Lolly reads dozens of source formats and writes dozens more. This is the whole set, grouped by what each one is, with a card behind every chip that says in plain language what that format is for and what Lolly supports in that format.
How to read the table. Each row is a family of formats. Anything Lolly only reads sits at the left edge, anything it only writes sits at the right edge and the formats it does both ways sit once in the middle - so a format Lolly reads and writes appears one time, never twice. Tap or click any chip for the full name, a plain description and the properties Lolly handles (transparency, colour profiles, layers, credentials and the rest), plus anything it does not handle yet. The same descriptions are listed in words under the table, one family at a time.
50 in · 56 out - tap any format to learn what it is and what Lolly supports.
Vector
Raster
Layered
Motion
Audio
Document
Data
Font
Tokens
3D
Bundle
Vector (13)
- SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
- Both ways. The web's vector picture format: shapes and text described as maths, so it stays razor-sharp at any size and the file stays tiny. Lolly reads almost any SVG (sanitising out scripts first) and, on export, outlines every letter to a path so it renders even where the font isn't installed. It can carry a Content Credential and even reproduces CSS box-shadows.
- PDF Portable Document Format
- Both ways. The universal 'looks the same everywhere' document. Lolly writes true page sizes at real physical dimensions (A4, US Letter, and so on), outlines text to paths, and can build multi-page documents. It can lock a PDF with a password (a light 40-bit RC4 lock, or strong AES-256) and carry Content Credentials, and it reads PDFs back in as editable artwork.
- Penpot Penpot Export (.penpot)
- Both ways. The export bundle from Penpot, the open-source design tool. It imports as an editable Lolly session with text and shapes intact, and Lolly writes one back: a Design's frames become boards, boxes become editable shapes and text, any other tool's vector render becomes shapes or one picture, and the brand's colours, typographies and design tokens ride inside the file. Penpot is where brand tokens round-trip both ways, since Lolly's palette uses the same DTCG design-token format Penpot reads and writes natively.
- Illustrator Adobe Illustrator Artwork (.ai)
- Import only. Adobe Illustrator's drawing files. Saved with the default PDF-compatible option, an .ai opens directly in Lolly, no export step needed: vector paint, text and images are read straight off the page and land as an editable layout, with type staying as text where it can and complex art baked to crisp vector fallbacks.
- InDesign InDesign Markup Language (.idml)
- Import only. Adobe InDesign page layouts. Lolly can't read a raw .indd, but InDesign's File → Export → InDesign Markup gives an .idml that comes in as an editable, brand-conformed Lolly session, text as text and images extracted, so a print layout keeps working rather than becoming a flat picture.
- Figma Figma Design File (.fig)
- Import only. A native Figma design file (File → Save local copy). Lolly decodes it entirely in your browser, with no Figma account, plugin or API key involved. Frames become editable boxes, text stays retypable, and images are extracted, so a design leaves Figma as a live layout rather than a screenshot.
- Print PDF (CMYK) CMYK Portable Document Format
- Export only. A press-ready PDF whose colours are written as CMYK ink values rather than screen RGB, the way a commercial printer needs them. Lolly declares a target press condition (Coated FOGRA39 by default) so a print shop knows how to read the inks, and supports crop/bleed marks, true page sizes, and outlined text. Load your own CMYK profile and it can embed it for genuine PDF/X-4.
- EPS Encapsulated PostScript
- Export only. An older but still widely accepted vector format for design and print workflows, the kind of file Illustrator and print houses happily place. Lolly writes device-RGB EPS with all text outlined to paths, so it renders anywhere without the original fonts. Export-only.
- EPS (CMYK) CMYK Encapsulated PostScript
- Export only. The print-colour version of EPS, with colours written as CMYK ink values for a press workflow. Lolly writes straightforward DeviceCMYK (a naive conversion, not a profiled one), with text outlined to paths. Reach for it when a print vendor specifically asks for CMYK EPS. Export-only.
