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Platforms

Where Celas Studio runs, what genuinely differs between Windows, macOS and Linux, and how updates reach you on each.

Celas Studio is one codebase and one project format across Windows, macOS and Linux: a .cls file opens the same way on any of them. Windows and macOS carry the full feature set. Linux runs the app, but a handful of capabilities are not available there yet, mostly around video and anything that needs a network connection.

What differs per platform

CapabilityWindowsmacOSLinux
Video import and playbackYesYesNo
MP4 exportYesYesNo
MOV, WebM, animated WebP, GIF and still-image exportYesYesYes
Audio importwav, mp3, flac, ogg, plus aac, ac3, opus, m4a, wmawav, mp3, flac, ogg, plus aac, ac3, opus, m4a, wmawav, mp3, flac, ogg only
Signing in, Share to Artwall, sending a crash reportYesYesNo: the network layer these three rely on is not implemented on Linux, so all three fail
Licence activationYesNoNo
Pasting a bitmap from the system clipboardYesNoNo
Opening a .cls by double-clicking it in the file managerYesYesNo: no file association is registered
On Linux, signing in and Share to Artwall do not show an error. They simply do not complete, because the request never leaves the machine. Video import and MP4 export are unavailable outright rather than degraded.

macOS also swaps the in-window menu bar for the native one and uses Command instead of Ctrl. See macOS differences for the full list of what moves or changes there.

A side-by-side of the Windows in-window menu bar and the native macOS menu bar for the same project.

Updates

Celas Studio has no in-app update checker: nothing inside the app looks for, downloads or installs a new version. In Early Access the app is sold on Steam only, for both Windows and macOS, and that is where new builds come from: Steam patches its own depot, and the update is in place the next time you press Play. Microsoft Store and Mac App Store releases are planned for a later version.