Turn anything into beautiful noise.
A real-time studio for dithering and generative graphics. Stack 192 live shader effects, dither them with 30+ algorithms, then export seamless loops up to 8K — or ship the live shader straight to your website.
The biggest update yet: a full shader studio inside the dither studio.
Composer turns Dither Studio into a layered effects tool — and everything it makes can leave the app as a video, a still, or live code.
Composer — a layer stack for shaders
Stack generators, materials, filters and warps. 17 blend modes, opacity, luminance and shape masks — the way you’d build a design, but every layer is a live GPU shader.
192 effects
Gradients, chrome, glass, neon, fluids, wipes, blurs, lens flares.
Preset library
13 collections, every palette. Recolour any look in a click.
Export code — ship it to your website
Drop-in embed, a React component or JSON. Or start from one of 60 production website sections — heroes, pricing, bento grids, footers — with your shader as the backdrop.
Cursor & LFO drivers
Drive any slider with a loop-synced LFO, or the cursor’s position and speed.
HD render, no watermark
Stills and seamless loops up to 8K, rendered frame-exact offline.
14 new generators
Aurora, Lava, Thin Film, Crystal, Godrays, Water, Smoke and more.
Native on your Mac
The full studio as an Apple Silicon app — offline, GPU-accelerated, with a fresh icon to match. Or keep using it in the browser; projects move between both.
Free & open source
MIT licensed. No account, no watermark, no tracking.
Stack. Blend. Mask. Watch it resolve.
This is a real Composer stack running in your browser. Toggle layers to see how the look is built — then move your cursor across it.
192 effects. All of them live.
Every tile is rendering in real time. Click one to open it in the studio.
Effects that feel your cursor.
Fluids, flocks and ripples run as real simulations on the GPU — and they react to whoever is visiting your site.
Design it in the studio. Ship it to your site.
One click gives you a drop-in embed, a React component, or a complete website section. A 41 KB runtime renders it with exactly the same engine — so what you design is what your visitors see.
Make the web feel alive again.
A living, GPU-rendered backdrop — exported from Dither Studio in one click.
Source. Dither. Export.
Feed it anything
Images, video, your webcam, live type, 3D meshes, glass, 54 generative patterns — or a Composer stack.
30+ algorithms, zero lag
Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson, Bayer, halftone, ASCII and more — rebuilt as GPU shaders, previewing at 60+ fps.
Frames, loops or code
PNG, GIF, seamless MP4 up to 8K, SVG — or live website code. Save projects to a portable file.
Dither Studio for Mac.
Native, offline, GPU-accelerated. Built for Apple Silicon. Free and open source.
The app is open source and self-signed (not yet notarized by Apple), so Gatekeeper holds it on first open. Right-click the app → Open, then confirm — once only. Or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Dither Studio.app".