Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by dmarzio on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:43PM
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Yep I’ve been using PhotoCraft and WordCraft along with others in the suite and honestly I haven’t found any features yet that they are missing. Basically drop-in replacements written in Rust. Each one is around 100mb and no bloat like the real versions. Adobe and Microsoft are in trouble.
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by usui on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:47PM
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Be careful with this with the knowledge that it's an ongoing vibe-coded effort. Wordcraft failed to detect spacing after paragraphs and I could not use "Remove spacing after paragraph", whereas it worked in Word.
Photocraft added extra transparent space around a copied transformed edit selection, whereas in Photoshop it copied the selection boundary exactly.
Updates are coming in frequently for all the *Craft apps, and I really like that it's possible to brew install them across many macOS on a moment's notice, so I definitely recommend trying it. However it should not be used for absolutely critical work unless you can verify the functions you need are fine.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by machomaster on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:53PM
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They have an official early alpha status for a reason.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying."
by CWuestefeld on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:04PM
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Well, PhotoCraft and LightCraft are completely unable to deal with RAW files from Olympus/OM Systems cameras. That's a known limitation, on their Issues list.
But yeah, I think on the whole they're doing great, and actually being quite conservative about the claims they make.