Projects
Discover cool projects in the libre graphics space!
Pulled from the State of Libre Graphics submissions, see the past year’s changelog and future roadmap for all the projects here: https://github.com/libregraphicsmeeting/state-of-lg-2026.
Blockbench
Blockbench is an open source 3D modeling program focused on making low-poly modeling easy and accessible for everyone.
Coollab
Coollab is a node-based software to create generative visuals in real time. It is designed to be very intuitive and easy to use, even for people who have zero notions of programming or math.
Friction
Friction is a vector-based motion graphics application designed to create animated elements (SVG) and video specifically for the web.
GIMP
GIMP is a Community-driven Free Software for high-end image creation and manipulation.
- Main Site: https://www.gimp.org
- Roadmaps: https://developer.gimp.org/#gimp-34-roadmap
- UX Designs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/Design/gimp-ux/-/issues
- Code Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues
Glaxnimate
Glaxnimate is an open source animation editor focused on vector graphics.
- Website: https://glaxnimate.org/
- Code: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/glaxnimate
- Mastodon: https://floss.social/@glax
- Chat: https://t.me/Glaxnimate
Graphite
Graphite is a free, open source vector graphics editor and animation engine, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.
Hyper8
Hyper 8 re-envisions video publishing on the web using static site generation. It combines a YouTube-like public frontend with a fast, maintenance-free, local-first backend. Hyper 8 sites can be authored through a beginner-friendly desktop application, through its file-based backend and command line interface, but also with entirely scripted workflows.
Inkscape
Inkscape is an open source vector editor, working on the SVG standard (Scalable Vector Graphics). The project started in 2003 and is still in excellent health 22 years later, thanks to its very active community of users, contributors and developers.
New major versions are released every 1 or 2 years since 2019, with minor releases every 6 months or so.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is a powerful video editor made by the KDE community.
- Website: https://kdenlive.org
- Dicussion: https://discuss.kde.org/tag/kdenlive
- Code: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive
- Chat: https://matrix.to/#/#kdenlive:kde.org
Krita
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
L5
L5 is an LGPL-licensed fun, fast, cross-platform, and lightweight implementation of Processing in Lua, built with LÖVE, and designed with principles of permacomputing. Beyond running fast on modern machines, L5 is optimized for older and lower-powered devices, minimizing resource usage to keep creative coding accessible to everyone. Our alpha has been out since December and we continue to build out functionality, documentation, and expand the community.
Ladrón de Flores
Ladrón de Flores (Flowers Thief) is an independent short film and production pipeline project recognized at various festivals, created to validate a 100% Libre Graphics workflow for cinematic animation.
Mission: To demonstrate that open-source tools can handle complex, professional 2D animation from concept to final master.
- Website: https://jdca.cl
- Trailer: https://youtu.be/6BaC043mvU0
- Production Blog: https://jdca.cl
Makepad
Makepad is an AI-accelerated application development environment for Rust. It combines a high-performance UI runtime, a live-editable design language, and a fast iteration loop so you can build native and web apps with a tight feedback cycle.
OPENRNDR
OPENRNDR is a free and open-source Kotlin-based framework for creative coding. It provides rendering, animation, interaction, and shader support to build real-time graphics, generative art, live visuals, and interactive installations.
Ossia Score
Ossia score is a cross-platform sequencer for audio-visual artists, designed to enable the creation of interactive shows, museum installations, intermedia digital artworks, interactive music and more in an intuitive user interface.
Our Paint
Our Paint is a painting program which has minimal feature sets yet achieves awesome result by having pigment-based color model and node-based brushes.
Hand made by Wu Yiming (https://ChengduLittleA.com)
p5.js
p5.js is a friendly tool for learning to code and make art. It is a free and open-source JavaScript library built by an inclusive, nurturing community. p5.js welcomes artists, designers, beginners, educators, and anyone else!
Penpot
Penpot is a collaborative open-source design platform built on web standards like SVG, CSS, HTML, and JSON. What you design is already expressed as code, reducing friction, speeding up implementation, and eliminating handoff issues. With real-time collaboration for designers and developers, Penpot redefines how digital products are designed and built, bringing design and code into the same conversation from the start.
- Website: https://penpot.app/
- Signup: https://design.penpot.app
PixiEditor
PixiEditor is a universal, node based 2D editor that was made to provide you with tools and features for all your 2D needs. Create beautiful sprites for your games, animations, edit images, create logos. All packed up in an intuitive and familiar interface.
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
TiXL
TiXL is an MIT-licensed tool for real-time graphics and VJing, built entirely by a community of artists and devs—no corporate backing. We’ve grown a lot lately, with our Discord hitting 2,500 members and our GitHub reaching 4k stars.
Upstage
Upstage is online venue for live performance and remote collaboration