* Objects: one selection for charts, pictures, shapes and slicers, with eight resize handles
The sheet tracked the selected object as a bare id in `selected_chart`, so
only charts and text boxes drew a selection frame, only the bottom-right
corner resized, and the kind of the selected object had to be guessed from
the id. The selection is now `SheetApp::selected_object: Option<ObjRef>`,
with `selected_chart()` kept for the Chart Design tab and the Format Chart
pane.
- Model: `ObjKind` (chart, image, shape, slicer) and `ObjRef { kind, id }`;
`Sheet` helpers find, move and remove an object by `ObjRef` and walk every
object's anchor in a fixed order. `next_object_id` saturates instead of
overflowing on an id at `u32::MAX` read from a file.
- Commands: `object.delete`, `object.move` and `object.setAnchorMode` accept
the four kinds through one parameter check, refuse an unknown kind or id
instead of succeeding silently, and clamp hostile offsets. `object.delete`
replies with the deleted object. Arrange and the Selection Pane include
slicers, which stack above the other objects.
- Sheet: the selected object of any kind draws a frame with eight handles
over every object. Each handle resizes only its own edges, which never
cross; the body moves the object, and the first drag frame already applies
the pointer's movement. The pointer shows the handle's resize cursor or a
move cursor, with the diagonals swapped on a right-to-left sheet, where the
frame moves with its object.
- Keys: Escape drops the object selection; Delete and Backspace keep
deleting the selected object (#213). A selection whose object disappears
(undo, redo, delete, sheet switch) is cleared.
- Double-click: `open_object` routes by kind (a text box edits in place, a
chart opens Format Chart).
- Control protocol: `ui.inspect` reports `selectedObject {kind, id}` and
keeps `selectedChart`; `ui.object.select` selects any object and replies
with its rect. The snapshot example takes `--object <id>`.
Tests: engine tests for every kind by kind and id, the Selection Pane and
hostile parameters; UI tests for selecting each kind (a slicer over a chart
takes the click), all eight handles on four kinds, cursors, Delete,
Backspace and Escape, undo and redo, double-click routing, and resizing on a
right-to-left sheet. Existing tests use the new selection API.
* Objects: every kind follows edits; chart series follow cut-moves and sheet deletes
Structural edits and sorts kept three hand-indexed lists (charts, images,
shapes) in step in two places, and slicers were left out of both, so a
slicer stayed put when rows were inserted above it. Chart series were
rewritten for inserted and deleted lines and for sheet renames, but not for
cut-moves or sheet deletes, which left them pointing at the old cells.
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns and sorting walk
`Sheet::object_anchors` and `object_anchors_mut`, one fixed order over
every kind, so slicers now follow their cells by their anchor mode like
the other objects, and a new kind cannot be forgotten in one of the
passes.
- `rewrite_cell_links` is the one place that rewrites the references
floating objects hold (chart series values, categories and names,
and the source block a chart was made from).
`rewrite_all_formulas` calls it, which covers inserting and deleting
lines and cells and cut-moves on one sheet or across sheets; renaming and
deleting a sheet call it too, so a series into a deleted sheet becomes
#REF!, as a formula does.
- Copying a sheet gives its charts, pictures, shapes and slicers fresh ids,
keeping ids unique across the workbook, which object selection and the
`{kind, id}` commands rely on.
Tests: every kind through row and column inserts and deletes, an absolute
shape, a sort and undo; a slicer through inserted rows; chart series
through a cut-move, a sheet rename, a sheet delete and undo; ids after a
sheet copy.
* Objects: bubble sizes follow edits like the other series references
`rewrite_cell_links` rewrote a chart series' values, categories and name
but not its bubble sizes, so inserting or deleting lines, a cut-move or a
sheet rename left a bubble chart's sizes pointing at the old cells. They
are now rewritten with the rest.
Test: bubble sizes through an inserted row, a cut-move and a sheet rename.
* Objects: a resize handle under the headers leaves the press to them
A selected object's handles reach a few points outside it, and a press
was matched against them before any check of where it landed, so a press
on the column or row header beside an object at the sheet's edge resized
the object instead of selecting the column or row. The cursor already
ignored handles outside the cells.
`chartview::selected_handle` finds the selected object's handle under a
point only over the cell area, as `hit` does, and not while objects are
hidden; the press and the cursor both use it.
