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Open-source startups in Design and creative

Design, image, video, audio and 3D tools for making things rather than shipping them. 42 open-source startups in this directory are filed under Design and creative. 35 pushed code in the last 30 days, 1 has been quiet for 31–120 days, 6 have not pushed in over 120 days or are archived. The category is chosen by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, reading only the repository’s own name, description and homepage — one category per project, so something that spans two appears under whichever the classifier judged closest.

Ship status

35still shipping
1slowed
6gone silent

35 of 42 pushed in the last 30 days.

The list

All 42, most-starred first.

The whole directory by ship status →

The last column is the most recent push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one. The “built for” column and the “alternative to” chips are Jev’s answers about the same repository description, published with the rest of them.

ProjectWhat it doesBuilt forStarsShip statusLast push
open-designnexu-io/open-designStill shipping

🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. 🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSeek Harness / OpenCode & 20+ CLIs via BYOK.

Developersalt to Figma100.6KStill shipping
OpenCutOpenCut-app/OpenCutStill shipping

The open-source CapCut alternative

Consumers93.6KStill shipping
drawio-desktopjgraph/drawio-desktopStill shipping

Official electron build of draw.io

Business teamsalt to Miro63.5KStill shipping
penpotpenpot/penpotStill shipping

Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration.

Business teamsalt to Figma60.9KStill shipping
VoiceStudiodebpalash/VoiceStudioStill shipping

VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.

Consumers58.8KStill shipping
lossless-cutmifi/lossless-cutStill shipping

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

Consumers44.5KStill shipping
reactive-resumeAmruthPillai/Reactive-ResumeStill shipping

A one-of-a-kind resume builder that keeps your privacy in mind. Completely secure, customizable, portable, open-source and free forever. Try it out today!

Consumers44.1KStill shipping
asepriteaseprite/asepriteStill shipping

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Consumers40KStill shipping
ShareXShareX/ShareXStill shipping

ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.

Consumers40KStill shipping
carboncarbon-app/carbonGone silent

:black_heart: Create and share beautiful images of your source code

Developers36.1KGone silent
Recordlywebadderallorg/RecordlyStill shipping

Create polished demo videos without editing skills. Mac/Windows/Linux

Business teamsalt to Loom33.3KStill shipping
flameshotflameshot-org/flameshotStill shipping

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

Consumers31.2KStill shipping
facefusionfacefusion/facefusionStill shipping

Industry leading face manipulation platform

Consumers30.2KStill shipping
Open-Generative-AIAnil-matcha/Open-Generative-AIStill shipping

Unrestricted Open-source alternative to AI video platforms — Free AI image & video generation studio with 600+ models (Flux, Midjourney, Kling, Sora, Veo). No content filters. Self-hosted, MIT licensed.

Consumers30.1KStill shipping
InvokeAIinvoke-ai/InvokeAIStill shipping

Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.

Consumers28.6KStill shipping
GraphiteGraphiteEditor/GraphiteStill shipping

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

Consumersalt to Figma27.5KStill shipping
onlookonlook-dev/onlookSlowed

The Developer Tool for Visual Engineers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your code with AI • World's best, top-most agent recommended #1 Developer tool for Designers and Visual Engineers to design with Real Code.

Developers26.9KSlowed
IOPaintSanster/IOPaintGone silent

Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. Remove any unwanted object, defect, people from your pictures or erase and replace(powered by stable diffusion) any thing on your pictures.

Consumers23.3KGone silent
CapCapSoftware/CapStill shipping

Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.

