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Creativity Lives With You

Realness is a rotoscoping tool. Trace photos into expressive vector graphics on your device, integrated with the tools you already use.

Start in your browser, or add Realness to your dock - works like a native app, straight from the web. Your data lives with you.

Add Realness to your dock

Works like a native app, straight from the web. macOS · Safari

Other devices

  • iPhone & iPad

  • Android

  • Chrome · Edge · Brave

  • macOS Safari

Artists

Magic in your hands

Though a poster is ornate, capable, and descriptive, there is no line work. Posters can be taken so much further in your tool of choice. Print layers on transparency film and stack them like Disney-era cel animation—register the stack on a light table. Export and print in an infinite loop of creative discovery. The constraints become a vast landscape for you to explore.

Storyboards, collage, thumbnails. No AI in the toolchain. Realness is a clean slate for you to start.

Everything is made locally. Sign in to sync devices.

Animators, designers, developers - Realness was built for you.

Churches, Punks, and Veterans

Shared values

Run your own Realness. Hosting your own stays simple - so you can free your data and build community together. One moderator, clear responsibility, built for trust—until you sign in, that's the feed. Use it with your family, union hall, or your Warhammer nerdpocalypse users group.

Creative joy, community at its own pace. Speak when you have something to say. Check in when something moves you.

Let's be fun again

  1. Photo to poster Take a picture or paste from the clipboard. Layered vector art builds on your device.

  2. Mosaics Photo-colored tiles layered over shadow. Five sizes from sediment to boulders - peel them back one at a time.

  3. Shadows Gradient values and strokes for depth, outline, subtle movement and dramatic light.

  4. Gradients Eighteen color pulls from each image for fills across every layer.

  5. Interactive exploration Turn layers off one at a time. Hover or hold to isolate a layer. Reframe and pan until you see how the poster was built.

  6. Export SVG, 4K PNG, layered PNG, PSD, video, or GLB. What you see on screen is what you download.

  7. Keyboard shortcuts Toggle layers, drama, mosaic, animation, and fullscreen without leaving the canvas.

  8. 3D and presentation Spin a poster in 3D, side-scroll storytelling view, or go fullscreen.

  9. Trains of thought Every new statement you add for 13 minutes is added to the last, giving you time to think and explore

  10. Unshortened Tap the silhouette in Thoughts to see only your posters and statements.

  11. Offline and sync Install to your home screen or desktop. Works offline; sync when you sign in.

  12. Talk off-app Your number lets friends and moderators reach you where you already talk. Realness is for showing up; conversation continues in your messenger.

  13. Focused Email, Likes, Links, or Scraping - just posters and people you care about.

  14. Verifiable Don't trust the live site on its own say-so. npm run verify rehashes what we serve against the checksums on the GitHub release - same build, independent root of trust.

  15. Source available Read the code, run it yourself, and send improvements upstream.

Gallery

shadow

stroke

mosaic

drama

animate

3D

Preferences

Layers, geology, motion, 3D atmosphere - every poster responds to what you turn on. Scroll the gallery above with these toggles, or reset everything and start clean.

Mosaic

mosaic

Tiles defining shape over shadowg

sediment

Finest piecesB

sand

Small piecesV

gravel

Medium piecesC

rocks

Large piecesX

boulders

Largest piecesZ

Shadow

shadow

Value layers, Light -> Boldf

background

81% luminosity fillb

light

44-60% luminosityv

regular

20-44% luminosityc

medium

10-20% luminosityx

bold

0-10% luminosityz

stroke

Outline shadows

Motion

drama

Dynamic lightingd

Dcycles lights

animate

Active backgrounds & 3d motiona

Acycles speed

Color cycle

Logo tiles cycle brand colors

View

3D

View poster in 3Dq

grid

Composition grid

info

FPS overlayi

storytelling

View each poster in a fullscreen side scrollw

Chrome

Island

Show app islandM

Integrations

  1. Illustrator Export SVG with editable layers and paths.

  2. Figma Export SVG ready to import into Figma.

  3. Photoshop Export layered PSD with shadows, strokes, and mosaic groups.

  4. After Effects Export video or PSD layers for compositing.

  5. Premiere Pro Export animated video to your timeline.

  6. Blender Export GLB from the 3D view.

  7. Unreal Engine Export GLB into your Unreal project.

  8. Unity Export GLB into your Unity scene.

  9. DaVinci Resolve Export animated video into Resolve.

  10. Final Cut Pro Export animated video into Final Cut.

  11. Affinity Export SVG or layered PSD with full layer groups.

  12. Inkscape Export SVG with editable vector paths.

  13. Procreate Export layered PSD - open on iPad with every layer intact.