Paint on Windows. Keep the process video in your file.
A native Windows painting app. Choose Record once, draw normally, and export a clean 4K timelapse without screen capture or cloud upload.
Free to start · Windows 10 & 11 · No account required
Switch how you work, never your file.
Limner is one document with focused workspaces. Change modes and the tools change with you, and your layers stay exactly where they are.
Illustration
Available nowRaster painting with the full brush library, named selections, live adjustments, and per-document Reference boards with per-photo horizontal and vertical flip.
Vector
Plus previewEditable Bézier paths with fill and stroke, a pen tool, live shapes, and pathfinder booleans.
Animation
Plus previewFrame-by-frame cel animation with onion skin, filmstrip review, frame ranges, retiming, camera and layer keys, plus GIF, MP4, and PNG-sequence export.
Book
Plus previewMulti-page comics and manga in one file. Lay out pages, then add, reorder, and page through them from the Page Manager board.
A full studio.
Tuned to feel fast and stay out of your way, from first sketch to final export.
Native-resolution 4K timelapse
Choose Record, then capture your process at up to 4K. The timelapse lives inside the file, resumes across sessions, and exports with speed control, social crops, and an end-card hold. Limner uses a built-in H.264 encoder on a dedicated CPU thread, so no FFmpeg install or hardware video encoder is required.
Custom brush engine
Build brushes from dynamics and response curves, turn any image into a tip, and import or export Photoshop .abr.
Pressure & tilt inking
Native Win32 pen with a real-time stabilizer, taper, and anti-aliasing for clean, confident lines.
Nested layers, fills & masks
Unlimited tiled layers, nested and empty folders, 26 blend modes, clipping, masks, and editable Solid Color or Gradient fills.
Pro filters & adjustments
Live Levels, Curves, Brightness / Contrast, Color Balance, Posterize, Invert, Gradient Map, and Threshold layers, plus selection-aware pixel filters.
Speaks your formats
Import and export layered 8-bit RGB PSD with masks and folders, including ZIP-compressed channel import. Export PNG and JPEG with social crops, SVG from Vector, and animation to GIF, MP4, or a PNG sequence. Native .limner keeps the editable project, and older .artpaint files still open.
Drawing aids
Perspective and vanishing-point rulers, symmetry, smart shapes, transform, mesh warp, and liquefy.
Fast on real hardware
GPU-accelerated and tiled, so big canvases stay smooth. Autosave and crash recovery keep your work safe.
Built to run beautifully on the PC you already own, down to integrated graphics.
Help shape the beta.
Get early access and help shape Limner before launch. Windows 10 and 11.
Free during the beta. Enter your email and we will send you a key right away, no account needed.
Beta build v0.8.7 · release notes