Warpstead in two minutes: live apps on the canvas, instant search, full screen and back, a photo pipeline from shoot to print, undo from History, and a photo dragged straight into Affinity.

Free

the whole beta, until version 1.0

100

free licenses for the first to register

Offline

search and AI run on your PC

Everything a job needs, side by side

A standard desktop stacks windows on top of each other. Whatever you are not looking at gets buried, and getting it back means digging through the taskbar. Warpstead lays the same things out on a surface you can step back from, like a large desk: everything keeps its place and its size, so you find things by looking for them instead of going through lists.

Merging two PDFs: two pages dragged from the lookbook into the portfolio, with the client folder alongside.

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PDFs: merge, extract, split, print

A PDF opens on the canvas as a grid of pages. Drag pages from one PDF into another to merge them, or drop a file from a folder right between two pages. Extract makes a new PDF from the pages you select, and Split cuts a long file every 1, 2 or 4 pages, or wherever you click between two pages. The new files open next to the original, which stays as it is, and Ctrl+P prints the pages as you see them. Nothing goes through a website: the pages never leave your PC.

How PDF merging works

Three zones of a Wikipedia article clipped into the Research folder, with a note and tags.

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Clip what you read on the web

The Web node has a Clip panel. Keep the article, a zone you mark with the mouse, the selection, the whole page, a screenshot or just the images, with a note and tags. The clip keeps the site’s look and fonts and goes into a single .wsclip file in the folder you pick. A Folder’s Clips view shows them as cards you can search and filter by tag, and each clip exports to HTML, Markdown or PDF.

How clipping works

A project workspace: Blender, Affinity, Excel and VLC side by side, all running.

Your programs, live on the canvas

The applications you already use run as real, live windows placed on the canvas. Put the editor next to the folder it reads from, the browser next to the document it explains. Windows snapped together move as one. When a program needs all your attention, open its node fullscreen, and press Esc to come back to the canvas.

Workspaces by name: Lake House is open, the wedding shoot and the invoices are one click away.

A workspace for every job

Each job gets its own workspace, with a name instead of a number. Switch from the photo shoot to the client project and the canvas changes with it: the programs, folders and notes of that job, where you left them.

The Photographer workspace: the shoot folder feeds the Image node, and five picked photos are already delivered as JPEG.

Folders that do the filing

Folders and tools connect with links that carry files from one step to the next: filter, classify, rename, move. You see what will happen before anything moves, and every step can be undone afterwards.

Retouching in the Image node: light, colour and crop around the photo, the rest of the shoot underneath.

Photos, start to finish

Import a shoot, review and pick the shots, and deliver the finished images to folders without leaving the canvas. Each photo is adjusted in place: exposure, contrast, color, curves, crop and straighten. It’s meant for quick work; for a full raw workflow you’ll still want a raw developer with a catalog.

Small tools on the canvas: system, colour, calendar, clock, calculator, Pomodoro, a to-do list and a note.

Small tools on the desk

Next to your work sit the small tools that would otherwise be one more window: a system monitor, a calculator, a calendar, a Pomodoro timer, a time tracker, clipboard history and notes.

Find any file as you type

Alt+Space opens search from anywhere in Windows, and it’s instant: files show up as you type, from the folders you choose (your user folders to start, plus any drive you add, mapped network drives included), by name, by tags and by file metadata, and the results open straight onto the canvas. Photos can also be found by what they show: type “dog on the beach” and a model on your PC finds them, after reading each photo once. Search runs on your PC and works offline (the photo model is downloaded once); it does not read the text inside documents.

AI that stays on your computer

Images are tagged and described by an AI model that runs on your PC. Your files are not uploaded anywhere for this.

What makes it different

Your programs keep running

The applications you already use keep running as real windows on the canvas: click into one and keep working where you left off.

Your files stay on your PC

Search and the AI that tags your images run on your computer, offline. Your files aren’t uploaded anywhere for them.

Free now, pay once later

No subscription, ever. Warpstead is free while it’s in beta. When it’s mature, version 1.0 becomes a one-time license for two PCs at €79: from then on it takes steady work to keep it right, and the license pays for that. Register before then and you pay €49.

Free until version 1.0

Right now Warpstead is completely free, with no account and no card. The beta is in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11, and it stays free until version 1.0.

Get it free from the Microsoft Store

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