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CLUSTER EDITOR-IMAGE-LAYERS-2 · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2019-12-11

Desktop layer-based image editors

This cluster comprises desktop image editors centered on layer-based editing, often open-source, with support for PSD, filters, color adjustment, and plugins. Their dated history is thin, with single entries appearing sporadically in 2014, 2019, 2023, 2025, and 2026, showing no clear trend. Traction is led by photoshop-plugin-nano-banana with 8 stars, followed by photovibe with 2 and sonic-quick-image-editor with 0.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2014: 1DEC 2019: 1MAR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 3
OCT 2014OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 commercial · 4 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01xuan51★25 days—hand-codedhobbyImage editor for layered compositions, photo retouching, and RAW development on Linux and Windows.
  2. 02Compositor-zh-Hans1★5 days—open sourceA Chinese-localized macOS image editor for layer compositing, photo retouching, and color grading.
  3. 03Smile-AI-Image1★6 daysliveOpen-source image generation and editing plugin for Codex, supporting multiple AI image models and desktop settings apps.
  4. 04sonic-quick-image-editor0★1 moliveopen sourceReusable QML components for image editing with SonicDE defaults.
  5. 05sd-cpp-studio0★8 days—ai-builthobbyLocal image generation workbench with a web UI for text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, and batch variations from placeholder templates.
  6. 06photovibe2★1 molivehobbyOpen-source photo editor for Windows with layers, blend modes, and selections, running locally without account or cloud.
  7. 07Pixelmator Classic iOS0★1 molivecommercialLayer-based image editor for iOS that enables photo editing, composition, painting, and vector shape creation.
  8. 08GNU Image Manipulation Program0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceOpen-source image editor for creating, retouching, and composing images with extensive plugin support.
  9. 09Pixelitor0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceOpen-source image editor with layers, filters, and color adjustment tools for photo editing and retouching.

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