Scribus

scribusproject/scribusReviewed by Radar

What it does

Scribus is a desktop publishing program for page layout: magazines, newsletters, brochures, posters and books, ready for print or PDF. It handles right-to-left and Indian scripts, OpenType font features and many languages. This GitHub page is an unofficial, manually updated copy of the source code; the program itself is distributed through scribus.net, and its license file mentions a Windows version. The README says the 1.7.x versions are development versions and recommends the stable 1.6 series.

How easy it is to install

A · download and open · Windows

This mirror has no release files, but the program is distributed from scribus.net and COPYING refers to "the Windows version of Scribus", so a normal user downloads it there instead of building it.

Numbers on GitHub

Stars: 648on Oct 31, 2026
Downloads: —all releases
Growth: +5stars in 6 days

Stars over time

Facts

Runs on: Windows, macOS, Linux
You need to install: Nothing extra
Disk space: not determined
Accounts or keys: None
Cost: Free · Free software under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, according to the COPYING file.
License: GPL-2.0-or-later (Copyleft)
Can replace: InDesign, QuarkXPress, Publisher
Last update: Oct 29, 2026

This GitHub repository is a mirror; its stars do not show the project's full popularity.

Risk signals (2)

Infounofficial manual mirror
README.md: "This mirror is updated manually and is not supported by the Scribus team"; the official code lives in Subversion at svn://scribus.net. GitHub data (0 releases, no detected license) does not describe the actual project.
AI review
Infodevelopment version in repo
README: "the 1.7.x series is not an officially stable version. Instead, all 1.7.x versions are development candidates of the future stable Scribus 1.8.0! We strongly recommend using version 1.6.0".
AI review

Evidence is shown in its original language.

What Radar could not check

Download size and disk space of the Windows installer, which the checks could not measure
Which version scribus.net currently offers for Windows
How well it opens InDesign or Publisher files