“This is f***ing amazing”
Tim Parker — Product Designer, Polaroid
A studio, not a subscription
Make the asset. Breathe with it. Share the room and the music. One canvas for all three, in your browser. This page is the renderer: move your cursor.
No account. No install. Opens in one second.
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27 templates, rendered live on this page by the same engine the studio runs.
Who it is for
There are excellent tools for the second list. They cost more, every month, forever.
The through line is creative exploration
Most tools pick one: make a thing, or calm you down, or entertain you. This is the same canvas answering to all three, because the impulse underneath them is the same one.
Make the asset and post it. Templates you push until they are yours, your own images and palettes dropped straight in, and export at social sizes the moment it looks right: stills, video, GIF, SVG. Undo runs thirty deep, so nothing you try costs you anything.
Take the moment. Generative ambient that follows the time of day, and a breathing mode that puts the canvas on your breath at four to eight a minute. You watch it rise and fall and your breathing follows it, which is the whole trick.
Put music through it and share the room. Point a mic at whatever is playing, or load an MP3, and the canvas plays along: bars take the spectrum, cuts land on the beat. Then send one link and someone else is in it with you.
Pricing
No subscription, ever. The free studio is the whole studio; Forever buys the big exports and every future feature, permanently.
Forever opens soon. A seat locks the founding price for you on day one.
The founding fifty
The first fifty people to own DOTCLOUD Forever get their name on this wall, permanently. Not a discount that expires at midnight; a seat that either has your name on it or someone else's.
Questions
Both are excellent, both are subscriptions, and both are aimed at getting you a good-looking result quickly. This is aimed at the opposite instinct: 300 controls, all of them live, so you can push a template somewhere it was never meant to go. It also goes far deeper on sound, with six named instrument bands, a beat tracker that cuts on the beat, and generative ambient music. If you want a polished result in one click, buy theirs. If you want to make something nobody else could have made, this is cheaper and it is yours forever.
No. The studio opens instantly and works fully without one. An account only exists to attach your Forever licence and, later, to sync presets between machines.
Everything. Every template, every effect, audio reactivity, presets, exports at 720p and 1080p in video, GIF, PNG and SVG. Forever adds 4K and 8K, 60fps, and everything that ships in the future.
The shipping log below is generated from real releases; the studio has shipped every week since it existed. Pay-once only works if the tool keeps earning it, and the log is the receipt.
You send a link and they open it. No account, no install, nothing to download. One guest at a time, and the session lives only while the tab is open. They see your canvas as you change it and hear whatever you are feeding it, whether that is your microphone, a browser tab or an MP3 you loaded.
They never leave your browser. The renderer runs locally; microphone and camera feed the canvas and nothing else. There is no upload.
The receipt
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