What’s new

0.19.0 · November 8, 2026

You can now sign a PDF. In the reading view, Edit and then Sign put your signature or your initials on the page. Draw the signature (with a mouse the line is held a little steadier), type your name, or take it from a photo of one signed on paper; saved signatures stay on this PC. It becomes part of the page when you save.
You can fill in a printed form, even one with no fields. Under Edit, Text writes where you click and lands on the form's lines, rows of dots or underscores, one letter per box in a tax-code grid. Check, Cross and Dot mark printed boxes and Date writes today's. Once saved it's real text that anyone can select and search.
A PDF node opens at the size of the document, like a photo, and wide enough to show all its controls: a one- or two-page PDF fits in it whole, pages side by side.
A PDF form with real fields fills in straight away in the reading view: click and type, Tab moves to the next field, boxes tick and lists open. Saving puts the values in the fields, where anyone can still change them, and they now come out when you print too. On IRS-style forms with a hidden XFA copy, Warpstead removes it so Acrobat shows your values.
You can select the text of a PDF and copy it with Ctrl+C, as in any reader: drag across the words, double-click a word or triple-click a line.
Edit now has Highlight, Shapes and Pen. Highlight follows the lines of text, Shapes has rectangle, ellipse, arrow and line, and Pen draws freehand, in three thicknesses and with a steadier line when you use a mouse. Every mark can be recoloured and deleted, shapes and strokes moved, and when you save it becomes an ordinary PDF annotation that anyone can see in Acrobat or Edge, and remove.
Save as… can now write a PDF/A, the archiving format that public-administration portals and long-term storage ask for: choose it under Save as type in the Windows dialog. Warpstead embeds the fonts and adds what the format needs. If a file can't become PDF/A, it tells you why and saves nothing. A PDF that is already PDF/A stays PDF/A when you save it.
New area in the crop has a fifth choice, Continue the photo: the space you add around the picture fills with pieces of the photo itself, so the sea, the sky or the gravel simply carry on. It follows your exposure and colour changes and saves as part of the photo.
The image node has a Remove brush. Paint over a pole, a passer-by or a stain and a few seconds later it's gone, filled with what was around it. It runs on your PC with a model you download once, and each stroke stays editable: another version, a look at the photo before it, or delete.
The colour for the new area of a crop has its own picker, with an eyedropper that takes the colour from the photo and five colours taken from the photo's edge.

0.18.0 · October 29, 2026

Report a problem has moved to Settings → Report, and it now sends everything we need to find the cause. When something odd happens, press Ctrl+Shift+S: besides the screenshot, Warpstead marks that moment in its log and takes a snapshot of the windows of the programs in your nodes, even in full screen. The bug next to the clock does the same without a screenshot. Later, in the Report tab, you pick the moment, write a line or two and send.
The report comes with a package of Warpstead's logs, Windows crash reports, a description of the PC and the window snapshot, up to 24 MB. Show lists every file before you send it, and the screenshot only goes if you tick it. On a slow connection you see the progress, and Try again picks up with the same package.
Fix: Illustrator drop-downs, like the font list, now open inside the node and stay open in full screen. Before, in full screen they slipped under the program and disappeared.
Fix: a window that stays on top of everything and has the keyboard, belonging to a program in a node, is no longer pushed under the program while you type in it.
If Warpstead stops responding, Ctrl+Alt+Esc closes it and puts the windows of the programs in your nodes back where they were. After about ten seconds without a response, Warpstead also asks whether to close it or wait.
Fix: closing Warpstead while a program in a node was busy, InDesign for instance, could leave it frozen on top of everything, Task Manager included. Now it steps out of the way first, and it no longer waits for windows that don't respond.
Reading a PDF now has a bar at the top. Type a page number to jump there, zoom with − and +, pick Fit to page or Fit to width for small print, or lay brochures out Side by side like an open book. Double-click a point on a page to zoom in right there, and again to go back.
A PDF can now be read full screen, like a web page: the button at the end of the reading bar, or Shift and scroll up on the node. Esc or Shift and scroll down bring it back into the node on the same page.
Saving a PDF now writes the new file next to the old one and opens it again page by page before it takes the old one's place. If Warpstead closes halfway through, the file stays as it was.
Image node, crop past the edge: next to the New area swatches there's an eyedropper. Click it, then click the photo, and the new area takes that color.
Fix: Resize showed 300 ppi on photos that other programs open at 72. It now also reads the resolution that some editing programs keep in a separate block of a JPEG or at the end of a TIFF, and when a file states none it starts from 72.

