# Craft Anything builds your own version of almost any app From Preston (@quickfinesse): https://quickfinesse.dev/videos/2026-11-01-craft-anything Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@quickfinesse/video/7703269205591805215, posted November 1, 2026 ## What I'd like help with I watched this video and want to try it. Walk me through it one step at a time, and check the official links below before giving exact commands, since they change. ## In plain English The team that rebuilt Microsoft Office, Photoshop and AutoCAD for free just released an app that lets you clone almost anything. Craft Anything studies a site or app, Claude Code builds your version, and it checks it against the original. Free and open source on GitHub (storytold/craft-anything). Early alpha, needs your own Claude Code account. Only rebuild what you own. What would you build first? ## What was used - storytold/craft-anything (GitHub): https://github.com/storytold/craft-anything - getartcraft.com (Site): https://getartcraft.com/apps/craft-anything ## Credits Craft Anything: the ArtCraft team (storytold). Footage: Craft Anything's own screenshots, the ArtCraft apps' own images, and our own recordings of the app and of the Ahora rebuild. The full guide for this video is on the page: https://quickfinesse.dev/videos/2026-11-01-craft-anything # Craft Anything builds your own version of almost any app > From Preston (@quickfinesse) > Craft Anything is a free, open source app from the ArtCraft team, the people behind the free rebuilds of Word, Photoshop and AutoCAD. Point it at a website or app, or give it pictures, and Claude Code builds your own version, then it checks the result against the original and keeps fixing what doesn't match. > Page: https://quickfinesse.dev/videos/2026-11-01-craft-anything > Updated: November 1, 2026 ## What I'd like help with I want to understand Craft Anything (github.com/storytold/craft-anything), a free app that studies a website or app and has a coding agent build your own version. Explain in plain words how its Study, Build, Check and Ready steps work, what clean room mode means, and what it needs to run. ## The short version [Craft Anything](https://github.com/storytold/craft-anything) comes from the ArtCraft team, who also made WordCraft, PhotoCraft and CADCraft. You pick a website, an app or a game, say what you want in plain words, and press Start. It studies the original, has a coding agent build a brand new project in the language or framework you ask for, then compares that build with the original and lists what still doesn't match. It keeps refining until the two are close. The app is free and open source under MIT or Apache-2.0, with downloads for Mac, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It's an early alpha, and building needs Claude Code signed in to your own account. ## Where it lives - **storytold/craft-anything** (code): By the ArtCraft team. MIT or Apache-2.0. https://github.com/storytold/craft-anything - **Releases** (download): Installers for Mac, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, plus a browser viewer. https://github.com/storytold/craft-anything/releases - **ArtCraft** (team): The team's page for Craft Anything and their other free apps. https://getartcraft.com/apps/craft-anything ## How a rebuild works - **Study** (pick: Step 1): It looks at the original. For a website that means screenshots of each page at desktop, tablet and phone widths, plus the colours, fonts and spacing. - **Build** (pick: Step 2): A coding agent builds a new project. Claude Code is supported first, running on your computer under your own account. - **Check** (pick: Step 3): It compares the build with the original, lists what doesn't match yet, and gives each page a likeness score. - **Ready** (pick: Step 4): You open the result, or ask for changes in plain words and it refines it. ## How fast it is In the developers' own live runs, a website clone reached Ready at 96% likeness in about a minute and a half, and a small desktop app took about nine minutes. I gave it three screenshots of my own Spanish lessons app, and about 14 minutes later it had a working web version with the home screen, the city map and a full lesson you can click through. Screens it never saw were its own best guess, and it used stand-in pictures because nobody had confirmed the photos were mine. ## Clean room or Deep - **Clean room** (pick: Default): Nothing inside the original is read. It works from what any visitor can see, and pictures you add. - **Deep** (pick: Private use): It reads the original's code and files with every tool it has. Only for software you own or are allowed to examine. - **Just look inside** (pick: No AI): Opens an app to see how it works without building anything. That part runs on its built-in engines, so it doesn't need a Claude account. ## What it won't do It asks before it reuses anyone's logos, photos or text, and leaves placeholders unless you confirm you own them or have permission. It never gets around DRM, logins or anti-cheat. Use it on software you own or are allowed to examine, like your own site, your own app, or a design you drew.