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PhotoCraft
Photoshop-style desktop image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers and native PSD files.
Alternative to
Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 83/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free to use
MIT OR Apache-2.0 · open source (permissive)
Health score: 83/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 559 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 7 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight100/100
- Top contributor wrote 21% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 30 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight32/100
- 49% of all issues are closed (332 open, 322 closed) (32/100).
- Too few recent issues to measure reply rate.
License
Free to use
MIT OR Apache-2.0 · Open source (permissive)
What you need to do
Use, change, host and sell it for any purpose, commercial included, with no license to buy. Keep the copyright notice.
For PhotoCraft
Use either license. The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks and aren't covered.
MIT OR Apache-2.0 · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
License text checked 2026-10-07 · Read it
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 25k
- Forks
- 3.4k
- Commits, 12 mo
- 559
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 7
- last yesterday
- Contributors
- 70
- 30 in last 100 commits
- Open issues
- 332
- 322 closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-08
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into PhotoCraft and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 73 people have points on PhotoCraft in all.