Test: presses within a handle's reach over the column header and the row
header neither move nor resize the object.
* Objects: each drag of an object is its own undo step
A drag merges its frames into one undo step by dropping a new step whose
label matches the one before it. Its first frame did the same, so a second
drag of an object (a move after a move, or a resize after a move) merged
into the first drag's "Move Object" step, and one undo took back both.
`Drag::Object` records whether the drag has made its step; only the later
frames of the same drag merge into it.
Test: a move and then a resize of a picture take two undos to reverse,
the first restoring the moved picture.
* Objects: the parity and gap docs no longer list chart resizing as missing
gaps.md (§4), target-app-parity.md (the Essentials tier's work, the
Mainstream chart row, the interaction discount and the Essentials chart
task) and chart-parity.md (the element table and the work list) still
described charts as impossible to resize (#190). Charts move and resize
from eight handles like every floating object, so those statements now
say so; the 2026-10-10 revision rows and the 10-10 re-check stay as
history. Scores and the 40-60 h chart estimate are unchanged (resizing
was 1-2 h, within the rounding).
* Objects: one chart evidence paragraph in gaps.md; trendlines are not missing
gaps.md §4 carried two evidence paragraphs, an older one saying PRs #158
and #161 were open and a newer one saying all 2-D kinds survive XLSX round
trip, both repeating the resize, smooth-line, Switch Row/Column and
trendline statements. It is one paragraph with the current status again.
The Mainstream chart row in target-app-parity.md listed trendlines as
missing; they are read, written and drawn (`Series::trendlines`, the XLSX
chart reader and writer, `chart.addElement`), as chart-parity.md records.
The row now says so and keeps "no axis options". No score change.
* Objects: only the selected object's handles resize; a press elsewhere on an object moves it
A primary drag looked for a handle under the press on whatever object it
grabbed, so pressing near the edge or corner of an object that was not
selected started a resize, while the pointer over that spot showed the
Move cursor (handles are only shown, and only offered by the cursor, on
the selected object). The press now takes its handle from
`chartview::selected_handle`, the same lookup the cursor uses; a press on
any other object selects and moves it.
Test: dragging an unselected shape by its bottom-right corner shows the
Move cursor, then selects and moves the shape without resizing it.
* Docs: ui.object.select says what it replies when it clears the selection
* Objects: a test pins that both anchor accessors visit the same objects in the same order
Sorting and row or column edits read every anchor through
`object_anchors`, compute the new ones and write them back through
`object_anchors_mut` in step. Nothing checked that the two accessors
visit the same objects in the same order; a kind of floating object
reaching only one of them would have paired objects with other objects'
anchors silently.
Test: two objects of every kind are inserted in a mixed order, each
anchor is marked with its position through the mutable accessor, the
marks are read back through the shared one in the same sequence, the
count matches the per-kind collections, and the mark is found on the
object `object_anchor` names by kind and id. The test's constructor
matches on `ObjKind` exhaustively, so a new kind does not compile until
the test covers it.
* Objects: sorting keeps the size of a "move and size" picture whose lines swap places
A picture anchored to move and size with cells and spanning two rows
(or columns) was re-fitted between its top-left and bottom-right lines
after a sort. When the sort put the bottom line above the top one, the
fitted extent was negative and the picture collapsed to a zero height
or width. It now keeps its old size on that axis and travels with its
top-left line, like a "move only" picture.
Tests: for a sort by rows and one by columns, "move and size" and
"move only" pictures inside one line travel with it (the first
re-fitted to the same line, the second at its own size), an absolute
picture stays while the cells move under it, a two-line picture whose
lines swap keeps its size, and undo restores every anchor.
* Objects: a copied sheet's objects get free ids even when a file used the largest id
`Workbook::next_object_id` returned one more than the largest id in use,
saturating at `u32::MAX`. A workbook read from a file can carry an object
with that id; every later insert (a chart, picture, shape, table or
slicer) then got `u32::MAX` again, and so did each object of a copied
sheet, whose ids also came from a saturating counter. Lookups and
selection take the first object with an id, and `object.delete` removes
every one.
