Social posts, whiteboards and documents too. No design training needed, on Mac, Windows or in your browser.
Pick a template, make it yours, publish in one click.
Speaker notes, a timer and a presenter view built in.
Moving text, photos and a simple timeline.
Print-ready designs for every occasion.
Sticky notes, arrows and an endless canvas.
Reports, résumés and one-pagers with real style.
We reached twice as many readers as last spring, and most of them arrived through people sharing the launch page.
Short videos did the most work. Next time we start them earlier and give them a page of their own.
If you can make a poster, you can make a website. Here’s how it goes.
Use this picture
_studio-verify.wwwstudio-verify=…CNAMEwwwstudio.noravale.comhttps://www.noravale.comDescribe the business and AI Builder plans the sitemap, lays the sections out as a wireframe, chooses a look and builds the site for you to edit. Or start from a finished template for a salon, a photographer, a portfolio or an event, or from a blank page.
Your site looks exactly like the real thing while you edit. Click a heading to retype it, drag a photo in, change colours and fonts from the panel on the right.
Select a picture and choose Replace: pick one of your own assets, search stock photos from Pexels or Unsplash, or describe a picture and let an AI image model make it. Or press Generate above the picture and describe a change: the AI makes a new version from the current picture, in the same shape and place. Stock photos and AI images use keys you add to your own server, and they stay off until you do.
Use this pictureMake sections glide in as people scroll, buttons lift when hovered, and menus open with a click. Accordions, drop-down menus and smooth effects are built in.
Preview your site at desktop, tablet and phone sizes with one click. Layouts stack neatly on small screens, and you can fine-tune each size on its own.
When you're happy, press Publish and your site is live on the web. Changed something? Publish again and the update is online in seconds.
Add a domain you own in the Publish panel and create the two DNS records it shows you, at Namecheap or wherever you manage your domain. Your site then opens at that address with every page, picture and form working.
_studio-verify.wwwstudio-verify=…CNAMEwwwstudio.noravale.comhttps://www.noravale.comThe marketplace adds outside tools to the editor: stock photos, moving graphics, your Notion pages and video uploads. You approve what each one can do.
Before you install, an app lists what it can do in your design and which services it talks to. It can't do anything else.
Apps like Notion Images use your own account, so you only see your own pages. Your sign-in stays on the server, and the app never sees it. Disconnect whenever you like.
When a new version is approved, you see what's new and press Update app when you're ready. Until then, your version stays as it is.
Each app's page has a Report this app link, and your report goes to whoever runs your server.
Open Apps on the home screen, then search or browse by category. Each app has its own page with what it does and who made it.
The page lists what the app can do in your design. Choose a design to use it in, and that adds the app.
It sits in your side panel, ready in every design. Remove it whenever you like.
Describe what you need and get a draft in your Doc. You pick the AI model, and your key stays on your server.
Click Ask Studio in the Doc toolbar. It sits right where you write, so you never leave the page.
Type a request in your own words, or start from a suggestion: executive summary, proposal outline, meeting notes, impact highlights or a recommendation letter.
The answer lands as real Doc blocks: headings, paragraphs, bullets, checklists, callouts and tables. Edit it like anything you typed yourself, or press Undo to take it back.
Ask Studio runs on a model you choose: Anthropic, OpenAI, a model on your own network through Ollama or vLLM, or any OpenAI-compatible service. Add your key to the server settings; it never reaches browsers or the desktop app.
Only signed-in people with a verified email can use it, each with an hourly allowance, and prompts and answers are capped. Without a key it's simply off. What people type goes to the provider you chose, so choose one you trust.
Invite friends, clients or your team. Everyone edits at once and sees each other’s cursors, with the picture they chose beside their name.
Jess @Omar could we try a warmer background?
Omar Done, switched it to amber
Each design has one voice call room, for up to 6 people. Join, mute and choose your microphone without leaving the page.
Follow a teammate and your view moves with theirs, so they can walk you through the design.
Press / and type. Your words appear beside your cursor for everyone there, then they’re gone.
Pin comments to the page and @mention people, even ones who are away. They see it under the bell and by email.
