Export to React (Next.js), Astro and Payload CMS. Hand a site to developers as a Next.js or Astro project, or to clients as a Payload CMS they edit themselves. How it works.
MCP server: Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Cursor build in Canvasly, with live sync and undo. Set it up.
Advanced forms adapted from WPForms: new field types, conditional logic, multi-step and conversational forms, surveys, polls, calculations, coupons, payments and 10 email and app connectors, plus 9 new form units.
New units and tools: Shape, Flipbook, a full gradient editor for text, 12 text animations, Advanced → Layout with display conditions, and highlighted PRO units with a filter.
Import → Whole website rebuilds up to 50 pages of a live site in the same design.
Help (F1): an illustrated, searchable guide to every feature, available offline.
Publish to Vercel as static HTML or a Next.js project, uploading only changed files.
Every dialog has a Cancel button, autosave retries quietly in the background, and Open HTML File handles pages built with JavaScript or Tailwind's CDN.
After the free trial, a license key is needed for editing as well as exporting. An Enterprise option is available for organisations with more than 100 employees.
2.5.1
Resize from any side. Selected blocks have handles on all four sides and corners; drag outwards to grow, inwards to shrink.
Empty containers keep the height you drag them to.
2.5.0
Export to WordPress. Export as WordPress pages or posts, as drafts or published, with a small plugin that keeps the design. How it works.
Landing Page Generator runs can be exported to WordPress too.
2.4.3
Preview ▾: preview in your default browser or in a built-in Chromium window.
Page background is open by default in the inspector; collapsible sections show an arrow.
2.4.2
Sticky blocks stay in place while you edit and only stick in Preview and on the published site.
Sticky blocks next to taller content now stick as expected.
2.4.1
Performance release. Edits apply up to 80 times faster, undo history uses a fraction of the memory, selecting is about 7 times faster, and export, saving and the project list are quicker.
Scroll effects on published pages cause about half as many style recalculations.
2.4.0
Landing Page Generator: 17 motion effects, on every page or mixed.
Motion tab: clip-path and mask reveals, scrub with scroll, staggered sequences, hover and cursor effects, loops, particles, more scroll effects, and stick, pin or sticky reveal.
Sections can have a background video or a background slideshow.
2.3.3
Edit HTML Code keeps edited blocks as the same kind of block, so a Heading stays a Heading.
2.3.2
Edit HTML Code opens at the selected block, labels each block with a comment, indents with Tab and asks before discarding changes.
2.3.1
Text fields can be typed in again after a delete confirmation in the desktop app.
2.3.0
7-day free trial, no license key needed: edit, preview, import and use the AI assistant. One trial per computer.
After the trial, or after 14 days offline with a license, the Studio asks for a key or a connection.
2.2.0
Site header and footer, page and site backgrounds, the gradient editor, Arrange, and the canvas at real device widths are all in the 2.x line.
Edit HTML Code gains a JavaScript tab.
2.1.0
Edit → Edit HTML Code (Ctrl+U): edit the page's HTML and JavaScript directly.
2.0.2
Deleting a project removes it from the list at once, even when the folder is in OneDrive.
2.0.1
Section and other background images show in exported sites.
2.0.0
Landing Page Generator built in: 1 to 5000 pages in 10 designs, with a gallery and Edit in Studio.
Python is installed for you on Windows when the generator needs it.
Icons have a transparent background.
1.7.0
Site header and footer designed on the canvas.
Page and site backgrounds, a gradient editor, background overlays and Arrange.
Open HTML File can keep the original look; the canvas matches Preview at real device widths; responsive by default.
1.6.4
Buy a license online with Stripe or PayPal; About › Purchase a License in the app.
1.6.2
Desktop and Start-menu shortcuts show the new Canvasly icon after updating.
1.6.1
New Canvasly icon everywhere: the app, installer, shortcuts, window and editor.
1.6.0
Renamed to Canvasly Web Studio (formerly Sidcraft Web Studio).
Settings, license activation and projects move over automatically.
The installer reliably detects a running copy of the app.
1.5.0
Image & Video Editor: crop, cut out, colour correction, sharpen, blur; trim and cut videos and export MP4.
Divide container into columns, custom widths, rows or grids.
New typography controls, and real editors for text decoration and text shadow.
1.4.0
Rich-text editor with a full two-row toolbar for every rich-text field.
Pasted Word and Google Docs content is cleaned.
1.3.0
New units: Business Reviews (Google, Yelp), Instagram Feed and X Feed. 131 units in total.
1.2.0
22 new units including Hero Slideshow, Media Carousel, Nested Carousel, Scroll Sequence, Portfolio, Live Search and Facebook units.
Right-click menus, Favorites and a searchable list of 1,652 Google Fonts.
1.1.4
File menu: New, Open, Save and Delete Project.
1.1.0
File → Open HTML File turns an existing page into a project.
Delete Cache and Temporary Files frees disk space safely.
1.0.0
First release: Xeditor canvas, 102 units, Payment Form, static export, six publishing targets, domain licensing and the Windows installer.
