After Photoshop, he recreates Microsoft Word and Excel in a free version using AI

After recreating software from the Adobe suite made available for free download, developer Brandon Thomas, creator of the ArtCraft studio, recreated the Microsoft suite. Software equivalent to Word, Excel and PowerPoint can be downloaded for free from the ArtCraft website.Applications « vibe-coded », as Brandon Thomas claims.

Word, Excel, and even PowerPoint « recreated » with AI

The American studio ArtCraft unveiled its open-source alternatives to well-known software. Word becomes WordCraft, Excel becomes GridCraft, and PowerPoint becomes DeckCraft. There is also an alternative to AutoCAD, a software package for industrial design, called CADCraft. Finally, ArtCraft is offering its version of Avid Pro Tools, professional audio software, called SoundCraft.

These software packages are all open source and free to download, and are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. No account, no subscription—that is the promise of studio founder Brandon Thomas. For now, Adobe’s « counterfeits » are in alpha, while Microsoft’s are still in development.

The three alternatives to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are even compatible with Microsoft’s native formats. For now, reportedly 62% of Word’s features are present in WordCraft, 50% for ArtCraft’s version of Excel, and 79% of PowerPoint’s features have been ported over. On social media, many people asked Thomas Brandon why not use the OpenOffice or LibreOffice suites. The developer replied curtly: « He ate my 40-page essay during exam week. I’m settling an old grudge that has been brewing for years. […] Let him rot. »

The developer can thank Claude Code, which did not plagiarize any source code

All these tools were developed in Rust, a language renowned for its performance, and are all reimplementations of software that has been “recreated”. Brandon Thomas admits as much: he used Claude Code to reproduce the features and behavior of Adobe or Microsoft software from public specifications and documentation. No source code from these applications was copied.

Thanks to Claude Code and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 model, multiple agents can work in parallel on distinct subsystems. This enables rapid progress and the recreation of software in just a few days. This is what Thomas Brandon proudly claims: “AI models enable me to work like an entire company. I generate four times more than Google’s revenue per employee,” while insisting that he knows how to code.

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Source: Les Numériques