Act I
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The open-source engine that lets any app speak fluent camera — settings, capture, live view, events. Free, today.
Shoot more.Edit less.
Darkgrade dials in your camera, captures the shot, and returns a finished first cut — on your own machine. You stay the director. Nothing leaves your computer unless you say so.
Making videos is ten percent fun.
The rest is menus and an edit that never ends.
We’re deleting the rest.
Our thesis
01Our product, in three acts2026 —
Act II
Studio
The app that sets the scene, rolls the take, and hands you an automatic first edit the moment you stop recording.
Act III
Create
Say what you want to make; get a finished video back. Your footage, your face, your voice — you stay the director.
10–20 hrs
of post-production per video, cut down to minutes.
25 yrs
cameras have spoken one shared language.
0 bytes
leave your machine by default.
100 %
of our code is licensed as fair core. Read the code on GitHub
The hills we’ll die on.
02Principles/01
You’re never replaced
No AI slop, no fake people. We make your real footage move faster — and give you back your evenings.
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Local-first & private
Everything runs on your machine by default. We don’t train on your footage.
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Open & honest
A fair core that stays free, fair pricing for the app, no bait-and-switch.
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Fast as your ideas
Camera manufacturers move in decades. An open product moves at the speed of its community.
03The point of all this
Somewhere, two people have a podcast in their heads humanity will never hear.
The world is still waiting on what you haven’t made yet.