`Workbook::free_object_ids(count)` now returns distinct unused ids: those
above the largest in use while they last, then the lowest free ones from
1. `next_object_id` takes the first of them, and the sheet copy takes one
per copied object (and refuses if the id space were ever exhausted). The
model test that recorded the saturation now checks the free ids instead,
and a new one covers a file that used the largest ids: the free ids come
from below, 100,000 of them distinct and in order.
Test: object_ids_stay_unique_when_a_file_used_the_largest_id gives a
shape id u32::MAX, inserts two shapes and copies the sheet; every shape id
is distinct across both sheets. It fails without the fix (both new shapes
get 4294967295).
* Objects: main's chart data table compiles with the object selection and the model's object test
Two leftovers of the merge of origin/main (25881a8e), neither a textual
conflict: `Chart` gained a `data_table` field, which the `push_object`
helper of the model's object test did not set (it is `None`, as in
`insert.chart`); and chart_data_table.rs set the `selected_chart` field
this branch replaced by `selected_object`. The test selects its chart as
a floating object, as the branch's other tests do.
* Objects: object.move and chart.set keep a size a file made larger than 10,000
`object.move` clamped `width` and `height` to 10,000 points, the most it
gives a new size, while the XLSX reader accepts anchors far past that.
A resize of a picture a file made 12,000 wide passed 11,990 through the
clamp and jumped to 10,000; `chart.set`, whose Format Chart pane sends
the unchanged dimension back with the edited one, clamped the same way.
Each dimension is now capped at 10,000 or the object's current size,
whichever is larger (`size_cap`): such an object keeps its size when it
is moved, shrinks by what a resize asks and never grows further, and a
hostile size is still capped. The params doc of `object.move` and the
control protocol notes say so.
Tests: an_oversized_imported_object_keeps_its_size_when_moved_and_shrinks_only_by_a_resize
makes a picture 12,000 by 300, writes and reads it back as a file, then
moves it without a size (12,000 stays), asks 12,010 (stays 12,000),
11,990 (11,990, no jump) and 50,000 by 50,000 (11,990 by 10,000).
chart_set_keeps_a_chart_size_a_file_made_larger_than_the_limit does the
same through `chart.set`. Both fail without the fix (width 10,000).
* Objects: dragging an object's body sends its position only, not its size
`drag_object` sent `width` and `height` with every step of a body drag,
so moving a picture a file made 12,000 wide shrank it to the 10,000 that
`object.move` gives a new size. Only a handle drag sends a size now; a
body move leaves the engine's size alone.
Tests (real input): dragging_the_body_of_an_oversized_imported_object_keeps_its_size
reopens the workbook with a 12,000 by 60 picture, drags its body by
30 by 25 and checks the size is untouched, the picture moved with the
pointer and the journaled `object.move` carries no width or height; it
fails without the fix (the journaled command carries both, and without
the engine's cap the picture is 10,000 wide).
a_handle_drag_on_an_oversized_imported_object_resizes_by_the_drag_only
moves the left handle 10 px right: the picture is 10 points narrower in
the window and keeps a width near 12,000, with no jump to the limit.
* Objects: the Format Chart Size fields show a chart's real size and send only the edited dimension
The Width and Height fields ranged 40 to 4,000 and sent both values on
every edit. egui clamps an existing value into a field's range, so a
chart a file made 12,000 wide showed "Width 4000", and typing a new
height sent that 4,000 as the width: the chart shrank although only its
height changed, and the cap `chart.set` keeps for an existing size
cannot help once the pane itself sends 4,000. Each field's range now
reaches the larger of 4,000 and the chart's current size, so the field
shows the real size, and a commit sends only the dimension that differs
from the chart's (`chart.set` reads `width` and `height` independently).
Test (real input): the_size_fields_keep_an_oversized_imported_chart_width_when_the_height_changes
reopens a workbook with a 12,000-wide chart, opens Format Chart Area's
Size section, checks the Width field shows 12000 and types 201 as the
height: the width stays 12,000, the height is 201 and the journaled
chart.set carries no width. Without the fix the field shows
"Width 4000".
GridCraft
Spreadsheets and data; an open-source, high-performance modern spreadsheet application, built in pure Rust.
A fast, open-source, clean-room take on modern spreadsheet workflows. It runs natively on macOS,
Windows, Linux and BSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly.
By the ArtCraft team.
