Lolly

Make graphics, documents and video from simple inputs.

Lolly is an open-source creative platform. Pick a tool, add your words, images or data, and download a finished file. Your design system supplies the colours, fonts and assets.

Its purpose is content sovereignty: control over how your content is created, governed, stored and moved across the systems you choose. Keep making and editing your work, use your own infrastructure where needed, and connect an existing asset library. What content sovereignty means explains the controls and their limits.

Build a layout once, choose what other people can change, and share it as a tool. They fill in the fields; the tool handles the layout and design rules.

Open Lolly · Make your first file · Downloads · Documentation

What can I make?

Start with a focused tool, or arrange your own text, images and shapes on the Lolly Design canvas.

I need to...	Try...
Make a QR code for a link	Lolly QR Code
Frame a screenshot for a post or presentation	Lolly Frame
Turn a recording into a video with a moving waveform	Lolly Audiogram
Turn data into a chart or diagram	Lolly Chart or Lolly Diagrams
Build a layout I can reuse	Lolly Design
Remove hidden metadata or shrink a PDF locally	Lolly Strip Hidden Data or Lolly Compress

Choose a tool, change its inputs, then use Export to download. The public app needs no account. Make your first file walks you through a QR code.

Why Lolly?

• Set the design rules once. Keep the layout and permitted choices consistent while people make the next version.
• Work on your device. Edit, render and transform files locally. Download the resources a tool needs, then render and export offline.
• Keep the inputs as well as the file. Save your work to edit later, or share a link that reopens its settings. Local uploads need to travel separately from a plain link.
• Make one or make many. Use the app for a single file, a table of values for a batch, or the command line for a repeatable workflow.
• Use and extend the source. Run your own copy and add tools. There is no per-seat software licence fee.

Optional network features, sharing, Sync and organisation services have their own data flows. The privacy guide explains what stays local and what uses a service. For offline preparation, see Available offline.

Bring your own design system

Add colours, fonts and logos in Lolly Design System Setup, or import design tokens from DTCG, Tokens Studio or Penpot. Community tools use your active design system. lolly.tools starts in Lolly Demo, Lolly's own sample design system.

Import supported Figma, Penpot, Illustrator, InDesign or PDF designs into the canvas. Check the converted layout and fonts, then use Share with rules to choose editable inputs and package a reusable tool.

Put your brand in · Import a design · Share a design with rules

Get the file you need

Export images, vectors, PDFs, editable PowerPoint decks, audio or video where the tool supports them. Print workflows include physical sizes, bleed, crop marks and CMYK output.

The format register covers 66 in, 66 out (44 round-trip). Availability depends on the tool, browser and export path; the format guide gives the details.

Authoring tools can attach Content Credentials, a signed record of how a file was made. Read about credentials and identity.

Run Lolly locally

Development uses Node 26 (.nvmrc) and pnpm 11.26.0 (package.json). The package minimum is Node 22.18.

git clone https://github.com/lolly-tools/lolly.git
cd lolly
npm install --global pnpm@11.26.0
pnpm install
pnpm run dev:web

Open http://localhost:5173. The web app needs a browser with a working WebGPU adapter and graphics acceleration. See supported environments for the tested combinations.

A public clone includes community tools, Lolly Demo (the design system lolly.tools runs) and the neutral Lolly Starter design system. SUSE's private brand pack is optional.

On macOS or openSUSE, ./setup.sh can install prerequisites and dependencies. See INSTALL.md for setup help, or Releases for packaged apps.

Automate the repeat work

The CLI uses the same engine as the app. From your checkout, make a QR code as SVG:

pnpm run cli qr-code --url=https://example.com --output=./qr.svg

Use tool inputs in scripts, URLs and batch jobs, or let AI agents call tools through the optional MCP server. Fresh signatures, timestamps and browser encoders can change exported bytes; the determinism guide explains reproducibility and its limits.

CLI guide · URL inputs · MCP server

Use Lolly with a team

Lolly began at SUSE, where people needed to make on-brand files without sending their work to outside services. It is maintained as open source and runs independently of SUSE.

