Warpstead in two minutes: your programs open on the canvas, instant search, full screen and back, photos from shoot to print, a step undone from History, and a photo dragged straight into Affinity.

Free

the whole beta, until version 1.0

100

free licenses for the first to register

Offline

search and AI run on your PC

Everything a job needs, side by side

On the Windows desktop, windows pile up on top of each other: the one you’re not looking at ends up underneath, and getting it back means digging through the taskbar. Warpstead lays the same things out on a surface you can step back from, like a big work table: everything keeps its place and its size, and you find it at a glance instead of scrolling through a list.

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

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PDFs: merge, extract, split, print

A PDF opens on the canvas as a grid of pages. To merge two PDFs, drag pages from one into the other, or a whole file from a folder between two pages. Extract makes a new PDF from the pages you select, and Split cuts a long file every 1, 2 or 4 pages, or wherever you click between two pages. The new files open next to the original, which stays as it is, and Ctrl+P prints the pages as you see them. Nothing goes through a website: the pages stay on your PC.

How PDF merging works

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

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Clip what you read on the web

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

How clipping works

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

Your programs, open on the canvas

The programs you already use work the way they always have, in real windows placed on the canvas. Put the editor next to the folder it reads from and the browser next to the document it’s about. Windows snapped together move as one. When a program needs all your attention, take it full screen; Esc brings you back to the canvas.

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

A workspace for every job

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

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

Folders that do the filing

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

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

Photos, from memory card to delivery

Copy the card, go through the shots, keep the best and deliver the finished photos to the client without leaving the canvas. Each photo is adjusted in place, RAW included: exposure, contrast, color, curves, crop and straighten. It’s built for everyday work; for a full RAW workflow with a catalog you’ll still want a dedicated raw developer.

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

Small tools on the desk

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

Find any file as you type

Alt+Space opens search from anywhere in Windows, and files show up as you type. It searches by name, tags and metadata in the folders you choose: your user folders to start with, then any drive you add, mapped network drives included. Results open straight onto the canvas. You can also find photos by what they show: type “dog on the beach” and a model on your PC finds them, once it has looked at each photo. Everything runs on your PC, offline too (the photo model downloads once). It doesn’t read the text inside documents.

AI that stays on your computer

Images are tagged and described by an AI model that runs on your PC, and your files aren’t uploaded anywhere.

What makes it different

Your programs keep running

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

Your files stay on your PC

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

Free now, pay once later

No subscription, ever. Warpstead is free while it’s in beta; at version 1.0 it becomes a one-time license for two PCs at €79. Keeping it right after that is work that never ends, and the license pays for it. Register before then and you pay €49.

Free until version 1.0

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

Get it free from the Microsoft Store

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