Changelog

Version 1.5.0: Prototype mode, screens that move on by themselves and words that keep their spaces

• A splash goes on by itself: a screen can now go on to another with no tap, once its animations finish or after 1, 2, 3 or 5 seconds. In Prototype mode, with nothing picked, set it under "After a while…", with how the next screen comes in. It plays the same in Play, on share links, in the website file and in the React code.
• Make it work does it for you: "Screens that move on" finds a start screen, or a splash, loading, sending or success screen, that goes nowhere, and makes it go on to the next screen once its animations finish. One Ctrl+Z takes it back.
• As in a real app: taps still work while it waits, and leaving it first stops it. The next screen takes its place, so Back never returns to a splash or a "sending" screen, and a screen you come back to with Back stays as you left it.
• No more dead ends: Play says when a screen goes nowhere and offers the next screen in one click. The Share dialog and Check app warn when your start screen goes nowhere, since everyone who opens the link would be stuck there, with the same fix. Press Update link afterwards so visitors get it.
• Words keep their spaces: on a first visit to a share link, "Word by word", "Letters" and "Typewriter" text could run together ("respondersnearby") when its font arrived late. The words now move into place as soon as the font arrives, in Play and on share links.

Version 1.4.0: Prototype mode, picking parts works the same way everywhere

• One click, one part: a click picks the part under the pointer, the whole button, tile, card or list row, never the screen's background. A double-click goes one level in, Esc goes back out, and a click on what is picked keeps it picked.
• A word or a number in a line: double-click it to give it an animation of its own. The line looks exactly the same.
• Select only, Ungroup: the right-click menu uses the words design tools use. Ungroup splits a part into parts of their own, for good, and its link stays on the piece you tap.
• Several parts at once: Shift-click, draw a box, or pick "Select all in this bar", then apply an animation to each or make them one part. Every part picked is outlined, with a count.
• Names you can read: parts are named after their words ("Shelters", "Page dot 2", "Checkbox: Share my live location…"), never "Button" for something that is not one, and no two parts on a screen share a name.
• Right-click shows what a part does, each animation and link with Remove, and the panel has its own right-click menu.
• With nothing picked, the panel names the screen you are looking at, with one line on what to do. Remove all now sits at the bottom.
• Menus and confirmations stay readable: menus open above the side panel and the toasts and move with their part; a confirmation (like Stop sharing) opens on its own dimmed layer; hover previews wait for the pointer to rest.
• The page never zooms away: a pinch over the canvas zooms the canvas. If the page is magnified anyway, Reset view puts it back in the same mode, screen and zoom. Signed out, it tells you how to pinch back instead, so nothing unsaved is lost.
• Play a tap you can see: Play a tap now shows its phone beside the panel instead of hidden behind it. On a small window the phone gets smaller so it fits.
• Fixes: screen names on the canvas no longer run into each other when zoomed out, a centred text no longer shifts when you click it zoomed out, and a click on a small button or icon that a link line runs across picks that button, not the line.

Version 1.3.0: Prototype mode, links you can see, pick and play

• Tab bars keep their tabs: picking several tabs together to give them an animation no longer gives every tab the link of one of them, and no tab loses its "Then also" rule. A link on a whole bar now says "Every tab in this bar goes to ...", with a button that sends each tab to its own screen. In Play and on share links, the tab of the screen you are on never takes you somewhere else.
• Link lines: lines run between the screens and leave each part on the side with no words or buttons in the way. Click one anywhere along it, over a screen too, to change it, play it or remove it, and rest on it to see where it starts and where it goes. A picked part shows only its own lines brightly, and "Then also" lines can be clicked the same way.
• Where does it go? Click a part's dot, or Goes to in the panel, for every screen and menu with a picture and a search. A screen's other states (its Medical tab, say) are listed under it. A new link that replaces another says so, with Undo.
• Drop the dot on a part: letting go of the dot on another part of the same screen asks what that part should do, and when (tapped or swiped), and can scroll the screen to it. Resting on a choice shows it first. What SVG Lab cannot do yet, such as a morph, is said plainly.
• Back arrows: one that goes back by itself shows a dashed "Back" beside its screen. Dragging it onto the screen it goes back to asks whether to keep going back.
• One Play: Play starts from the screen you are on and says which; "From the start" is its own button, and Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+Shift+Enter do the same. Restart says which screen it restarts from, and Play's notes no longer cover the phone.
• Play a tap from anywhere: every link and rule has a ▶ in its panel row, its right-click menu and its line's menu. It plays the tap in a phone over the canvas, with its transition, and the canvas stays where it was.
• In Play: an option's tap area is its whole cell, at least 44 by 44. Show links (L) labels every spot you can tap with where it goes. A dialog as big as its screen can be fitted as a card, and a bottom sheet shows its handle.
• Clearer words: one name per setting ("How the next screen comes in"), "Lights up" rules say "lights up", and every Remove says what it removes. The Start screen list shows only your app's own screens.

Version 1.2.12: prototype share links play everything Play plays

• Share links kept only part of your prototype: a prototype opened from its share link now does everything it does in Play and in the downloaded website file. Before, a link left out what a tap changes besides its link ("Then also", going to another screen included), swipes and the Delete behind a row, sliders, picking one option of a set (the one picked before now goes back), screens that come up over the one before (Cover), tabs that add no Back step, a sheet that stays open until its own button closes it, fields you can type into on a menu or sheet, and fields drawn filled in (they now start with their words). A link you made before today keeps the old copy: open Share and press Update link once to fix it.

Every plan says how many app screens it makes, and MCP early access ends: v1.2.3

• Credits in screens, everywhere: wherever SVG Lab quotes credits, it now says how many app screens they make with the SVG Lab MCP: 100 free credits (up to 24 app screens), Starter 2,500 credits a month (up to 600 app screens), Plus 7,400 credits a month (up to 1,800 app screens), Max 15,000 credits a month (up to 3,700 app screens) and Ultra 37,400 credits a month (up to 9,200 app screens). Top-ups: 5,000 credits (up to 1,200 app screens), 10,000 credits (up to 2,400 app screens) and 25,000 credits (up to 6,100 app screens).
• Shorter plan cards: each plan is one line about the SVG Lab MCP, then its limits.
• Early access to the SVG Lab MCP ends on Sunday 25 October, 12:00 noon Pacific time. No new requests are taken: anyone can connect now with the 100 free credits (up to 24 app screens) every account gets. The early access page opens the setup guide instead, with the address to add to your AI app. Accounts that had early access keep it until Sunday noon, then use their free credits, a plan or a top-up; their projects stay in My Projects and their AI app stays connected.

Connect your AI app from the AI panel: v1.2.9

• One place to connect: the "Connect your AI" button is gone from the top bar. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor from the AI panel in the left rail, which now says you start with 100 free credits (up to 24 app screens).
• The SVG Lab MCP in Usage: until your AI app has used the SVG Lab MCP, the Usage panel shows your free credits and how many app screens they make, with a Connect your AI button that opens the setup.

The new editor layout, for everyone

• New layout: the editor opens in its new layout for everyone: tools in a rail on the left, a bar over the canvas for what you have selected, and panels that float over the canvas instead of squeezing it. Add ?ui=1 to the address to open the classic layout for a visit.
• The bar over the canvas stays: with nothing selected it now says so, names the artboard (click it to select the artboard) and offers Select all, instead of disappearing. Its buttons are never cut off on a laptop screen: the less used ones fold to icons with their names on hover.
• Right-click an artboard for its size and position, and to choose whether the artwork resizes and moves with it. The same switches in the size menu are now said plainly.
• Lock and unlock from the right-click menu: Lock this shape, and a right-click on a locked shape offers Unlock, so it can be freed from where it sits.
• Layers: a second click on the open artboard folds its layers away, and a right-click on an artboard row opens that artboard's menu.
• Uploads work like a library: uploaded files wait in the Uploads panel as tiles with a preview. Click one to place it, or drag it to where you want it on the artboard. A file dropped straight on the canvas is placed where you drop it and kept in Uploads too.
• 20 new icons, drawn for SVG Lab: a cloud with bumps on both sides, sun and cloud, rainbow, waves, hills, bird, fish, paw print, cactus, apple, balloon, rocket, light bulb, sparkles, crown, gem, key, trophy, tag and a smiley.
• Arrows follow your drag: the arrow shape now points from where you press to where you let go, in any direction. Shift snaps it to 45 degrees.
• AI Generate, redesigned: the window has the new look, and the result is shown large, in a frame the shape of the drawing, instead of a small picture in a wide white band.
• Chalk Board: only the board's own tools are on screen now, with Import (SVG or a picture), Export and the way back to the editor in a small bar of their own. One board is shown at a time, a Board button lists your boards to go to or delete one, and editor artwork pasted in near black turns chalk white so it shows on the board.
• Upgrade and AI are easy to find: Upgrade is back in the top bar for free accounts, and AI in the rail is highlighted.
• Usage shows the SVG Lab MCP: its credits left and the design minutes left today. In the MCP window, connected apps are listed once per app, with how many connections each has and one Disconnect for all of them.
• Fixed: a new page after Page 1 was called Page 3, and closing a page could land on the Chalk Board's boards. Rulers now run along the visible canvas instead of under the panels. The Details panel no longer scrolls sideways, its buttons are easier to hit, and its menus have the new look. Dropping an SVG onto the canvas no longer resizes the artboard to the file's size. Typing a new artboard width or height in the size menu and then clicking the canvas no longer throws an error and leaves the menu stuck open: the new size is applied and the menu closes.

Details in the left rail, and drawings that stay in one piece

• Details is in the left rail: one click opens colour, outline, size, position and every other setting of what you have selected. It is no longer repeated on the bar over the canvas.
• AI Generate results move as one: a generated drawing lands as one group, so dragging it never leaves pieces behind. Placing an SVG from Uploads works the same way.
• Auto-trace is in the AI panel again, under AI Generate.
• Duplicate makes its own group: a copy of a group no longer stays joined to the original.
• Fill an area colours the shape itself when you fill the inside of one shape, so deleting the shape removes its colour too, and filling it again replaces the colour instead of stacking a new one. A region walled in by several lines is replaced the same way, and goes when one of its lines is deleted.
• Layers lists each artboard's own things: a large group or a shape from another artboard no longer shows under the wrong one, and shapes on no artboard have their own row, Outside the artboards.
• The bar over the canvas never cuts off its buttons, even after you drag it somewhere else. Too long a bar scrolls with the mouse wheel.
• Chalk Board: a picture or SVG you import appears exactly as it is (no chalk texture, no colour changes) and stays one piece you cannot pick apart, on the board and in the exported file. Only what you draw gets the chalk look. The Board button becomes a dropdown once you have two or more boards.
• Fixed: imported SVG shapes in pure black, red, yellow or any colour with no blue in it came in invisible. They now appear as drawn. Send feedback now also says you can request a feature.

Buying a plan before you sign in

• Fixed: choosing a plan on the plans page while signed out now takes you to checkout for that plan as soon as you have signed in or signed up, with Google or with the email link. Before, you landed in the editor and had to find the plan again. Get Starter and Get Ultra also showed no sign-in window at all; they now ask you to sign in like the others.

One version number everywhere: v1.0.1

• Fixed: most pages of the site still showed an old version number (0.1.0) while the editor said 1.0.0. Every page and the editor now show the same version, and it goes up with every update.