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Quarterly Sales Dashboard: a table with a totals row, conditional formatting, sparklines and two live charts — built entirely from GridCraft commands (File → New → Sample).
Note
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A look around
Why GridCraft
- Familiar. Ribbon, formula bar, Name Box, sheet tabs, keyboard shortcuts, fill handle, point-mode formula entry with coloured references, Format Cells, Paste Special, conditional formatting, tables, charts and more. Everything is right where you expect it.
- Compatible. XLSX is the native format: styles, themes, formulas (including dynamic arrays),
tables, conditional formats, validation, comments, hyperlinks, charts, pictures, sparklines,
pivot tables and print settings round-trip. CSV and TSV too.
Legacy 97-2003
.xlsworkbooks open with their values, formulas and number formats (formatting and objects not yet). XLSB worksheet data can be imported, using saved values instead of formulas. ODS worksheet data can be imported, using saved values instead of formulas. Static pictures can live inside cells, fitting their size and moving with the data. - Capable. A dependency-graph calculation engine with dynamic arrays and spilling, 500+ worksheet functions plus LET, LAMBDA, MAP, REDUCE, SCAN, BYROW, BYCOL and MAKEARRAY, structured table references, a comprehensive number-format language, sort and AutoFilter, Flash Fill, data validation, outlining and subtotals.
- Fast. Copy-on-write workbooks (undo snapshots are nearly free), incremental recalculation, and a virtualised grid that only lays out what's on screen.
- Agent-native. Every ribbon button, menu item, dialog, keystroke and mouse gesture is a command that agents can run over a JSON control channel, an MCP server, or the CLI.
- Everywhere. One Rust codebase for desktop and the web. No subscription, no licence server, no telemetry.
Quick start
cargo run --release -p gridcraft # desktop app
cargo run --release -p gridcraft -- --sample sales # open a sample (sales, budget, grades)
cargo run --release -p gridcraft -- book.xlsx # open a workbook
cargo run --release -p gridcraft -- --sample sales --control 7979 # + JSON control channel
cargo xtask ci # fmt, clippy, tests, assets, layering, wasm
Choose Español under View → Interface language for Spanish formula names, decimal commas, and semicolon arguments. Workbooks, clipboard exchange, and programmatic APIs retain canonical English syntax.
Web
cd apps/gridcraft-web && trunk build --release # → dist/web (serve it with any static server)
cd apps/gridcraft-web && trunk serve --release # http://127.0.0.1:8771 (?sample=sales opens a sample)
You need trunk and the wasm32-unknown-unknown target. Open uses the
browser's file picker (dropping files works too) and Save downloads the workbook.
Ribbon access keys
Press and release left Alt on Windows/Linux/BSD, or press F10 on any platform, then type a sequence below one key at a time. Keytips appear on the supported Home controls and menu items. On macOS, use F10 (Fn+F10 if required by your keyboard); Option remains available for entering accented characters.
| Sequence after Alt/F10 | Action |
|---|---|
H A L / H A C / H A R |
Align left / center / right |
H V S or legacy E S |
Open Paste Special |
H O I or legacy O C A |
AutoFit selected columns |
In Paste Special, T/V/F/C select formats/values/formulas/comments, and E toggles Transpose. Enter applies the selected options; Escape cancels the dialog. These letters also work with Alt held on Windows/Linux/BSD.
Escape backs out one keytip level; Alt/F10 again exits keytips. Clicking, scrolling, or switching windows cancels navigation. Access keys do not start while editing text or using another dialog. This is initial support for these Home and legacy paths; other ribbon commands and full mouse-free navigation remain to be implemented. Browsers or desktop environments may reserve Alt/F10 for their own menus.
Logs
The desktop app writes its log to standard error and to gridcraft.log in the logs folder
next to its settings: ~/.config/gridcraft/logs on Linux and BSD ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gridcraft/logs
when set), ~/Library/Application Support/GridCraft/logs on macOS and
%APPDATA%\GridCraft\logs on Windows. Each start moves the previous log to gridcraft.1.log and
that one to gridcraft.2.log, so the log of a run that crashed survives the next start; attach
them to a bug report. A log file stops growing at 16 MiB. By default GridCraft's own crates log
at info and everything else at warn; RUST_LOG replaces that with env_logger-style
directives, e.g. RUST_LOG=debug or RUST_LOG=warn,gridcraft_engine=debug (a trailing *
matches a prefix: gridcraft*=debug). Runs with GRIDCRAFT_NO_PREFS set (no saved settings)
log to standard error only.
