A free vector editor with Illustrator’s layout, running in a browser tab. Draw with the Pen, cut shapes with Pathfinder, open SVG, PDF and .ai files, and export when you’re done. Your files stay on your computer.
The Pen, Direct Selection, Pathfinder, Smart Guides, Appearance, Swatches and Layers sit where your hands expect them, with the same shortcuts. Here is some of what the web build does. Screenshots from the VectorCraft project.
Draw with the Pen, Curvature and Pencil tools, then pull anchors and handles with Direct Selection. Pathfinder uses exact curve booleans, so Unite, Minus Front and Divide don’t fail on awkward overlaps, and Shape Builder merges regions with a drag.
A crescent cut with Pathfinder, its anchors and handles showingFills, strokes and effects stack on any object, type included, and stay editable. Here an Outer Glow sits on the title and the grid, the sun is cut with Pathfinder, and clipping masks hold the scene together.
Neon Drive, a poster from the project’s examples
Blends keep their key paths editable: move one and every step follows. Every object is a row in the Layers panel, with groups, clipping groups, visibility and locks.
Ribbons: 70-step blends with smooth colour
Draw on one-, two- or three-point grids. Art attached to a plane stays editable in perspective, and the Perspective Selection tool moves it along the plane.
A city street on a two-point grid
Lay out several artboards in one document and export each one. Gradient Mesh shades shapes, live Repeat makes radial, grid and mirror patterns, and Envelope Distort bends art and type. A light interface theme is built in.
The project’s feature sheet in the light themeOpen the AI panel next to the canvas, paste an OpenAI, Google Gemini or OpenRouter key and describe an icon, a logo mark or an illustration. The model writes real SVG code, and one click places it in your document as editable paths.
Requests go from your browser to the provider. We never see your key, prompts or artwork, and we add no markup.
How the AI tools workThe editor is the official build, byte for byte. Around it we add a few things the bare build doesn’t have.
Each new VectorCraft release is checked against its published SHA-256 checksum and deployed here. You are on v0.9.0.
VectorCraft itself has no generative AI yet. The panel fills that gap with SVG and image generation from OpenAI, Gemini or OpenRouter, straight from your browser.
Step-by-step walkthroughs for turning an image into vectors and editing an SVG in the browser.
No account, no watermark, no upload. Close the tab and nothing of yours is left on a server.
VectorCraft is in alpha. Expect rough edges, and save often: Data Recovery keeps copies in browser storage, but a downloaded file is the only safe copy.
Yes. VectorCraft is free and open source, there is no account, and nothing is locked behind a plan. The optional AI tools use your own API key, so any AI usage is billed by your provider, not by us.
It is the official VectorCraft web build, unmodified, as the ArtCraft team publishes it on GitHub. This site is independent: we host that build, keep it on the latest release and add guides and the AI panel around it.
No. VectorCraft runs inside your browser with WebAssembly. Files open from your disk, edits happen on your device, and Save and Export arrive as downloads. The only exception is the AI panel, which sends your prompt (and an SVG you choose to revise) straight to the AI provider whose key you entered.
It opens PDF-compatible .ai files, which is how Illustrator saves by default, along with SVG, PDF, EPS, DXF, EMF and Affinity documents. The VectorCraft developers say the layer structure of real Illustrator files doesn’t always come through yet, and VectorCraft doesn’t write Illustrator’s own editing data, so keep your originals.
Not to a file. Save (or Export) downloads your work, so do that before you close the tab. What the browser build does have is Data Recovery: every 2 minutes it keeps a copy of modified documents in browser storage and offers them back after a crash. That storage is small and is lost if you clear site data or use a private window.
A current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari with WebGPU or WebGL2. VectorCraft uses WebGPU when it is available and falls back to WebGL2 on its own. A laptop or desktop with a mouse works best.
The interface follows your browser’s language. It speaks English, German, Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian, and its menus are also in Czech and Brazilian Portuguese. You can pick one in Edit › Preferences › User Interface.
It follows Illustrator’s layout, tools, menus and shortcuts, so it feels familiar, but it is an independent clean-room project in alpha. Its developers estimate that about 88% of Illustrator 2026’s menu items, tools, effects and formats exist. Still missing: most of 3D, about half of the raster effects, the Effect Gallery, scripting and generative AI.
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