SVG Lab for Business: v1.1.0

• New page, svglab.app/business: for companies that want SVG Lab, the everything-SVG platform, inside their own product: the Design Engine through its API and MCP, the editor inside their app, or their own brand as engine rules. Try the demos on the page, see what is live today and what we build with our first partners, and write the SVG Lab team a letter about what you're building.

Plans show what you get, and Start free: v1.2.0

• See what a plan makes: every plan now says how many app screens its credits design with the SVG Lab MCP.
• Start free: one click on the plans page or the MCP page creates your account, with its 100 free credits, and opens the setup guide for connecting your AI app.
• Choose a plan from the MCP page: the Choose Starter, Plus, Max and Ultra buttons take you straight to checkout for that plan, after sign-in if you are signed out, instead of to the plans page.
• Plans first: when you are signed out, the plans page opens on the plans themselves, on a phone too, and each plan leads with the SVG Lab MCP.

The SVG Lab MCP in Claude: the live view ends on the finished screen

• Fixed: in claude.ai, the live view of a design could end on an empty space where the illustration goes, because the moment the drawing was placed came too soon after the previous picture. Placing a drawing on its screen now always updates the live view, and the drawing's own board leaves the strip once it is placed.
• Fewer approvals: Claude asks you before it uses each SVG Lab tool for the first time. Looking up fonts, components and the design's colours and type, and measuring a reference picture, now go through tools Claude already uses in every design, so a design asks you about four tools fewer.
• No scrolling to approve: claude.ai makes you scroll through a long step before you can allow it. In Claude Code, SVG Lab now sends a screen's layout, the colours and type, batches of shapes and a finished drawing by a short upload link, so the step you approve is a few lines long.

The SVG Lab MCP in Claude: reference pictures it can draw from

• Fixed: the reference pictures SVG Lab found for an illustration were often watermarked previews from stock agencies, and Claude would not copy them, so illustrations went undrawn. SVG Lab now looks for Creative Commons pictures first, leaves stock-agency previews out, and tells Claude each picture's licence.
• New: at the start of a design, Claude tells you once how to stop claude.ai asking before every SVG Lab step: set SVG Lab's tool permissions to Always allow.

The SVG Lab MCP in Claude: duplicating a group and rebuilding a layout

• Fixed: when Claude duplicated a whole group (an illustration, a card), the copies landed inside the original group, so the next duplicate copied the earlier copies too. Each copy of a whole group is now its own group, with the original's name. Copying one shape of a group still keeps it in that group.
• Fixed: a gradient, pattern or filter Claude put on a layout's text or shape was lost whenever it changed that layout (moved it, resized it, edited another part). It now stays, unless the change sets that part's own colour.
• Checks: when Claude checks a design, it now hears about a divider or rule that runs into a drawing, which it used to call clean.

Prototype mode: the play button plays only what you applied

• Just the animation: the small play button beside a picked part now plays that part's own animation, right where it is. It no longer runs the link and jumps to the next screen. To see where a part goes, press Preview the link in the panel.
• Out of the way: the play button is now a small square just outside the part's corner, so it never covers the part or catches a click meant for it.
• The order is easy to find: the order your parts arrive in when a screen opens now sits at the top of the panel, as Order on and the screen's name. A picked part says where it arrives ("Arrives 2nd of 4") with a link straight to the list. After you preview a link, the panel stays on the screen you were working on, so its order and Play from here are still about that screen.
• Back arrows: the "Back by itself" label is gone from your design. Pick a back arrow and the panel says it goes back to the previous screen automatically, with a way to turn that off.

Fill an area works on rectangles and in big projects

• Fixed: clicking inside a plain rectangle or ellipse with Fill an area said "No enclosed region here", because only lines and paths counted as edges. Rectangles and ellipses now count too.
• Fixed: in a project with many screens, Fill an area could answer "Region too complex to trace" for a simple shape, because it looked at every shape on the page. It now looks only at the artboard you clicked.
• Fixed: imported SVGs drawn with arcs (rounded corners, circles, many icon sets) lost those curves and came in broken. Arcs now import as the curves they are, and rectangles with rounded corners keep their corners.

No false "never reached your account" warning after a slow save

• Fixed: on a slow connection, a save could reach your account after SVG Lab had stopped waiting for it. The next time you opened the project, a bar said one change "never reached your account" and that a newer copy had been saved since, when that newer copy was the same change. SVG Lab now checks what your account actually holds, clears the copy quietly when it is already there, and only asks you when something really differs.

The SVG Lab MCP in Claude: illustrations measured against their reference, then made your own

• Measured, not guessed: when Claude draws an illustration from the reference picture you picked, it now reads the picture in its drawing's own coordinates (zoomed crops with a grid, exact colours, and where each colour starts and stops), and after every round it lays the drawing over the picture to see exactly what is still off. It keeps going until the only differences left are the picture's soft edges.
• Then made your own: once the copy is exact, Claude gives the drawing a new pose by turning its parts at the joints and recolours it in your design's palette, so the illustration fits your design without losing the copy's quality. Every illustration goes through this step: the exact copy stays a study on its drawing board, and only the altered illustration goes onto your screens.
• Fixed: in Claude, fitting a drawing's artboard to its artwork used to stretch that artboard over every screen in the project. It now fits only the artwork on that artboard. Watermarks and stock logos on a reference picture are left out of the drawing and out of its measurements.
• Faster in Claude Code: Claude now downloads the reference picture and a small SVG Lab draw kit, measures and compares its drawing on your own computer in under a second per check, and sends SVG Lab only the finished drawing. Before, every check was a round trip to SVG Lab. The copy counts as finished once no shape or colour is off, so Claude no longer polishes the picture's soft edges for minutes. In claude.ai, which has no shell of its own, the same checks still run in SVG Lab.

Big projects pan and zoom smoothly

• No more lag when you move around: scrolling, dragging the canvas and zooming in a large project (for example 20+ phone screens with photos) used to stutter at about 10 frames a second, because every small move made the browser restyle the whole drawing. Each move now costs about a fifth of the time, with no stutter.

Refreshing the page reopens the project you were working in

• Fixed: after you had opened a few large projects, refreshing SVG Lab could open an older project instead of the one you were working in, and kept opening that same one every time. A refresh now always reopens your current project.
• Each tab keeps its own project: with two projects open in two tabs, refreshing a tab reopens that tab's project. A new tab opens the project you used last.
• Lighter on your browser: SVG Lab keeps a local copy of only your recent projects, so your browser's storage no longer fills up.

Clicking, opening and switching to Prototype in big projects without the freeze

• Clicks select right away: in a large project (for example 20+ phone screens), clicking a shape could freeze the editor for one to two seconds before it was selected. It now takes a few hundredths of a second.
• Faster to open and to switch modes: opening a big project and going back from Prototype to Design no longer pause on the Layers list, which now only draws the rows you can see.

AI Generate: your free design goes straight onto the canvas

• Make it and edit it for free: your first AI Generate design now lands on the canvas as real shapes you can edit with every tool, at no cost.
• $3 to export it, with 3 more generations: when you want to export it, one $3 payment unlocks the design for SVG, PNG and PDF and adds 3 more generations (1,500 credits). No subscription.
• Accounts with credits are unchanged: plans and top-ups keep generating at 500 credits each, and the AI apps connected through the SVG Lab MCP keep their first free generation as before.

Prototype mode: swipes that go anywhere, Delete behind a row, sliders you tap

• Go to a screen from a rule: "Then also…" and every swipe can now go to another screen, open a menu or sheet, or go Back. Use "+ Go to…", or click a part on another screen and pick "Goes to" that screen. A swipe right on a row can open its details, a swipe up can open a sheet.
• Every swipe in the panel: Swipe left, right, up and down are all cards under "When swiped or dragged". Each swipe lists what it does, each with an ✕, and you can add another part that changes, a screen to go to, or the part itself going away.
• Delete behind a row, as on an iPhone: turn on "Delete button when swiped part way" on a row that swipes away. A short swipe stops on a red Delete; tap it to delete the row, tap anywhere else to close it. A long swipe still deletes at once.
• Tap a slider's track: in Play, a tap anywhere on the track glides the knob there, and you can keep dragging from that point. The words that show its value follow.
• Make it work finds more lists: rows with no box behind them (a shopping bag's items) and a single conversation or booking on a Messages or Bookings screen can now swipe away.
• ▶ on a part plays its rules: the ▶ on a part now also shows what else it changes on its screen (a list clearing, words changing, a row sliding out), and says what it does on other screens.
• Rules survive your AI rebuilding a screen: when the SVG Lab MCP rebuilds a screen, the rules that change its words or remove its rows now follow the new shapes, and it says which ones it could not match.
• Everywhere: Play, share links, the website file and the MCP all do the same.

Prototype mode: present a deck like a pro

• Speaker notes: each slide's panel has a box for what you want to say. Your AI can write them too.
• Presenter view: press S while a deck plays to see your notes, the next slide or build, a timer and the slide count beside the slide. On a share link, add ?present=1 to open it that way, and a second window of the same link (the one on the projector) follows your slides. Your notes stay private: a share link or website file carries them only if you tick Include speaker notes in Share. Without them, the presenter view of a link still shows the next slide, the timer and the count.
• Jump to any slide: type its number and press Enter, or press G (or Esc when presenting full screen) to see all slides and click one. G also lists every key.
• Play as slides, or as screens: a new switch in the Prototype panel plays any project as slides, or a deck as app screens. It is saved with the project and your share link follows it.
• Words on a card arrive with it: on a slide where everything comes in at once, the label or number drawn on a card now comes in with the card instead of waiting in place.

Prototype mode: fixes from a second test of real apps

• Pasting a copied screen: centred and right-aligned text now lands exactly 16 px from the original like everything else, instead of jumping sideways. Rotated text keeps its turn, and lines keep their spacing. The parts of the copy keep their taps and their "Then also" changes, so a copied screen plays like the original.
• Fields that already show a value: a box showing "Clifton" next to a search icon, or "Milo" under "Pet name", is now a field you can type in when you Play, in sheets too. It starts with its value, and a screen reader reads its label.
• The tab you are on: after Make it work, tapping the tab of the screen you are on scrolls that screen back to the top, in Play and on a shared link.
• Sheets close without a Back step: "Use this area" and other buttons that close a sheet back to the screen under it no longer make Back go to the same screen.
• Plain names everywhere: layers named "stack", "frame" or "container" are no longer shown as names. Menus, the Build prompt and the right-click menu say what the part is.
• Build prompt: a tab bar's tabs are listed left to right, even when one label sits a little higher, and the tab you are on says it scrolls the screen back to the top.
• Share link preview: the picture shown where you paste your link now uses your headings' own font (Fredoka and others) instead of a stand-in.
• Check my app is shorter: back arrows on screens no link reaches yet are one line ("31 back arrows will work once a link reaches their screens"), and a map pin or a bell in a top corner is no longer taken for a back arrow.
• Phone-width windows: the editor fits a 375 px window with no sideways scrolling, and the Design / Prototype switch is at the top of the panel.
• No save when nothing changed: setting a link to where it already goes, or picking the start screen again, no longer saves the project.
• Feel alive keeps photos under their captions: a photo inside a chat bubble animates with its bubble, so in Play it stays under its caption.

