OpenTools

Open source Design & image editing

GIMP

100 · Healthy

Raster image editor for photo retouching, compositing and graphic design, with layers, masks and plug-ins.

Free, share changesGPL-3.0-or-later★ 6.5kLast commit yesterday

Krita

96 · Healthy

Digital painting and image editing app with brushes, layers, animation and color management.

Free, share changesGPL-3.0★ 11kLast commit yesterday

Penpot

92 · Healthy

Browser-based design and prototyping tool for product teams, built on open standards such as SVG, CSS and HTML.

Free, share changesMPL-2.0★ 61kLast commit yesterday

Mermaid

89 · Healthy

Generates flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and more from text definitions.

Free to useMIT★ 91kLast commit yesterday

PhotoCraft

83 · Healthy

Photoshop-style desktop image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers and native PSD files.

Free to useMIT OR Apache-2.0★ 25kLast commit yesterday

draw.io

67 · Stable

Diagram editor for flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts and UML, in the browser or on the desktop.

Free to useApache-2.0★ 8.6kLast commit yesterday

OpenPencil

66 · Stable

AI-native editor for designing interfaces, positioned as a Figma replacement.

Free to useMIT★ 8.8kLast commit yesterday

Excalidraw

65 · Stable

Virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn style diagrams and sketches, with real-time collaboration.

Free to useMIT★ 134kLast commit 2 days ago

Graphite

64 · Stable

Node-based 2D editor for vector and raster graphics, procedural design and motion graphics.

Free to useApache-2.0★ 28kLast commit yesterday

Krita

Digital painting and image editing app with brushes, layers, animation and color management.

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Will it still be around?

Healthy

Score 96/100

Details

Can a business use it freely?

Free, share changes

GPL-3.0 · open source (copyleft)

Details
Krita screenshot 1

Health score: 96/100

Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub

Score v2 · How it works

Activity

45% weight

100/100

  • Last commit yesterday (100/100).
  • 1936 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
  • No GitHub releases published, so release cadence is not scored.

Bus factor

30% weight

89/100

  • Top contributor wrote 33% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
  • 18 people authored those commits.

Responsiveness

25% weight

Not scored; its weight is shared by the other parts.

  • Issues are disabled on GitHub, so this part is not scored.

License

Free, share changes

GPL-3.0 · Open source (copyleft)

What you need to do

Free for any use, commercial included. Running it in your company, changed or not, asks nothing of you; only if you hand modified copies to others must you publish your changes under the same license.

GNU General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).

Detected by GitHub as GPL-3.0.

GitHub activity

Stars
11k
Forks
875
Commits, 12 mo
1.9k
last yesterday
Releases
–
none on GitHub
Contributors
315
18 in last 100 commits
Issues
Off
disabled on GitHub

Snapshot from 2026-10-09 · Funding: github, liberapay, custom, custom

Top contributors

No pull requests merged on GitHub since 10 October 2025. Some projects, such as Odoo, merge changes outside GitHub's merge button, so their contributors don't show here yet.