v1.0 — now on macOS & Windows

Prompt to photoreal
in seconds.

Studio Render is a desktop app for architects. Type a brief or drop a sketch, pick a style, hit render. Nine hand-tuned presets — exterior photoreal, golden hour, watercolor concepts, axonometric diagrams, dramatic night.

Free trial — 10 renders on email signup. No credit card.

Built for the work architects actually ship

  • Concept design
  • Client presentations
  • Competition boards
  • Mood & material studies
  • Diagrams & massing
Features

Designed for design work, not generic image gen.

Every preset is engineered with negative prompts and structure-control defaults tuned for buildings, materials, and light. Reproducible by design.

Text → Image

Write a brief in plain English. The selected preset wraps your prompt with engineered prefixes, negatives, and lighting cues.

Sketch → Render

Drag a line drawing, axonometric, or massing study. Studio Render holds your structure and re-renders it photoreal at the strength you set.

9 architectural presets

Exterior Photoreal, Golden Hour, Interior, Watercolor, Ink Sketch, Axonometric, Massing Concrete, Night Dramatic, Custom.

Locked-seed iteration

Lock a seed to refine a render variation by variation. Move a window, change a material — keep the composition.

Project history

Every render saved to a local SQLite project. Favorite, filter, re-load any past settings, copy a prompt — never lose a good run.

Export anywhere

Save as PNG or JPEG, or copy to clipboard and paste straight into Photoshop, Figma, or your presentation deck.

Keyboard-first

⌘L focus prompt, ⌘↵ render, ⌘N new project, ⌘V paste source image. Built like a tool, not a webpage.

Native, threaded, offline-resilient

Renders run on a background thread — the UI never freezes. License lives in your OS Keychain, not in plaintext.

Presets

Nine styles, hand-tuned for buildings.

Each preset comes with the right negatives baked in (no people-faces, no over-saturation, no over-bloomed sky) and a recommended structure strength when you bring a sketch.

Exterior Photoreal
Exterior Golden Hour
Interior Photoreal
Concept Watercolor
Concept Ink Sketch
Diagram Axonometric
Massing Concrete
Night Dramatic
Custom
Pricing

Subscribe for steady months. Top up for crunch time.

Start with 10 free renders. Pick a plan when you're hooked. Subscription credits roll for 60 days. Top-up credits never expire.

Solo

$19 / mo

Billed monthly

  • 80 credits / month
  • Rollover for 60 days
  • 1 seat, multi-device
  • All 9 presets & both modes
  • Email support
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For teams

Firm

$199 / mo

Billed monthly

  • 1,200 credits / month, shared
  • 5 seats included ($29/seat extra)
  • Per-member usage dashboard
  • Single invoice, central billing
  • Priority render queue & support
Start Firm →
Top up

Need more credits this month?

Buy a top-up on any plan. Top-up credits never expire and stack with your subscription balance.

Not ready to commit? Try Studio Render with 10 free renders on signup — no credit card required. Download free →

Larger studio or need invoiced billing, SSO, or a custom contract? Talk to us: sales@studiotools.app

Download

Available on macOS & Windows.

Native desktop builds. Drop the app in /Applications or install the Windows build, sign in with your license key, and render.

First run on macOS? Control-click → Open the first time to bypass Gatekeeper. Already have a license? Paste it in the onboarding screen and you're in.

FAQ

Common questions.

How does the free trial work?

Sign up with an email in the app and you get 10 render credits. No credit card, no time limit. Use them on any preset, in any mode. When you're ready, pick a plan or buy a top-up to keep going.

Do credits expire?

Subscription credits roll over for 60 days. So if you don't use all of February's 250 Studio credits, the leftovers stick around through April. Top-up credits never expire and stack with your subscription balance — buy a top-up during a deadline crunch and keep the leftover for whenever.

What if I need more credits in a busy month?

Buy a top-up. They're available on any plan (and on the free trial). 100 credits for $15, 500 for $59, or 2,000 for $179. They never expire and apply on top of your subscription credits.

Can I switch plans or cancel?

Yes — any time. Upgrades are prorated and apply immediately. Downgrades and cancellations take effect at the end of your current billing period; you keep your credits through that period and the 60-day rollover window.

How does the Firm plan work for studios?

Firm includes 5 seats and a shared pool of 1,200 credits per month. Anyone on the team can render against the same balance, and the owner sees per-member usage in the admin dashboard. Extra seats are $29/mo. Single Stripe invoice, central billing — easy to expense.

Can I use the renders commercially?

Yes. You own the output. Use it in presentations, competition boards, client deliverables, marketing — whatever you ship.

Where do my projects live?

Locally, in a SQLite database on your machine. Studio Render doesn't upload your projects anywhere. Only the prompt and source image for the current render are sent to the API, and only at render time.

Can I install on more than one computer?

Yes. Your license is tied to you, not a device. Sign in on your studio Mac and your laptop — credits draw from the same balance.

What's the refund policy?

All sales are final. Credits are digital goods delivered immediately, so we don't offer refunds — that's why we give you 10 free renders up front to try the full Service before you pay. We honour mandatory consumer-protection rights where they apply. See the Refunds Policy for the full details.

Start with 10 free renders.

Download Studio Render and see your first concept inside two minutes.