Getting Started

Install Magerie, paint your first stroke, meet the board.

Getting Started

Magerie is all of 2D on one infinite board. Paint like Procreate. Wire up effects like a node editor. Lay out vector frames, cut video on a timeline. Everything feeds everything else, live.

This page gets you painting in two minutes.

Install#

Paid Early Access. $35, one time, covers both macOS and Windows. Expect rough edges.

Grab the installer from the Early Access page.

  • macOS: open the .dmg, drag Magerie to Applications. Apple Silicon or Intel, macOS 15+.
  • Windows: run the .exe. x64, Windows 11. SmartScreen may warn on a new app: click More info, then Run anyway.

Your first stroke#

  1. Press Cmd/Ctrl + P to open the Omni menu.
  2. Type "image", pick Image. That is your canvas.
  3. With it selected, press B for the brush.
  4. Paint.

Resize the brush with [ and ]. Undo with Cmd/Ctrl + Z.

Paint on anything#

Every canvas is a node. Wire it into a blur, a color adjustment, any effect, and the result updates as you paint. Paint on a canvas anywhere in the chain and the changes flow downstream live. Nothing is final until you export.

That is the whole idea: painting and effects on the same board, reacting to each other.

Shortcuts worth knowing day one#

Action Shortcut
Omni menu (add anything) Cmd/Ctrl + P
Brush / Eraser / Smudge B / E / S
Brush size [ / ]
Undo / Redo Cmd/Ctrl + Z / Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z
Frame what's selected F
Group into a subgraph Cmd/Ctrl + G

Full list: Keyboard Shortcuts. Remap any of them in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts.

Where to next#