“You’ll own nothing.
And you’ll be happy about it.”
That was the promise. Your tools, your files, your whole process — leased back to you by the month, until the price moves, the terms change, or the one feature you built your workflow around quietly disappears.
Then a tool I relied on quietly downgraded what I had already paid for.
No acknowledgement. No accountability. No way to keep the version that worked. That is what closed ecosystems are built for — your craft comes to depend on them, so leaving costs more than staying. That isn't a product. It's a leash with a logo.
This is what happens when frustration becomes infrastructure.
The solution
Built out of spite.
Made for control.
Open source · AGPL-3.0
What it is
An AI filmmaking canvas that goes head to head with million-dollar platforms. And costs nothing.
It’s an infinite canvas where every step of a shot is a node you can see. A written prompt, a character’s reference images, the model, an upscale, the finished clip — each one is a card on the board, and the lines between them show what feeds what.
Instead of one prompt box and a folder full of downloads, the shot stays built. Swap the model on a single node without touching anything else. Press generate and the result comes back attached to the node that made it, still wired to the references that shaped it — which is why a character still looks like that character in shot forty.
Shots drop into a timeline and group into scenes, in the order they’ll actually cut. Then the whole thing exports already sorted — a folder per scene, files named in shot order — so your edit opens organised instead of starting with an afternoon of renaming.
The price
To use it
$0
No subscription. No credits. Not a trial.
Markup
0%
You pay the model makers directly, at their price.
Yours
100%
Your keys, your files, your storage. Fork it, host it, keep it.
The reason
But why?
A tool I relied on quietly downgraded what I had already paid for. I built my own so it couldn’t happen again — and I’ll be straight about what that means: I’m a filmmaker, not a career engineer. I built it out of necessity, with the tools in front of me.
It’s free because charging rent for it would have made me the thing I built it to get away from. Not free for now — free. There is no paid version waiting behind it.
It’s open because keeping my own fix to myself would only have kept the same companies winning. And because the best version of it isn’t one I can write alone — bring a model, a fix, a sharper idea, or take the whole thing and make it your own. Read every line; I read every issue.