Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust
Ranked 3 of 3 creative suites by recommenders
Free open-source Rust rewrite of Adobe's creative apps, liked for its UI and permissive license. Critics say basic features are missing and bugs are likely.
Free open-source Rust rewrite of Adobe's creative apps, liked for its UI and permissive license. Critics say basic features are missing and bugs are likely.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clean UI, native Rust app
“The UI is great but even basic features are relatively incomplete.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” “it's a rust based desktop app and not based on electron”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” Promising open alternative to GIMP
“This is sweet. I've already modified it to have a couple features I miss from Krita”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” “This actually gives a pretty promising alternative to GIMP on Linux.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Basic features missing or incomplete
“The UI is great but even basic features are relatively incomplete.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” “Missing and incomplete features, missing templates, presets and it's likely to be abandoned as issues will start to pile up.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” “It hasn't had a massive QA team (and customer base) go through all the missing features and bugs.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” - Comment from 8 Oct 2026 in “Solo Developer Rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust Using Claude”
Likely buggy, messy code
“I seriously doubt that this is anything else other than spaghetti code with oodles of software-bug meatballs throughout.”
Comment from 8 Oct 2026 in “Solo Developer Rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust Using Claude” “It hasn't had a massive QA team (and customer base) go through all the missing features and bugs.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” Unclear long-term maintenance
“Missing and incomplete features, missing templates, presets and it's likely to be abandoned as issues will start to pile up.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” “It's slop, and there's no telling if it will still be maintained a year from now.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” Export and codec problems
“it changes the PSD on save so much that an export render differs”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust” “Can't encode 265 or AV1 though.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust”
Other creative suites people recommend
The two most recommended other creative suites, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArtCraft | 56 | 50 | 53% | 8 | — | — |
| Apple Creator Studio | 29 | 50 | 37% | 2 | — | — |
| Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to RustThis page | 11 | 9 | 55% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“if the broken entry animation of the landing page is anything to go by”
“Someone please bundle this with nice linux distro and even MacOS is done”
“I seriously doubt that this is anything else other than spaghetti code with oodles of software-bug meatballs throughout.”
“Right now the apps look like the creative suite, but are clearly missing lots of functionality”
“publicly releasing this right now is exactly the move author needs to get human feedback from people who actually use these features daily”
“I'm quite mixed on this if it's a positive or not”
“it's a rust based desktop app and not based on electron”
“this repo is very bad evidence for that”
“This is sweet. I've already modified it to have a couple features I miss from Krita”
“This actually gives a pretty promising alternative to GIMP on Linux.”
“Anyone badmouthing the above rewrite is not understanding what's happening.”
“Missing and incomplete features, missing templates, presets and it's likely to be abandoned as issues will start to pile up.”
“it being open-sourced with a permissive license. If it stops being maintained, it can just be forked.”
“It hasn't had a massive QA team (and customer base) go through all the missing features and bugs.”
“It does not ship the flatpak files it references in the readme.”
“Can't encode 265 or AV1 though.”
“The UI is great but even basic features are relatively incomplete.”
“it changes the PSD on save so much that an export render differs”
“No rev. eng. (so "cleanroom" to be relevant) takes place.”
“It's slop, and there's no telling if it will still be maintained a year from now.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.