Photoshop Replacement

z3r010 · Oct 11, 2026

I looked a few days ago and the sub is for adding AI features, but you can use your own subscriptions if you prefer, they just sell an option to help funding the project.

SgtStanko · Oct 13, 2026

I don't think there is any real stopping this , as long as the code is not exactly the same, theft would be a pretty far stretch in my opinion.
I've also read here that this developer is going after Microsoft Office products also.

I have been using PhotoCraft and PdfCraft for about a week now and even though they are supposedly in the pre-beta stage, it's amazing how stable they are, I have yet to come across any bugs.

This is what happens when big software companies get greedy , it all started because Adobe and others are charging "cancellation" fees for their subscriptions and pissed the wrong people off.

I think like they are saying, now with AI, paid software will be going the way of the do-do bird, either that or subscription prices will drop drastically , cancellation fees will become non-existent in fear of their software being cloned. In any event, now that AI can write the same software with cleaner code, I think the era of the software giants is about to come to an end.

They have already created clones of Word, PowerPoint and Excel, you can read about it at Techspot .

PhilB · Sunday at 10:49 PM

Graulges said:
Photocraft doesn't seem to support .NEF files- I don't know if it's raw files in general. I'll stick with what I have, I was just curious. It does seem like theft so worth a miss.

Major showstopper. Of course, Photocraft can "clean-room copy" Nikon's NX Studio.

Are Canon and Sony RAW files supported?

PhilB · Sunday at 11:03 PM

SgtStanko said:
I don't think there is any real stopping this , as long as the code is not exactly the same, theft would be a pretty far stretch in my opinion.
I've also read here that this developer is going after Microsoft Office products also.

I have been using PhotoCraft and PdfCraft for about a week now and even though they are supposedly in the pre-beta stage, it's amazing how stable they are, I have yet to come across any bugs.

This is what happens when big software companies get greedy , it all started because Adobe and others are charging "cancellation" fees for their subscriptions and pissed the wrong people off.

I think like they are saying, now with AI, paid software will be going the way of the do-do bird, either that or subscription prices will drop drastically , cancellation fees will become non-existent in fear of their software being cloned. In any event, now that AI can write the same software with cleaner code, I think the era of the software giants is about to come to an end.

They have already created clones of Word, PowerPoint and Excel, you can read about it at Techspot .

So what about Outlook? Classic and new Outlook? How about a version of new Outlook that has feature parity and then some with Classic? Dream on.

Marie SWE · 2026-10-19T09:17:00-0400

PhilB said:
So what about Outlook? Classic and new Outlook? How about a version of new Outlook that has feature parity and then some with Classic? Dream on.

Classic, new outlook... what about Outlook express.

SgtStanko · 2026-10-19T10:58:19-0400

PhilB said:
So what about Outlook? Classic and new Outlook? How about a version of new Outlook that has feature parity and then some with Classic? Dream on.

I am sure something to the effect may be in the works, in a few short weeks the site went from just offering Adobe clones and added Office clones

PhilB · 2026-10-19T23:19:52-0400

SgtStanko said:
I am sure something to the effect may be in the works, in a few short weeks the site went from just offering Adobe clones and added Office clones

Classic Outlook runs standalone or using an Exchange Server. I can't see this guy cloning Exchange.

Hazel123 · 2026-10-20T00:23:16-0400

What about Word without One Drive or MS account sign in?

I know you can sign out but ........

Marie SWE · 2026-10-20T09:37:01-0400

Hazel123 said:
What about Word without One Drive or MS account sign in?

what?! ... really.. is the program Word hooked up to onedrive...
as i run Win10 IoT o have not even heard that program is hooked up to the cloud..... Darn as more i hear as more i feel win11 home/pro really sucks

HeavyHemi · 2026-10-20T11:01:13-0400

Marie SWE said:
what?! ... really.. is the program Word hooked up to onedrive...
as i run Win10 IoT o have not even heard that program is hooked up to the cloud..... Darn as more i hear as more i feel win11 home/pro really sucks

Word does not require onedrive. You can use it completely off line and save files locally.

Marie SWE · 2026-10-20T11:10:56-0400

HeavyHemi said:
Word does not require onedrive. You can use it completely off line and save files locally.

Okay.... I wonder how bad windows 12 will become with AI and cloud based software and OS core functions.

Josey Wales · 2026-10-20T11:20:22-0400

Wait till they do Windows 11 LOL

OldNavy · 2026-10-20T12:49:29-0400

I'm running Win X-Lite V2.7..........no one drive or MS Account on my computer.
Word works fine.

Marie SWE · 2026-10-20T13:06:35-0400

Josey Wales said:
Wait till they do Windows 11 LOL

GUI-wise yes.. Kerner-wise, no as that cant be figured-out in the same way... But.. if they use the leaked source-code of the earlier windows that ended up on darknet (i know it did as i have that source-code myself right now on my server) but if they use that code as ideas not 1:1 then they can create one

PhilB · 2026-10-20T14:09:30-0400

HeavyHemi said:
Word does not require onedrive. You can use it completely off line and save files locally.

which is EXACTLY what I do. I despise OneDrive.

BunnyJ · 2026-10-20T15:17:17-0400

SgtStanko said:
I am sure something to the effect may be in the works, in a few short weeks the site went from just offering Adobe clones and added Office clones

There's already clones of Office that work much better than GridCraft. It's not close to say,LibreOffice

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