New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- ArtCraft, a free, open-source suite of creative software, was released by American developer Brandon Thomas in October 2026. The software was created with the help of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, written in Rust, and is a rival to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe Illustrator, as well as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

The project's objectives are to provide designers, video editors and other professionals with desktop software they can use without having to sign up for a monthly subscription or force their software to integrate with the cloud. Most applications are also available for the Web, and ArtCraft is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. However, the programme is still in its early stag...