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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 →
The list
All 41, most-starred first.
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.
| Project | What it does | Built for | Stars | Ship status | Last 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 Figma | 97.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| OpenCut-app/OpenCut | The open-source CapCut alternative | Consumers | 90.4K | Slowed | Aug 10, 2026 |
| jgraph/drawio-desktop | Official electron build of draw.io | Business teamsalt to Miro | 63.2K | Still shipping | Sep 18, 2026 |
| penpot/penpot | Penpot: The open-source design platform for Product teams that need scalable collaboration. | Business teamsalt to Figma | 60.3K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| mifi/lossless-cut | The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing | Consumers | 44K | Still shipping | Sep 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! | Consumers | 43.3K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 39.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| aseprite/aseprite | Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux) | Consumers | 39.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| carbon-app/carbon | :black_heart: Create and share beautiful images of your source code | Developers | 36.1K | Gone silent | Feb 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. | Consumers | 34.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| flameshot-org/flameshot | Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: | Consumers | 30.9K | Still shipping | Sep 17, 2026 |
| webadderallorg/Recordly | Create polished demo videos without editing skills. Mac/Windows/Linux | Business teamsalt to Loom | 30.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| facefusion/facefusion | Industry leading face manipulation platform | Consumers | 30K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 29K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 28.3K | Still shipping | Sep 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 Figma | 27.3K | Still shipping | Sep 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 | Developers | 26.8K | Still shipping | Aug 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. | Consumers | 23.3K | Gone silent | Apr 29, 2025 |
| CapSoftware/Cap | Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings. | Business teamsalt to Loom | 22.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| blender/blender | Official mirror of Blender | Consumers | 20.5K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| alyssaxuu/screenity | The free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits 🎥 | Consumersalt to Loom | 18.7K | Still shipping | Sep 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 | Consumers | 18.5K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 17K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 15.9K | Still shipping | Sep 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 teams | 15.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| mltframework/shotcut | cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor | Consumers | 15.3K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| palmier-io/palmier-pro | macOS video editor built for AI | Consumers | 14.4K | Still shipping | Sep 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 teams | 14.3K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 13.6K | Gone silent | Oct 30, 2024 |
| SawyerHood/draw-a-ui | Draw a mockup and generate html for it | Business teams | 13.6K | Gone silent | Jul 26, 2025 |
| alicevision/Meshroom | Node-based Visual Programming Toolbox | Developers | 13K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| mapeditor/tiled | Flexible level editor | Developers | 12.9K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| piskelapp/piskel | A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. | Consumers | 12.8K | Still shipping | Sep 20, 2026 |
| theatre-js/theatre | Motion design editor for the web | Developers | 12.7K | Gone silent | Aug 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. | Consumers | 12.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| linyqh/NarratoAI | 利用 AI 大模型,一键解说并剪辑视频 | Consumers | 11.2K | Still shipping | Sep 17, 2026 |
| presenton/presenton | Open-Source AI Presentation Generator and API (Gamma, Canva, Beautiful AI, Decktopus, Presentations AI Alternative) | Business teams | 10.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Nutlope/roomGPT | Upload a photo of your room to generate your dream room with AI. | Consumers | 10.7K | Gone silent | Apr 20, 2024 |
| JOYCEQL/magic-resume | free online AI resume editor,the only official website is https://magicv.art | Consumers | 10.7K | Still shipping | Sep 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. | Consumers | 10.5K | Still shipping | Sep 11, 2026 |
| CyberTimon/RapidRAW | A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. | Consumers | 10.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
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