DesignCraft storytold/designcraft

Clean-room, InDesign-style page layout and publishing editor written in Rust, with threaded text frames and styles. Part of the ArtCraft suite.

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DesignCraft at a glance

Checked 15 Oct 2026

DesignCraft is an InDesign-style page layout editor from the ArtCraft team, written in Rust and started on 1 October 2026 (v0.8.0, 14 Oct 2026). Its roadmap puts it at pre-alpha, the least mature of the suite, with ~47% "ready for real work". It has frames, threaded stories, paragraph and character styles and PDF export. Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux; MIT or Apache-2.0. Not affiliated with Adobe. Commits show heavy AI-agent assistance.

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How much of Adobe Creative Cloud does it replace?

1 of 7 jobs. Pre-alpha per its roadmap; not an InDesign replacement yet.

Photo editing (Photoshop) Not covered

Vector design (Illustrator) Not covered

Raw photo editing and library (Lightroom) Not covered

Video editing (Premiere Pro) Not covered

Motion graphics and compositing (After Effects) Not covered

Page layout (InDesign) Partial replacement

PDF editing (Acrobat) Not covered

For photo editing (Photoshop), vector design (Illustrator), raw photo editing and library (Lightroom), video editing (Premiere Pro), motion graphics and compositing (After Effects), PDF editing (Acrobat), see other Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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Runs on my machine? Yes, native desktop app (also a web build) It runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux, and in the browser via WebAssembly. github.com · designcraft#readme ↗ 1d ago

Code licence MIT or Apache-2.0 (ArtCraft name and logos excluded) DesignCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option. github.com · designcraft#license-and-credits ↗ 1d ago

Model weights licence No separate model weights github.com · designcraft#readme ↗ 1d ago

Commercial use Yes, MIT or Apache-2.0; forks must drop the ArtCraft brand assets Forks and modified versions must remove them. github.com · designcraft#license-and-credits ↗ 1d ago

Paid services needed? None required github.com · designcraft#readme ↗ 1d ago

Hardware Not documented Know the answer? —

Operating systems Windows, macOS, Linux and a web build It runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux, and in the browser via WebAssembly. github.com · designcraft#readme ↗ 1d ago

Setup effort Easy; signed installers on GitHub releases (pre-alpha, v0.8.0) Stage: pre-alpha github.com · ROADMAP.md ↗ 1d ago