GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick, emphasizing stability of both programming API and command-line options.

It was branched off ImageMagick's version 5.5.2 in 2002 after irreconcilable differences emerged in the developers' group.

[3] In addition to the programming language APIs available with ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick also includes a Tcl API, called TclMagick.

[4] GraphicsMagick is used by several websites to process large numbers of uploaded photographs.

[7] The most recent stable release of GraphicsMagick, version 1.3.45, was made available on August 27, 2024.