Business teamsalt to Loom23.2KStill shipping
blenderblender/blenderStill shipping

Official mirror of Blender

Consumers20.8KStill shipping
screenityalyssaxuu/screenityStill shipping

The free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits 🎥

Consumersalt to Loom18.8KStill shipping
VideoLingoHuanshere/VideoLingoStill shipping

Netflix-level subtitle cutting, translation, alignment, and even dubbing - one-click fully automated AI video subtitle team | Netflix级字幕切割、翻译、对齐、甚至加上配音,一键全自动视频搬运AI字幕组

Consumers18.8KStill shipping
Toonflow-appHBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-appStill shipping

短剧、漫剧制作工具 Toonflow:开源 AI 视频创作平台,集成剧本创作、智能分镜、角色与场景资产管理、图像生成和视频生成。融合无限画布、AI Agent 与可视化工作流,支持本地部署、自选模型、跨平台客户端、MCP 与插件扩展。Open-source AI short drama and motion comic creation tool with an infinite canvas, AI agents, storyboarding, image and video generation. Self-hosted and extensible, with a canvas-based approach similar to LibTV and TapNow.

Consumers17.3KStill shipping
Waifu2x-Extension-GUIAaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUIStill shipping

Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, RTX Video Super Resolution VSR, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, IFRNet, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.

Consumers17.1KStill shipping
banana-slidesAnionex/banana-slidesStill shipping

一站式原生AI PPT生成应用,几分钟内生成一套幻灯片; 支持上传任意模板图片,上传任意素材&智能解析,一句话/大纲/页面描述自动生成PPT,口头修改指定区域、一键导出可编辑ppt、视频等 - An AI-native slides generator based on nano banana pro🍌

Business teams15.7KStill shipping
shotcutmltframework/shotcutStill shipping

cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor

Consumers15.4KStill shipping
palmier-propalmier-io/palmier-proStill shipping

macOS video editor built for AI

Consumers14.6KStill shipping
waoowaoowaooAI/waoowaooStill shipping

首家工业级全流程 AI 影视生产平台。Industry-first professional AI Agent platform for controllable film & video production. From shorts to live-action with Hollywood-standard workflows.

Business teams14.5KStill shipping
diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-uidivamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-uiGone silent

Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.

Consumers13.6KGone silent
draw-a-uiSawyerHood/draw-a-uiGone silent

Draw a mockup and generate html for it

Business teams13.6KGone silent
Meshroomalicevision/MeshroomStill shipping

Node-based Visual Programming Toolbox

Developers13KStill shipping
tiledmapeditor/tiledStill shipping

Flexible level editor

Developers13KStill shipping
piskelpiskelapp/piskelStill shipping

A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art.

Consumers12.8KStill shipping
theatretheatre-js/theatreGone silent

Motion design editor for the web

Developers12.7KGone silent
OpenCreatorkrillinai/OpenCreatorStill shipping

Formerly KrillinAI. Open-source AI workspace for creators, powered by Codex. Video translation, create videos, images, voice, avatars, and edits with Agents in one place. Suitable for your Social Media like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc.

Consumers12.7KStill shipping
NarratoAIlinyqh/NarratoAIStill shipping

利用 AI 大模型,一键解说并剪辑视频

Consumers11.4KStill shipping
presentonpresenton/presentonStill shipping

Open-Source AI Presentation Generator and API (Gamma, Canva, Beautiful AI, Decktopus, Presentations AI Alternative)

Business teams11KStill shipping
magic-resumeJOYCEQL/magic-resumeStill shipping

free online AI resume editor,the only official website is https://magicv.art

Consumers11KStill shipping
roomGPTNutlope/roomGPTGone silent

Upload a photo of your room to generate your dream room with AI.

Consumers10.7KGone silent
easydiffusioneasydiffusion/easydiffusionStill shipping

An easy 1-click way to create beautiful artwork on your PC using AI, with no tech knowledge. Provides a browser UI for generating images from text prompts and images. Just enter your text prompt, and see the generated image.

Consumers10.5KStill shipping
RapidRAWCyberTimon/RapidRAWStill shipping

A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.

Consumers10.5KStill shipping
filmcraftstorytold/filmcraftStill shipping

FilmCraft: An open-source, nonlinear video editor written by scratch in pure Rust

Consumers10.2KStill shipping