ArtCraft

ArtCraft is an open-source studio for composing image and video scenes before a model renders them, plus local Rust apps for design work.

Two downloads share the name

The ArtCraft studio is the product on the homepage and in the storytold/artcraft repository. The README calls it an IDE for interactive AI image and video: compose in 2D, stage a scene in 3D, then choose a model. Windows and macOS builds are linked from the site. Linux is documented as a build from source, not as a homepage download. The same site also offers a browser studio, including the address app.getartcraft.com.

The Crafting Apps are a second lineup: thirteen local programs for image, vector, video, photo library, PDF, motion graphics, layout, interface design, words, audio, slides, CAD, and spreadsheets. ArtCraft Launcher is the recommended way to install and update all of them. On 19 October 2026 that page linked craft-launcher v0.3.2, and each app still has its own installers. Opening the studio does not open these apps.

What you set before Generate

The studio’s own pages describe a canvas you arrange, then a model that renders it. This listing did not run a generation.

• Image to Location places figures in one environment so later shots can stay in that room.
• 3D compositing stacks backdrops, foregrounds, and props with depth.
• 2D compositing uses layers, background removal, and simple drawing.
• Image to 3D Mesh turns a picture into geometry you can move.
• Character Posing sets the figure and the camera before the render.
• Mixed assets put cutouts, worlds, and meshes on one canvas.

The product image on this page is the repository’s own 2D compositing example. The cliff picture and the prompt in the box are ArtCraft’s sample, not a Seailife test.

Which models the README actually lists

The README describes a 62-model catalog split into images, video, music and sound, 3D meshes, and worlds or Gaussian splats. A dagger means currently disabled. A double dagger means restricted and not available in the desktop app. The number 62 is the catalog size, not a count of models that all run today.

Providers named there are ArtCraft’s own models, Grok Imagine and Grok Video, Midjourney, Sora and GPT Image, and World Labs Marble. Kling, Google, Runway, and Luma appear as planned integrations, not as switches already in the app. The homepage chips name Seedance 2.5 and Nano Banana 2. The pricing examples instead quote Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image-1.5, and Kling 3.0 Pro. Both lists were on the site the day this page was written. They are not the same list.

How finished each Crafting App says it is

These labels are copied from the apps directory. “Installers ready” is not a claim that the app replaces the commercial tool it resembles.

• PhotoCraft is the image editor. Early alpha. macOS, Windows, Linux, and web.
• VectorCraft is vector illustration. In development. The same four platforms.
• FilmCraft is the video editor. In development. macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is the one app left off the browser-build list.
• LightCraft is a photo library and raw developer. In development, including web.
• PdfCraft is a PDF workbench. Early alpha, including web.
• EffectCraft is motion graphics and visual effects. In development, including web.
• DesignCraft is page layout. In development, including web.
• FigCraft is interface design and prototyping. Early alpha, including web.
• WordCraft is word processing. In development, including web.
• SoundCraft is recording, editing, and mixing. In development, including web.
• DeckCraft is slide presentations. In development, including web.
• CADCraft is drafting. In development, including web.
• GridCraft is spreadsheets. In development, including web.

The apps page says each one is written in Rust, compiled to a native desktop app rather than Electron, and keeps files on the machine. Each can be driven from a CLI, a JSON control channel, or an MCP server. File-format limits for PhotoCraft, FilmCraft, and EffectCraft are on their own Seailife pages. A task-by-task reading of those three, plus the studio, is the ArtCraft suite guide.

The studio repository is dual-licensed MIT or Apache-2.0. The apps page says the Crafting Apps are on GitHub under permissive licenses. That sentence does not by itself prove every app repository uses the studio’s exact pair of licenses.

What a paid plan buys

The Crafting Apps are presented as free to use. The studio is not an unlimited free generator. A footnote on the pricing page says ArtCraft can be used without a subscription if you bring your own compute and third-party subscriptions. Hosted generations are sold as credits.

On 19 October 2026 the yearly prices, under a discount the page itself marked as limited-time and 20% off, were:

• Basic: $8 a month, $96 billed yearly, shown next to $10. 1,000 credits a month. The page estimates about 250 Nano Banana images, about 67 Nano Banana Pro images, about 33 Nano Banana Pro 4K images, about 200 GPT-Image-1.5 images, about 63 seconds of Seedance 2.0, or about 45 seconds of Kling 3.0 Pro.
• Pro: $28 a month, $336 billed yearly, shown next to $35. 3,750 credits a month, with larger estimates of the same kind.
• Max: $48 a month, $576 billed yearly, shown next to $60. 6,600 credits a month, again with the page’s own larger estimates.
• Enterprise: custom credit volume, secure models, support SLAs, and custom integrations. No public price.

Those image and second counts use the site’s tilde. They are estimates, not a guaranteed number of finished files. The page says failed generations refund the credits, checkout goes through Stripe, and you can cancel anytime. One-time credit packs are described as never expiring, but the public page only tells you to sign in to buy them. Pack sizes are not listed there. “You own ArtCraft forever” is the wording on the plans. The MIT or Apache-2.0 grant above is what the studio repository actually gives you.