Your procedural toolbox for 2D content creation

Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics editor, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.

Software overview


Starting life as a vector editor, Graphite is evolving into a generalized, all-in-one graphics toolbox that's built more like a game engine than a conventional creative app. The editor's tools wrap its node graph core, providing user-friendly workflows for vector, raster, and beyond.

One app to rule them all

Stop jumping between programs— upcoming tools will make Graphite a first-class content creation suite for many workflows, including:

Graphic Design
Image Editing
Motion Graphics
Digital Painting
Desktop Publishing
VFX Compositing

Current features

Vector editing tools
Procedural workflow for graphic design
Node-based layers
Forever free and open source

Presently, Graphite is a lightweight offline web app with features primarily oriented around procedural vector graphics editing.

Upcoming features

All-in-one creative tool for all things 2D
Fully-featured raster manipulation
Windows/Mac/Linux native apps + web
Live collaborative editing

Roadmap

Desktop-first and web-ready

Where's the download? The web app is currently live and desktop apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux should be available in early 2025.

Graphite is designed principally as a professional desktop application that is also accessible in a browser for quick, casual usage. It's built for speed with (nearly) no JavaScript. And regardless of platform, your work runs locally and privately on your own hardware. There is no server.

Engineering the tech for a native app distributed across three new platforms takes extra time. That's why supporting the web platform, which keeps up-to-date and reaches all devices, has been the initial target. For now, you can install the app as a PWA for a desktop-like experience.

Once it's ready to shine, Graphite's code architecture is structured to deliver native performance for your graphically intensive workloads on desktop platforms and very low overhead on the web thanks to WebAssembly and WebGPU, new high-performance browser technologies.

The power of proceduralism


Graphite is the first and only graphic design package built for procedural editing — where everything you make is nondestructive.

Explore parametric possibilities

Save hours on tedious alterations and make better creative choices. Graphite lets you iterate rapidly by adjusting node parameters instead of individual elements.

Scatter circles with just a couple nodes...
Want them denser? Bigger? Those are sliders.
Want a different placement area? Just tweak the path.

Open this artwork and give it a try yourself.

Mix and morph anything

Nondestructive editing means every decision is tied to a parameter you can adjust later on. Use Graphite to interpolate between any states just by dragging value sliders.

Blend across color schemes. Morph shapes before they're scattered around the canvas. The options are endless.

Open this artwork and give it a try yourself.

Geared for generative pipelines

Graphite's representation of artwork as a node graph lets you customize, compose, reuse, share, and automate your content workflows:

Infinitely pan and zoom, export any resolution with no pixelation
Modular node-based pipelines for generative AI (future)
Asset pipelines for studio production environments (future)

Ready to dive in?

Get started with Graphite by following along to a hands-on quickstart tutorial.

Graphite Tutorial 1 - Hands-On Quickstart

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