- EMF Enhanced Metafile
- Export only. Windows' native vector format, and the one that matters for Office: an EMF pastes into PowerPoint or Word as an editable vector picture that stays crisp when resized, instead of a blurry screenshot. Lolly writes device-RGB EMF with text outlined to paths. Export-only.
- DXF Drawing Exchange Format
- Export only. The file a cutting machine reads: laser cutters, vinyl plotters and CNC/CAD software all speak DXF. Lolly writes outline paths in real millimetres (curves smoothed to a fine tolerance, text outlined, colours mapped to the nearest AutoCAD Color Index that usually picks the cutting operation). It's line-art only, so photographic or filtered regions are dropped with a warning.
- SVGZ Compressed SVG
- Both ways. A gzip-compressed SVG: byte-for-byte the same vector picture as an .svg, just 60 to 70% smaller on the wire. Every vector editor and browser reads it, and Lolly unzips one straight back to SVG on import, so the outlined text and Content Credential survive the round trip.
- WMF Windows Metafile
- Export only. The 16-bit ancestor of EMF, and still the safest vector paste for older Office builds and legacy clip-art pipelines: a placeable WMF drops into PowerPoint or Word as an editable vector picture. Lolly writes device-RGB WMF with curves flattened to fine polylines and text outlined to paths. Line-art only, so photographic regions are dropped. Export-only.
Raster (13)
- PNG Portable Network Graphics
- Both ways. The go-to lossless image format, with real transparency, so nothing is thrown away and edges over a background stay clean. Great for logos, screenshots and artwork. Lolly tags it with an sRGB profile, can boost it to genuine HDR brightness on capable screens, and embeds provenance and Content Credentials.
- JPG JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
- Both ways. The classic photo format: smaller files by discarding detail your eye barely notices, which makes it ideal for photographs but poor for crisp graphics or text. It's always opaque (no transparency). Lolly tags it sRGB, can write an HDR version for bright displays, and embeds provenance and Content Credentials.
- WebP
- Both ways. A modern web image format that packs smaller than PNG or JPG while still supporting transparency, and can be either lossless or lossy depending on what you need. Widely supported in browsers. Lolly can embed Content Credentials; it does not do HDR in WebP (the format's 8-bit).
- GIF Graphics Interchange Format
- Both ways. The old format everyone knows for short looping animations. It works literally everywhere, which is its charm, but it's limited to 256 colours and only on/off transparency, so files are larger and less colourful than modern video. Lolly reads animated GIFs verbatim and can export one, with a Content Credential in its comment block.
- TIFF Tagged Image File Format
- Both ways. A high-quality, uncompressed raster format favoured for archiving and handing to print or photo editors. Lolly writes a plain sRGB TIFF at your chosen DPI (transparency is flattened onto white), can also write an HDR version, and records provenance in the file's metadata. It's a desktop format: browsers can't preview it.
- AVIF AV1 Image File Format
- Both ways. The newest of the small-file image formats, built on the AV1 video codec: excellent compression, transparency, and real HDR support. Lolly can write an HDR AVIF for bright displays. It reads and writes wherever your browser supports it natively, and now carries a Content Credential over its native ISO-BMFF structure - so an AI-made or upscaled AVIF keeps its provenance instead of losing it on export.
- JPEG XL
- Both ways. A still-image format with lossy and lossless coding. Lolly keeps imported originals and prepares an oriented 8-bit sRGB view for editing, including an SDR view of deeper or HDR sources. New renders encode those 8-bit pixels. Convert can also wrap an original JPEG and restore its complete bytes, including metadata, after verification. Animation and extra channels are refused. JPEG XL output does not carry signed Content Credentials.
- HEIC High Efficiency Image Container (HEIF)
- Import only. The efficient photo format iPhones shoot by default: smaller than JPG at similar quality. Lolly reads HEIC/HEIF photos even on browsers that can't open them, using a bundled decoder, so an iPhone photo just works as an image. It's import-only, and it carries no Content Credential.
- Print TIFF (CMYK) CMYK Tagged Image File Format
- Export only. An uncompressed, press-ready raster where every pixel is stored as CMYK ink values for a print RIP. Lolly writes DeviceCMYK pixels at your chosen DPI and records the intended press condition (FOGRA39 by default) in the file's metadata. It's a desktop format, browsers can't preview it. Export-only.
