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Everything We Know About the Free Adobe Clones Built With AI. Do They Actually Work?

A developer used Claude to build free, open-source alternatives to Adobe’s creative apps. They’re ambitious, familiar, and buggy.

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One of the few things AI and vibe coding have done that I find genuinely hysterical is quickly rendering meaningless, paywalled, highly restrictive software. You know, like, Adobe Creative Suite, a useful set of tools artists of all kinds rely on for both work and play. It’s also a set of software from a company notorious for nickel-and-diming people to death and locking them into a predatory subscription service for something that used to be a traditional one-time payment.

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