For agents: MCP, CLI and the control channel
claude mcp add gridcraft -- gridcraft-cli mcp # headless MCP server
gridcraft-cli mcp --connect 7979 # MCP bridged to a running window
gridcraft-cli eval '=XLOOKUP("b",{"a","b"},{1,2})' # → 2
gridcraft-cli run --sample budget --cmd 'home.bold={"range":"B4:F4"}' --out budget.xlsx
gridcraft-cli cat budget.xlsx --range B4:F15 # aligned text table
gridcraft-cli commands --search chart # every command and its params
The MCP server offers tools such as read_range, write_range, set_cell, evaluate_formula,
format_range, insert_chart, create_table, sort_range, filter and execute_command
(which reaches every one of GridCraft's commands). The desktop app's control channel adds real
pointer and keyboard input, dialogs and screenshots. See docs/mcp.md,
docs/cli.md and docs/control-protocol.md.
Architecture
GridCraft is an engine-first Cargo workspace with enforced layering (cargo xtask layers). The
egui frontend is a separate crate, so the UI can be swapped without touching the engine.
| Layer | Crates |
|---|---|
| L0 | core (addresses, values, errors, dates, input parsing) · numfmt (number format codes) |
| L1 | formula (lexer, parser, printer, reference adjustment) · functions (worksheet function library) |
| L2 | model (workbook, sheets, copy-on-write cells, styles, tables, charts…) · calc (dependency graph, evaluator, dynamic arrays) · xlsx (XLSX, CSV, plus XLSB and ODS data import) |
| L3 | chart (toolkit-free chart layout and rendering) |
| L5 | engine (session, commands, history, clipboard, fill, sort, filter, file I/O) |
| L6 | ui-egui (spreadsheet UI, control channel) · mcp (MCP server) |
| L7 | apps/gridcraft, apps/gridcraft-cli, apps/gridcraft-web |
- Contributor and agent rules (clean-room, asset policy, never-crash, quality gates):
AGENTS.md - Bundled assets: each one is listed with its licence in
ATTRIBUTION.md - Releases: signed macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and web builds; see
docs/releasing.md
Roadmap
GridCraft is in alpha: the core workflow works end to end, but depth, fidelity and file
compatibility are still rough. It covers 89% of standard ribbon commands in our catalog
(docs/parity-checklist.md) and 513 standard worksheet functions
(docs/function-parity.md); this is a parity inventory, not a count of working implementations. Weighted by what spreadsheet users rely on, we
estimate it is about 50% ready for real work. Next up: XLSX fidelity on real-world files, very large
workbooks and multi-threaded recalc, chart depth, text in every script, and .xls import. Stage,
numbers and estimates are in ROADMAP.md; the ranked work list is docs/gaps.md.
Downloads
Download GridCraft from GitHub: the latest release has every build listed below, and all releases has earlier versions and their notes. <ver> in the file names is the version number, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists a checksum for every file.
Windows
| Build | Installer | Portable |
|---|---|---|
| x64 (64-bit Intel/AMD) | gridcraft-<ver>-windows-x64.msi |
gridcraft-<ver>-windows-x64-portable.zip |
| arm64 (Snapdragon and other ARM PCs) | gridcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64.msi |
gridcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64-portable.zip |
| x86 (32-bit) | gridcraft-<ver>-windows-x86.msi |
gridcraft-<ver>-windows-x86-portable.zip |
Installers and executables are code-signed. The MSI installer offers an optional desktop shortcut (unchecked on a new installation).
If the app doesn't open on Windows: the desktop app initializes only DirectX 12 by default.
Letting wgpu also create an OpenGL instance can crash some graphics drivers (AMD's
atio6axx.dll) before the window appears, so the app would flash in Task Manager and quit.
WGPU_BACKEND overrides the default for troubleshooting (for example dx12 or vulkan). In
PowerShell, from the folder containing the executable:
$env:WGPU_BACKEND = "vulkan"
& .\gridcraft.exe
Remove-Item Env:WGPU_BACKEND # restore the default for later launches
An explicit gl override can bring the driver crash back on affected systems, and vulkan can
bring back a crash in some Intel UHD Graphics drivers (igvk64.dll, #120). The macOS, Linux and
web backend defaults are unchanged.
