Adobe Lightroom vs PhotoCraft
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoCraft are both image editing software. Adobe Lightroom is a commercial product from Adobe Inc. PhotoCraft is open source under Apache-2.0, with 76k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Adobe Lightroom when
- You shoot many photos and want to organise and edit them in one place, often bundled with Photoshop.
- Pick PhotoCraft when
- You want to try a native open-source Photoshop-style editor and can accept missing features.
Side by side
Photo library management and non-destructive RAW editing, with cloud sync across desktop and mobile.
A Rust image editor positioned as a clean-room Photoshop reimplementation, with layers, masks, adjustment layers, type, vectors, brushes and PSD files.
Subscription only, and cloud storage tiers cost more as libraries grow.
Created one month ago; the star count far outruns its track record, and PSD fidelity is unproven.
Production-ready
Experimental
Desktop app, mobile app and cloud service
Desktop app
Not published
Rust and WGSL
Closed source, sold by Adobe Inc.
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
3.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
76k GitHub stars
Not known
New: started 1 month ago, latest release v0.20.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.