Prototype mode: the React code plays what Play plays

• Taps that change other parts: in the downloaded React app, a tap now does everything you set under "Then also": another option gets picked or flips, words change (a name, a size, a total), rows go away and what is below slides up, a sheet closes, the screen scrolls back to the top.
• Looks: switches flip, options and tabs get picked (the others go back), and Like turns only the heart or icon red, never the button or card behind it.
• Swipes and sliders: rows slide away when swiped, and a slider's knob drags along its track with its number changing beside it.
• Charts: Draw, Grow and Follow play in the app as they do in Play.
• Back shows a screen as you left it: its entrances do not play again, unless the screen asks to. A screen set to Cover comes up over the one before and slides back down.
• Decks: a deck downloads as slides that fit the window: arrows, Space or a click go on, each build comes in on its press, and slides change with their transitions.
• Older projects: the fixed success, warning and danger colours that projects had before 29 Sep no longer turn up in the code's colour names, so the download matches the SVG Lab MCP's export.

Prototype mode: the rest of Play in the React code

• Text effects: Typewriter, Word by word, Letters, Blur in, Count up and Underline now play in the downloaded React app when a screen opens, at the same moments as in Play. Words that come in with a deck's build play with that press.
• Pieces of one drawing: when a look moves, grows or fades one piece of a drawing (a switch's knob on its track, the dot of one tab among the tab bar's icons), that piece now does exactly that in the app, and each piece keeps its own colour.
• Ticks and lines copied from another option: the tick of a picked row or the line under the picked tab now shows in the app exactly where Play shows it, as its own small drawing.
• A card's background going away: a rule that removes only a card's background now takes away just that, and leaves its words where they are.
• Tabs: tapping between tabs no longer piles up Back steps in the app, as in Play.
• Decks: the React deck has a bar with Previous, the slide and build count, Next and Present (full screen), and a swipe on a phone goes on or back. Your speaker notes come along only when you have ticked Include speaker notes in Share; then S or Notes shows them with what comes next.
• Faster download: making the React code of a project with many behaviours is several times faster (Tably about 0.2 s instead of 1.3 to 1.8 s), with the same files.

Shared apps: Back and Restart over the phone

• Website file: the app you put on your website now has Back and Restart above the phone, lined up with its edges. Back shows once there is somewhere to go back to, as in Play.
• Share link: Back and Restart line up with the phone the same way.
• One button: when your app changed since you shared it, the Share window shows one Update link button instead of two.

The SVG Lab MCP: fixes from building a 15 screen app

• Moving a screen moves what is on it: when your AI moves a screen, its shapes, layouts, drawings and links go with it, the way dragging a board does in the editor. Before, the frame moved and everything on it stayed behind.
• Your AI can delete a screen: in Claude it can now delete a screen and everything on it in one step, and it says which links went with it and which screens linked to it. One undo brings it all back.
• No leftovers from a failed build: if your AI's screen layout stops halfway (for example a text with only spaces), nothing it drew is left behind, and a failed rebuild keeps the screen as it was.
• One undo after a rebuild: undoing your AI's rebuild of a screen now brings the old screen back. Before, it left the screen empty.
• Drawings keep their line weight in a smaller space: a drawing your AI places into a picture space now scales its outlines and dashes with it, so a big drawing in a small space no longer turns into dark blobs.
• Edits reach the right text: when your AI changes the size of a headline that sits after a group, the headline now changes, not the text after it.
• What it sees matches what it measures: the picture your AI looks at now draws Inter, Fraunces and other fonts with optical sizes exactly as the editor does, so text it measured to fit no longer looks too wide. Texts in Source Serif 4 can now be placed.
• The right button when words repeat: when a title and a button read the same words, your AI's menu or dialog now opens from the button, and it says which one it picked.

Prototype mode: the last rough edges in Play

• Sheets cover the tab bar: on a tall screen with a tab bar pinned at the bottom, a sheet or menu now sits over the bar, so a button in the sheet does what it says instead of opening the tab underneath. Play, share links and the website file.
• Delete behind a row in a sheet: a row in a sheet or menu that stops on a red Delete now shows the Delete right behind the row.
• A link and a "go" on one part: the panel now says a tap goes where its link goes, and offers "Go somewhere else instead", which replaces the link in one step (Ctrl+Z puts it back). Your AI follows the same rule.
• ▶ on sliders and Delete rows: the ▶ on a slider glides its knob to the top of its range, down and back, with its words following. On a row with a Delete behind it, it shows the Delete.
• Undo after your AI rebuilds a screen: one Ctrl+Z now brings back the screen as it was, and the rules that pointed at it.
• Words on a card arrive with it, in apps too: a label or number drawn on a card comes in with the card on app screens, and on a chart the labels fade in as the bars or line finish.
• An audience window from the editor: press S while a deck plays, then Audience window. A second window shows only the slides, follows you as you present, and never shows your notes. Drag it to the projector. Firefox and Safari leave full screen on the first Esc; the keys list now says so.
• Feel alive keeps the drawing order: a piece drawn between the layers of an animated drawing (a neck under a face) stays in its place in Play.
• A whole card swipes away: on a Saved or Bookings screen, a card with a photo, its words and its button is one row that goes in one swipe. A button and a hint box under it are no longer taken for a list, a setup screen such as "Enable reminders" offers no swipe, and the tab bar never slides up when a row goes.
• Tidier arrows: link arrows and the dotted "Then also" lines go round other screens through the gaps between them, and "Back by itself" sits beside its back arrow instead of on the status bar. Clicks still pick your design.
• Website pages keep Back: a link in a web page's nav bar now adds a Back step in Play, as a browser does.

Chalk Board mode: explain things on a board, in chalk

• A second mode: the Editor | Chalk Board switch beside the SVG Lab logo turns the app into a chalk board: a dark board fills the screen, with one small toolbar. Good for teaching, explaining or talking through an idea on a screen recording. The same switch on the board's toolbar, or Esc, brings the editor back on the page you left.
• Everything in chalk: whatever you write or draw on the board has a chalk texture, with dry streaks and soft dusty edges, and an exported board keeps it. Your design pages are never touched.
• The tools you reach for: pen, arrow, line, rectangle, circle, hand-written text and an eraser you drag across what should go. Each has a key (P, A, L, R, O, T, E, or 1 to 8) and V moves things.
• Chalk colours: white, lime, yellow, pink and blue. Pick one before you draw; with Move picked, a colour repaints what you picked.
• Nine letterings: the Aa button picks how your text looks: Felt tip (the new default), Marker, Chalk, Print, Round, Quick note, Pen, Clean or Code. F steps to the next one. With Move picked, choosing one restyles the text you picked. Felt tip, Chalk, Print and Round are also new in the editor's font list.
• More boards: + Board starts a fresh one beside it, Page Up and Page Down (or a presentation clicker) move between them, Clear empties the one you are on and Ctrl+Z brings it back.
• A clean frame, never lost: H hides the toolbar for recording. A small tab stays at the top of the screen to bring it back, and H or Enter brings it back too. The Editor | Chalk Board switch also no longer spills out of the toolbar on wide screens.
• Kept apart from your design: boards live on their own Chalk Board page in your project, saved with it but never shown among your design pages. Export on the board's toolbar downloads the board you are on as an SVG.

The SVG Lab MCP in Claude: it plans with you, and you watch it on the canvas

• It asks first: in claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude Code, the SVG Lab MCP now asks a few questions before it builds anything (which platform, which screens, the look, photos or drawings, and where you want to watch), each with a recommended answer.
• Watch it in SVG Lab: it opens your project in the SVG Lab editor, in the browser beside your chat or in your own browser, so you see every screen made on SVG Lab's canvas. In claude.ai a live card in the chat follows the work too.
• Drawings you approve: it tells you how many illustrations go on each screen (none, one or several) and waits for your OK. Claude draws each one as SVG from a picture it finds on the web, or SVG Lab generates it for credits if you choose. In Claude Code each drawing gets its own helper, so they are made at the same time.
• Downloads as links: every exported screen comes back as a download link, which works in Claude Code too.
• Nothing to change on your side: Claude connected to svglab.app/mcp gets this automatically. ChatGPT, Codex and other AI apps keep what they have today.

Prototype mode: pick any piece of a part

• Pieces inside a part: double-click the number on a card, the name on a row or the icon in a button to pick just that piece and give it its own animation. The card keeps its own. The panel shows where you are ("Card › $12,480") and Esc goes back to the whole part. Its pieces are listed by name, so a tiny one can be picked by its name too.
• Shift-click keeps the rest: taking a piece out of a part, or adding one, no longer removes the animations from its other pieces.
• Right-click: on a part, a menu to pick just that piece or the whole part, link it to a screen, make it go back, remove its link or its animations, and its pieces by name. On a link arrow, Remove link comes first.
• The play pill moves out of the way: the green "opens ..." pill sits above or below the part, never on the design, and hides while your pointer is on the part.
• One record per part: a part's animations and links are now stored once, with its screen, so a card and the pieces inside it never disagree, and they survive your AI rebuilding the screen.

Prototype mode: you decide the order things arrive in

• When this screen opens: with nothing picked, the panel lists the screen's animated parts in the order they play. Drag a row, or use its arrows, to change the order, and choose whether each one starts with the one before it, just after it, or once it has finished. Your shared link and website file play the same order.
• Charts that come alive: three new animations for when a screen opens. Draw makes a chart line draw itself, Grow raises bars from their base one after another, and Follow sends a dot along the nearest line to its place. They work on any part.
• Screens stay as you left them: going Back no longer replays a screen's entrances, as in a real app. Tick "Again when you come back to it" under a screen's list if you want them to.
• A tap's animation finishes first: a button's Pop or Bounce now plays to its end before the next screen slides in.
• Tap the tab you are on: a link to the screen you are already on scrolls it smoothly back to the top. Any part can do this: pick it and choose "make it scroll to the top".
• Back arrows just work: the small back arrow in the top corner of a screen goes back in Play without being linked, and Check my app no longer lists it.
• Play from any screen: right-click a screen's name, or use Play from here in the panel. Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac) plays your app and stops it; with Shift it starts on the screen you picked.
• Try before you pick: point at an animation card to see it on your part without applying it; click to use it. The play button on a part now shows its entrance, its tap and its loop together.

Big projects stop freezing while they save

• Animations and links save in the background: on a project with dozens of screens, adding an animation, a link or pressing Undo used to freeze the editor for up to a minute while it saved. Now only the screen you changed is saved, in about a second, and you can keep working.
• Choosing a screen saves nothing: picking a screen in the Screens list, zooming or moving around no longer starts a save.
• Projects with photos open faster: photos now download several at a time, so a project with a dozen photos opens in seconds instead of half a minute, and they are no longer sent again on the first save after you open it.
• Smaller saves: layout pictures your AI placed are stored once with your photos instead of inside every save.
• No freeze while fonts arrive: opening a big project used to freeze the editor for several seconds when its fonts finished downloading, while every text was measured again one by one. They are now measured together, in a fraction of a second, with exactly the same result. Headings in Lora, Roboto and the other built-in fonts now also get their true size once their font arrives, so their selection box and alignment match the letters.
• Big projects open without a freeze: opening a project with dozens of screens used to lock the page for a second or more while every text was measured one by one. They are now measured together, so the project is on screen and usable almost at once, exactly as before.

