Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office

Brandon Thomas has announced GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, free open-source replacements for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, built with Claude, and has published them on the ArtCraft GitHub for anyone to download. The tools extend ArtCraft, his suite of open-source creative apps meant to replicate Adobe applications for free. The article reports that Thomas is a software engineer with 15 years of experience and that he responded on X to criticism of his ArtCraft project as vibecoded software and AI slop by saying he knows how to code.