You fill in a few fields and a finished file comes out, with the fonts, the colours and the layout already decided, on your own device. Because the brand rules are in the tool, it is never your name on the off-brand file. Pick the lane that matches what you are doing today.
New here? Start with Make your first file. How Lolly works shows how a tool you use can also run from a script or a colleague's phone, and Questions & answers covers what people ask before they trust a free tool.
Make
Pick a tool and fill it in, or lay a page out freely on the Design canvas.
- Make your first file - one short lesson with nothing to set up: a QR code, downloaded and saved as an editable copy.
- Using Lolly - the canvas, the controls, saving, Projects and phone use: how the app itself behaves.
- Templates - start from a saved layout instead of a blank tool.
- Text in Design - headings, flowing text and type that fits its box.
- 3D Studio - SVG artwork and 3D models arranged, lit and rendered as one scene.
- Utilities - fix a file on your device: share it safely, compare two versions, change its format, get the words out or check a colour.
- Browser extension - screenshot a live web page from the web app, or read a site to start a design system.
Make it yours
Your design system decides what every tool looks like.
- Design System Setup - logos, colours, type and the rest, set once at
#/start. - Lolly Demo in use - colourways on real work, and switching to your own design system.
- Brand architectures - several design systems, or one with several colourways, for one organisation.
- Import a design - a
.fig,.penpot,.ai,.idmlor SVG file opened as an editable layout rather than a flat picture. - Rebrand a deck - a PowerPoint deck moved onto your design system, charts and animations intact.
- Share a design with rules - turn a layout into a tool other people fill in.
Find and keep your work
- Find and recover your work - where a saved, downloaded or unsaved file went.
- Search and Ask Lolly - one field for your tools, saved work, assets and settings, and answers from these guides.
- Settings - what this device can do, your design system read-only and your storage.
- Your favourites and Profiles - starred tools, the details tools pre-fill from and the accessibility switches.
- Sync your devices - the same work on your computer and your phone, through storage you choose.
Animate
Text that moves, scenes on a timeline and motion that stays on-brand. A motion export is drawn frame by frame from a driven clock rather than recorded off the screen, so the same link makes the same clip.
- Animating - keyframes, real depth and a scene camera.
- The sequence editor - clips, overlay lanes, trim and split, transitions and the audio mix.
- Wide Colour and HDR - colour beyond the usual range, on screens and in formats that can show the extra range.
Record and present
Record a clean take with a count-in and a level meter, or put yourself in front of your slides.
- The Design timeline - recording a voiceover straight onto the timeline.
- Make your first file - the audiogram, for when you would rather be heard than seen.
- Presenting with camera - your camera, logo and name over a deck or Countdown, with private controls in a separate window.
- Live pages that take the clicker and Agenda screens - pages and programmes for the room.
Collaborate
Two people, two devices, one design, edited live, with no account and no server in the middle.
- Working together - private collabs between devices, and work collabs through your organisation's Lolly Work.
- Using Lolly - a share link that carries the whole state, or one
.lollyfile. - Use Lolly at your organisation - sign-in, team projects and managed settings, when your organisation runs Lolly Work.
Post
Send it where it was asked for: a link, a print-true PDF, a video, a deck or a folder of variants, all from the same source.
- Export a file - print units, bleed and crop marks, video, batch runs and the export panel.
- Every format Lolly can open and make - the full in-and-out list.
- Creative rights and credits - the licences of what you used, and the credits that travel with the file.
Team playbooks and comparisons
- For your team: sales, marketing, the newsroom and legal.
- How Lolly compares - what Lolly is good at, and when to reach for something else.
- Lolly compared, tool by tool - Canva, Adobe, Figma, Penpot, brand portals, rendering APIs and online converters.