For organisation sign-in, shared assets and projects, approvals, work collaboration, audit records or server rendering, add Lolly Work, the organisation server of the same project. It is optional and maintained in its own repository, and hosting and operations have their own costs. Why Lolly is free tells the story of who builds it and why.

An existing DAM can remain the source of record while Lolly helps people produce content from its approved assets. Use Lolly with your DAM covers that arrangement; SUSE's Brandfolder experience records successful integration and administrator change management before a planned migration.

Organisation guide · Self-hosting and deployment · Current status and adoption

Build on Lolly

A tool is a manifest and template, with optional styles, assets and JavaScript hooks. Tools are distributed as content, so adding a tool does not require a new app release.

The engine loads tools and drives rendering. Each shell supplies the platform features it needs through a versioned bridge. That keeps brands and platform-specific code out of the engine.

Repository layout

Path	What you will find
engine/	Rendering, inputs, templates and export logic
shells/	Web, desktop, mobile, command-line and terminal apps
community/	Tools that work with different design systems
brands/	Design systems, assets and brand-specific tools
packages/	The tool-author SDK and shared components
schemas/	Contracts for tool manifests and assets
services/	Optional MCP, certificate and Penpot services, and the server code they share
docs/	Guides, architecture and the documentation site

Start with the tool-authoring guide, the architecture page or the glossary.

Contributing

Bug reports, documentation, tools and code improvements are welcome. CONTRIBUTING.md covers setup and checks. Open an issue with what you were trying to make and what happened.

Report security issues privately using SECURITY.md.

Licensing & structure

Code is MPL-2.0. Documentation content is CC BY-SA 4.0, with attribution to lolly.tools.

Brand packs and bundled assets carry their own licences and notices. SUSE's proprietary tools and assets stay in the optional private brands/suse submodule. Third-party software, fonts and other material retain their stated licences; see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

Current tools

The Lolly Start (blank brand) catalog ships 68 tools today - 66 listed in the gallery, plus 2 unlisted helpers (Lolly Asset Export, Lolly Theme swap). Generated from catalog/tools/index.json by pnpm run build:readme-tools:

Tool	What it makes
3D	Load a 3D model into a lit scene, orbit and pose the camera, and render a still or a turntable animation.
Lolly 3D Studio	Turn SVG artwork and 3D models into coordinated images, alone or arranged together in one scene. Shape materials, lighting, focus and transparent shadows with guided or expert controls.
Agenda	Turn one programme into branded screens, interactive web pages, animated overviews, PowerPoint slides and calendars.
Annotate	Mark up your own screenshot on your device - arrows, boxes, numbered steps, callouts, highlighter and a spotlight dim.
Audiogram	Turn a voice clip or song into a video in your design system's colours that actually moves with the sound - bars, spectrum, ring, ridgeline or scope, ready for social.
Backdrop	Living backdrops from your design system's colours: sixteen GPU effects - flowing silk, prismatic blooms, liquid contours, metaballs, god rays and more. Tune, freeze the exact moment you want, and export stills or motion loops for heroes, walls and meeting backgrounds.
Battlecards	Turn any table into a deck of cards - one card per row, ready as a multi-page PDF. Paste straight from your spreadsheet, doc, or chat.
Booklet	Build a multi-page PDF - a cover, flowing content blocks, and a back page.
Booth	Dress a 3D event booth with sponsor artwork. Click any panel to drop an image on it, pick a booth design, and render a still or a turntable for a sponsor pitch.
Calendar	Turn event details into a calendar (.ics) file for any calendar app.
Captions	Subtitles for a clip - turn its speech into text on device or drop in an SRT/VTT file, style the cues, and export burned-in frames plus clean .srt and .vtt sidecars.
Certificate	Completion and award certificates from the active design system - one name at a time, or a whole roster from a CSV in Bulk from rows.
Lolly Chart	Charts from first paste to advanced visualisation - explained data recommendations, explicit field mapping, 35 classic vector families including Pareto, bullet targets and range bars, sixteen statistical and editorial articulations, real-z 3-D scenes, cinematic flights, deterministic motion, accessible descriptions and styles compiled from the active design system.
Claim	Claim your name on any media you've already made - image, PDF, video or audio. Stamp your author, copyright and licence as Content Credentials (a durable raster Imprint too), preserving any credential already inside the file - all on your device, before you upload it anywhere.
Clean	Clean a voice recording, trim edge silence and set its loudness on your device.
Compress	Shrink a PDF by recompressing its images - on your device.
Contrast	Check a text and background pair, or every pairing in the design system palette, against WCAG 2.1 and APCA, and see how it reads to colour-blind viewers.
Convert Font	Convert a font between TrueType, OpenType and WOFF - on your device.
Convert Image	Turn HEIC, TIFF or any photo into WebP, JPEG or PNG - on your device.
Countdown	A focused countdown with a live progress ring. Click to pause.
Lolly Darkroom	Grade photos and video with film looks, Adobe XMP presets, .cube LUTs and your design system colours. Reuse a look through LUT export or Grade a video. Opens Photoshop and GIMP layers for positioning, blending and image export.
Lolly Design	An open canvas for free arrangement - text, images, shapes and live renders from your other Lolly tools, all held to your design system.
Diagrams	Org charts, flowcharts, timelines and more - from cards, text, Mermaid, DOT or CSV.
Lolly Doc Studio	Write a multi-page document on the canvas - rich text, headings, tables and inserted Lolly renders that flow onto pages and export as a PDF.
Filter	One tool for photo effects: pick halftone, scanline, posterize, voronoi, dither or ASCII art (vector) or duotone, pixel-stretch, misprint or glitch (raster). Design system overlays, live camera and exports to as many formats as each effect supports.
Finishes	Preview foil, spot UV, emboss and soft-touch finishes on your artwork - then export the printer-ready spot plate. The on-screen sheen is presentation only; the plate is the real deliverable your print house needs.
Flow Chart	Build flow charts on an open canvas - drag cards, connect them, and the lines route and stick to the boxes.
Lolly Flythrough	Fly a real 3D camera through a screenshot. The picture lifts into layers at real depth; big shapes extrude into solid objects; a timeline of poses animates the whole move - depth, opacity, perspective, extrusion, tilt, rotate, scale and the camera flight - then loops it home. Add, drag and reorder poses. Export as video.
Frame	Drop in a screenshot and get it framed, padded and shadowed on a design system backdrop.
Gradient	Five ways to build a gradient from the design system swatches: soft radial Blend, a real Coons-patch mesh as crisp SVG (Subdivide) or a smooth raster (Mesh), freeform Warp points and the animated Flow waves. Drag everything right on the canvas; export stills or join-free video loops.
Growth	Differential growth: a line that repels itself until it folds into coral. Seed it from a ring, a burst, headline letterforms or a logo, and export the result as real, plotter-ready SVG paths.
Icon	Favicon and app-icon maker - a multi-size .ico, PNG and SVG, or the whole app kit as one zip.
