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Create and edit images, video, audio, and text with agents that work alongside you. Describe what you want, let the agent build it, then take over whenever you like. Refine a shot, try a different voice, or rework the cut, yourself or with the agent.
Free and open source, AGPL-3.0. macOS, Windows, and Linux.
You get an editable project, not just a finished file. Your workflows, assets, and edits stay together, so you can inspect how something was made and change individual parts without starting over.
Run local models or connect cloud providers with your own API keys. Choose your models and pay providers directly.
Route your shots through the best video, image, audio, and language models on the market, or run open weights locally on your own hardware. Switch between them with one click, and pay each provider directly at their published price.
NodeTool example projects
Recorded outputs, editable projects, and the review work still ahead.
Product ad variants
Partial exampleThree 15-second cuts
Three editable 15-second product ads use different opening shots and share the remaining footage.
Still to review
The product is fictional, and the live app captures and guided-flow walkthrough are not complete.
Product catalogue assets
Partial exampleThree views and a motion clip
One accepted Olive Travel Cup reference became a cutout, three catalogue stills, a short motion clip, a 4096px derivative, and listing copy.
Still to review
The scene treatments are generative and do not preserve source pixels unchanged.
Multilingual video
Partial exampleEnglish and Spanish example
A synthetic English presenter was translated, revoiced in Spanish, and prepared as editable line-level takes.
Still to review
The native timeline preview failed, and human audition and lip-sync acceptance remain pending.
Storyboard to trailer
Partial exampleStoryboard example
The Storyboard flow turned The Next Tide brief into a reviewed six-shot mystery board with reusable references.
Still to review
No finished trailer exists.
Tell the agent your concept, style, and tone. It drafts the script, casts the voices, and sets the visual direction. Prefer to wire it yourself? It's the same canvas.
The agent storyboards scenes, generates the footage, syncs the audio, and cuts it all together on a multi-track timeline — running on your own accounts at provider prices.
Jump in at any moment. Swap a voice take, re-roll a clip, or trim frames. The agent builds the foundation; you refine the final cut.
Storyboard, script, timeline, sketch, and 3D scene, all on the canvas you generate on. A storyboard becomes a script, the script becomes takes, the takes land on a multi-track timeline. The agent works every one of them through the same tools you click.
Board the film shot by shot. Generate cheap stills first to lock the look, then pay to animate only the shots you approved.
Draft the dialogue, cast a voice per character, and audition alternate line readings. Change the words and the take flags itself stale, so you see exactly what still needs voicing.
Arrange, trim, and layer generated video and audio across multiple tracks, down to the frame and the stem. The agent edits the same document when you ask it to tighten the opening.
Sketch, paint with brushes, and blend hand-drawn elements with AI-generated layers. Bind a layer to a prompt and regenerate that layer alone.
Place primitives and lights in a glTF scene by hand or by tool call. The same operations run headlessly, so a scene is reproducible.
One job, one tool, one screen. Every app here is a shipped workflow with a form on top, so an operator runs it without opening the canvas.
Go vertical.
Transcribe your clip.
Translate and revoice.
Create subtitle text.
Remove the background.
Set the scene.
Change the lighting.
Add a turntable clip.
Prepare for print.
No locked project formats, no markups, no subscription tiers. Bring your own keys and switch providers with one click. You own the project file, the workflow, and the final cut.
Connect directly to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, FAL, KIE, Replicate, and the specialized video models. Your keys stay on your disk in Studio, encrypted in Cloud.
No credit packs, no subscription traps. If an image costs $0.03 at the provider, you pay $0.03 to the provider. NodeTool takes no cut.
Studio and Cloud are built from the same AGPL-3.0 source, with no paywalled features. Read it, fork it, or host it yourself at any time.
The board, the script with its takes, and the multi-track cut are ordinary files on your disk. Export a .nodetool bundle and open it on another machine, or in a fork.
What that comes to in a month, model by model, is on the pricing page.
Chain models, editors, and code into a node graph you can re-run on new inputs, ship as a mini-app, or drive headless from the CLI. Each part has its own page.
A hosted platform will make the film, and it keeps the model list, the billing, and the project. Here is the same table with the studio open.
| NodeTool | Hosted platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Models | Every major provider, switched in one click | The list they picked |
| When a better model ships | Add it the day it ships | Wait for them to add it |
| What you pay | Provider list prices, on your own keys | Their credits |
| What you keep | The board, the takes, and the multi-track cut as an editable project | An exported video. The project stays in their app. |
| Source | Open, AGPL-3.0 | Closed |
| Where it runs | Desktop app and browser, self-host any time | Their servers only |
Comparing against a specific product? See NodeTool and ComfyUI and NodeTool and Figma Weave.
