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PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

24 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 3 stories, 21 comments · first 2026-10-01 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/issues?q=is%3Aissue+... It's also a buggy mess
    comment by suddenlybananas · 2026-10-26 · in Anthropic S-1
  2. Take a look at the commit cadence of the Photoshop-clone-that-must-not-be-named: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/commits/main/
    comment by minimaxir · 2026-10-12 · in Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
  3. …memory helps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948328 Storytold's projects include some: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/blob/main/AGENTS.md More?
    comment by espeed · 2026-10-12 · in An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
  4. …workflows. They have Microsoft Office alternatives too. Their Photoshop clone, PhotoCraft ( https://github.com/storytold/photocraft ), has around 47k GitHub stars right now.
    comment by ceasesurthinko · 2026-10-11 · in NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
  5. Recently, whole Adobe suite was recreated with AI[1]. Is there such an initiative in CAD world? [1] https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by SoKamil · 2026-10-11 · in OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
  6. …do not use reverse engineering. We do not decompile binaries, we do everything 100% clean room: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (inspired by Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft (inspired by Word)…
    comment by echelon · 2026-10-10 · in REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
  7. …with machine's raw horsepower to build on top. And such people do need to read the code. [0]. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by wg0 · 2026-10-09 · in Python 3.15
  8. Talking about the devil, a few days ago this happened: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by noname120 · 2026-10-09 · in Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
  9. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by sschueller · 2026-10-08 · in Solo Developer Rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust Using Claude
  10. Artcraft seems to be part of their suite. The Photoshop clone is this one https://github.com/storytold/photocraft for example.
    comment by Flockster · 2026-10-08 · in Open-Source Rust Alternatives to Adobe Apps
  11. They are clean-room implementations based on their GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by poly2it · 2026-10-07 · in Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS
  12. "never crash" https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/blob/main/AGENTS.md
    comment by meemoo · 2026-10-07 · in Clean room implementation of Adobe products
  13. Photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust Repo: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by tough · 2026-10-07 · in Photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop
  14. I'm just going to leave this right here: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft "An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust". They also have: VectorCraft Vector illustration; FilmCraft Video editing, color…
    comment by abrookewood · 2026-10-06 · in Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
  15. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator) https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft (Premiere) https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft (Lightroom)…
    comment by bigwheels · 2026-10-06 · in Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust
  16. …reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1wxmqpt/ive_created_o... and github repositories https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator)…
    comment by cyh555 · 2026-10-06 · in Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project
  17. This guy cloned Photoshop and apparently it works. First commit Sep 29, 2026. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/commits/main/?after=... Applications built using deterministic code to work might…
    comment by marshalla · 2026-10-05 · in Pricing and viability of indie apps post-AI
  18. …HiggsField (app, backend infra). The Adobe apps are 100% open source, desktop, MIT, no telemetry. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft etc.
    comment by echelon · 2026-10-05 · in ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
  19. The link was removed on reddit. Here is the photoshop clone repo: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
    comment by teruakohatu · 2026-10-03 · in I've created an open source 100% Rust clean-room clone of 7 of Adobe's apps
  20. …100% pure-Rust, immediate mode rendering, open source implementations of Adobe's entire suite: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (Photoshop) https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (Illustrator)…
    comment by echelon · 2026-10-02 · in Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
  21. …Check out my 100% adobe clean room reimplementations: https://github.com/storytold/filmcraft https://github.com/storytold/photocraft https://github.com/storytold/drawcraft (going to rename this vectorcraft) The #1 thing for the Rust…
    comment by echelon · 2026-10-01 · in How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026