Jump	A one-link landing page: your links, heading, portrait and colours on an expressive page - and the whole page lives inside the link you share.
Lolly Link Card	Paste a link, get a social card in your design system - title, description, site chip and a thumbnail, at Open Graph, square or summary size.
Lolly Logo Wall	Arrange a pile of logos into a clean, even sponsor grid - the “NASCAR” wall.
Lottie Ad	Build animated ads from layered scenes, each carrying a Lottie motion asset, for any standard size.
Lolly Markdown Slides	Turn Markdown or a JSON spec into a native, editable PowerPoint deck - real text, bullets, tables and the design system theme - in seconds. The fast text-first path to a deck; reach for the Lolly Design canvas when you want to lay slides out by hand or animate them. Charts and diagrams come from your other Lolly tools. Exports .pptx (editable), plus PDF and PNG.
Meeting Planner	Plan a global meeting and see the time for every teammate's timezone.
Pages	Reorder, rotate, extract, delete, merge or split PDF pages, or turn images into a PDF, on your device.
Lolly Palette Lab	Grow a palette from one seed colour - harmony accents, perceptual OKLab ramps and WCAG/APCA readability badges, with DTCG tokens and CSV export.
Pricing	Plans as columns, features as rows, ticks and crosses, and one plan picked out as the recommended one.
Print Sheet	Lay one design - or a whole pile of them - out n-up on A4, Letter or A3, across as many pages as it takes, with crop marks in the margin.
Lolly Prompt Card	Typeset a long prompt into one compact, legible image for a multimodal model - image input is often cheaper than the same words as text tokens.
QR Code	Scannable codes of every kind: QR, Micro QR, Data Matrix, Aztec and PDF417 for links, contacts, Wi-Fi, events, locations and text - plus retail and logistics barcodes from EAN-13 and Code 128 to ITF-14, GS1-128, GS1 DataBar and MaxiCode.
Record	Design your own top and tail cards, then record a clip and Lolly wraps them around it automatically.
Redact	Black out sensitive content by rebuilding the file, then verify the output before it downloads, all on your device.
Lolly Rondocode	Write music as code and hear it as you type: synths, patterns and a mix in rondocode's live editor. Export the song as audio, stems or MIDI with Content Credentials that record it, or keep its source.
Lolly Sandbox	Paste HTML, CSS, JS - or a JSX/TypeScript component - and watch it run in a private, offline sandbox. Perfect for previewing code from an AI assistant.
Scan	Read QR codes and barcodes on-device, with nothing sent to any cloud. A reader, not an opener: it decodes, classifies and explains what a code carries - links, Wi-Fi, contacts, product codes - and lets you act deliberately. Copy is always the first action; opening, joining or adding is an explicit, informed tap.
Lolly Screen Capture	Screenshot or record your whole screen, a window, or a browser tab. Drag on the canvas to crop - the export stays the exact pixels you captured.
Sign	Place your signature on a PDF, optionally add a Content Credential and lock the result.
Signature	Sign with a finger, stylus or mouse and get a clean signature on transparency - SVG or PNG, no scanner, no photo of a bit of paper.
Snippet	Present text in a desktop window, as a still image or a directed interaction with typing, selections, autocomplete and motion.
Spatial Photo	Drop in one photo and move a camera through it: depth is read on your device, so a flat picture becomes a scene with real parallax, atmosphere and focus.
Stationery	Business cards, letterhead and compliments slips from the design system, each piece sized to its real print trim, ready as a print PDF.
Street Map	Clean vector street-block maps of any city. Works offline.
Lolly Strip Hidden Data	Remove selected DOCX properties or image and PDF metadata, and inspect other Office hidden content, on your device.
Synth	A visual instrument you play. Four scenes run live on the GPU: fluid ink, a particle swarm that flies at your headline or your logo, a feedback field, and your own camera. Every colour comes out of the design system palette, and the picture moves to your pointer, to a music track, and to a MIDI controller. Export a still or a join-free loop.
Text	Find, edit, understand and transform text. Browse brand characters and emoji, work with code and logs, or create ASCII lettering.
Timezone	Turn places and timezones into artwork that follows the design system. Rotate a vector atlas or a detailed WebGL globe, unfold projections, label your people and places, then export artwork, a camera tour or structured schedules.
Trim	Cut, turn or shrink an audio or video clip, take a poster frame or contact sheet, mute it or extract its audio on your device.
Lolly URL Screenshot	Any web page, at any scroll depth, with custom CSS.
Lolly Voice Recorder	Record a voice note with a live level meter and gentle coaching, then save it as MP3.
Wayfinding	Directional event signs - destinations, each with an arrow. Print-ready.
Wordmark	Type a word, get a pure-path vector wordmark in the design system font - recipients never need the font installed.
Lolly Work Avatar	A round profile photo with a treatment and a ring of text - the campaign badge for LinkedIn and every other place your face goes, in your design system's colours and type.