Photoshop Elements alternatives

Designed for users looking to enhance their photo editing skills with the help of AI and automation.

  • Designed for users looking to enhance their photo editing skills with the help of AI and automation.

    Free plan
    No
    Learning curve
    Easy
    Setup
  • World's most widely used free PDF viewer, with over 500 million installs globally.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Easy
    Setup
  • Acrobat Scan — creative platform and tools for production teams.

    Free plan
    Learning curve
    Setup
  • Adobe Aero — creative platform and tools for production teams.

    Free plan
    Learning curve
    Setup
  • Subscription-based font service that provides access to over 30,000 fonts from leading type foundries.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Easy
    Setup
  • Ray-powered platform, scale AI workloads, train, fine-tune, and deploy LLM apps.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Medium
    Setup
  • Distributed event streaming platform for real-time pipelines and analytics workloads.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Advanced
    Setup
    15-30 minutes for basic local setup
  • Comprehensive API development platform that combines design, documentation, testing, and collaboration tools in a single workspace.

    Free plan
    Learning curve
    Setup
  • Open-source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platform designed to help developers build and scale applications faster.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Easy
    Setup
    Minutes with quick starts
  • Comprehensive audio workstation designed for professional audio creation and editing.

    Free plan
    No
    Learning curve
    Advanced
    Setup
  • Free and open source 3D creation suite that supports the complete 3D pipeline.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Advanced
    Setup
    5-10 minutes
  • Rapid web application platform for building data-driven sites and enterprise apps.

    Free plan
    Yes
    Learning curve
    Medium
    Setup
  • Connect — creative platform and tools for production teams.

    Free plan
    Learning curve
    Setup

How these alternatives were chosen

Tools Photoshop Elements names as alternatives that this directory also publishes, followed by others in Software. The order is not a ranking, and "—" means we have not checked that field — not that the answer is no.