- EXR OpenEXR
- Export only. The film and VFX industry's high-dynamic-range image format: it stores light as floating-point values far beyond ordinary black-to-white, so highlights never clip and the file survives heavy grading and compositing. Lolly's Bitmap Studio writes a true OpenEXR master from its own high-precision float pixels, keeping the unbounded linear light intact. Export-only.
- Radiance HDR Radiance RGBE (.hdr)
- Export only. The original high-dynamic-range image format (.hdr), long used for lighting and 360° environment maps in 3D. It packs a huge brightness range into a compact RGBE encoding. Lolly's Bitmap Studio writes a Radiance master from its float pixels, keeping the unbounded linear values for HDR and lighting workflows. Export-only.
- ICO Windows Icon
- Both ways. The favicon format, the little icon in a browser tab. One .ico bundles the same image at several small sizes so a site serves whichever fits. Lolly writes it with transparency preserved, and now reads one back too: it picks the largest image in the bundle and decodes it, whether that size was stored as a PNG or a classic BMP icon (honouring the 1-bit transparency mask).
- BMP Windows Bitmap
- Both ways. The uncompressed Windows bitmap, the lowest-common-denominator raster a legacy Windows, embedded, or clipboard consumer will take when it cannot read a PNG. Lolly writes 24-bit, or 32-bit the moment a pixel is see-through, and reads both back. It carries the Lolly pixel imprint; PNG stays the display master.
Layered (3)
- PSD Photoshop Document
- Both ways. Photoshop's native format, where an image is kept as a stack of separate layers you can move and restyle independently. Lolly reads full layered files (including 16-bit and CMYK documents, converted through their embedded colour profile) and writes an 8-bit RGB PSD back out with each layer's name, opacity, visibility and blend mode preserved, so it opens cleanly in Photoshop, GIMP or Krita.
- PSB Photoshop Large Document (.psb)
- Import only. Photoshop's 'big brother' format for huge canvases beyond PSD's size limit. Lolly reads it the same way it reads a PSD, layers and all (including 16-bit and CMYK documents via their embedded profile), so an oversized Photoshop file comes in as editable layers. It's read-only: Lolly doesn't write PSB.
- XCF eXperimental Computing Facility (GIMP)
- Import only. GIMP's native layered format, the free-software counterpart to PSD. Lolly reads the layer stack, with each layer's pixels, position and transparency, so a GIMP project imports as editable layers. It's read-only, and unusual precisions (linear or floating-point) are declined rather than misread.
Motion (7)
- MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14
- Both ways. The default video format for social and sharing: best quality for the file size, plays on essentially every phone and app, and carries a soundtrack. Lolly records it in the browser (where the browser can) and can lay a music bed under the clip. It's one of the few video formats that can carry a verifiable Content Credential.
- WebM
- Both ways. An open web video format, the one Firefox and some Chrome setups record. Quality-per-byte is excellent and it carries audio. Because the video standard hasn't settled on a home for Content Credentials in WebM yet, Lolly tucks the credential in as an attachment its own verifier (and the CLI) can read.
- MOV QuickTime Movie
- Import only. Apple's QuickTime video format, common straight off an iPhone or a Mac. Lolly stores it exactly as-is (never re-compressed) and reads its dimensions on your device, so a .mov can go straight onto a timeline or become source footage. It comes in but isn't a Lolly export format.
- Lottie Lottie / Bodymovin Animation
- Both ways. Lottie stores vector animation as JSON or a packed .lottie file. Lolly preserves the original upload, lets you combine clips and edit supported internal layers, transform keys, easing and static fill/stroke properties in Sequence, then exports one composed dotLottie v2 animation. Unsupported source features are reported explicitly.
- Animated PNG Animated Portable Network Graphics
- Both ways. An animated PNG: like a GIF, but with full colour and real transparency instead of GIF's 256-colour, on/off limits. Great for a short, high-quality looping animation that plays in any modern browser. Lolly can embed a Content Credential in it. It has no soundtrack. Lolly reads an animated PNG back in too, kept verbatim so every frame survives.