Prototype mode: fixes from a full test of real apps

• Joining parts keeps their links: Shift-click a linked button and a label beside it, and the new part keeps the link. A row holding a piece with its own link can be changed again (its animation, its Remove, its arrow's Remove link), and the piece keeps its link. "Link removed" and similar lines only show when something changed, and a shape outside every screen no longer offers a link it cannot keep.
• Links never get in the way of your design: on a screen a click always picks the design, even where a link arrow passes over it. Arrows answer clicks in the space between screens, on a thinner line.
• Big cards and tab bars link like anything else: a card of many pieces is one part with its dot and its right-click menu, and dragging the dot of a piece you double-clicked, Shift-clicked or boxed links exactly that.
• Feel alive is calmer and smarter: it leaves the phone's status bar, the home indicator, slide numbers and drawing boards alone, never makes a tab bar slide in when a screen opens, and keeps an illustration whole and in its drawing order. Picking a second feel replaces the first (your own picks stay), and the dialog says which feel is on.
• Text effects: Typewriter, Word by word and Letters work on text with extra spaces ("ADD TO BAG · $148"). Count up counts the price, not the year beside it, keeps "01" as two digits, reads "€1.299,00" and leaves times, dates, versions, order numbers and "3/5" alone.
• Like turns only the heart red: it is offered where there is a heart or an icon, the words stay readable, and the pop stays inside the screen. Previews keep what is drawn above a part above it, as Play does.
• Check my app reads better: the status bar is never a "button that goes nowhere", icons are named from their layers ("Back arrow", "Close", "Send"), Show suggestions draws as many as it counts, "Keep all" keeps every suggestion at once, and clicking an item keeps your place in the list.
• Share links and website files use your fonts: every font of your project loads (Fredoka, Nunito and the rest), and the "SVG Lab" badge fits on a phone.
• App Store previews are 15 seconds or longer: a short take now holds its last screen long enough for App Store Connect. Stop sharing and Sign out everywhere ask in SVG Lab's own dialog, which works in every browser.

Prototype mode: make it work like an app, in one click

• Make it work: a new button next to Feel alive reads your screens and shows, on your own design, what it will make work: tab bars, switches, chips and other options, segmented controls and close buttons. Untick anything you want to leave as it is, then one click does the rest. Ctrl+Z takes it all back. The phone's status bar is never touched.
• Tab bars work like tab bars: each tab goes to its own screen, tabs swap at once instead of sliding, the tab of the screen you are on is shown picked, the bar stays pinned at the bottom of long screens, and Check my app lists a tab that goes nowhere. A bar your AI named "tab_bar", or any row of icons with labels at the foot of a screen, is now recognised.
• It becomes: click a part and choose what a tap does to it. Selected: it is picked and the ones beside it go back, in the look your design already gives the picked one (its colour, its tick, the line over the active tab). On / Off: a switch flips, its knob slides and its track lights up. Slides here: the pill of a segmented control slides to the one you tap.
• Options in menus: picking an option in a bottom sheet or dropdown moves its tick before the menu closes, and the menu remembers it next time.
• Everywhere the same: all of this plays the same in Play, in your share link and in the website file, and your AI can set it too.

Prototype mode: one tap, many changes

• Then also: under "When tapped", a part now lists what else its tap does, each said as a sentence ("Then the name on Send shows Liam Brown"). Click "+ Change another part", then click the part on any screen, or drag the new + dot onto it, and pick what happens to it: it gets picked or turns on, it flips, its words change, or it goes away. A dotted line on the canvas runs from the part you tap to each part it changes. Click ✕ on a line to take it out; Ctrl+Z works too.
• Words that change: a contact you tap shows its name on the next screen, a size you pick shows in the bag, the area you choose shows on the home screen. Only the words that change are replaced, so "Ivory · M" becomes "Ivory · S". Or type the new words yourself.
• Mark all as read, Clear, Delete all: the rows of the list fade away one after another and what is below slides up into their place, on any list.
• Pages that come up over the screen: a new way for the next screen to come in, Cover, for "More" and "See all": it slides up over the screen you are on, and its X or Back slides it back down. Pick it under "How it comes in" when a part goes to a screen.
• Sheets close the way they opened: a bottom sheet slides back down at the same pace it came up. A button in a sheet such as "Use this area" or "Apply" closes it and can change the words on the screen under it, and while a sheet has such a button, picking one of its options leaves it open.
• Make it work finds these too: Clear and Mark all read buttons by their list, a sheet's own button, and a choice your screens already show elsewhere.
• It stays the way you left it: picked options, changed words and cleared lists stay as they are when you go to another screen and come back, in Play, in your share link and in the website file. Restart puts everything back. Your AI can set all of it too.

Prototype mode: present your decks

• Decks play slide by slide: a pitch or sales deck no longer stops on its first slide. In Play, the right arrow, Space, Page Down or a click on the right half goes to the next slide; the left arrow, Page Up or the left half goes back; Home and End jump to the first and last; on a phone, swipe. A counter shows where you are. Slides need no links.
• Present full screen: press F (or Present) and the slide fills your screen, with black bars around it when the shapes differ. Esc leaves it.
• Builds on click: pick a slide and choose Build on click, and its parts with an entrance come in one press at a time, in the order of the slide's list. "With previous" and "After it ends" come along with the one before. Going back takes the last one away again, and a slide you return to shows complete.
• Slide transitions: None, Fade, Push, Slide and Zoom, each shown moving on its card. Set one for the whole deck or give a single slide its own; picking one plays it on the canvas.
• Made for decks: Feel alive gives each slide's headline, cards and pictures their entrance and the slides a matching transition, counts up only big amounts (never "01" or a slide number), and adds no taps. Check my deck no longer asks slides to link to each other, and Make it work explains that a deck already works.
• The same in your link: your share link and website file present the deck the same way, with its builds and transitions, and your AI can set transitions and builds too.

Share links: a real preview, replies and honest counts

• A preview card on X, WhatsApp and Facebook: a shared link now shows your app's name, a short description and a picture of its first screen, made when you create or update the link.
• Changed since you shared: after you edit your app, the Share dialog says so, with an Update link button next to it. The link keeps its address.
• Answer your notes: in Feedback you can reply to a note, mark it Done (its pin leaves the screen) or delete it for good. People with the link see your reply under their note.
• Views you can trust: a view is counted once per visit, so reloading the page no longer adds views, and the count in the dialog updates when you come back to it.
• A stopped link says so: after Stop sharing, the link shows a plain "This prototype is no longer shared" page.

Hand it over: a clearer Build prompt and the React code

• Build prompt with positions and words: it lists every part of each screen with where it sits, its size and its words, so a coding tool knows which button is which without reading a picture. Copy prompt no longer says a picture is attached when none is.
• Tabs change at once everywhere: the Build prompt and the React code now switch tabs instantly, as Play does.
• React code on every plan: Download React code in the Build prompt makes a React app of your screens, for every plan, up to 200 screens, in about a second.
• No waiting for a no: the screen pictures, the React code and the website file now check that you have an export left before they start, and count it only once your file is ready.

Prototype mode: swipe to delete, and sliders you can drag

• Swipe to delete: pick a row of a list and choose "Swipe left" under "When swiped or dragged". In Play the row follows your finger or mouse, slides out once you pass a third of it or flick it, and the rows below slide up into its place. A short swipe springs back. Swipe right works the same way.
• Sliders: pick the round knob of a slider and choose "Slider". Drag it along its track in Play: the coloured part of the track grows with it and the number beside it ("Distance: 40 km") changes as you drag. It stops at both ends, moves in the steps you set, and you can set where it starts and ends, its step, and how the number shows ("$#" shows $120).
• Scrolling still works: a long screen still scrolls up and down over the rows, a swipe to the right still goes back, and a bottom sheet still slides down, with a mouse or a finger.
• Make it work finds them: rows of a list that has a delete button or a Clear button beside it, and a knob on a long track with a number near it, each shown working on your own design before you tick it. The status bar is never touched, and Check my app no longer calls these parts dead buttons.
• Everywhere: swipes and sliders play the same in Play, in your share link and in the website file, and your AI can set them too.

Prototype mode: Play, previews and the editor, tidied up

• Back means back: pressing Back while a button shows its loading spinner stays on the screen you went back to; the app no longer jumps forward a moment later. Restart and Stop call the wait off too.
• Menus open over menus: a sheet opened from a sheet (dates from Filters) opens over it, and Back or Esc returns to the first one instead of closing both.
• Type into sheets and sign-in forms: search fields and text fields inside bottom sheets and dialogs take typing in Play, and an email field shown as "you@example.com" becomes a real email field next to the password.
• Tabs do not pile up Back steps: switching tabs replaces the screen, as in a real app, so Back leaves the tabs instead of walking through every tab you tapped.
• The keyboard stays in Play: Tab moves only between Play's own buttons and your app's tap areas, never to the editor behind it, and Stop puts the focus back where it was. Screen readers hear only the player.
• Previews you can trust: a tap's Speed shows in its preview (Slow is slower, Quick is quicker), and slow effects play to the end. Underline has a "Text colour" choice, picked unless you choose a colour, so what the panel shows is what draws. With "reduce motion" on in your system, a preview you click plays once and says that Play and your share link show the part still.
• Names a person would say: parts and menus named after raw layers ("icon_button", "icon icon chevron_down line") now show as "Button" or "Dropdown arrow" in the panel, on arrows, in Play, in your share link and the website file, and to screen readers. Your layers keep their names.
• See and steer your links: "Link to a screen…" lists your menus and sheets too. With nothing picked, the panel shows every link into the screen, and a click goes to it. "Hide link arrows" clears the canvas while the picked part's arrow still shows.
• Deleting a screen says what goes: the dialog and the status line say how many of its links and animations go with it and how many links to it will go nowhere. Ctrl+Z brings it all back.
• Locked parts: Check my app no longer links a part you locked (it could not be clicked anyway); it says to unlock it in Layers first.
• The editor stays put: at a 1024 px window the top bar fits and the page can no longer scroll sideways and get stuck. The Design / Prototype switch stays under your pointer, and switching keeps your zoom and the screen you were on. The zoom bar and floating panels no longer cover the part you picked or its play pill: the canvas moves it into the clear, and the link menu opens above the Screens panel.
• Your AI sessions: after you open another project, the editor checks only that project's AI sessions.

Your AI's screen moves and last edits now save

• Moved screens stay moved: when your AI moved a screen to a new place through the SVG Lab MCP, the save could be refused and the screen jumped back where it was. Moving a screen, clearing one, moving its contents to another or rebuilding it now saves, while a window with an out of date copy of your project is still stopped from saving over it.
• The last edit is not cut off: when your AI went quiet while a big save was still uploading, its editor could close before the save finished. It now waits for that save to land first.

An old browser tab can no longer erase your artboards

• What went wrong: a project tab left open for a day and reopened by the browser showed an out-of-date copy, and when it saved, that copy replaced the real project: every artboard came back empty. This is fixed, and your account now refuses that kind of save on its own as well.
• Out-of-date copy, read-only: if your saved project takes too long to load, the editor shows your last copy with "Loading your account" in the save chip and does not save it. Saving starts once the real project is on screen; the load is tried again on its own.
• A save never deletes an artboard you still have: an artboard you cleared keeps its place in your account, and an artboard is only removed from your account after you deleted it in the editor. A save that would have removed artboards still on your screens is refused and the project is reloaded instead.
• Stored artwork is kept longer: drawings kept in storage are only tidied away a day after nothing points at them, not minutes.

