Creative apps
List of potential replacements for the Adobe suite. See also this tweet.
The built-in macOS Photos editor is surprisingly capable and can handle several RAW camera formats.
Applications
Procreate
Platforms: iPadOS, iOS (Procreate Pocket). Pricing: one-time payment.
Procreate is a digital painting application for iPad. Replaces Adobe Fresco and, to some extent, Adobe Photoshop.
You can import Photoshop brushes in the ABR file format, and it has its own brush engine named Valkyrie and a Brush Studio. (Kyle T. Webster, prolific brush creator who worked on Adobe Fresco, joined Procreate in 2024.)
There’s a separate app called Procreate Dreams for animation. Replaces Adobe Animate.
Pixelmator Pro
Brush support: it imports Photoshop brushes (ABR) but they don’t work as intended.
- Photomator.
Darkroom
Capture One
Affinity
- Affinity Publisher.
- Affinity Photo.
- Affinity Designer.
Inkscape
GIMP
- GIMP
Scribus
- Scribus. https://www.scribus.net/
Darktable
- Darktable.
Krita
- Krita. https://krita.org
Blender
Graphite
Resources
Some resources: