Alternatives

Products that do what Schist – the open source photo editor that feels nice to use does

Schist is a modern image editor that is free and open source.

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   scenify▲168

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   Edit.photo▲331

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   Yoopta-Editor▲343

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    Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge (https://openknowledge.ai/), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other agents. Available as MacOS app or Web UI+CLI. Fully free/local and OSS. We built this because we wanted a Notion-like experience for writing and sharing markdown files across our team. Obsidian is the best alternative we tried, but found it doesn’t have a true WYSWIG UI and it didn’t integrate well with Claude/Codex outside of community plugins. So we built OpenKnowledge. It takes…

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    SkreenPro▲150

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    PicsArt▲99

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    2020

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    Photoleap Editor by Lightricks▲116

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    Photo Editor by Aviary▲104

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    Edite▲82

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    OpenChatCut▲109

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