Prototype mode: make your screens work like a real app

• Pick how each part moves by watching it: switch to Prototype at the top of the right-hand panel, click a button, card, title or icon, and choose an animation from live previews: when it is tapped, when its screen opens, its text, or all the time. Adjust strength, speed and direction by eye.
• Link screens by dragging: drag the dot on a part to another screen. Menus, side menus, bottom sheets and dialogs open over a screen, with starters when your design has none.
• Make it feel alive in one click: watch three feels on your own screen (calm, snappy, playful) and pick one. Every button, card and title gets it. Remove all animations, or all links, takes them off again in one click, and Ctrl+Z brings them back.
• Play your app: tap through it from the start screen. Long screens and web pages scroll with their top and bottom bars pinned, switches flip, text fields take typing, buttons can show a loading spinner, swipes go forward and back, and every screen remembers what you did on it.
• Check my app: finds buttons that go nowhere, screens nobody can reach and links to deleted screens, and suggests the missing links. A tab bar linked as one piece is split so each tab goes to its own screen, in one click.
• Share a link: anyone can open it on their phone, no account needed, and leave notes everyone with the link can see. Links expire after 24 hours unless you pick 1 hour, 3, 7 or 30 days. A QR code opens it on your phone, and new notes show on the Share button.
• Put it on your website: download one HTML file that plays your app, animations and taps included.
• Make a video: record your app as an MP4 for X, or as an App Store preview at the size Apple asks for (Chrome or Edge on a computer).
• Build it for real: the React code export follows your links and animations, and Build prompt gives Lovable, Bolt or v0 a description of every screen, link and animation, with a picture of each screen.

Watch each piece of your AI design being drawn

• Piece by piece: while you watch an AI design in your project, what it adds no longer appears all at once. Its cursor visits each new piece in turn: boxes are drawn from their corner, pictures drop into their frames and text is written from left to right, and the cursor says what it is doing ("Drawing a box", "Writing ..."). Your design itself is never held back; this only changes how it is shown.
• Live in ChatGPT too: the live view beside your ChatGPT chat now shows the AI's cursor on the screen being designed. Each new picture is revealed piece by piece over the last one, and between steps it says it is thinking and for how long, so you can see the work is moving. As soon as the first screen is drawn it asks ChatGPT to open it beside the chat, and it says Done when the AI has finished, or Paused, with how long ago it last changed, when the AI goes quiet. New chats always get the newest live view.
• Drawn live on every screen: when the AI works on several screens at once, the live view beside your ChatGPT chat now draws each screen piece by piece too, instead of switching to it all at once.
• Icons stay with their labels: when your AI builds a tab bar, each tab's icon and label are now one group, and so is any icon set beside its label, a logo or a card it draws as one thing. One click picks the whole item; Alt-click still picks a single piece inside it.
• Boards stay apart: a new board your AI adds is never placed on top of another one, so a drawing or a screen no longer shows parts of its neighbours in its pictures and exports.
• Knows when the AI is done: when an AI stops working in your project without saying it has finished, SVG Lab now hands its artboards back to you about two minutes after its last step, instead of showing it at work for up to 15 minutes.
• Decks open cleanly in Google Slides: in a PowerPoint file your AI exports, headings and lines now keep the breaks you designed when opened in Google Slides, instead of wrapping onto an extra line and running into the text below.
• Post images arrive as a ZIP: asking your AI for a deck's square post images now gives you a ZIP of the images, where before the link failed.

Exported text keeps its spacing

• Spaces in your own font: exported SVGs, PNGs and PDFs now carry the space character of every font you use, so words keep the same spacing as on your canvas instead of taking the spaces from a stand-in font.
• Watch your AI design, live: while ChatGPT, Claude or another AI works in your project, its cursor moves to what it just changed and says what it is doing, new shapes fade in where they land, the view follows the artboard it is working on (switch Follow off to look around), and a small card lists its last steps and how long it has been working. Between steps it says it is thinking.

Imported SVGs look exactly as they do in your browser

• What the file shows is what you get: importing or dropping an SVG file, and drawings your AI brings in, now keep rotated and skewed shapes, rounded corners, arcs and curves, reused symbols, clipping and masks, transparency, gradients, dashed lines and mixed text styles. Before, some of these came in flat, moved or missing.
• Drawings stay intact when moved: a clipped, masked or gradient-filled drawing keeps its look when you copy it or fit it into another artboard.

Every picture is drawn from a reference

• No more pictures made of circles (Codex and ChatGPT Work mode): a person, an avatar, an animal or any other picture can no longer be put together from basic shapes straight on your screens. Your AI is stopped and shown how to copy it from a reference picture on its own drawing artboard first, then place it, so the drawings in your screens are real drawings.
• Code exports are checked too: exporting screens as code now passes the same checks as exporting them as SVG, so an unfinished drawing cannot slip through that way.
• No traced artwork: SVG Lab now refuses outlines that look machine traced, from any tool or script, in ChatGPT and Codex. A trace is hundreds of tangled shapes you cannot edit or animate; your drawings are built part by part instead.
• A drawing for each thing your screens show: in ChatGPT Work mode and Codex, each illustration starts from a reference search, then three new versions made with the app's image generation, and is drawn by hand from the best one. A lesson about watercolours gets a painting, not the same picture reused on every screen.
• New projects start clean: a new project no longer carries symbols, gradients or filters over from the project you had open before.

Better drawings in ChatGPT and Codex

• Drawn from a reference: when ChatGPT or Codex designs with SVG Lab, each illustration is now drawn from a reference picture on its own artboard and checked against it, instead of being put together from basic shapes on the screen.
• A new picture, copied exactly: your AI app first makes three altered versions of the picture it found with its own image generator, without stopping to ask, so nobody's picture is used. Your drawing then copies the best version exactly, instead of a loose version of it.
• References stay private: the picture your AI draws from can no longer be placed into one of your projects or exports.
• No more stuck exports: a drawing that matches its reference closely (75 out of 100 or better) no longer stops your screens from exporting. Your AI is told what is still unfinished, with the drawing's real score.
• No skipped references: in Codex and in ChatGPT's Work mode, once your AI loads a reference picture, your screens only export after a drawing copies it. If your AI skips that step, the export tells it exactly what to draw first, so you get the drawing you asked for rather than a rough stand-in.
• Chat mode always finishes: in ChatGPT's Chat mode, an unfinished drawing no longer stops your screens from being placed or exported. You get every screen, and your AI is told which drawing still differs from its reference.

SVG Lab inside ChatGPT

• The editor in ChatGPT's sidebar: with SVG Lab connected to ChatGPT, SVG Lab now appears in ChatGPT's sidebar (the Explore menu). It opens the SVG Lab editor full screen inside ChatGPT, already signed in to your SVG Lab account, with My Projects. Free accounts get it too.
• Live design beside the conversation: in a conversation, open More, then Plugins, then Live design, and the design SVG Lab is making stays open in a panel beside the chat, following each screen as it is made.
• Open in SVG Lab opens your project: ChatGPT's own Open in SVG Lab button on SVG Lab's cards now opens your project in the full editor, instead of the SVG Lab home page.
• Room for the message box: the editor in ChatGPT's sidebar now keeps clear of the space ChatGPT reports as covered, so its zoom bar and status line stay in view, and it shows "Opening SVG Lab..." until the editor is ready instead of an empty dark panel.
• SVG Lab's own icon: SVG Lab's entries in ChatGPT's menus now show the SVG Lab mark instead of a blank square.

Your project opens sooner

• Faster start after sign-in: SVG Lab now opens your saved project while it checks your account, instead of waiting for that check first, so your work appears about a second and a half sooner each time you open the editor signed in, in the browser and in ChatGPT's sidebar alike.

Credits for everything, Starter and Ultra plans, and a plans page

• Credits: SVG Lab now counts in credits, with one balance for the SVG Lab MCP, AI Generate and Auto-trace. A tool call your AI makes costs 1 credit, a reference image search 2, an auto-trace 5 and an AI generation 500. Anything that fails costs nothing. The Billing page lists what each action costs and how many credits you have left.
• New plans: Starter ($7 a month, 2,500 credits, up to 600 app screens) and Ultra ($99 a month, 37,400 credits, up to 9,200 app screens) join Plus ($20 a month, now 7,400 credits, up to 1,800 app screens) and Max ($40 a month, 15,000 credits, up to 3,700 app screens). Every paid plan includes the SVG Lab MCP, and plan credits renew each billing month.
• Top-up packs: $10 for 5,000 credits (up to 1,200 app screens), $25 for 10,000 credits (up to 2,400 app screens) or $50 for 25,000 credits (up to 6,100 app screens), on any plan, Free included. Top-up credits never expire.
• AI Generate with credits: every account's first AI generation is free again. After that, any signed-in account with enough credits can use AI Generate, Free included with top-up credits. Pro and Studio keep their monthly generations as they are.
• 100 free credits (up to 24 app screens): every account still gets 100 free credits (up to 24 app screens) once. Each action is paid from your plan's credits first, then your free credits, then top-up credits.
• A plans page: svglab.app/plans shows what each plan includes, what each action costs in credits, and how top-ups work.
• The same tools on every account (Codex and ChatGPT): an AI app connected at svglab.app/mcp/openai now sees all of SVG Lab's tools even when your account has no credits left. Each tool then tells your AI plainly that it is not available on your account and points to the plans page; nothing runs and nothing is charged.
• Safer reference search: the pictures your AI looks at before it draws are now searched with SafeSearch on, and photos for your design (Unsplash and Pexels) are kept separate from drawing references.

Watch your design being made in ChatGPT and Codex

• A live card in the chat: when ChatGPT starts or opens a project with SVG Lab, a card appears in the conversation and follows the work: the screen being drawn, what it is doing right now (for example "Drawing: cow head"), and every screen so far. Tap a screen to look at it, or keep the card in view while you scroll. It needs no sign-in.
• The real editor beside the chat in Codex: Codex can now open your project in its browser pane as it starts, so you watch every change in SVG Lab itself (sign in there once).
• Finished screens in the chat: when the work is done, your AI exports each screen, and each one shows in the conversation with a button that opens it in SVG Lab.
• Photos or drawings, your choice: your AI now asks once whether your screens should use photos, drawn illustrations or a mix. Drawings start from a reference picture, and a later "use illustrations instead" is redrawn in SVG Lab rather than made in an image generator.

Privacy update: the Billing page

• What changed: on the Billing page only, we now record how the page is used and the steps of a checkout (opened, payment started, paid or closed), so we can see why some people stop before paying and fix it.
• What stays private: everything you type is masked, your name and email are masked, and Paddle's payment form is never visible to us. The editor and your drawings are never recorded. Recordings are deleted after 30 days.
• Details: the Privacy Policy describes exactly what is collected.

Phone screens that fit every phone

• Try your screen on other phones: the artboard size menu now lists phones and foldables (from a small iPhone to a Galaxy Fold, closed or open). Turn on Responsive and pick one, or drag the artboard's edge: rows and cards stretch, the tab bar stays at the bottom, and a list adds a column on a wide foldable.
• Your design is never lost: going back to the size you designed at puts every part exactly where you left it.

Codex can turn your screens into code

• Code you can build on: when Codex designs with SVG Lab (or any AI app connected at svglab.app/mcp/openai), it can now export your screens as HTML, React, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter, or a layered SVG for Figma, with your colours and fonts as design tokens and every drawing and icon as its own file. You get one download link with everything in it.
• A React app that runs as downloaded: run npm install, then npm run dev, and your screens open as a working app. Buttons, tabs and back arrows already move between your screens, and the README lists which tap goes where. A back arrow works even when your AI left it unnamed, and your AI now tells you which taps it wired.
• Build the app in your own project: ask Codex to build your app from a design you made, in the same chat or a later one (give it the project's link or name). It reads how each screen is laid out (rows, columns, spacing, what stretches, the tab bar, where each button goes) and takes your drawings and icons as files, as SVG or PNG, so your code gets your exact design rather than a redrawn copy.
• One file per drawing: an icon or drawing you used in several places (a heart on every card) is now one file in the code export, and every screen uses that file. A copy in another colour or size keeps a file of its own.
• One design across phone sizes: your AI can also make copies of a screen for other phones and foldables, laid out for each one.
• Plans asked up front: before it starts, your AI asks a few plain questions (who the product is for, which platforms, photos or drawings) so the design fits what you are building.

