Modern design, photo & video editing inside your app
Bring design, photo, and video creation into your product with one cross-platform SDK, complete with templates, automation, and native AI.
- Deeply customizable
- WebAssembly-powered
- Templates & automation
- Native AI features
One Creative SDK for product teams shipping design, photo, and video
Replace a multi-month editor build with a ready-to-integrate SDK and a developer-focused proven workflow.
Ship in weeks, not 12+ months
Replace a year-long editor build with a starter kit and a focused integration.
Cut editor maintenance by 80%
Offload editor UX, rendering, and cross-platform quirks to a maintained engine.
3× more on-brand assets created in-app
Keep users creating inside your product instead of leaving for external tools.
Trusted by 100+
industry leaders
Integrating IMG.LY’s editor meant we didn’t have to build or maintain a complex editing layer ourselves. That kept our team focused on our core AI ad engine and saved us countless development hours — while still giving our customers the ability to polish and customize creatives at scale.
Hikari Senju
CEO, Omneky
With IMG.LY we built a central creative portal that now powers over 140 dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands. Before this, asset creation was slow and inconsistent.
Martin Röhr
Product Owner, Digitas
By embedding IMG.LY’s editor we were able to hit key RFP requirements and deliver a template-based creative experience that now serves 1,000+ customers. It helped us win more deals and exceed enterprise expectations without needing to hire dedicated design teams.
Rob Driscoll
Director of PM, Optimizely
Since integrating IMG.LY’s editor, we now deliver 30,000+ ad creatives per month, dramatically shorten time-to-launch, and help our clients cut design spend by up to $10,000 per month.
Logan Welbaum
Founder, Plai
Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LY’s SDK. It’s the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform.
Jeanine Zaalberg
Product Manager, SwissPost
From a developer’s perspective, the most powerful feature of the photo editor is the integration process. It was completely flawless, quick, and easy to integrate.
Stefano Fornari
CTO, Funambol
We compared IMG.LY SDK with other solutions and found that it would be the best fit for us since it provides all the features that are crucial for our use case.
Carem Pereira
SCRUM Manager, HP
Key Capabilities
One SDK for design, photo, and video, with extensive features to serve any creative use case.
For your users
Fully featured design editing.
Multi-page layouts, layers, groups, alignment, boolean operations, blend modes, and undo/redo. Every primitive your users expect from a pro design tool.
Template-based design.
Jump-start users with ready-made templates, placeholders, and lockable layouts.
Native AI features.
One-click background removal, image and video generation, style transfer, text-to-graphics, and voiceovers. All from a prompt, inside the editor.
Animations & transitions.
Bring designs to life with keyframe element animations, text animations, and motion transitions.
On-brand text & overlays.
Add titles, captions, stickers, and logos with your brand styling baked in.
Channel-ready aspect ratios.
One-click presets for popular social, web, and print product sizes.
PPTX, Canva & Adobe imports.
Bring existing PowerPoint decks, Canva designs, and Adobe (PSD, AI, IDML) files straight into the editor. Users keep working from what they already have instead of starting from a blank canvas.
For your product
Cross-platform engine.
One creative engine renders identically across web, mobile, desktop, and server.
Flexible export pipeline.
Export to PNG, JPG, PDF, MP4, or WebM and connect to your existing storage or CDN.
Custom asset libraries & DAM.
Wire any DAM, CDN, or stock provider (Unsplash, Getty, Pexels, or your internal library) as a custom asset source.
Performance-optimized rendering.
Hardware-accelerated processing keeps editing smooth across large designs and longer clips.
Configurable toolset & UI.
Choose which tools and controls appear, or build a fully headless UI.
Headless API & plugins.
Extend the editor with bundled plugins (background removal, vectorizer, QR code) or drive every operation through the headless API.
Looking for the full feature list?
Browse every CE.SDK capability across design, photo, video, print, and AI.
Explore all capabilitiesEvery feature, by category
A full inventory of what the CreativeEditor SDK ships out of the box.
Editing & Color
- Adjustments (brightness, contrast, exposure)
- Effects & blur
- LUT filters & DuoTone
- Color balance, sharpness, glow
- Snapping guides
- Blend modes & boolean ops
Composition & Video
- Multi-track timeline
- Cut, trim, split clips
- Voiceover recording
- Merge & collage video
- Overlay audio
- Dual camera recording
Text & Typography
- Inline text editing
- Text variables
- Text animations
- Custom fonts (OTF/TTF/WOFF)
- Kerning, leading, tracking
- Auto-scale & runs
Print-Ready Output
- PDF/X export
- Cutout lines
- CMYK & spot color
- Bleed & margins
- Color palettes
- Multi-page layouts
Templating & Brand Safety
- Design templates
- Placeholders
- Lockable design
- Brand kits
- Locked templates
- Configurable presets
Asset Management & Imports
- Custom asset libraries
- Dynamic asset sources
- Adobe PSD / AI / IDML import
- Lottie animations
- GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP I/O
- Gallery as asset source
Customizability & Extensibility
- Build custom UIs (headless)
- Theming
- Toolbar customization
- Media libraries
- Internationalization
- Plugins (BG removal, vectorizer, QR)
Performance & Trust
- Client-side processing
- SOC 2 Type II security
- WCAG AA conformant
- Source sets
- Background export
- Cross-platform consistency
How to embed the creative editor into your workflow
From starter kit to one-engine rendering, five steps to a creative editor in production.