- Animated WebP
- Both ways. An animated WebP: full colour and transparency like APNG, but better-compressed, so it's the smallest of the animated-image options. Ideal for a lightweight web loop. Lolly can embed a Content Credential; it's silent by nature. Lolly reads an animated WebP back in too, kept verbatim so every frame survives.
- Animated SVG Animated Scalable Vector Graphics
- Export only. A vector animation rather than a bitmap one: Lolly stacks vector snapshots with embedded CSS keyframes, so it scales to any size with no codec and no external runtime, and loops in a browser tab or an <img> tag. Text is outlined so it renders anywhere. Heavier per frame than a bitmap, so it uses a lower default frame rate. Carries a Content Credential in its <metadata>, like a still SVG.
Audio (8)
- MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer III
- Both ways. The everywhere audio format for music and voice: compressed to a small file that plays in any app or device. Lolly's Voice Recorder saves your mic take as MP3 by default (transcoded on your device), and MP3 audio you bring in can become the music bed under a video.
- M4A MPEG-4 Audio (AAC)
- Both ways. An audio-only MP4 file, usually holding AAC-encoded sound, the format Apple devices and many browsers record natively. It sounds a little better than MP3 at the same size. Lolly's Voice Recorder can save your take as M4A, and imported M4A audio can drive a video's music bed. As an MP4-family file it carries a Content Credential over the same binding as MP4 - so a synthetic or AI-voiced clip stays attributable.
- WAV Waveform Audio File Format
- Both ways. Uncompressed, lossless audio: the raw, full-quality sound format, which means large files. Lolly reads a WAV and decodes it on your device, and it exports one too - full-quality PCM audio straight from a tool like the Audiogram or Sequence Studio. It reads standard PCM WAVs and declines exotic encodings rather than misreading them as noise.
- Opus Opus Audio
- Export only. The modern, efficient audio codec built for the web: it sounds better than MP3 at much smaller sizes and is royalty-free. Lolly exports Opus (in a WebM container) as the soundtrack from tools like the Audiogram and Sequence Studio, and reads Opus in too as part of the OGG/WebM audio it decodes. Its WebM container carries a Content Credential Lolly's own verifier reads (the standard doesn't map C2PA into Matroska yet, so c2patool can't).
- OGG Ogg Vorbis / Opus
- Import only. An open, royalty-free compressed audio format (usually Vorbis or Opus inside), a free-software alternative to MP3. Lolly keeps the file intact and decodes it on-device, so an OGG track can drive a video's music bed or play in the ambient player.
- FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec
- Import only. Lossless compressed audio: full CD-or-better quality with no detail thrown away, but smaller than WAV. Popular with music archivists. Lolly keeps a FLAC byte-for-byte and decodes it on your device, ready to use as a soundtrack under a video.
- MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid)
- Import only. Not a recording but a score: MIDI stores which notes to play and when, so the file is tiny and the sound is produced on playback. Lolly converts an imported .mid into a small on-device synth track you can use as a music bed, capping note and step counts so a pathological file can't hang the tab.
- MOD Amiga Module (tracker music)
- Import only. A 'tracker module', the demoscene/retro-game way of storing music as a pattern of notes plus a handful of short instrument samples, so a whole song is only a few kilobytes. Lolly plays MOD (and its XM, IT, S3M, STM and MTM cousins) with a bundled on-device player, ready as a music bed or ambient track.
Document (8)
- PPTX PowerPoint Open XML Presentation
- Both ways. PowerPoint's slide-deck format. Lolly doesn't flatten a slide to a picture: it hands over a deck you can actually edit, where text stays as real editable text boxes, logos come through as crisp vector pictures, and images and tables stay extractable. It reads decks back in too, so you can rebrand or rebuild an existing PowerPoint.
- SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model course package
- Export only. The course-package format every learning management system imports: Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, SAP SuccessFactors and the rest. From a Design deck, Lolly writes a zip with the SCORM 1.2 manifest every LMS imports, a launch page that steps through the slides and reports completion to the LMS, the slides themselves (as vector where the artboards allow it), and the narrated film with its caption track - speaker notes read by an on-device voice. Export-only, and built in the browser: the desktop and web apps make it, the CLI does not.
- HTML HyperText Markup Language
- Both ways. Rich, formatted text as a web fragment. Lolly reads HTML in - a pasted rich-text selection, or an HTML table that fills a tool's rows - and writes it out, most usefully as an email signature you can paste straight into a mail client with its styling and inline logo intact. Generated from content, never a rasterised picture.
- Markdown
- Both ways. Plain text with a light sprinkle of formatting marks (# for headings, * for emphasis) that stays readable as-is and converts cleanly to HTML. Popular for notes, docs and READMEs. Lolly reads Markdown you paste or import and renders it, and writes a tool's text content back out as Markdown.
- Plain Text
- Both ways. Just the words, no formatting, no styling - the most universal file there is. Lolly reads plain text into a tool's fields and writes a tool's content back out as plain text that opens in anything.
- EPUB EPUB 3 e-book
- Export only. A reflowable EPUB 3 e-book: one XHTML file per chapter, a spine in reading order and a navigation table of contents, packed as a valid OCF zip. Opens in Apple Books, Kobo, Calibre and every e-reader, and the text reflows to any screen. Export-only.
- DOCX Word Open XML Document
- Export only. Microsoft Word's document format. Lolly doesn't flatten your writing to a picture: it hands over a real .docx whose headings and paragraphs stay fully editable text, opening cleanly in Word, LibreOffice Writer and Google Docs. Export-only.
- ODT OpenDocument Text
- Export only. The OpenDocument text format used by LibreOffice Writer. Lolly writes a valid OpenDocument package with your headings and paragraphs as real editable text, not a rasterised page, opening in LibreOffice, Word and Google Docs. Export-only.
Data (5)
- CSV Comma-Separated Values
- Both ways. The plain-text spreadsheet: rows of data separated by commas that any spreadsheet app opens. Paste or drop one and a tool's repeating fields fill from it, up to 1,000 rows; export one to round-trip a tool's content back out. Lolly follows the RFC 4180 rules, so quoted fields, embedded commas and newlines all survive.
- JSON JavaScript Object Notation
- Both ways. A simple, human-readable text format for structured data, the common language of the web. Lolly imports a table of rows from it (an array of objects, positional arrays, or a wrapped {"data": [...]} shape) and can export a tool's content as JSON to re-import later. No colours or pixels, just the underlying data.
- ICS iCalendar
- Export only. A calendar-event file that imports into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook and the rest. Lolly builds it from a tool's content (title, time, place) with the dates and text escaped to the iCalendar standard, so a 'save the date' becomes an event people can add in one tap. Export-only.
- VCF vCard
- Export only. A contact card, the standard file that drops a name, number and email straight into a phone's Contacts or an address book. Lolly generates it from the tool's fields with the text properly escaped, so a business card or signature can hand over its details as a real contact. Export-only.
- XLSX Excel Spreadsheet
- Import only. Excel's spreadsheet workbook. Drop one and a tool's repeating fields fill from its first sheet, up to 1,000 rows, exactly like a pasted CSV with the first row becoming the column headers. Lolly reads the cells directly (shared strings, inline text, numbers, dates and formula results). Macro-enabled .xlsm workbooks are refused. Import-only.
Font (3)
- WOFF Web Open Font Format
- Both ways. A web font is an OpenType font (TTF or OTF) wrapped in a compressed container so it downloads smaller. Lolly converts between them losslessly on-device: unwrap a WOFF to a plain TTF or OTF, or wrap one up, rebuilding the table directory and checksums each way. TrueType and CFF outlines both pass through untouched. WOFF2 (Brotli) is read-detected but not yet written.
- TTF TrueType Font
- Both ways. The classic font container with TrueType glyph outlines. Lolly reads one anywhere a font can be added - the brand's Type room, the font picker - and writes one back out on-device by unwrapping a WOFF, rebuilding the table directory and checksums losslessly.
