features, including layers, masks, and adjustment layers, all in a native app.
- Stars
- 73.3k +2790 a day, est.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Runs on
- Your computer, with a GPU
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Rust
- Age
- 26 days
This is one of 9 projects from storytold that each passed 5,000 stars within weeks of launch (170.8k stars in total). That pattern can come from bought or automated stars. How star watch works.
What you can do with it
- Edit photos with layers and masks
- Apply adjustment layers like Curves and Vibrance
- Work with real PSD files
Could replace
- Adobe Photoshop
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Small businesses can use it for editing product images
- Freelancers can offer photo editing services to clients
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download the app from the provided links.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
