Developer behind free Adobe clones ships open-source Word, Excel, PowerPoint
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Brandon Thomas released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft — Rust rewrites built with Anthropic's Claude — as free open-source alternatives to Microsoft 365's $99.99/year subscription. WordCraft covers 88% of Word's ribbon features and GridCraft handles 513 of Excel's 523 worksheet functions, though the team rates them only 50-60% ready for real work.
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