Gallery

The Gallery is where your saved setups live, with two tabs: Mine — your own setups, private and on-device — and Community — setups other Blitter users have chosen to share publicly. This page covers both.

Mine

Your own setups. Nothing here is shared or visible to anyone else unless you choose to share it (see Community Gallery below). Think of it less like a folder of finished videos and more like a sketchbook: each saved item remembers every control's exact setting, not just what it looked like, so you can reopen it and keep adjusting from exactly where you left off.

Saving

Hit Save in the Gallery drawer to add your current setup as a new item. It captures:

• Every control's value — Sequence, Timing, Playback, Time shift, Grid, and Colors — as one bundle.
• A thumbnail: a still image of whatever frame happened to be showing on screen at the moment you saved (its "resting" look in the list).

Saving doesn't erase or lock your current setup in the sidebar — you keep working, and the saved copy stays put as its own separate item.

Naming

New items get an automatically generated, plain-English name (built from little building blocks — the shape, the motion, the palette, the pace — so it's actually descriptive rather than a generic "Setup 4"). You don't have to keep it:

• Click the name to type your own.
• Shuffle rerolls a fresh suggested name if you'd rather try another auto-generated one than write your own.

Browsing

Each row in Mine shows a still thumbnail at rest — the frame it was saved on. Hover over a row and it plays the full animation cycle right there in the list, using the exact playback settings (loop/ping-pong, holds, and all) that were saved with it — so what you see on hover is a true preview, not an approximation.

Deleting

Remove an item from Mine when you don't want it anymore. This only removes it from your local collection — it doesn't affect anything you've already exported from it, and it doesn't take down anything you've already shared to the Community Gallery.

Sharing and backing up

Every item can be exported to, or imported from, a .blit file — a small text file containing that same bundle of settings (see Exporting). You can also drag a .blit file onto the preview to import it — you'll be asked to save or replace if you've edited the current animation without saving. This is how you:

• Back up a setup outside the app.
• Share a setup with someone else who has Blitter — sending them the file recreates your exact setup on their end, not just a picture of it.
• Reopen something later, even in a newer version of the app: if a future version doesn't recognize some value in an older file (because something about that control changed), it just skips that one value and keeps everything else — you'll see a heads-up, not a failure.

Community Gallery

The Community tab is a public collection of setups other Blitter users have chosen to share — browsable inside the app and at blittermotion.com/community. Loading or copying one works exactly like opening your own: you get the full setup, not just a picture of it.

Browsing and cloning

Scroll the Community tab to see published setups, newest first (a few hand-picked ones are marked with a star and shown first). Hover a row to preview its full animation cycle, same as Mine.

• Click a row to load that setup into the preview, so you can play with it or use it as a starting point.
• Hover and click the add button (or use Add to My Gallery from the row's menu) to copy it into Mine without disturbing whatever you're currently working on.

Sharing your own setups

Sharing is on by default. When it's on, each setup you save to Mine is sent to Blitter for review, and approved ones appear in the Community Gallery for anyone to see and use. The first time you save something, Blitter shows a one-time notice explaining this and offers to turn it off right there.

What's sent: the setup's settings (the same recipe a .blit file contains), its name, two small preview images generated on your Mac, and a random identifier for your copy of Blitter that isn't linked to you. Nothing else — no name, no email, no files, no AI prompts.

Every submission is reviewed before it can appear publicly, and not every one gets published. A few are marked Featured (shown with a star) and sorted first in the Community tab. Setups you copy from the Community tab into Mine are never re-shared, so the Gallery doesn't fill up with duplicates of things that are already public.

To turn sharing off, open Settings → Community Gallery and turn off Share my animations with the community. This stops all future uploads; anything already published stays in the Community Gallery, since submissions carry nothing that identifies you or your Mac for Blitter to remove on your behalf. See Privacy Choices for the full picture, including how to request something be taken down.