Adobe Creative Cloud alternatives people built with AI
Adobe Creative Cloud covers Photoshop, Premiere and the rest of the suite on a subscription. In these stories, long-time customers swap it for free open-source clones or for small tools that AI built for one job, like auto-editing course videos. Each story links the original post, so you can check what was replaced and what the author says it cost.
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Suganthan cancels Photoshop for a free, open-source alternative
Suganthan Mohanadasan cancelled his Adobe Photoshop subscription and installed Photocraft, a free, open-source alternative. His review in three lines: it looks familiar, does what he needs, and costs absolutely nothing. And the…
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He skipped Adobe and DaVinci, and Claude built his editing tool in 11 minutes
Dan Greenheck hates editing his course videos, with up to five or six retakes per clip. Automating it meant paying Adobe $23 a month or $300 for DaVinci Resolve Studio. Instead, Claude…
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After 30 years of paying Adobe, he uninstalled every Adobe app
Dux Maverick has bought Adobe licenses since the 1990s and kept paying when they switched to subscriptions. He tried Affinity and GIMP and bounced off, because his muscle memory was all Adobe.…
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Every subscription app is one price hike away from a free clone
Vincent Eliezer reacts to someone vibe-coding the entire Adobe creative suite and releasing it for free. His punchline is the real headline: every subscription app right now is one price hike away…