Alternative to Adobe Photoshop
Image editing & digital painting
Choose a photo editor or a painting application around your actual task.
Our take Start with GIMP for images or Krita for painting. PhotoCraft is Early Alpha.
Established optionsCategories
Creative & design
Photo development, raster images, painting, vectors, interfaces and publishing.
Our take
Start with the type of file you create. Raster photographs, brush-based paintings, SVG illustrations and interface prototypes need different tools.
Alternatives
Alternative to Adobe Illustrator
Vector illustration & SVG
Compare scalable paths and deliverable formats, not photo-editing features.
Our take Inkscape is the established option. VectorCraft remains in development.
Established optionsAlternative to Figma
Interface design & prototypes
Evaluate team collaboration, reusable components and your design system.
Our take Penpot is an open-source option with hosted and self-hosted deployment.
Established optionsAlternative to Adobe Lightroom
RAW development & photo workflow
Evaluate photo development separately from cloud libraries and catalog migration.
Our take darktable and RawTherapee address RAW processing with their own workflows; neither guarantees Lightroom-equivalent catalogs or edits.
Established optionsAlternative to Adobe InDesign
Page layout & publishing
Compare the publication and printer’s PDF requirements before migrating layouts.
Our take Scribus is a page-layout option; rebuild and validate representative pages rather than assuming native InDesign compatibility.
Established optionsRelated software
Established project
GIMP
A desktop image editor for photo retouching, image composition and graphic assets.
GPL-3.0-or-laterRead profile
Established project
Krita
A free, open-source painting application for illustration and digital art.
GPL-3.0Read profile
Established project
Inkscape
A vector-graphics editor centered on SVG illustration and path editing.
GPL-3.0-or-later (combined binaries)Read profile
Established project
Penpot
An open-source design platform for interfaces, prototypes and team collaboration.
MPL-2.0Read profile
Established project
darktable
A photography workflow application and non-destructive RAW developer.
GPL-3.0Read profile
Established project
RawTherapee
A RAW photo processor focused on detailed image development.
GPL-3.0Read profile
Established project
Scribus
A desktop publishing application for page layout and PDF output.
GPL-2.0-or-laterRead profile
Mixed maturity
ArtCraft
An AI image-and-video studio, alongside a separate family of 13 Crafting Apps.
MIT OR Apache-2.0Read profile
Early Alpha
PhotoCraft
An early image editor in the ArtCraft family, with layers, masks and PSD workflows.
MIT OR Apache-2.0Read profile
In development
VectorCraft
An in-development vector illustration application from the ArtCraft team.
MIT OR Apache-2.0Read profile