ArtCraft builds open source Word, Excel, and PowerPoint clones in Rust

ArtCraft, the startup that used AI to recreate Adobe Creative Cloud apps as free open source clean-room alternatives in Rust, is also building replacements for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: WordCraft, GridCraft, and DeckCraft. WordCraft is 87 percent complete for ribbon commands and 62 percent for feature parity, GridCraft covers 89 percent of ribbon commands and 93 percent of worksheet functions, and DeckCraft covers 79 percent of PowerPoint features. Download links were removed from the site, but builds remain on GitHub.

• WordCraft reads and writes DOCX with ribbon, styles, tables, and mail merge
• GridCraft is pre-alpha but covers 89% of commands and 93% of Excel functions
• DeckCraft covers 79% of PowerPoint features and is 80% to first alpha
• Download links were pulled from the site; builds remain on GitHub