ImageToolbox vs PhotoCraft
ImageToolbox and PhotoCraft are both image editing software. ImageToolbox is open source under Apache-2.0, with 15k GitHub stars. PhotoCraft is open source under Apache-2.0, with 76k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick ImageToolbox when
- You want one free Android app for nearly every image manipulation task.
- Pick PhotoCraft when
- You want to try a native open-source Photoshop-style editor and can accept missing features.
Side by side
An Android image toolbox for cropping, drawing, filters, EXIF editing, background removal, OCR, format conversion and PDF tools.
A Rust image editor positioned as a clean-room Photoshop reimplementation, with layers, masks, adjustment layers, type, vectors, brushes and PSD files.
Feature density makes the interface busy.
Created one month ago; the star count far outruns its track record, and PSD fidelity is unproven.
Production-ready
Experimental
Mobile app
Desktop app
Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Rust and WGSL
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive) (both)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice. (both)
15k GitHub stars
76k GitHub stars
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 4.2.0.
New: started 1 month ago, latest release v0.20.1.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.