ZDNET’s key takeaways

GridCraft is almost the MS Excel clone it intends to be.

GridCraft is both free and open-source.

The only thing missing is a strong template feature.

ArtCraft, the development team behind PhotoCraft (and a number of other similar apps) reverse-engineered yet another de facto standard app: GridCraft, meant to mimic Microsoft Excel.

ArtCraft’s collection is an important step forward for open source and the Linux operating system because some of the apps they’ve built have long been considered roadblocks to user adoption of Linux. With apps like WordCraft , DeckCraft , and PDFCraft now available, those roadblocks go away. Time will tell, but these apps seem like a big step forward for Linux and open-source to me.

Also: I tried the free Adobe Premiere clone on Linux – and DaVinci Resolve has competition

What does GridCraft do?

You might be thinking that this is simply a rebranded MS Excel that runs on top of an interpretation or abstraction layer, but that is not the case.…