Product Progress & Roadmap

We're building Niva Studio in the open. This page will soon include milestones, upcoming features, and changelogs. For now, here's a quick peek while we get everything ready.

Our mission is to give your ideas room to breathe. We're focusing on the foundations first: fast, intuitive workflows for collecting, approving, and sharing creative work. Expect frequent updates here as we ship.

If you're part of the Test Pilot group, your feedback directly shapes what we build next. Thank you for being early—more to come very soon.

Milestones

Shipped

  1. Stage 9: Colour, Brushes & Creative Tools

    Full colour picker with FREETONE palette, eyedropper with loupe, brush engine refinements, and a complete polish pass across all tools.

  2. Stage 8: Studio Interface Rebuilt

    The entire studio interface redesigned from scratch. New visual language, three-zone toolstrip, Creative Intentions engine, and non-destructive adjustment pipeline.

  3. Suite rebranded as NIVA

    ABODE Studio officially becomes Niva Studio across all platforms.

  4. Stage 7: Photo Polish

    Fine tuning tools and workflow using community feedback.

  5. Stage 6: Test pilots join in

    First test pilots providing key feedback. Photo core function tweaking continues.

  6. Stage 5: Test Pilot System Built

    Secure access for test pilots and feedback system live.

  7. Stage 4: Photo Editing Core Complete

    Photo reaches professional stability.

  8. Stage 3: Expanding Photo

    Brushes, FREETONE colours, Curves, autosave added.

  9. Stage 2: The Core Comes Alive

    Documents, layers, selections, adjustments, export, and undo working. Demo video shared with backers.

  10. Stage 1: The Restart

    NIVA rebuilt from scratch with a new codebase and vision.

Coming

  • Stage 10: Illustration Foundations · Aug–Sep 2026 (ETA)

    Rectangle, ellipse, and basic shape tools. The first building blocks of the vector drawing engine.

  • Stage 11: Studio Polish & Test Pilot Update · Sep–Oct 2026 (ETA)

    Performance improvements, selection tools, keyboard shortcuts, and a significant update pushed to all test pilots.

  • Stage 12: Backer Web Access · Oct 2026 (ETA)

    Functional web version delivered to all backers. Access to everything built so far, online, no download needed.

  • Stage 13: Standalone Desktop App · Oct–Nov 2026 (ETA)

    Niva packaged as a native desktop application for Mac and PC. GPU-accelerated rendering, large canvas support, offline use.

  • Stage 14: Version 1.0 Public Release · Dec 2026 (ETA)

    Niva opens to everyone.