Lightform FX

Lightform FX

Your pipeline, your plugins, your Mac.

macOS 13 or later · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel) · Free beta

Node-based compositing

A flowgraph you can see and reason about. Plates in, renders out — every step is a node on the canvas.

Write your own plugins

Metal compute kernels, a typed parameter schema, viewer handles — ship a dylib and it shows up in the palette.

Native Mac performance

Built on Metal and AVFoundation. Unified-memory-aware texture pools, sRGB fast paths, and GPU gamma conversion.

Real formats, not toys

Cineon / DPX scene-linear float, MP4/MOV decode, sRGB and Rec.709 output. The pipeline respects your color.

Auto-updates

Signed with Developer ID, notarized by Apple, delivered over Sparkle. New builds land the day they ship.

Yours, on your machine

No subscription, no cloud, no phone-home telemetry. Open files stay open files.