- OTF OpenType Font (CFF)
- Both ways. The OpenType container with CFF (PostScript-flavour) outlines. Read wherever a font can be added, and written back out on-device by unwrapping a WOFF - the outlines pass through untouched either way.
Tokens (6)
- DTCG W3C Design Tokens
- Both ways. The emerging W3C standard for design tokens - colours, type, spacing and gradients as structured JSON that design tools share. Lolly imports a DTCG document to hydrate a whole brand (palette, ramps, type) and exports its palette back out as DTCG tokens, so a brand round-trips with any tool that speaks the standard, Penpot included.
- Tokens Studio Tokens Studio for Figma
- Import only. The token format from the popular Tokens Studio Figma plugin - one monolithic JSON, or a one-file-per-set export. Lolly reads it to build a brand pack, so palette, ramps and themes come in ready to use. Import-only.
- ASE Adobe Swatch Exchange
- Export only. Adobe's colour-swatch format, the one that loads a palette straight into Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Lolly exports your brand palette as an .ase so the exact brand colours drop into any Adobe app. Export-only.
- GPL GIMP Palette
- Export only. The plain-text palette format GIMP, Inkscape and Krita read. Lolly writes your brand colours as a .gpl so the free-software design stack picks up the exact palette. Export-only.
- CSS variables CSS Custom Properties
- Export only. Your brand palette as ready-to-paste CSS - custom properties (--brand-…) or utility classes - so a developer wires the exact brand colours into a website with no guesswork or eyedropper. Export-only.
- SCSS Sass variables
- Export only. Your brand palette as Sass variables - the pre-processor twin of the CSS variables export, ready to paste into a Sass codebase with the exact brand values. Export-only.
3D (2)
- GLB Binary glTF (3D model)
- Import only. A single-file 3D model, geometry, textures and materials all packed into one binary, the standard way to move 3D between apps. Lolly's 3D tool loads your own .glb (read on-device, never uploaded) and renders it as a still or a turntable animation. It's an import for rendering, not a Lolly export format.
- glTF GL Transmission Format
- Import only. The text-based sibling of GLB: the same open 3D standard, written as a JSON file (often alongside separate texture files) rather than one binary blob. Lolly's 3D tool loads a .gltf to render as a photo or a spinning turntable clip, all on your device. Import-only.
Bundle (3)
- ZIP ZIP Archive
- Both ways. A single archive that bundles many files together, how Lolly delivers a multi-format export, a whole folder of saved sessions, or a batch run. You can lock the whole zip with one password: a Weak lock (a simple password) or Strong AES-256 encryption. Any PDF inside is also individually locked with the same password. Drop a plain .zip in and Lolly explodes it, adding each member as its own asset (an office file inside - .xlsx/.pptx/.docx - is routed to its own reader, not shredded).
- gzip GNU zip
- Both ways. Single-file gzip compression (RFC 1952), the ubiquitous .gz. Wraps raw DEFLATE with a CRC-checked header and trailer. Lolly compresses and decompresses on-device; it is what powers .svgz and a generic 'compress this download'.
- tar USTAR archive
- Both ways. The classic uncompressed multi-file archive (POSIX USTAR): one header per file, readable by system tar, libarchive and every standard library. Pack several assets into one download, or drop a .tar (or a gzipped .tar.gz) back in and Lolly explodes it, adding each member as its own asset.
Why "both ways" matters
A format in the middle column is one you can bring a file in as, work on and send back out in the same shape. That is what stops a file becoming a dead end: a deck arrives as a deck and leaves as a deck, a design file arrives as editable layers, a spreadsheet goes back out as one. Nothing in Lolly needs a proprietary container to keep working.
Where to go next
- Exporting - each export format in detail: page sizes, colour, credentials and what to pick for print, for screen and for video.
- Import a design - what happens to layers, type and colour when a Figma, Penpot, Illustrator or InDesign file comes in.
- Parser inventory - for reviewers: every parser Lolly runs, because a parser is where an untrusted file meets a machine.