# AI software clones are coming for big-name companies like Adobe

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ai-software-clones-are-coming-for-big-name-companies-like-adobe/
- Published: 2026-11-01T15:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T15:48:44+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2302459/ai-software-clones-coming-for-big-name-companies-adobe/
- Topics: AI, Software, Technology

## Key points

- AI helped create free, familiar alternatives to Adobe apps.
- Photocraft has bugs and cannot open Photoshop PSD files.
- Faster reverse engineering is intensifying copyright and patent debates.

## Summary

A developer and team have used AI-assisted reverse engineering to create free, open-source alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud apps, including a Photoshop-style editor called Photocraft. The project could appeal to subscribers frustrated by Adobe’s fees because it imitates familiar interfaces and may reduce the effort of switching to free software.

Photocraft can handle tasks such as resizing, masking and colour adjustments, but it lacks advanced features, cannot open native PSD files and has been reported to delete images, merge layers and crash. The team says its apps are written in Rust and designed to be more performant. The article also describes REA, a tool for analysing and recreating software, and notes that AI-enabled reverse engineering is raising unresolved questions about copyright and patents.

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