Spin up the creative editor in your stack
Install the SDK, clone a starter kit for your framework, and run a working design, photo, and video editor in your app inside the day.
Starter Kits
Customize the UI and extend it with plugins
Hide tools your users don’t need, reskin the ones they do, and add your own functionality through the plugin API. The editor becomes part of your product, not a separate one.
Explore customization demos
Open the editor from any creation surface
Drop the editor into upload, asset, or create screens. One engine handles design, photo, and video so users don’t bounce between three tools when their content mixes formats.
Load your templates, brand kit, and asset sources
Wire your DAM, fonts, and brand colors into one creative configuration. Templates and brand rules apply across every output type and every platform you ship on.
Explore extensibility demos
Generate at scale through one engine
Render inside the editor for live editing, or call the same engine server-side for batch and scheduled runs. Output is byte-identical across both paths.
Why product teams choose CE.SDK
Time to market
Launch a creative editor in weeks, not a year-long project.
Ship a full-featured editor with a proven SDK and starter kit so you can test, iterate, and win creative use cases fast, without freezing your roadmap.
Empower non-designers
Make design, photo, and video editing approachable for everyone.
Give non-designers a familiar interface with templates, presets, and guardrails so they can produce polished, on-brand creatives on their own.
One engine, every platform
Build once and render consistently everywhere.
A single creative engine powers web, mobile, desktop, and server, so a template created on one platform looks identical on every other.
An SDK made by developers for developers
Install CE.SDK with one command, plug it into your existing upload or creation flows, and stay in control with a clean, documented API.
npm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template react-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template vue-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsng new your-project-name && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template svelte-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpx create-next-app@latest your-project-name --typescript && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template vanilla-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsNative editing for iOS and Android
The same creative engine, shipped as native SDKs for every mobile stack.
pod 'IMGLYUI'pod installimplementation("ly.img:editor:1.53.0")npm install @imgly/editor-react-nativeflutter pub add imgly_editorBring the editor to the desktop
Embed CE.SDK in Electron and native macOS apps with the same API.
npm install @cesdk/cesdk-jspod 'IMGLYUI'pod installpod 'IMGLYUI'pod installRender headlessly at scale
Run the same engine server-side for batch rendering and creative automation.
npm install @cesdk/nodeimport CreativeEngine from '@cesdk/node';
Cut integration to minutes with IMG.LY Agent Skills
CE.SDK Agent Skills give AI coding assistants bundled documentation, guided code generation, and autonomous project scaffolding for building editor and creative workflows across 10 web frameworks.
claude plugin marketplace add imgly/agent-skillsclaude plugin install cesdk@imglynpx skills add imgly/agent-skills -a claude-codenpx skills add imgly/agent-skills --skill docs-react -a claude-codegit clone https://github.com/imgly/agent-skills.gitcp -r agent-skills/plugins/cesdk/skills/docs-react .claude/skills/cesdk-docs-reactLearn more about Agent Skills
Built to trust in production
The editor your team doesn’t have to build, secure, or maintain.
Secure by design
Editing runs client-side, so user content never leaves the browser unless you upload it. IMG.LY is SOC 2 Type II certified, with SSO available on enterprise plans.
Battle-tested at scale
The same creative engine powers 500M+ creations every month across thousands of applications, with a steady cadence of new releases.
Build-vs-buy, solved
We maintain the editor, browser quirks, and rendering pipeline so your team stays focused on your core product. Dedicated support and SLAs on enterprise plans.
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Frequently Asked Questions
CreativeEditor SDK (CE.SDK) is a fully-featured design, photo, and video editing SDK you embed directly into your application. One creative engine powers templates, automation, and AI-assisted editing across web, mobile, and desktop.
CE.SDK works on the web (JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Next.js), mobile (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), desktop (macOS, Mac Catalyst, Electron), and server-side via Node.js.
Yes. The UI is fully customizable. Show or hide tools, reposition and rename controls, apply your brand theme, and translate every label. A headless API is available when you want to build a completely custom interface.
Yes. You can start a free trial with full access to all features. Contact our team to get started.
All design, photo, and video processing runs client-side in the browser using WebAssembly and WebGL for hardware-accelerated performance. For batch and server-side rendering at scale, the Node.js SDK runs the same engine headlessly.
CE.SDK imports PNG, JPEG, and SVG and exports PNG, JPEG, TGA, and print-ready PDF. Video projects export MP4 and WebM with configurable quality settings.
Yes. CE.SDK is storage-agnostic and supports custom asset sources, so you can connect any CDN, DAM, or stock provider such as Unsplash, Getty Images, or Pexels.
CE.SDK ships native AI plugins for image generation, video generation, background removal, style transfer, text-to-graphics, and text-to-speech, all surfaced inside the editor UI.
AI plugins are included with your CE.SDK license. Generative model usage is billed separately by the model providers (for example Anthropic, fal.ai, or ElevenLabs).
Yes. The AI plugins are model-agnostic. Connect commercial or open-source models through custom endpoints using the open plugin architecture.
Pricing is based on monthly active users (MAU) who interact with the editor, with flexible plans for startups through enterprises. Contact sales for details.
Yes. Commercial licenses allow full white-labeling. Remove all IMG.LY branding and present the editor as a native part of your product.
Yes. Enterprise licenses include custom terms, dedicated support, SLAs, and volume discounts. Contact us to discuss your requirements.