ArtCraft on GitHub: Every Repo Explained (PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft…)

Search for “artcraft github” or “photocraft github” and you’ll get a mix of official repos, forks and look-alikes. This is a map of the official ones, all under the storytold organization, and how to build them.

Rule of thumb: if the repo owner isn’t storytold, it isn’t official. See how to spot fake ArtCraft repos.

The app repositories

Star counts as of October 13, 2026:

Repo	What it is	Stars	Latest
storytold/photocraft	PhotoCraft, image editor (Photoshop)	~55.9k	v0.8.2
storytold/artcraft	ArtCraft, the AI image and video studio	~24.1k	v0.41.0
storytold/pdfcraft	PdfCraft, PDF workbench (Acrobat)	~12.1k	v0.7.1
storytold/filmcraft	FilmCraft, video editor (Premiere Pro)	~12.0k	v0.7.2
storytold/lightcraft	LightCraft, RAW and photo library (Lightroom)	~11.6k	v0.7.1
storytold/wordcraft	WordCraft, word processor (Word)	~10.2k	v0.6.1
storytold/vectorcraft	VectorCraft, vector illustration (Illustrator)	~8.2k	v0.10.0
storytold/effectcraft	EffectCraft, motion graphics (After Effects)	~6.0k	v0.9.2
storytold/gridcraft	GridCraft, spreadsheets (Excel)	~4.2k	v0.6.1
storytold/cadcraft	CADCraft, 2D CAD (AutoCAD)	~3.9k	v0.6.2
storytold/designcraft	DesignCraft, page layout (InDesign)	~3.6k	v0.7.1
storytold/deckcraft	DeckCraft, presentations (PowerPoint)	~2.8k	v0.6.1
storytold/soundcraft	SoundCraft, DAW (Pro Tools)	~2.4k	v0.6.1
storytold/figcraft	FigCraft, UI design (Figma)	new	v0.5.1

Supporting repositories

• craft-launcher. The Craft App Launcher, a single launcher for the Crafting Apps.
• craft-libs. Shared Rust libraries used across the Crafting Apps.
• craft-fonts. Fonts the apps bundle, including the Japanese UI fonts. It’s an optional build input.
• photocraft-corpus. Test files (PSDs and more) that PhotoCraft is checked against.
• artcraft-services. Backend and web frontend for the ArtCraft studio.

License

The Crafting Apps are dual-licensed MIT OR Apache-2.0. You can use, modify and redistribute them, including commercially. The exception is branding: the ArtCraft name and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks, so forks have to rename themselves.

Building PhotoCraft from source

You need a recent stable Rust toolchain (install via rustup).

git clone https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
cd photocraft
cargo run --release -p photocraft -- image.psd   # the desktop app
cargo test --workspace                           # the test suite

Japanese UI and Type-tool fonts come from craft-fonts. Release builds always include them; for your own build:

git clone https://github.com/storytold/craft-fonts ../craft-fonts
CRAFT_FONTS_DIR="$PWD/../craft-fonts" cargo run --release -p photocraft

Building the other apps

Every app follows the same layout: an apps/<name> desktop crate, an apps/<name>-cli command-line tool and an apps/<name>-web WebAssembly front end.

# VectorCraft desktop + MCP server
git clone https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft && cd vectorcraft
cargo run --release -p vectorcraft
cargo run --release -p vectorcraft-cli -- mcp

# Any app's browser build (needs trunk and the wasm32 target)
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
cargo install trunk
cd apps/vectorcraft-web && trunk build --release

cargo xtask ci runs the same checks as CI: formatting, clippy, tests, crate layering rules and the wasm build.

Using the apps with AI agents (MCP)

Each app’s CLI can run as an MCP server. For example, to give Claude Code access to VectorCraft:

claude mcp add vectorcraft -- /path/to/vectorcraft-cli mcp

You can restrict which folders the agent may read and write with --automation-read-root and --automation-write-root.

Contributing

Every repo has an AGENTS.md (instructions for humans and AI coding agents), a ROADMAP.md with honest parity numbers, and a docs/gaps.md listing what’s missing. Those gap lists are the best place to find something to work on. The team also runs a Discord.

Not ready to build?

You don’t need Rust to try any of this. Open the apps in your browser or grab the official installers.