klad
Painting and animation app you share with a coding agent: it paints through a command line on the same drawing while you draw with a pen.
- AI tool
- Free
Pricing
Free to build from source for personal use and for companies under €500,000 a year in revenue (source-available, not open source). Pre-built apps are planned at a $19 launch price.
Overview
klad is a 2D painting and animation app that you use together with a coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex. You paint in the editor with a pen, and the agent paints on the same drawing through the klad command line, with the same brushes, layers and timeline; each of you sees the other's strokes about a second later. There is no image model inside: every stroke, shape and fill stays editable data, so you fix one part instead of generating the picture again. It has two dozen brushes, layers, masks, a timeline with onion skins, in-betweens, bones, and exports to PNG, sprite sheets or Godot. It is early, you build it yourself, and it runs best on macOS. You get layered drawings and animations you can keep editing, saved as plain files on your computer.
Key features
- Agent paints through the klad command line
- You and the agent see each other's strokes live
- No image model: every stroke stays editable
- Brushes, layers, masks and effects
- Timeline, in-betweens and bones
- Export PNGs, sprite sheets or to Godot
- Bundled agent skills (MIT)
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Last updated 2026-11-12