File Format

One portable .mage file holds your whole project. Auto-saved and recoverable.

Your whole project lives in a single .mage file: the canvas, every layer, your brushes, imported images, all of it. Copy it, move it, email it, drop it in version control. It travels as one piece.

Everything is inside#

Drag an image onto the board and its pixels go straight into the file. Reopen it on another machine and nothing else is needed; there are no linked files to go missing. The same image used in ten places is stored only once, so files stay lean.

If you ever point a parameter at an external file on purpose, Magerie respects that. Most projects never need to.

Start painting right away#

A brand-new document is ready to paint on before you have saved or named it. Your work lives in a temporary file until you pick a name and place, then it moves there. No "save first" step.

Auto-save and recovery#

Magerie backs up your open document every 30 seconds. If the app ever crashes, the next launch offers to bring back your latest work. A few recent backups are kept per document, and old ones clear themselves out.

Built to last#

The format is versioned, so files you save today keep opening as Magerie grows. Under the hood a .mage is a single SQLite database, the same proven format phones and browsers use everywhere, so your work sits on something durable.

Where to next#