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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. 41 open-source startups in this directory are filed under Design and creative. 34 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 1 has been quiet for 31–120 days, 6 have not pushed in over 120 days. 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.

34 of 41 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →

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The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a 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 verified push
nexu-io/open-design

🎨 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 Figma97.6KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
OpenCut-app/OpenCut

The open-source CapCut alternative

Consumers90.4KSlowedAug 10, 2026
jgraph/drawio-desktop

Official electron build of draw.io

Business teamsalt to Miro63.2KStill shippingSep 18, 2026
penpot/penpot

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

Business teamsalt to Figma60.3KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
mifi/lossless-cut

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

Consumers44KStill shippingSep 14, 2026
AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume

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!

Consumers43.3KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
ShareX/ShareX

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.

Consumers39.7KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
aseprite/aseprite

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

Consumers39.6KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
carbon-app/carbon

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

Developers36.1KGone silentFeb 10, 2026
debpalash/VoiceStudio

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

Consumers34.2KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
flameshot-org/flameshot

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

Consumers30.9KStill shippingSep 17, 2026
webadderallorg/Recordly

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

Business teamsalt to Loom30.6KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
facefusion/facefusion

Industry leading face manipulation platform

Consumers30KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
Anil-matcha/Open-Generative-AI

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.

Consumers29KStill shippingSep 19, 2026
invoke-ai/InvokeAI

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.

Consumers28.3KStill shippingSep 21, 2026
GraphiteEditor/Graphite

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 Figma27.3KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
onlook-dev/onlook

The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI

Developers26.8KStill shippingAug 25, 2026
Sanster/IOPaint

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 silentApr 29, 2025
CapSoftware/Cap

Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.

Business teamsalt to Loom22.6KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
blender/blender

Official mirror of Blender

Consumers20.5KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
alyssaxuu/screenity

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

Consumersalt to Loom18.7KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
Huanshere/VideoLingo

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

Consumers18.5KStill shippingSep 15, 2026
AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI

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.

Consumers17KStill shippingSep 19, 2026
HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app

Toonflow 是开源一站式 AI 短剧创作工具,将小说、剧本快速转化为动画短剧。集成 AI 编剧、智能分镜、角色与视频生成,跨平台桌面端轻量部署,助力创作者低成本批量产出视觉内容。Toonflow is an open-source AI tool that turns stories and scripts into animated short dramas. Features AI scriptwriting, storyboarding, character and video generation. A cross-platform desktop app for efficient content creation.

Consumers15.9KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
Anionex/banana-slides

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 teams15.6KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
mltframework/shotcut

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

Consumers15.3KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
palmier-io/palmier-pro

macOS video editor built for AI

Consumers14.4KStill shippingSep 9, 2026
waooAI/waoowaoo

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 teams14.3KStill shippingSep 21, 2026
divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui

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 silentOct 30, 2024
SawyerHood/draw-a-ui

Draw a mockup and generate html for it

Business teams13.6KGone silentJul 26, 2025
alicevision/Meshroom

Node-based Visual Programming Toolbox

Developers13KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
mapeditor/tiled

Flexible level editor

Developers12.9KStill shippingSep 21, 2026
piskelapp/piskel

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

Consumers12.8KStill shippingSep 20, 2026
theatre-js/theatre

Motion design editor for the web

Developers12.7KGone silentAug 14, 2024
krillinai/OpenCreator

Formerly KrillinAI. Open-source AI workspace for creators, powered by Codex. Create videos, images, voice, avatars, video translation, and edits with Agents in one place.

Consumers12.2KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
linyqh/NarratoAI

利用 AI 大模型,一键解说并剪辑视频

Consumers11.2KStill shippingSep 17, 2026
presenton/presenton

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

Business teams10.7KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
Nutlope/roomGPT

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

Consumers10.7KGone silentApr 20, 2024
JOYCEQL/magic-resume

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

Consumers10.7KStill shippingSep 22, 2026
easydiffusion/easydiffusion

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 shippingSep 11, 2026
CyberTimon/RapidRAW

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

Consumers10.1KStill shippingSep 21, 2026

Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →