A list of alternatives for Adobe software, originally collected by @XdanielArt and improved upon by the community. Feel free to open issues or pull requests, or create an image (for easy sharing) out of the data. The lists are always ordered with the free and open-source option on top, but it might not be the best alternative depending on your use case.
Legend:
- ✨ = Free and open-source (or source available)
- ⭐️ = Free of charge
- 💵 = Single purchase
- 🔒 = Subscription for more functions
- ⌛ = Free trial
Alternatives to:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Animate
- InDesign
- Substance
- Lightroom
- XD
- Premiere
- Acrobat
- Bridge
- Dreamweaver
- ColdFusion
- Audition
- After Effects
- Mixamo
Photoshop
Photography
- ✨ PhotoGIMP (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ GIMP (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨️ Pinta (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ digiKam (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵) Paint.NET (Windows)
- ⭐️ (💵) Photopea (Browser)
- ⭐️ (💵, 🔒) Sumo Paint (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵, 🔒) Sumopaint (Browser, Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Pixlr (Browser)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Affinity (Windows, macOS, iOS(under development))
- 💵 Pixelmator Pro (macOS)
- 💵 PaintShop Pro (Windows)
- 💵 Photoline (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Acorn (macOS)
Painting
- ✨ Krita (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- ✨ MyPaint (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Tux Paint (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Kleki (Browser)
- ⭐️ (🔒) IbisPaint (Windows, Android, iOS)
- ⭐️ (💵) Sketchbook (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
- ⭐️ FireAlpaca (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ MediBang (Windows, macOS, Android)
- 💵 Paintstorm (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS)
- 💵 Corel Painter (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Rebelle (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 (🔒) Clip Studio Paint (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
- 💵 PaintTool SAI (Windows)
- 💵 Procreate (iOS)
- 💵 Linea Sketch (iOS)
- 💵 Artstudio Pro (iOS)
- 💵 Infinite Studio (Android, iOS)
- 💵 Realistic Paint Studio (Windows, macOS, iOS)
- 💵 ArtRage (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
Pixel art
- ✨ Pixelorama (Browser, Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi)
- ✨ PixiEditor (Windowsm macOS, Linux)
- ✨ LibreSprite (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ GrafX2 (Windows, Linux, Android)
- ✨ Piskel (Browser, Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ (or 💵) Aseprite (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Lospec Pixel Editor (Browser)
- ⭐️ Pixel Studio (Windows, macOS)
- ⭐️ Microsoft Paint (Windows)
- ⭐️ GraphicsGale (Windows)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Pixilart (Browser, Android, iOS)
- ⭐️ (🔒) dotpict (Android, iOS)
- 💵 Pro Motion NG (Windows)
- 💵 Lightcube (Windows)
- 💵 Pyxel Edit (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 Pixquare (macOS, iOS)
Illustrator
General
- ✨ Inkscape (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Graphite (Browser now / Windows, macOS, Linux apps in future)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Linearity Curve (macOS, iOS)
- ⭐️ Affinity (Windows, macOS, iOS(under development))
- 💵 (⌛) Boxy SVG (Browser)
- 💵 Amadine (macOS, iOS)
- 💵 Xara Designer (Windows)
- 🔒 Corel Vector (Browser)
Live trace
- ✨ SVGcode (Browser)
- ✨ VTracer (Browser, Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ CR8tracer (Windows)
- 💵 Vector Magic (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Animate
General
- 🔒 Rive (Browser, Windows, macOS)
- ✨ Tahoma2D (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Bforartists (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Blender (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ OpenToonz (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Wick Editor (Browser)
- ✨ Synfig (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Glaxnimate (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Linearity Move (macOS, iOS)
- 💵 CACANi (Windows)
- 💵 TVPaint (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- 💵 Toon Boom (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 Clip Studio Paint (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Moho (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Tumult Hype (macOS)
Honorable mentions
- ✨ Krita (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- ✨ Pencil2D (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ FireAlpaca (Windows, macOS, Linux)
InDesign
- ✨ Scribus (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Laidout (Linux)
- ⭐️ Affinity (Windows, macOS, iOS(under deveopment))
- 💵 QuarkXPress (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Swift Publisher (macOS)
Substance
Designer
- ✨ Material Maker (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ ArmorLab (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Quixel Mixer (Windows, macOS)
- ⭐️ InstaMAT (Windows, macOS)
- ⭐️ PixaFlux (Windows, macOS)
Painter
- ✨ UcuPaint (Blender Extension)
- ✨ (💵)ArmorPaint (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
- ⭐️ Quixel Mixer (Windows, macOS)
- ⭐️ InstaMAT (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 3DCoat (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 (or 🔒) Marmoset Toolbag (Windows, macOS)
- 🔒 Mari (Windows, Linux)
Sampler
Texturing
- ✨ ArmorLab (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Meshes
- ✨ Meshroom (Windows, Linux)
- ⭐️ RealityCapture (Windows)
Lightroom
- ✨ ART (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ RawTherapee (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Darktable (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ digiKam (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ RapidRAW (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 (or 🔒) Darkroom (macOS, iOS)
- 💵 Photomator (macOS, iOS)
- 💵 ON1 Photo RAW (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 FastRawViewer (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Capture One (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Dx0 PhotoLab (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Luminar Neo (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Aurora HDR (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Tonfotos (Windows, Linux, macOS)
- 💵 Zoner Studio (Windows)
XD
- ✨ Penpot (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Draftoola (Linux)
- ✨ Quant-UX (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Lunacy (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Figma (Browser, Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Sketch (macOS)
- 💵 Origami Studio (macOS)
- 💵 Axure RP (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Principle (macOS)
- 🔒 Framer (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Premiere
- ✨ Blender (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Olive (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Kdenlive (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Shotcut (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ OpenShot (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ AVIDemux (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ VidCutter (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ LiVES (macOS, Linux)
- ✨ VirtualDub (Windows)
- ✨ Pitivi (Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵) Lightworks (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ PIKIMOV (Browser)
- ⭐️ wide.video (Browser)
- ⭐️ (💵) HitFilm (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵) DaVinci Resolve (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 (or 🔒) VEGAS Pro (Windows)
- 💵 Final Cut Pro (macOS, iOS)
- 🔒 AVID Media Composer (Windows, macOS)
- 🔒 Kapwing (Browser)
- 🔒 CapCut (Browser, Windows, Android, iOS)
Acrobat
Editor
- ✨ PDF Arranger (Windows, Linux)
- ✨ LibreOffice Draw (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Inkscape (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Stirling-PDF (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Scribus (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ PDFtk (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵, 🔒) Foxit (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Browser)
- ⭐️ PDFgear (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
- ⭐️ PDF24 (Windows)
- 💵 PDF-XChange (Windows)
- 💵 (or 🔒) PDF Expert (macOS, iOS)
- 🔒 Bluebeam (Browser, Windows, Android, iOS)
- 🔒 Xodo (Browser, Windows, Android, iOS)
Reader
- ✨ Zathura (Linux)
- ✨ Sioyek (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Sumatra PDF (Windows)
- ✨ Okular (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Evince (Windows, Linux)
- ✨ XPDFReader (Windows, Linux)
- ✨ EmbedPDF (Browser)
Bridge
- ⭐️ XnView MP (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 (⌛) Eagle (Windows, macOS)
- 🔒 Anchorpoint (Windows, macOS)
Dreamweaver
- ✨ Pulsar (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ NetBeans (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ VSCodium (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Visual Studio Code (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ PageFabric (Windows)
- ⭐️ (🔒) WebStorm (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 (🔒) Nova (macOS)
- 🔒 PHPStorm (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Media Encoder
- ✨ Handbrake (Windows, macOS, Linux)
ColdFusion
- ✨ (🔒) BoxLang (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Audition
General
- ✨ Tenacity (Windows, Linux)
- ✨ Audacity (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Ocenaudio (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵) DaVinci Resolve Fairlight (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Wavosaur (Windows)
- 💵 GoldWave (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 iZotope RX (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Sound Forge (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Fission (macOS)
DAWs
- ✨ (💵, 🔒) Ardour (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ (💵, 🔒) Zrythm (Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD)
- ✨ LMMS (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Cakewalk (Windows)
- ⭐️ GarageBand (macOS)
- ⭐️ (💵) Tracktion (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Pro Tools (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Mixbus (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 Reaper (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 Logic Pro (macOS, iOS)
- 💵 Ableton Live (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 FL Studio (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 FL Studio Mobile (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
- 💵 Bitwig (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 Steinberg Wavelab (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Steinberg Cubase (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Steinberg Nuendo (Windows, macOS)
- 🔒 Studio One (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 🔒 Cakewalk Next (Windows)
- 🔒 Cakewalk Sonar (Windows)
After Effects
Compositing and effects
- ✨ Natron (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Bforartists (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Blender (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Gaffer (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵) DaVinci Resolve Fusion (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (💵) Fusion (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ Unreal Engine (Motion Graphics Tools) (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 💵 (⌛🔒) Autograph (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 🔒 Autodesk Flame (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 🔒 Autodesk Maya (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 🔒 Nuke (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Motion graphics
- ✨ Cables (Browser, Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Tooll3 (Windows)
- ✨ Bforartists (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Blender (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ Friction (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ✨ AstroFox (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Linearity Move (macOS, iOS)
- ⭐️ (🔒) Cavalry (Windows, macOS)
- 💵 Final Cut Pro (Motion) (macOS, iOS)
- 💵 (⌛🔒) Autograph (Windows, macOS, Linux)
- 🔒 Jitter (Browser)
Mixamo
- ✨ Mesh2Motion (Browser)