Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Craft — Productivity App for Notes, Tasks, and Docs

A free notes and productivity app that follows you across all your devices. Premium features available.

Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Fragment | A modern toolkit for creative coding

Fragment lets you sketch, render, and export canvas-based graphics with ease, from quick experiments to production-ready visuals. Built on top of Vite, Svelte and Mediabunny.

Lunagraph: Design canvas that writes code, powered by Claude Code

Design and create UI using real HTML, CSS and React code. Stay consistent with zero handoff.

“Our programs are fun to use.” – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Fuser - The Creative Harness Company™

Build scalable AI workflows with Fuser's node-based canvas. Access 300+ AI models for image, video, audio, and 3D generation plus 400+ LLMs in one platform. Fuser offers production-focused workflows with an infinite canvas, node-based system, and flexible pricing (one-time purchase, subscription, or BYOK). Key features: FLUX, Imagen 4, Sora-2, Veo3.1, Runway Gen-4, Kling, GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and more. Designed for professional creatives who need to deliver production work, not just experiment.

Favourite well-made apps and sites – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2 – Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Paco Coursey

Crafting interfaces. Webmaster at Linear. Building polished software and web experiences.

Brad Woods Digital Garden

Notes about creative coding on the Web.

Motion Core — Svelte-native motion toolkit with GSAP and OGL-powered components, demos, and CLI-driven workflows

Svelte-native motion toolkit with GSAP and OGL-powered components, demos, and CLI-driven workflows.

FLORA — Your Creative Environment

Generative workflows that scale

Digital Art Enters the Museum Age — Social Software

We explore code and systems as a medium for creating new forms of art. We consider "software" in an expanded sense, examining the ways that we are programmed by technology around us and the ways we can write software to make change in the world.

Engraft: An API for Live, Rich, and Composable Programming

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