Text layers
A shaping and layout engine for typography is under way.
Creativity is Free.
Design, illustrate and edit your images in one place. Lucy keeps up with every idea, so you can focus on making something you love.
macOS · Windows · Linux
One canvas
Boards, vectors, pixels and paint, all in one place.
Lucy keeps every kind of content on the same canvas, so you never leave your work to change tools.
Infinite boards
Lay out as many boards as you need on a canvas without limits. Each one is a non-destructive viewport over layers of any size, with rulers, draggable guides and snapping to alignments, smart guides and even spacing. On macOS, the trackpad gives a small haptic click when something snaps.
Vectors that stay sharp
Anchor-based shapes are rasterized on the GPU with exact per-pixel coverage, so edges stay crisp at any zoom and exports are byte-identical every time. Draw paths with the pen tool and give them a stroke and a fill.
Precise pixel work
Select with rectangle, ellipse, lasso or magic wand, then move, scale, rotate or skew the selection. Mix layers with 27 blend modes and nest them in groups, either isolated or pass-through.
A brush engine on the GPU
Strokes are stabilised as you draw, and you control spacing, hardness, flow and opacity. The brush responds to pen pressure and tilt and includes an eraser. Each stroke is a single undo step. Pick colours from a hue ring with HSB, HSL and RGB values, alpha and an eyedropper.
Performance and reliability
Engineered for demanding work.
- 01/ 05
A dedicated GPU engine
Compositing, blending and vector rendering run on the GPU through WebGPU. Panning and zooming never recomposite your layers, so the canvas stays smooth however many layers you have.
- 02/ 05
Huge images, full detail
Open documents larger than your GPU can hold in a single texture, well past 100 megapixels. Lucy keeps full resolution wherever you are looking.
- 03/ 05
Your work is protected
Every document has undo, redo and crash recovery, whether it is saved, untitled or imported. If the app ever crashes, the next launch reopens your unsaved work.
- 04/ 05
Nine keys, every tool
Tools live in a fixed nine-slot dock bound to keys 1 to 9, like a game’s action bar. Drag a tool into a slot to rebind it. When you need more room, distraction-free mode hides the panels.
- 05/ 05
Fully scriptable
Every change to a document is a serializable operation you can undo. You can run them from the in-app console or an external command line. This is what scripting, AI agents and future collaboration will build on.
Files
Works with the files you already have.
Open common image formats, including SVG with its structure intact, or import a whole folder at once. Export each board separately, and save your work as a .lucy file.
- Opens
- PNGJPGWebPGIFBMPAVIFICOSVG
- Exports, per board
- PNGJPGWebPSVG
- Saves
- .lucy
Why a studio
One canvas for many kinds of visual work.
Lucy treats every kind of content the same way: it becomes a texture that the compositor blends with the rest. That shared foundation is what lets it grow beyond still images.
- Planned
Video and animation
Animate properties over time on the same layers you design with.
- Planned
Presentations from boards
Turn the boards on your canvas into a slideshow.
- Planned
3D
Render 3D scenes into textures that sit on the canvas next to your other layers.
These are where Lucy is headed. None of them is available yet.
- Masks and adjustment layersNext
- GradientsNext
- Deeper brushesNext
- Colour management: wide gamut and ICC profilesNext
Download
Free for every project.
Lucy is free for personal and commercial work, on every device you use. Download it for your platform.
- Your platformLink coming soon
macOS
Apple Silicon
- Your platformLink coming soon
Windows
x64
- Your platformLink coming soon
Linux
Debian · x64