Cleaner drawings when Codex designs with SVG Lab

• Drawings start from a real picture: when Codex draws the illustrations for your screens, it now finds a reference picture to study, copies it closely on a board of its own, and only then places the drawing in your design. The reference stays private: it is never placed in your design or exported.
• Each copy is checked before it goes in: the Design Engine measures the drawing against its reference, faces, hands and small parts included, so flowers, flags and grass come out as real shapes instead of soft blobs. A drawing that is not finished cannot be placed or exported yet.
• Clean, thin lines: hand drawn lines are smoothed into clean curves, a line drawn twice on top of itself is caught, and line weights now shrink with a drawing when it is fitted into a small card.
• Nothing to change on your side: Codex connected to svglab.app/mcp gets this automatically. Other AI apps keep the Design Engine they have today.

Saving fix

• Work in a background tab no longer waits for you to come back: if one slow moment made the editor think it was offline while its tab was in the background, it kept your latest changes unsaved until you looked at the tab again. It now checks the connection on its own and saves.
• Your AI app can start or open a project after a hiccup: when the editor your AI app drives briefly lost its connection, starting a new project or opening another one could keep failing for minutes. It now reconnects, saves your work first, and carries on.

Connect your AI app the moment early access switches on

• Steps for your app, right where you are: once early access is on, the early access page now shows how to connect the AI apps you picked (Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode or another app), with the others one tap away under Other apps. Claude gets an Add to Claude button that opens Claude with SVG Lab already filled in; Claude Code and Codex get the command or address with a Copy button.
• The steps stay on screen: every link on the panel, including Open SVG Lab, now opens in a new tab, so you can follow the steps while you set things up.

Sign out everywhere

• One button signs out every device: Sign out is now Sign out everywhere, in the editor's account menu, on your Account page and on Billing. It asks first, then signs your account out on every device and browser where you are signed in.
• Disconnect your AI apps at the same time: if you have AI apps connected to the SVG Lab MCP, the same confirmation offers to disconnect them too (ticked by default). If an app cannot be disconnected, SVG Lab tells you which one, still signs you out, and you can remove it from the SVG Lab MCP panel when you sign back in.

SVG Lab MCP fix

• look no longer fails when a shape sits over text: when your AI app checked a screen where a shape overlapped some text, look could stop with "Could not measure the artboard" instead of reporting the result. It now measures the overlap and reports it.

A faster Design Engine for your AI, a support page, and plainer account messages

• A faster SVG Lab MCP: your AI now drives SVG Lab's Design Engine by writing one short script that can build a whole screen in a single step, then looks at the render with measured problems (text running out of its box, overlaps, low contrast, anything past the frame, missing fonts). It decides the look itself, reads the drawing and design guides when it wants them, and gets there in far fewer calls than before. If your AI app still lists the old tools, restart it or reconnect SVG Lab.
• Support page: svglab.app/support lists every way to reach us (email support@svglab.app, or the Send feedback button in the editor) and what to include so we can help quickly. It is linked from the footer of every page and from the editor's status bar.
• Plainer account messages: when your account has no SVG Lab MCP requests left, or reaches a daily or monthly limit, your AI now tells you what ran out and when it resets, without a sales pitch or a billing link. Your plan and requests are on your Account page as before.
• Less account detail in your AI's replies: the connection check no longer repeats your email address or internal account details back to the AI app; it reports your plan and whether the editor is open.
• The privacy policy's contact section now points to support@svglab.app.

Richer designs from your AI: skies that glow, photos where they belong, every font open

• Light and atmosphere are back: your AI can now give a design the depth its subject has: a night sky that fades from deep blue, stars and a moon with a soft glow, a gentle pool of light behind the main picture on a welcome screen, fine grain on a poster. The check still flags the tired look (purple into blue washes, glowing buttons, gradient headlines) but no longer flattens everything else.
• Photos and drawings in the right places: your AI now decides whether your product is led by photos (food, travel, shops), by drawings (kids learning, meditation, budgeting) or by both, and then picks a photo or a drawing for each spot on each screen. A screen can mix them, a photo at the top and drawn icons and empty states below, instead of one screen of stock photos and the next all drawings.
• Room for drawings: list rows can hold a small drawn picture instead of an icon, cards can have a full width picture area at the top, and a picture area with no size given is now generously tall.
• Popular fonts unlocked: the popular fonts every AI reaches for (Inter, Fraunces, DM Sans and others) are no longer off limits. They are listed last, and your AI has to say why one fits your product before it uses it for headlines.
• Finishing no longer stalls on style notes: your AI is held back only by things you would see as broken: text that overlaps or is covered, something outside the frame, a part that came off a drawing, or text too faint to read. Style notes, such as a drawing without detail lines, are still reported so it can fix them or tell you, so it spends its time on your design instead of clearing notes, and it no longer skips drawing a person to avoid one.
• Cards inside cards: one inset panel inside a card is no longer flagged; only a card stuffed with several matching cards is.
• Clearer guidance for your AI: its working instructions are about a third shorter, with new guides on mixing photos and drawings, on what a premium screen looks like in each kind of product, and on when gradients, glow, texture and glass are right. Its replies no longer show a running timer, so it stops cutting corners to save time.

Your AI looks at references, dresses its people and finishes properly

• References without taking over your screen: your AI can now hand SVG Lab a link to a reference picture and see it right in its reply, so it no longer opens stock image pages in the browser tab you are watching SVG Lab in. Before it draws a person it looks at at least one reference, and the project remembers that it did.
• People wear clothes: a person your AI draws is now flagged if nothing covers the torso or hips, and it cannot finish the screen until the figure is dressed for what your product is about (or it tells you why bare skin is right, for a swimmer).
• Finished means checked: when your AI asks for the project link while it still holds your artboards, SVG Lab tells it to run the quality check and hand the artboards back first, so you get the checked version.
• Fewer false alarms: scenery such as rocks in the sea on a map is no longer reported as a part that fell off a drawing, and the detail line check now says exactly what counts.
• Fewer failed steps: when your AI uses a wrong option name, SVG Lab now names the right one ("use patches"), so small fixes such as centering a line of text go through instead of being dropped. The document summary also comes back in pages instead of one very large reply.
• A new colour check: a hot coral or sunset orange accent is now flagged as the colour models pick by habit, so your product gets colours from its own subject. If your AI repaints a screen but leaves the old accent behind, it is told to update it, so a rebuilt layout does not bring the old colour back.
• Every product its own look: SVG Lab now remembers the colours and fonts of your recent projects and tells your AI when a new one starts to look like two or more of them.
• A reference before every drawing: your AI now looks at a reference picture before it draws anything by hand, not only people: animals, objects, plants, clouds and waves too. Until it has studied one in your project, its drawing tools ask it to find one first. Plain lines, dividers, shapes, icons, text and layouts are never held up.
• Drawn only projects: if you ask for no photos, your AI can set the project to drawn only. It then draws every picture itself instead of filling screens with stock photos, still studies photos as references, and the finish check counts its drawings as the pictures a screen needs. The setting is saved with the project.

Outlined text exports whole, and groups keep their names

• Outlined text is complete again: exporting with text turned into outlines, or converting text to outlines in the editor, could cut a line short after a few letters ("Plate 12" came out as "Plat") in some fonts, including Geist, Manrope and Onest. Every letter now comes through.
• Smoother area charts: the shaded area under a chart line now follows the same curve as the line, so there are no pale slivers near the peaks. The label pill on a large chart grows with the chart instead of staying tiny.
• Groups survive export with their names: an exported SVG keeps each group as one group, named after what you or your AI called it, so it opens in other design tools already organised. Your AI can name a group when it makes it, or rename one later.
• References stay put: when two AI sessions work on your account at once, one loading reference pictures no longer pushes out the other's.
• Fewer false alarms from the finish check: leaf stems and veins, strokes inside a drawing your AI grouped as one object, lens rings and small sprouts on a branch are no longer flagged, so your AI stops working around the check instead of drawing what you asked for.

Fewer long waits when a service is slow

• AI Generate now runs on Arrow 2, the newest image and text to SVG model from QuiverAI, the service behind it.
• AI Generate no longer makes you wait through a second attempt when the image service times out. You get a clear "took too long" message straight away, and the try is not counted against your free generation or your plan, so you can try again (a shorter prompt or a simpler image usually finishes faster).
• Auto-trace now gives up on a stuck trace server after two minutes instead of waiting indefinitely, and tells you the trace did not count against your limit.
• SVG Lab MCP: photo search no longer stalls your AI when a photo service is slow, and images your AI hands over in slightly unusual formats (wrapped in quotes, or URL-safe encoding) are now accepted instead of refused.
• When SVG Lab's server editor reaches the end of a long session while it is still saving your work, it now waits for the save to finish before closing.
• SVG Lab MCP: your AI no longer hits timeouts while SVG Lab's server editor opens or when it sends several calls at once. Every call now answers within 45 seconds; if the editor is still opening, your AI is told to send the same call again in a few seconds. Calls sent together now take turns instead of running over each other, and reading design guides now counts as activity, so the server editor does not close in the middle of a task. Your AI can also pause the server editor itself before it stops to think, and it reopens on the next drawing step, so you do not use up design time while nothing is being drawn.

The Design Engine checks the finish before your AI hands it over

• Drawings that read: animals, people and objects your AI draws now carry a few lighter detail lines (an ear, a leg, a rim) so you can tell what they are, and handles and ears stay attached to the body.
• Photos where they belong: the SVG Lab MCP now expects real photographs for the things people browse, buy, visit or meet, alongside drawings, icons and text, instead of drawing everything.
• No filler: loose arcs, rings and swooshes that do nothing are flagged, and so is text hidden under a badge.
• More variety: fonts and colours now come from your product instead of the same cream and red look on every project.
• Status colours match your palette: the green, amber and red used for success, warning and danger badges, alerts and charts are now derived from the accent your AI chose for the product (same hue family, your palette's saturation and warmth) instead of one fixed set shared by every project. Set them yourself in design_tokens to override. The MCP's session_status now reports the daily design-time cap that actually applies to your plan.
• Your AI cannot export or finish a screen while one of these is open, unless it tells you why the design needs it.

Try the SVG Lab MCP free: 100 requests on every account

• Every SVG Lab account, Free included, now gets 100 free requests to try the SVG Lab MCP. There is no form to fill in: add SVG Lab to your AI app, sign in, press Approve, and it starts designing. The setup guide has the steps for every app.
• Ask for SVG Lab MCP access on the early access page and it is on straight away, until 2 October. An email with the setup steps follows within a minute.
• New top-ups: buy extra MCP requests on the Billing page on any plan. Top-up requests never expire and nothing renews.
• The free requests are a one-time trial per account; they do not renew each month.
• Updated billing policy: all purchases, plans and top-ups, are final and non-refundable. You can still cancel a subscription any time and keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
• Design time on SVG Lab's servers is now counted per account, never shared: how much you get each day depends on your plan, and nobody else's use can use up yours.
• Each tool call your AI app makes is one request, and calls that fail are not counted. Plus and Max use their monthly allowance first, then the free requests, then top-ups. Your assistant can tell you how many are left, and the Billing page shows your free requests and top-up balance.

