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Every tool here works and is free to use. The studios are under continuous development: we improve them week by week, and what you use today will be better next month.
That is exactly why we would like to hear from you. Try the tools and the studios, and send your remarks and advice to [email protected] — we read everything that comes in. A short note about what worked, what did not, or what you missed is worth more to us than any survey.
Every new account starts with 100 credits, so you can try everything without a barrier. Please do use them: they are there to be spent, and they never expire.
One thing we would rather say plainly: the desktop editions are taking longer. We would rather put that time into software that is genuinely good than into a launch date. Everything on the website keeps working in the meantime, and you will read it here first when they are ready.
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The desktop editions are almost here — and 150 credits to test with in the meantime
We promised them and you have been waiting: the desktop editions are nearly ready. The same five studios you already know — audio, video, photo, documents and CAD — as real programs on your own machine, with the same layout and the same tools. Windows comes first, Mac after that, and the mobile editions follow those.
That they arrive in this shape is largely your doing. Week after week you used the online studios on files we would never have thought of, and the rough edges surfaced one by one. Those first bugs are out. Testing in the open is the only reason this first release will not be a first draft.
What a desktop edition does better
- Open and save straight from your own folders, with the file dialog you already know.
- No tab to close by accident, and no browser ceiling on how much you load at once.
- Your work stays where it is while you switch to another program and back.
- Everything runs on your own machine, so nothing waits on a connection.
July's offer has run its course. In its place, every account now holds 150 fresh credits to put the studios through their paces on the web while we finish the desktop editions — the accounts that have been with us a while and the ones that joined last week alike. They are already there and there is nothing to claim.
The download is not open yet. Members hear about it first, and once it opens everyone gets fourteen days to use the desktop edition in full — no payment details, nothing to cancel. That is a second reason to have an account before launch day rather than after it.
A word about why the web version is paid, because we would rather say it plainly. Every job that runs on our servers costs processing time, and that bill arrives whether one person is working or a thousand. Credits, the day pass and the subscriptions exist to keep that in balance — not to fence anyone off, but so the service is still standing next year. We are glad to be generous; no one can oblige us to keep spending money that never comes back.
What will not change: the everyday tools stay free. Always. Some of them carry a daily limit, because a shared server can only do so much at once, and the ones that run entirely inside your own browser have no limit at all. And whoever does pay gets everything at full strength — no limits, no watermark, nothing held back.
Spend the credits on whatever you like: the studios only ask for them at the moment you export a finished file. And keep an eye on this page — Windows is the first stop, not the last. Thank you for being here; a small independent shop only stays alive because people actually use it.
The studios opened — the step we had been working toward for years
This did not appear out of nowhere. For years we built tools one at a time, and each one was made so it could hand its work to the next. The plan behind that never changed: bring them together into a single place where a whole job can be finished without leaving it.
On 17 July that place existed. Five studios opened as online editions — audio, video, photo, documents and CAD: cut and mix a track, edit a film, build a photo, put a document together, draw a part. One place to bring them all together.
And that was never meant to be the finish line. The online editions came first; the desktop editions were already on the drawing board — Windows first, then Mac — with the mobile editions to follow after them, Android first and then iOS. There is more in motion than we are letting on here. Stay tuned.
To mark the occasion every member gets 100 credits this week to put the studios through their paces. Offers like this one run for a while and then stop, so do make use of it while it lasts. The studios themselves stay free to use either way: credits are only spent at the moment you export a finished file.
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