Pick everything, only mentions and replies, or nothing, for your account or one design.
Versions save by themselves as you edit. Name one, preview any, and restore it. A restore keeps what it replaces.
Keep photos, logos and graphics in one library and drag them into any design.
Keep designing on a plane or in a café with bad signal. Your work is saved on your computer.
Install it on your Mac or Windows PC, or open it in a web browser when you’d rather not install anything.
Keep designs, photos and accounts on your own infrastructure. Start with one Docker Compose bundle, or run the same server behind your own proxy, with your own database, or on Kubernetes.
Read the Self-Hosted GuideDraft summaries, proposals and notes right in a Doc. Bring your own AI key: it stays on your server, and it’s off until you add one.
Not at all. Start from a template, click on what you want to change and type. Everything snaps into place, and you can undo any step.
Design Studio runs on Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) using macOS 12 or later, and on PCs with Windows 10 or later. There's also a browser version if you'd rather not install anything.
Yes. On your computer you can open, edit and save your designs with no connection at all. Things that need the internet, like publishing a website or editing with others, pick up again once you're back online.
Press Publish. Your site goes live on the web straight away, with no hosting to set up. Made a change later? Press Publish again and the new version replaces the old one.
Yes, on a self-hosted server open to the internet. Add the domain in the Publish panel and create the two DNS records it shows you. Once they're found, your site opens at your domain with HTTPS set up for you. Visitors only reach your website there, never the Design Studio app or anyone's account.
Yes. Share a design and everyone can edit at the same time, see each other's cursors and leave comments right on the page. You can also follow someone's view, or press / to chat beside your cursor. Cursor chat works everywhere except Docs and Sheets.
Yes. Every design has a voice call room for up to 6 people, in the desktop app and the browser. It's voice only, and it needs an internet connection.
By default you get an email when someone mentions you or replies to you. On your Account page you can choose every comment on your designs, or nothing at all. Emails wait a little, so a busy thread doesn't fill your inbox, and each one has an unsubscribe link.
Yes. Open Version history from the File menu to preview earlier versions and restore one. Versions are saved by themselves about every 10 minutes while people edit, and you can name the ones you want to keep. Restoring first saves what you had, so nothing is lost.
Save designs as images or PDFs for printing and sharing, and export videos and reels ready to post. Websites are published straight to the web.
Photos you add in the desktop app stay on your computer and are ready to use in any design.
Apps add outside tools to the editor, like free stock photos, moving graphics, videos and pictures from your Notion pages. Get them from Apps on the home screen, and they appear in your side panel. Apps need an internet connection and a Design Studio account.
Some apps need a key from the service they connect to, and it stays on the server, never in the app. Whoever runs your server adds it. Until then, the app's page says which setting it's waiting for.
Yes, on your own server. Set APPS_ALLOWED to all, none or a list of app ids. MARKETPLACE_URL=off stops reading the marketplace altogether. Your server only requests the list and the app packages, so nothing about people or designs is sent.
No. An app runs apart from your design and can't read what's in it. It can only do what you approved when you installed it, such as adding a picture. Apps listed by outside developers are reviewed before they reach the marketplace, and you can report or remove one at any time.
Yes, if you run your own server. An app is a small web page, and the developer docs on this site take you from nothing to one running in a design. You build it in your server's developer portal, and whoever runs the server reviews each version before people can install it.
Yes. The usual install is one Docker Compose bundle with its own database, file storage and automatic HTTPS. The Self-Hosted Guide also covers your own proxy, a database and file storage you already run, a process without Docker, and Kubernetes.
Ask Studio drafts text in Docs and powers the AI Builder for websites, but it runs on an AI model you provide: your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic or a model on your own network. The key stays on your server and the features are off until you add one. What people type is sent to the provider you choose. The Self-Hosted Guide shows how to set it up.
Select a picture and choose Replace: pick one of your own assets, search stock photos from Pexels or Unsplash, or describe a picture and have an AI image model make it. The stock photo and image model keys are yours and stay on your server; the options are off until you add them, and what people type is sent to the provider you choose.
Version 0.1.33. There’s also a browser version if you’d rather not install anything.