See your MCP usage, live

• The Usage button in the editor now shows your SVG Lab MCP use too: your plan or early access allowance used this period, free requests left, your top-up balance, and your top tools and projects.
• Press More for the new MCP usage page: requests by allowance, by tool, by project and by day, a list of recent calls that updates every few seconds, and your top-ups with where those requests went.
• Only counts are kept: the time, the tool, which allowance paid, the project and whether the call worked. Nothing your AI app builds or sends is recorded, and the history is kept for 90 days.

New plans: the SVG Lab MCP comes with Plus and Max

• The SVG Lab MCP is now open to everyone on two new plans. Plus ($20 a month) includes 5,000 MCP requests a month and Max ($40 a month) includes 15,000. One tool call your AI app makes is one request, and calls that fail are not counted. Your assistant can tell you how many requests are left and when the allowance resets.
• Plus and Max also carry the full editor: unlimited exports, 250 cloud projects, up to 50 pages per document and 250 auto-traces a week, with 25 AI generations a month on Plus and 80 on Max.
• Free and Pro ($3.99 a month) stay as they are, for designing in the editor. Studio is no longer offered. See the plans.
• Early access accounts keep their access, and early access requests stay open until Friday 2 October 2026. MCP sessions are no longer reviewed; see the privacy policy.

No more pairing codes

• Once you connect your AI app, it designs in SVG Lab straight away. You do not need SVG Lab open, and there is no code to type in: your assistant works in its own SVG Lab editor on our servers and saves everything to My Projects, where you can open, edit and export it. The Connect to AI button is gone from the top bar.
• The SVG Lab MCP item in your account menu now opens one small panel: whether early access is on for your account (with a link to request it if not), your connected apps with a Disconnect button for each, and the setup guide. A key for command line apps is still there under Use a key instead of signing in.

Form lines for illustrations drawn through the MCP

• Your AI assistant can now give a flat, one colour object such as a vase, jug, mug or bottle the few curved lines an illustrator would draw: the ellipse of the rim, the turn of the neck, a highlight down the widest side and a ring at the foot. SVG Lab fits each line to the object's real outline, keeps it inside the shape, and groups it with the object, so one undo removes them all.
• When your assistant reviews an illustration, SVG Lab now points out a part that floats clear of the object it belongs to, such as a mug handle a few pixels off the mug, and says how far to move it. Things that are meant to float, such as steam or sparkles, are left alone.
• Fixed: a new project started by your assistant could carry over the colours and layout notes of the project it was working on before. Every new project now starts clean.
• Fewer refused requests: small differences in how assistants describe a shape (an opacity written in a different place, a colour given by its design name, a mirrored half marked as closed) are now understood, with a note saying how they were read.
• The editor's welcome now starts with the SVG Lab MCP: you don't have to draw it yourself. Connect Claude, Codex or Cursor, ask for app screens, icons and illustrations, and SVG Lab's design engine builds them in your SVG Lab projects, and you watch them appear. A Request early access button takes you to the request page, and Explore the editor carries on with the tour. Signed in, a short pointer shows where to ask for access: SVG Lab MCP: request early access in your account menu.
• The early access page now opens with real screens made through the SVG Lab MCP, right next to the headline, so you can scroll through them straight away.
• Fixed: moving or resizing a shape could stop responding and fill the console with errors if the shape was removed during the drag, for example by an undo or by your AI assistant working in the same project.

See where your AI assistant is working, and pause it

• While an AI assistant works in your project through the SVG Lab MCP, the artboards it is using get a coloured frame and a label with the app's name (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor) and what it is doing right now. The artboard list marks them with a small lock.
• Those artboards are the assistant's until it finishes: you can look, zoom, select, copy and export, but changes wait. Everything else in the project stays yours, including new artboards.
• Press Pause or Stop on the label to take the artboards back straight away. The assistant is told and stops working there until you ask it to carry on. If it goes quiet for 15 minutes, the artboards come back to you on their own.
• When you change something while it is paused (move an artboard, add an image, restyle a shape), the assistant is shown exactly what changed when it comes back, tells you in a sentence, keeps your changes, and only puts things back if you ask.
• Fixed: an assistant connected before this update could not carry on after you pressed Pause or Stop, because its app still had the older list of SVG Lab tools. It now picks up again when you ask it to continue, with the tools its app already has, and still tells you what you changed while it was paused. SVG Lab also asks connected apps to refresh their tool list after an update.
• Two assistants can work in one project at the same time, each in its own group of artboards, with its own colour.
• While an assistant designs in a project you have open, your window switches to watching: a line at the top says so, its changes appear as it makes them, and your window leaves its artboards to it instead of saving them too, so nothing gets overwritten and your window stays quick. You can keep working on your own artboards and add new ones. Take over or Pause hands everything back to you at once.

AI apps stay signed in

• Fixed: an AI app connected by signing in (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode) could be signed out after a few hours, usually when it ran several tool calls at once or while we were updating SVG Lab, and you had to connect it again by hand. A connection now stays signed in for months while you use it, and a brief interruption on our side makes the app wait a moment and try again instead of signing you out.
• Disconnect still switches an app off straight away.
• New setup guide: step by step setup for the SVG Lab MCP in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, OpenCode, Windsurf and Gemini CLI, with copy-paste settings, a prompt that checks it works and fixes for common problems. It is written so your AI assistant can read it too and set SVG Lab up for you.
• Connected apps are signed out automatically if an old sign-in is ever reused, which protects your account if a token leaks.

One project open in several windows

• Two windows on the same project no longer overwrite each other: each artboard saves on its own and updates live in your other windows, so you can keep working on one artboard while another window (or your AI assistant) changes a different one.
• Your work elsewhere stays put when an update arrives: your selection, your undo history and any change you have not saved yet on other artboards are left alone, and undo never takes back a change made in another window.
• If the same artboard was changed in two windows at once, both versions are kept: the one saved first stays, and yours appears beside it as "(your copy)", with a message saying so. Nothing is thrown away.
• Changes your AI assistant makes are saved about a second after each step, so you can watch them arrive in your own window.
• Faster editing on big projects: scrolling, panning, zooming and selecting no longer start a save, and a save now only prepares the artboards you actually changed. Your own edits save about two seconds after you stop, never in the middle of a drag.

A lighter editor while you think

• The editor now does almost nothing while you are not drawing. On a project with 500 shapes, the glowing buttons and tabs used to keep the page busy about a quarter of the time even when nothing changed; they now look the same and cost close to nothing, so big projects feel smoother and laptops stay cooler.

Connect an AI app by signing in

• Connecting Claude, ChatGPT or Codex to SVG Lab no longer needs a key pasted into a web address. Add https://svglab.app/mcp as a connector, and your AI app opens a Sign in to SVG Lab page. Sign in, check which app is asking, press Approve, and you are connected. Command line apps such as Codex CLI and OpenCode can still use a private key.
• The MCP window in the editor now lists your Connected apps, each with a Disconnect button that switches that app off straight away.
• In AI apps that can show interactive results inside the chat (MCP Apps, supported by apps such as Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code and Cursor), a design your assistant exports now appears as a small card: the design itself, the project and artboard name and size, and an Open in SVG Lab button that takes you straight to the project. Where the app allows downloads, the card also has a Download SVG button. Other apps show the export exactly as before.
• When your early access is switched on, you get an email that says so and tells you how to connect.
• The privacy policy and terms have a new section on the SVG Lab MCP: what it receives, how you connect and disconnect, and, during early access, that we review MCP sessions to improve it.
• Fixed: AI apps connected by signing in could be signed out after about an hour and start answering "Unauthorized". It happened when the app renewed its connection from two requests at once, which apps such as OpenCode, Cursor and Claude do when they run several steps in parallel. Renewals are now handled one at a time and every parallel request gets the same result, so the connection keeps working. If an app was signed out before this fix, reconnect it once.

63 new fonts, and outlines for Arial, Georgia, Times and Courier

• 63 new fonts in the Text panel's font list, grouped into Sans, Serif, Mono and Display: expressive display faces for posters and headlines, sturdy text faces for interfaces, and a few scripts for a single word. Every one is free to use in anything you make. A font downloads the first time you pick it, so the editor opens as fast as before.
• Projects that use one of the new fonts load it again when you reopen them, and Convert to outlines works for all of them.
• Fixed: PNG exports of text in a web font (Inter, Lobster, Playfair Display and the rest of the list) came out in your browser's stand-in font instead of the one you picked. Exports now carry the fonts they use, so PNGs match the canvas and downloaded SVG files show the right lettering on any computer, even one without the font installed.
• Convert to outlines now works on text set in Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Times New Roman and Courier New. Those fonts are not hosted online, so SVG Lab outlines them with an open font that has exactly the same letter widths (Arimo, Gelasio, Tinos, Cousine) and the status bar tells you which one it used. The lettering stays where it was; only small details of the letterforms differ.
• Fixed: converting text in a font SVG Lab cannot outline (Verdana, System UI) left the status bar stuck on "Converting to outlines…" with no explanation. It now names the font and says what to pick instead.
• Fixed: bold or italic on a font that only comes in one weight (Lobster, Pacifico, Bebas Neue and the other display faces) made outlining fail. It now converts using the font's own weight.

Ask for early access to the SVG Lab MCP

• There is a new MCP early access page. It shows what the MCP does with a live demo and real screens a model designed through it: Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and other AI assistants design and draw real, editable SVG in your SVG Lab account, with no tab open, and everything they make is saved to My Projects.
• Requesting access is one short step: pick what you want to make (app screens, icons, illustrations, social graphics, diagrams, slides), say which AI app you use if you like, and add a note. You need to be signed in, and the page lets you sign in with Google or an email link without losing your answers.
• You get a confirmation email straight away, and another one when your access is approved and switched on.
• In the editor, the MCP item in the account menu now shows Early access if your account is not in the release yet, and takes you to that page instead of a window with greyed out buttons. Once you have asked, it says Requested. Accounts that already have the MCP see the same MCP window as before.
• There is also a new MCP server page that explains in plain words what the SVG Lab MCP server does, which AI apps it works with, what it can make, and how to get access. You can reach it from the editor's status bar and from the About page.

Connect an AI app to SVG Lab

• Update, 25 Sep: Claude, ChatGPT and Codex now connect by signing in. Add https://svglab.app/mcp as a connector and approve; no key needed. The key steps below still work for command line apps.
• There is a new MCP item in the account menu. It opens "Connect an AI to SVG Lab", where you can make a private key and copy ready-made setup for Claude (Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector), Codex and OpenCode. After that, click Connect to AI in the top bar and give your assistant the code it shows: what it draws lands on your canvas, and you can edit or undo all of it.
• One key per account, shown once. Regenerate replaces it and Revoke switches it off, within a minute, for every app that uses it.
• We are opening this to a small group first. If your account is not in it yet, the MCP window says "Production release pending" and the key buttons stay greyed out.
• For the AI on the other end, SVG Lab now builds arms, legs and hands (open, fist, or gripping an object) from a pose description, checks that parts actually touch, and returns exact geometry, so a plain sentence like "a bent arm holding a wrench" comes out legible instead of as a mitten on a bar.
• Later the same day, from the first real session: an AI can now say "hold this shape" and SVG Lab works out where the fingers wrap, warns when an open hand is lying over a tool instead of holding it, draws a shoulder that grows out of the body instead of a ball on top of it, and gives arms and hands the same outline as the body they attach to.