0.17.1 · October 27, 2026

Two screens. In Settings → Windows and screens, Use two screens puts a canvas on each screen, each with its own nodes, zoom and view. Drag a node past the edge to take it to the other screen, or use Move to canvas from its menu. The dock, dialogs and search stay on the home screen, which you pick on the screen map. With it off Warpstead uses one screen, and now you choose which one: the others stay the Windows desktop.
Full screen on both screens, one program on each at the same time. The keyboard goes to the one you clicked last, and a click on the other screen switches to it without either leaving full screen. Shift and scroll down brings back only the program under the cursor, Win+Esc brings back both. Unplug a screen and the program that was full screen on it goes back into its node, while canvas 2 stays saved.
Chrome, Edge and Electron apps that you bring in while they're already open stop as soon as you look away. Their node now offers Restart inside Warpstead: once you confirm, the program closes, reopens inside Warpstead and stays live on the canvas.
On Windows 10 the yellow border no longer shows around a program in full screen.
Two new photo nodes, in the picker under Pipeline. Clean up removes JPEG artifacts, the blocks and the halos along edges, without changing the size. Upscale makes a photo 2x, 4x or 8x bigger with one of three models: Photo, Fast or Faithful. Connect them to an Image node for one photo or to a Folder for all of them, or chain them to clean up and upscale in one pass. The original stays as it is, and the result is a new file next to it or in the Folder you connect.
As soon as you connect a photo, the node takes its shape. When the run is done, before and after open inside the node, with a line you drag between them; from a Folder, a strip lets you pick which result to compare. Before is the original brought to the same size the ordinary way, so you see what the model added. A Folder of RAW files from any camera, JPEG XL or PSD now counts too.
It all runs on your PC, on the graphics card when there is one, and no photo leaves it. Each model downloads the first time it's needed, 2.4 to 144 MB. Settings → Engines shows them and lets you remove them or add your own .onnx model.
Folder: long file names now run to two lines under the thumbnail, and the one you select opens in full. There is also a list view with details, from the switch next to the size slider: name, date modified, type and size, plus the path when subfolders are on. Click a header to sort, drag a column's edge to resize it. Each Folder remembers its view. SVG files now have a thumbnail too, in the Folder and in search.
The search window (Alt+Space) is wider and splits results by type. All shows the top result and the folders on the left, images as a grid of thumbnails on the right, then documents, video and audio. Tabs show one type at a time with its count: Ctrl+1 to 6 to switch, the arrows move between thumbnails, Tab jumps to the next section. Photos found by content are a grid too, with the full name on the selected thumbnail and a folder icon to open where the photo is.
Search (Alt+Space) also finds the folders sitting right in your user folder, next to Documents and Desktop, even when they aren't among the search folders. They show up at the top marked Not in search, with a button to add them.
F on the canvas now fits the node under the cursor, even when another one is selected. With the cursor on empty canvas it fits the selection as before, and a second F takes you back. A hint next to the zoom shows it until you've used it once.
The manual opens from inside the app. Open the manual, in the band at the bottom of the legend you get with the ? button, and Manual in the shortcuts list both open it in a Web node on the canvas, in the language of the interface.
Fix: Rearrange nodes and Clear canvas, in the canvas menu, now work only on the canvas you're looking at. Before, they also moved or cleared the other one.
Fix: a program you start from its node that asks something first, like the license check of Photoshop, now shows that window in front of Warpstead instead of behind it, where the start used to give up after two minutes. If you lose it, Show in the node brings it back.
The Light sliders in the Image node are new. Blacks now goes all the way to black: at −100 everything below 16% grey turns black, where before it barely moved. Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows and Whites were measured against Lightroom Classic and respond the way they do there, and Exposure rolls off into white instead of clipping. Photos you adjusted before keep the look you gave them; a photo you start from zero gets the new sliders.
Image node: the format chip in the header now shows the size, like JPG · 6000×4000, and a click on it lists resolution and print size, colour model and bits, the embedded colour profile, file size and JPEG quality. While you drag the crop frame, the size that will come out shows inside it.
Crop past the edge: drag a handle beyond the photo and the canvas grows, while the node keeps its size and the photo shrinks inside it. The new area is transparent, black, white or a colour you pick; a JPEG can't hold transparency, so there it comes out white.
Resize, now a tab in the Crop panel, works like Image Size in Photoshop: Fit to with the usual long edges, width and height joined by a chain, pixels, percent, centimetres or inches, resolution, and Resample on or off. It goes larger than the photo too, up to 100 megapixels, and when you do it also offers Open Upscale, which adds an Upscale node wired to the photo and rebuilds the detail. Lanczos in linear light plus a light sharpening, and the result is a new file next to the original with the adjustment, the colour profile and the EXIF.
Drag a photo from a Folder or from File Explorer onto an Image node and it takes the place of the one in the node. Ctrl+Z brings the old one back.
Auto for light now aims where Lightroom ends up on a well exposed photo: brighter midtones, open shadows, highlights pulled back, nothing clipped. It goes a bit more than halfway there, so a photo that was already fine changes a little and a dark one changes a lot.
Auto for color looks for the parts of the photo that are really grey and takes the white from them. When there are none, as in a sunset or a cave lit by a lamp, it leaves the colour as it is, and a strong correction stops halfway instead of going all the way to neutral. On our comparison photos it turned faces green and skies cyan far less often than before. On photos adjusted from 0.17 it also sets Vibrance: more on a dull photo, nothing on one that is already colourful or black and white.
Vibrance was measured against Lightroom Classic too: it pushes muted colours more than saturated ones and goes easy on reds and skin, and at −100 it takes almost all the colour out of muted tones while strong colours keep some. On JPEG and other already developed photos, Temperature no longer gives an error past +103 and keeps warming to the end of the slider.
Image node: Mode, in the node's menu, converts a photo to RGB or Grayscale at 8 or 16 bits, or to CMYK at 8 bits, as Image › Mode does in Photoshop. CMYK comes with five print profiles (ISO Coated v2 is the default), the ones installed in Windows, and Load profile… for FOGRA51, GRACoL or Japan Color downloaded from the ICC registry. The photo in the node shows straight away how that press will print it. Save writes the new mode into the file when the format can hold it; when it can't, or on a RAW, Save as… writes a new file next to the original.
Search (Alt+Space): opening a folder you found takes you straight inside it, instead of showing its parent with the folder selected.
Fix: deleting a file on a network drive or a NAS failed with an SHFileOperationW error. Now it works, and since those drives have no Recycle Bin, Warpstead asks before deleting it for good.
Fix: editing a photo on a network drive no longer leaves .~wbxmp files next to it. The temporary copy used while the photo is saved is now hidden, and it goes away once the save is done.

