ArtCraft Flake

Run and install all ArtCraft Crafting Apps on NixOS, Home Manager, or any Linux system with Nix.

The Crafting Apps are free, open-source creative apps written in Rust. They are made to feel familiar if you come from Adobe, Microsoft, or similar tools.

The flake is updated automatically every day.

Packages

Package	What it is	Similar to
photocraft	Image editor	Photoshop
vectorcraft	Vector illustration	Illustrator
filmcraft	Video editor	Premiere Pro
lightcraft	Photo library and raw developer	Lightroom
pdfcraft	PDF workbench	Acrobat
effectcraft	Motion graphics and VFX	After Effects
designcraft	Page layout and publishing	InDesign
figcraft	Interface design	Figma
texturecraft	3D texture painting	Substance Painter
wordcraft	Word processor	Word
soundcraft	Audio workstation	Pro Tools
deckcraft	Presentations	PowerPoint
cadcraft	CAD and drafting	AutoCAD
solidcraft	Parametric 3D CAD	Fusion 360
fieldcraft	FEA, CFD, and heat transfer
mailcraft	Mail, calendar, and contacts	Outlook
bimcraft	BIM and architectural modeling	Revit
gridcraft	Spreadsheets	Excel
craft-anything	Explore how software works and build your own version
craft-anything-full	craft-anything with Ghidra bundled for Deep recreation mode
default	All apps above in one package

Each package gives you:

• the app: command <name>, for example photocraft
• its command-line tool: <name>-cli, for example photocraft-cli
• a desktop entry and icons, so the app shows in your app menu

Platforms: Linux x86_64 and aarch64.

Try it without installing

You need Nix with flakes enabled.

nix run github:Hy4ri/artcraft-flake#photocraft
nix run github:Hy4ri/artcraft-flake#filmcraft

Replace photocraft with any package name from the table.

Install

There are two ways to install. Pick one. They give the same result.

Option	Use it when
A. Overlay	You want to write pkgs.photocraft, like any other nixpkgs package.
B. Direct package	You do not want to use overlays.

Not on NixOS? Use nix profile install github:Hy4ri/artcraft-flake#photocraft.

Step 1: Add the flake input (needed for both options)

In your system flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    artcraft.url = "github:Hy4ri/artcraft-flake";
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, ... }@inputs: {
    nixosConfigurations.myhost = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; }; # lets your modules use `inputs`
      modules = [ ./configuration.nix ];
    };
  };
}

Already have a flake? Add only the artcraft.url line, and make sure inputs reaches your modules (specialArgs for NixOS, extraSpecialArgs for Home Manager).

Step 2, Option A: Overlay

In configuration.nix:

{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:
{
  nixpkgs.overlays = [ inputs.artcraft.overlays.default ];

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    photocraft
    filmcraft
    # ...any app from the table
  ];
}

For Home Manager, keep the overlay line and use home.packages instead.

Step 2, Option B: Direct package

In configuration.nix:

{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:
let
  artcraft = inputs.artcraft.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system};
in
{
  environment.systemPackages = [
    artcraft.photocraft
    artcraft.filmcraft
    # or every app at once:
    # artcraft.default
  ];
}

For Home Manager, put the same packages in home.packages.

Step 3: Rebuild

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#myhost

How it is built

Each app is built from upstream's linux-<arch>.tar.gz release. This is smaller and cleaner than the AppImage, .deb, or .rpm, and it needs no FUSE or dpkg. The binaries are patched for NixOS with autoPatchelfHook.

printcraft was renamed to pdfcraft. The overlay still gives pkgs.printcraft as an alias, so old configs keep working.

Updates

A GitHub Action checks every app for a new release every day. It tests the build before it commits, and it opens an issue if something fails. To get new versions, update your lock file:

nix flake update artcraft

For maintainers

• version.json maps each app to its version and hashes for each system.
• scripts/check-update.sh compares every app with its latest GitHub release.
• update-version.sh updates all apps from each release's SHA256SUMS.txt (it does not download the archives).
• To add an app: add its key to version.json and run ./update-version.sh.

License

The ArtCraft apps are open source (Apache-2.0 and MIT). Refer to the ArtCraft website for details.

Support

If this flake helps you, you can support my work on GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi. A star on the repo also helps.