ArtCraft alternatives

Our app records pair six Craft Apps with an Adobe product. The table below shows each pair and the comparison guide on this site for that Adobe product. Each guide looks at open-source options for the same job, including tools that do not come from ArtCraft, and says where each one breaks down.

A comparison guide does not change a Craft App’s own maturity label. The official Craft Apps page labels PhotoCraft, PdfCraft and FigCraft as early alpha and the other ten apps as in development.

The studio combines compositing tools with hosted models. A self-hosted alternative gives you more control over which models you use and where your data goes, but it needs suitable hardware and time to set up. The two open-source projects below run on your own computer.

• Both licences cover the tool’s code, not the models you load. Each model has its own licence, and some restrict commercial use.
• ComfyUI is published by the Comfy-Org organisation, and InvokeAI by the invoke-ai organisation. We checked both repositories on 20 October 2026.

Hosted AI generators are outside this guide. Comparing them properly needs a dated price check, a reading of each provider’s terms for outputs, a check of how each service handles your data, and tested output from the same prompts. We have not done that work, so we do not rank hosted services here.

Being outside this guide does not make a service a poor choice. It means we cannot support a recommendation with the evidence this site requires.

Match the tool to your constraints rather than to a brand name.

• Choose a self-hosted tool when you want control over models and data and you have a suitable computer.
• Choose a hosted service when you need results quickly without local hardware, and you accept its pricing and terms.
• Check the licence of each model you download. A GPL or Apache-2.0 tool does not license the models it loads.
• Test a small project before you move a client job to any new tool.