For people who make things

Your projects, assets, tools, and resources
finally centralized.

A turnkey solution where your digital arsenal can live in an organized
and automated hub for your creative endeavors.

See it in action

No account. No subscription. Cloud-ready but not required.

A KeyDeck production, showing its name, type, status, collaborators, and where its files live on disk.
The KeyDeck asset library browsing sound effects, with categories on the left and an inspector on the right.
The KeyDeck toolbox running Line Breakdowns, with drop zones for sequences and transcripts.
The KeyDeck dashboard: a weather strip above grids of app and site tiles.

Every job gets its own home on disk, with its assets, settings, and backups alongside.

The idea

Your Creativity
Library.

A library is a place where every book can be found, used, and tracked. KeyDeck does that for the things you make, the assets you reuse, and the utilities you use daily. Everything is catalogued, shelved, and found in seconds, rather than remembered.

The library structure has been designed so that the file system on your drive or server is clean and consistent. We designed our software to employ industry standard file organizing conventions from a variety of disciplines, so your workflows can be optimally streamlined.

The asset library. A structured table of locations. The Directory: a contact record with Enable as Tag switched on, and the same contact showing in the tag rail. The productions page. The toolbox.

01 — Library

Organised by what things are for

Not by file type. Footage, fonts, LUTs, colour palettes, contacts, paperwork — each lands somewhere obvious, because the shelves are already built.

02 — Browsing

Familiar on the surface, smarter underneath

It browses like a file manager, because that is what you already know. But each category understands what it holds — fonts get specimens, audio gets waveforms, models get a viewer you can orbit.

03 — Tables

Half of what you need to remember isn't a file

Which lens you own and where it is. What you invoiced in March. The restaurant someone recommended. Tables handle the structured half, without a spreadsheet.

04 — Directory

Your address book, doing actual work

Whatever your Mac already syncs — Apple, Google, work accounts — arrives as people, and the studios and clients they belong to. Each one then becomes a tag: footage remembers who shot it, a logo remembers whose brand it is. Filter by a name and everything they touched comes back.

05 — Productions

Work that stays where you left it

Group a body of work, keep its projects and its private assets together, and find it all again in six months — in the app or in Finder, because they are the same folders.

06 — Tools

And the tools are right there

Convert, download, upscale, storyboard, rehearse, sync. No hunting for the app that does the one thing you need at 2am.


Ownership

Your files.
Your folder.
Your call.

On first launch KeyDeck asks where to put your work, and then puts it exactly there. One folder. Ordinary files. Nothing hidden behind a database that you don't have full control of.

We're here to help you with your divorce from your subscriptions, and enable a powerful Interface between you and your digital toolset.

Open it in Finder

What you see in the app is what is on disk.

Sync it your way

iCloud, Dropbox, a NAS, or git. Your choice, not ours.

Back it the heck up

If it backs up a folder, it backs up KeyDeck.

Leave whenever

Your files keep working without the app.

MyStudio.keydeck/│├── KeyDeck/ # your home deck│ ├── Compendium/ # contacts, docs, tables│ ├── Media/ # footage, music, fonts│ ├── Presets/ # LUTs, palettes, profiles│ └── Productions/ # your creative endeavors│└── Decks/ # keep clients separate

Truly yours. Unlike cloud-forward services, even if KeyDeck software ceased to exist, all your organized systems, assets, projects, and metadata would remain organized, and available for seamless migration.


The Toolbox

A Swiss-army knife for digital creativity

A toolbox of utilities for your digital crafts. New, free widgets from open-source projects will become available to add to your KeyDeck.

Everything runs on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to be processed.

The Storyboarder tool in KeyDeck: a sketched frame beside the script, over a timeline of boards with VO, dialogue, design, and music tracks. The Sync Folders tool: a saved job with a source and destination folder, three sync modes, a schedule, and a list of exclude patterns. The Media Converter tool: a queue of nine video files, each with its own output format, above an output folder picker.

Storyboarder — one of twenty included utilities. Sketch, sequence, and quickly assemble a scene against the script.

Media Converter Media Downloader Upscaler Depth Map Music Stems Audio Detector Storyboarder Line Learner Line Breakdowns Shot Tracker Teleprompter Sync Folders Watch Folders Key Mapping Tech Calculator QR Generator Speed Test SlateDeck

Built for this brave new world

KeyDeck is fully customizable, and runs on a system under the hood that empowers your AI-tool-of-choice to handle the tedium of digital creative workflows, so that when you sit down to make magic, you can focus on human work.

There will always be a buy-it-for-life version of KeyDeck, with no advertising — and your data will always be plain files on your drive, backed up as you please.

Our commitment, in full.

Take the helm.

KeyDeck is in active development and testing, and will be available soon for private beta testing. Check out the documentation for more details and features.

Browse the documentation