Take Seedance, one of today's best video models. It is sold by FAL, Replicate, and KIE at different prices, and NodeTool lets you pick the cheapest of the three. When the next Veo or Kling arrives, you switch to it in one click.
That is what holding the keys buys you: the best model at the best price each week, and nothing to lose if your favorite tool gets bought, repriced, or shut down.
Same workflows, same building blocks, same providers. Pick the one that suits how you work, and switch whenever you like. Both are AGPL-3.0 open source: Cloud is simply our hosting of the same code you can run yourself.
Local-first desktop app
Best for: artists with a good graphics card or an Apple Silicon Mac, big local model collections, offline work, and anyone who wants everything kept on their own disk.
Hosted in the browser · Alpha preview
Best for: studios and solo artists who want to start in seconds, work from any device, and skip the hardware setup, while still using their own keys with every provider.
One recommendation, not two: use Studio for work you are being paid for — it is the finished edition. Cloud is worth a look if you want to see the workspace without installing anything, and it is in alpha until further notice. Your workflows move freely between the two.
Whether you use the desktop app or the browser version, you get the exact same features, tools, and capabilities: the same agent, the same workflows, the same models.
Runs directly on your computer. Keeps your files and settings private on your hard drive, with optional offline support.
Go to StudioRuns in your web browser with zero installation needed. The fastest way to jump in and start creating. Currently in alpha.
Go to CloudConnect custom scripts, automate tasks, and integrate your own code into the visual canvas, through the SDK, the CLI, or an MCP server.
Go to DevelopersTurn a brief into a production workflow you run again for every product, market, and variant.
Go to MarketingNodeTool is an open-source agent-first creative workspace. Create and edit images, video, audio, and text with agents that work alongside you. Describe what you want, let the agent build it, then take over whenever you like. You get an editable project, not just a finished file: your workflows, assets, and edits stay together. Use supported local models or connect cloud providers with your own keys.
Read more →Yes. The whole project is AGPL-3.0 on GitHub. Studio and Cloud are built from the same source, and nothing is held back for a paid tier. You can host it yourself at any time.
Read more →NodeTool Studio, the desktop app, is free and open source. NodeTool Cloud is free while it is in alpha. At full release a subscription covers hosting, at a price announced before anyone is charged. In both editions you bring your own API keys and pay each provider their list price directly, so what a run costs is whatever the provider charges for it. Local models through Ollama, MLX, or llama.cpp cost nothing per call.
Read more →NodeTool Studio runs on your own machine: the workspace, your workflows, your files, and your API keys stay there, and open-weight models can run locally through MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LM Studio. When you call a hosted model, that request goes from your machine straight to the provider you chose, on your key — it does not pass through NodeTool servers. Cloud is the same open-source app hosted in the browser, and your keys still call the providers directly.
Read more →The leading models, including Flux, Seedance, Wan, Veo, Kling, Hailuo, Qwen Image, Whisper, ElevenLabs, and Suno, reached through providers such as FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate, Together, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, and HuggingFace. Models can also run on your own computer through MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LM Studio.
Read more →Every editor in NodeTool — the node canvas, sketch pad, storyboard, video timeline, script editor, 3D scene, and app builder — is exposed to agents as tools, around 120 in all. An agent doesn't describe what you could do; it builds the workflow, runs it, and repairs what fails, on the same surfaces you use. The same tools are exposed over MCP, so outside agents such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code can drive NodeTool too.
Read more →No. NodeTool works entirely with cloud providers — bring your own API key, and the model runs on the provider's hardware with nothing to install locally. A GPU only matters if you choose to run open-weight models yourself through Ollama, MLX, or llama.cpp: it speeds those up, but many smaller local models run fine on CPU too, just slower.
Read more →NodeTool is open source under AGPL-3.0. Star the project on GitHub, join us on Discord, and share workflows with the artists, motion designers, and studios already using it on real jobs.
Questions, bug reports, feature requests — we answer.
Download the open-source studio for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Free, AGPL-3.0, and built alongside working filmmakers, designers, and video editors. Or try Cloud in your browser, in alpha, with nothing to install.