REA open-sources 13 free alternatives to paid creative and office software

A post by Gyomei says REA has open-sourced 13 free alternatives to paid programs including Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat Pro, Lightroom and AutoCAD. The post says those paid programs cost $3,790 or more a year and that the replacements cover photos, video, PDF, CAD, spreadsheets, slides and audio, and work offline.

It lists each project with the app it replaces and its stated file-format support.

The post also describes an engine called craft-anything and a tool called rea that let a coding agent rebuild or reverse engineer software. These claims come from the post alone, and no other report in this story confirms the projects' quality or feature parity with the paid apps.