If the app is slow on an older Windows PC, or DirectX 12 can't start: when DirectX 12 finds no
graphics card with a driver for it, it only offers the Windows-provided software renderer, which draws every
frame on the processor. In that case GridCraft uses OpenGL instead, without setting anything; if
the first renderer fails to start, it tries the other one once. The log file records the choice
(lines starting with graphics:). WGPU_BACKEND still overrides it (and then nothing else is
tried), e.g. $env:WGPU_BACKEND = "gl" or "dx12".
DirectX 12 shaders are compiled with FXC, which is part of Windows, so no dxcompiler.dll or
dxil.dll is needed, and a copy another program put on PATH can no longer stop the app at start
("Parent device is lost", #339). $env:WGPU_DX12_COMPILER = "dxc" (or "auto") selects wgpu's DXC
handling again for troubleshooting.
macOS
| Build | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel) | gridcraft-<ver>-macos-universal.dmg |
Signed and notarized |
| Command-line tool, universal | gridcraft-cli-<ver>-macos-universal.zip |
Signed and notarized |
Linux
| Format | x86_64 | aarch64 (ARM64) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AppImage | gridcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.AppImage |
gridcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.AppImage |
Runs anywhere; updates itself with AppImageUpdate (.zsync files) |
| Flatpak | gridcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.flatpak |
gridcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.flatpak |
Sandboxed; flatpak install --user <file> |
| Debian/Ubuntu | gridcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.deb |
gridcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.deb |
|
| Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE | gridcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.rpm |
gridcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.rpm |
|
| Tarball | gridcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz |
gridcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.tar.gz |
Unpack anywhere |
FreeBSD
| Build | File |
|---|---|
| x86_64 | gridcraft-<ver>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz |
Web (WebAssembly)
| Build | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Static site | gridcraft-web-<ver>.zip |
Runs in a modern browser; host it on any static server |
The Crafting Apps
GridCraft is one of the Crafting Apps: free, open-source creative tools from the ArtCraft team, each written from scratch in Rust and each able to stand on its own.
| App | What it's for | Code | Learn more | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhotoCraft | Image editing: layers, masks, type and real PSD files | GitHub | Website | |
| VectorCraft | Vector illustration | GitHub | Website | |
| FilmCraft | Video editing, color and sound | GitHub | Website | |
| LightCraft | Photo library and raw development | GitHub | Website | |
| PdfCraft | Reading, organizing and protecting PDFs | GitHub | Website | |
| EffectCraft | Motion graphics and visual effects | GitHub | Website | |
| DesignCraft | Page layout and publishing | GitHub | Website | |
| FigCraft | Interface design and prototyping | GitHub | Website | |
| WordCraft | Word processing and documents | GitHub | Website | |
| SoundCraft | Audio recording and editing | GitHub | Website | |
| DeckCraft | Presentations and slide decks | GitHub | Website | |
| CADCraft | Computer-aided design | GitHub | Website | |
| GridCraft | Spreadsheets and data | GitHub | Website | |
| TextureCraft | 3D texture painting | GitHub | Website | |
| Craft Anything | See how any software works, then build your own | GitHub | Website | |
| SolidCraft | Parametric 3D CAD by Tangency Labs (community app) | GitHub |
And ArtCraft itself, our AI image and video studio for artists who want real control.
Come make things with us
Our Discord is where artists of every kind hang out: people who paint, shoot, draw, cut film, set type, and people still figuring out what they like to make. Share what you're working on, ask for help, tell us what's broken, or tell us what you wish these tools could do. Whatever your medium and however long you've been at it, you're welcome here.
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License and credits
GridCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option. Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the GridCraft contributors. Required notices are in NOTICE.
Bundled fonts, icons, images and other assets keep their own open licenses; each one is listed with its author, source and license in ATTRIBUTION.md.
All UI icons are drawn in code and are original; the sample workbooks and every screenshot in this README were made with GridCraft itself. GridCraft bundles no fonts: it uses the fonts installed on your system.
The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the
ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodified, and only as
part of this repository and GridCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt.
Forks and modified versions must remove them.
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