# Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-source-microsoft-office-excel-powerpoint-and-word-replications-autodesk-tools-and-other-subscription-based-services-may-come-next

## Summary

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.

## Article

Brandon Thomas, developer of ArtCraft, a suite of open-source creative tools meant to replicate Adobe applications for free, has now announced apps to replace Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, respectively, named GridCraft, DeckCraft, and WordCraft, that are created with Claude. Thomas has shared his new clones to ArtCraft GitHub, making them free for all to download.

After our previous story covering ArtCraft, we have since discovered that u/ai_art_is_art is Brandon Thomas, a highly talented software engineer with 15 years of experience under his belt. After his ArtCraft project became popular, many criticisms followed about vibecoded software and AI slop, to which Brandon responded on his X account, saying that he does know how to code.

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