Adobe alternatives

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Author

Esther Plomp

Published

October 11, 2024

What are Open Source solutions to the Adobe products?

This post is based on a mastodon post shared based on a Twitter user post (@xdanielArt).

Photoshop

Photography

  • GIMP/Glimpse

  • Sumo Paint

  • Affinity Photo

  • Photoline

  • Photopea

  • Paint.NET

  • Pixelmator Pro

  • PaintShop Pro

  • Pixlr

Painting

  • Krita

  • Clip studio paint

  • Paint tool SAI

  • Procreate

  • Artstudio Pro

  • IbisPaint

  • AD Sketchbook

  • Firealpaca

  • Medibang

  • Paintstorm

  • MyPaint

  • Corel Painter

Illustrator

  • Inkscape

  • Boxy SVG

  • Gravit Designer

  • Affinity Designer

  • Vectornator

  • Corel Draw

  • Xara Deisgner

  • Vector Magic (Live Trace)

Acrobat

  • PDF-Xchange

  • Xodo

  • PDF24

Animate

  • Cacani

  • TVPaint

  • Toonboom

  • Clip Studio EX

  • Moho

  • Blender

  • Open Toonz

  • Wick Editor

  • Synfig

Indesign

  • Scribus

  • Affinity Publisher

  • QuarkXPress

Substance

Designer

  • Quixel Mixer

  • Material Maker

Painter

  • Quixel Mixer

  • Armour Paint

  • 3D Coat

Lightroom

  • RawTherapee

  • Darktable

  • DigiKam

  • On1

  • FastRawViewer

  • Capture One

  • DxO Photolab

  • Luminar

  • Aurora

Xd

  • Penpot

  • Draftoola

  • Figma

  • Framer

  • Sketch

  • Lunacy

  • Origami

  • Axure RP

  • Principle

Audition

  • Audacity

  • Ocenaudio

  • Davinci fairlight

  • iZope RX

DAWs

  • Cakewalk

  • Ardour

  • LMMS

  • Reaper

  • Tracktion

  • Garageband

  • Pro Tools

  • Logic Pro

  • Live by Ableton

  • FL Studio

Premiere Pro

  • Olive

  • Kdenlive

  • Davinci Resolve

  • Sony Vegas

  • Final Cut Pro X

  • Kapwing

Bridge

  • XnView MP

Dreamweaver

  • Netbeans

  • VS Codium

  • VS Code

  • Blue Griffon

After Effects

Compositing & fx

  • Natron

  • Blender

  • Davinci Fusion

  • Hitfilm

Motion graphics

  • Cavalry

  • Rive

  • Jitter

  • Fable

  • Blender

  • Enve