Big projects save properly

• Projects are now compressed before they are saved, so a big drawing takes a fraction of the space and a fraction of the time it used to. A 2.3 MB project measured here now saves as 0.5 MB.
• Photos you drop into a drawing are stored separately from the drawing itself, privately to your account, instead of being packed into the project. Nothing changes in the editor or in your exports, the project just stops being enormous.
• A slow save is no longer reported as a failed one. If a save is taking a long time, SVG Lab now checks whether it actually went through before saying anything, and retries on its own if it did not. You only see a failure when the save really failed, and the message then tells you what happened, how big the project is, and that your work is still open in the tab.
• The topbar shows how much space the current project takes in the cloud. Past 3 MB it turns amber with the two things that help (delete artboards you no longer need, or split the project in two), and past 8 MB a save is declined with an explanation rather than attempted and failed.
• Fixed: the save chip could stay on “Saving” after a save had already finished.
• Saving no longer costs the size of the whole project. SVG Lab now stores each artboard separately and sends only the artboards you actually changed. On a 2.3 MB project measured here, changing one piece of text used to upload the entire drawing and now uploads 50 KB, which is 81% less. Nothing changes in how you work: projects you already have convert themselves the first time you save them.
• The save chip tells you more while it works: “Saving 2 of 11 artboards” while it uploads, then “Saved just now”. If something does not reach the server it says exactly what is outstanding, for example “Not saved: 1 artboard pending”, gives you a Retry button, and reminds you the work is still open in your tab. It never says a save failed when the save may in fact have gone through.
• Saving runs in the background and never blocks drawing, and a burst of quick edits is grouped into one upload instead of one per change.
• Renaming a project now writes just the name instead of re-uploading the whole drawing, so it is instant on projects of any size.
• If part of a project does not come back from your account, SVG Lab stops saving that project instead of saving over the part it could not read, tells you which artboard is affected, and offers to go and look again. Switching to another project in the middle of a save can no longer mix the two.
• Very large pieces of artwork, a traced image or text turned into outlines, are now kept separately from the project, privately to your account, and fetched before the drawing appears. A project stops growing every time you trace something, and the artboard holding it stops re-uploading it whenever anything else on that artboard moves.
• The project size in the topbar is now a button. Press it to see where the space actually goes: every artboard by name with its size, largest first, plus a row for the shapes that sit outside every artboard, which is often the biggest thing in a project and the easiest to clear out.
• If a tab closes or crashes while a save is still on its way, SVG Lab now keeps a copy of that save in your browser and offers it back the next time you open the project: Restore unsaved changes, or Discard. The copy is deleted the moment your account confirms the save, it is never kept while you are signed out, and it is removed when you sign out.
• SVG Lab now loads inside directory previews such as BuildHop, which used to show a blank page. If you open the editor inside another site, a slim bar at the top offers a link to the full editor in its own tab.
• The editor appears far sooner on a first visit. It used to wait for two files served by other companies before it drew anything on screen, and on a slow connection that was several seconds of a white page. Neither file holds anything up now, so the editor paints in about a second on a mid range phone on mobile data, measured here, instead of five to nine seconds.
• SVG Lab no longer needs any outside service to be reachable in order to open. The sign in library is served by SVG Lab itself, and error reporting is loaded off to the side. If a company firewall, a public wifi login page or a country level filter quietly blocks one of them, the editor still opens and still works. Before this change that gave you a blank page with no explanation, which looked exactly like the site being down.
• Large projects open and respond much faster. A project of several thousand shapes used to spend most of its opening time searching the canvas over and over, and clicking a single shape could take seconds. Opening a 4,890 shape project measured here went from 8.4 seconds to 1.5 seconds, and clicking one shape in it went from 5.0 seconds to 0.9 seconds.
• Undo stops eating memory. Every edit used to keep a full copy of the whole drawing, and SVG Lab kept two hundred of them, so on a 1,630 shape project fifty edits held about 313 MB in the tab and the browser eventually slowed to a crawl. An edit now remembers only the shapes it actually changed. The same fifty edits measured here hold about 15 MB, and undo now remembers up to 500 steps instead of 200.
• Ctrl+Z is fast again on a big project. It used to throw away every shape on the canvas and draw the whole drawing again, which took 3.7 seconds on a 1,630 shape project and about half a minute on a 4,890 shape one. It now puts back only what the step changed: half a second and a tenth of a second respectively, measured here.
• Dragging text is smooth. Moving a shape cannot change its size, but SVG Lab was re-measuring every piece of text you moved on every single frame of the drag. Dragging 100 pieces of text on a 1,630 shape project went from 694 ms per frame to 23 ms per frame, measured here, and dragging 100 shapes of any kind went from 248 ms to 37 ms. The real measurement still happens once, when you let go.
• Artboard changes undo properly now. Resizing an empty artboard, renaming it, changing its background or adding and removing one used to leave Ctrl+Z with nothing to take back, so it skipped past and undid your previous shape edit instead. Each of those is its own step.
• Changed: switching pages now starts the undo history fresh. Before this, Ctrl+Z after a page switch could drop the other page’s shapes onto the page you were looking at.
• Selecting a shape is instant on a big drawing. Every click used to throw away the whole layers list and build it again, row by row, even though nothing had changed but which row was highlighted. The list now only moves the highlight. Clicking one shape measured here went from about 100 ms to about 2 ms on a 1,630 shape project, and from 1.7 seconds to 5 ms on a 4,890 shape one.
• Bursts of changes are drawn once. A change that touches many shapes at once, an alignment, a paste, a colour applied to a whole selection, used to redraw the layers list once per shape. Twenty changes in a row now cost one redraw instead of twenty.
• Dragging is smooth on a big project. Dragging 100 shapes around a 1,630 shape drawing measured here went from 13 frames a second to 54, and dragging 100 pieces of text went from 5 frames a second to 60. Opening the same drawing went from 430 ms to 390 ms, and Ctrl+Z from 770 ms to 110 ms.

Faster opening for big accounts

• Opening SVG Lab while signed in is much faster when your account holds a lot of projects. The editor now downloads only the drawing it opens instead of every project you own, so the “Cloud sync is still taking too long” message is gone.
• Account limits load faster too: checking your plan usage no longer downloads your newest drawing behind the scenes, which took a couple of seconds for big projects.
• Fixed: if a project was deleted on another device at the exact moment you opened SVG Lab, the editor could show “Cloud project did not load” with an empty canvas. It now opens your next project instead.
• Safer saves across devices: a save now only goes through if nobody else changed that project since this device last loaded it. If another device saved first, SVG Lab shows you that newer version with a note instead of quietly writing over it. This closes a case where a slow connection could overwrite work you had just saved elsewhere.
• Live updates across devices: rename, save or delete a project on one device and every other signed-in tab sees it within a second. A rename updates the title in place without touching your canvas; a drawing saved elsewhere replaces the stale copy; the My Projects list refreshes on its own while it is open.

AI Generate is live

• AI Generate: describe what you want, or upload an image, and get an editable SVG placed straight onto your artboard. It sits in the editor topbar. Available on paid plans; free users get a preview and a one-time $3 export unlock.
• Studio Annual now grants its full year of 480 AI generations upfront instead of drip-feeding them monthly.
• Fixed a quota bug that was silently refusing metered requests, and made failed generations give your quota back when the provider did not charge.

Export fidelity overhaul

• Gradients, patterns, filters, clip paths and masks now export as they are, instead of being flattened.
• Text on a path exports as a real textPath element, so it stays editable and bound to its curve in other tools.

The blog grows to seven posts

• New guides on the blog: resizing SVGs, SVG to JPG, SVG to PDF, SVG to PNG quality, SVG path editing, and changing SVG colors, alongside the founder story that launched it.
• Every post now has its own social card image.

Five free tool pages + the blog launches

• Standalone free tools, no signup: SVG to PNG, SVG to JPG, SVG viewer with a resizable preview, resize SVG, and SVG to Base64.
• The blog goes live at /blog with its first post, "Building an SVG editor as a non-designer".

Per-artboard locking

• Lock any artboard to protect its contents while you work on the others.

Calligraphy strokes, Fill Region, Magnet snapping

• Tapered stroke ends with independent controls per end, calligraphy style.
• Fill Region bucket tool, Live Paint style: click any enclosed region to fill it, even across overlapping paths.
• Magnet v2: path endpoints snap to nearby strokes, with dual-endpoint rigid snap and an explicit Snap command.

Path editing and billing polish

• Direct select now works correctly on rotated paths, and rotation is baked into exported geometry for every shape.
• Bigger anchor hit targets and tighter path selection hit testing.
• Layers panel: per-row delete button.
• Change plans in place with proration, no cancel-and-resubscribe.

Auto-trace tuning

• Retuned auto-trace presets: stable results, better color fidelity, and more detail preserved at the maximum setting.
• Traced assets now persist reliably to cloud save, and the trace review flow is smoother.

Accounts and support

• Support requests from the in-app widget route to email, with branded reply templates.
• Set a display name in your account settings.

About + Changelog pages, custom 404

• New About page: what SVG Lab is, who's behind it.
• This Changelog page.
• A branded 404 page so broken links don't dump you on Cloudflare's default.

True mesh gradient + PostHog analytics

• Mesh gradient editor. Real per-node bilinear color blending, not the radial approximation we shipped first. Grid sizes from 2×2 up to 5×5, with color resampling when you change the grid size.
• PostHog product analytics wired in: cookieless, anonymous, no session recording. See the Privacy Policy for the full disclosure.

Five new shape tools + compound-path overhaul

• New shape tools: Triangle, Polygon, Star, Rounded Rectangle, Arrow. All with adjustable corner rounding via a slider in the properties panel.
• Text on Path rewrite: drag text along a path to slide it, toggle Above / Below, optional upside-down flip.
• Compound paths first-class everywhere: Knife, Smooth, Offset, Add/Delete Anchor, and Corner↔Smooth toggle all respect holes now (a donut with a hole stays a donut when you cut, smooth, or offset it).
• Symbol editing: detach an instance to edit it. When you re-make the symbol, every other instance in the document updates automatically.
• Code-panel import fidelity: pasting SVG into the live code panel now preserves gradients, patterns, filters, clip-paths, masks, symbols, and text-on-path bindings.
• Defs cleanup: deleting a shape now sweeps any orphaned gradients, patterns, filters, clips, or masks it referenced.

Milestone A: friends launch ready

• Sentry error monitoring: every JavaScript error and crash is now logged so we can find and fix things you'd never bother to report.
• In-app feedback widget (bottom-right of the editor): type, hit submit, no email needed.
• Mobile touch support via Pointer Events.
• 4-panel onboarding modal for first-time visitors. Skippable. One-time.
• Examples menu with three preloaded designs so a fresh visitor isn't staring at an empty canvas.
• SVG favicon + Open Graph + Twitter Card meta tags: links to svglab.app now have a proper social preview.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics enabled (cookieless, privacy-respecting).
• Knife tool now respects shape rotation, so tilted shapes cut at the right angle.
• Chained boolean operations now preserve holes from earlier operations.

SVG Lab goes live

• Live at svglab.app on Cloudflare Workers + Static Assets.
• Rebrand: "SVG Studio" → "SVG Lab" everywhere user-visible.
• Initial browser auto-save shipped here; it has since been removed in favor of tab-only unsigned work plus account cloud save.
• Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages.
• 21 advanced SVG features: linear / radial / true mesh gradients, patterns, SVG filters, clip & mask, symbols, multi-page artboards, boolean ops, blend modes, align & distribute, eyedropper, path offset, text on path, auto-trace, PNG and PDF export, code panel, rulers, and more.