AI Clones Adobe Apps

United StatesSeven free apps now copy Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere.

Free under MIT and Apache licences, they are funded by selling tokens for Artcraft’s image model.

Developer Brandon Thomas says he used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 to build “clean-room replacements” in Rust.

Hacker News commenters have listed many shortcomings, and Thomas calls the release a super early alpha.

The apps could face legal trouble if their look too closely mimics Adobe’s trade dress.

How each outlet framed it

Ars Technica: details Claude Opus-powered promise for 100% Adobe parity via Rust clean-room replacements; notes current alpha shortcomings