0.16.0 · October 21, 2026

All your workspaces on one grid when Warpstead starts, each with a thumbnail of its nodes. Enter opens the most recent one. Select a few and press Ctrl+G to group them: groups grow and shrink with what you put in them, and you can move, color and collapse them. From inside a workspace, Shift+Esc brings the grid back, and this is where you switch now: the left column no longer lists workspaces, it keeps only its buttons. If you'd rather start in your last workspace, there's a setting for that.
Archive the workspaces you don't need right now. They leave the search, Mission Control and the grid, stay on disk, and come back from the Archive switch with their group or their cell. Every workspace also has a color you can change from its menu, and you see it in the pill, in Mission Control and on its card.
Export workspaces as one .warpstead file and import it on another PC, from the Import button or by dropping the file on the grid. A PDF's original travels inside, your own files and folders stay paths, and the card tells you which ones this PC can't find. Save a workspace as a template to start new ones from it: your templates are under New workspace and in the + of the left column.
The PDF node no longer writes to the file by itself. Your changes stay in the node, even after you close Warpstead, until you press Save (Ctrl+S), which overwrites the file and no longer leaves a -original copy next to it. Save as… writes a new file and the node moves to it. Closing a node with unsaved changes asks first.
Add in the PDF node now offers PDF or images… and Blank page. A photo or a scan (JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD and more) becomes a page the size of the one before it, and you can also drop it straight from File Explorer.
CMYK PSD files open, and in the Folder they get a real thumbnail instead of the icon of the program that opens them. The Image node has a folder button next to the format badge: it opens the photo's folder in a Folder node beside it, with the photo selected and scrolled into view. The folder button in the search results does the same for the file you found.
F on the canvas fits the selected nodes to the screen, and a second F takes you back to where you were. With nothing selected it fits everything, as before, and Shift+F always does.
Fixes: AltGr types again, so @, # and € work on an Italian keyboard. Printing a PDF after saving it with pages moved or removed printed the wrong pages.

0.15.0 · October 20, 2026

Merge, extract and split PDFs on your PC, without uploading them anywhere. Drag pages from one PDF node to another (they're copied, Ctrl moves them), or drop a PDF from File Explorer or a Folder node right between two pages. Extract turns the selected pages into a new PDF, and Split cuts a file by hand between two pages or every 1, 2 or 4 pages: the new files open next to the original, which stays as it is. In a Folder, Merge into one PDF joins the selected PDFs into Merged.pdf. Print (Ctrl+P) opens the Windows print dialog and prints the pages as you see them in the node, changes you haven't saved included.
The PDF node has no edit mode any more: click to select, drag to reorder, double-click to read with the wheel and a strip of thumbnails, and a bar at the bottom to rotate or delete. Saving keeps bookmarks, links, form fields and the PDF/X profile, and signed files are never rewritten without asking.
Clip from the Web node: the article, zones you pick with the mouse, the selection, the full page, a screenshot, the images in their largest version or a bookmark, with a note and tags. Article, full page, zones and selection keep the site's look, fonts included. Before you save, the page itself shows what goes into the clip.
Each clip is a single .wsclip file. It opens in a Clip node from a Folder, which now has a Clips view with search and tags, or with a double-click in File Explorer, and it exports to HTML, Markdown, PDF or just the images.
Search photos by what's in them: type "dog on the beach" in Alt+Space and the matching photos come after the results by name. It runs on your PC and the photos never leave it. Turn it on in Settings → Search: the first time it downloads the model and reads your indexed photos once, which on a big archive takes hours.
Register this PC for the founder price: one click and your email, and the price is kept for you when early access opens.
Chrome profiles: with Chrome already open, the profile you pick opens a new window inside the node.
The File node replaces Preview file: any file without a node of its own, with its Windows thumbnail, type, size and a button that opens it in its program.
Fixes: Ctrl + wheel no longer changes the interface size, which now only changes in Settings. The wheel no longer stops scrolling after you drag a file out of Warpstead or close a Windows dialog. An app node over an Image node covers the whole photo, and the Title node has the fixed header like the others.

0.14.0 · October 16, 2026

The first beta in the Microsoft Store, free until November 30.