Remember the stop.
Keep the place, capture time and reported location accuracy with the photo you want to come back to.
CRIT Studio · Independent by design
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Small apps and plugins for creative work.Give your photos a character, keep the details of a site visit, or learn colour by trying. Made by an independent studio in Hyderabad.
Featured / Bearing 2.1Keep the photo.
Keep the photo.
Keep the details.
A trip, a repair, a day in the field. Keep the photo with its measured location, time and notes, then share a readable report.
Free · No account · No ads · iOS 26 or later
Explain what changed.
A repair, a renovation, a handover. Add a note and project reference while the details are fresh.
Bring back the observation.
Connect each photograph to measured location and your field notes, then share a useful report.
Our tools
Find the tool for your next idea.
Apps you can use today
Free on the App Store. Choose an app to see it in action.
Colour Studio
Learn how colour changes with context, then turn a palette into a practical specification.
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Bearing
Keep photos, measured location and notes together. Share a clear PDF report after the visit.
Get Bearing ↗
Markshift
Turn documents, spreadsheets and images into the format your next step needs. Everything stays on your Mac.
Get Markshift ↗
Kachik
Give photos and short clips your own colour and camera character. Save a look and use it again.
Get Kachik ↗Plugins · After Effects & Figma
Install once. They work inside the software you already use.
Crit Panel
Colour decisions, made where the work happens.
GitHub ↗
CRIT Bridge
From the design frame to the timeline. Keep your decisions intact.
Figma ↗
Settle
Give a layer weight, then keep the keyframes.
GitHub ↗In the studio · Not public yet
In use privately, or still being built. Ask if you want to see one.
Crit
A course companion that helps students think through the work, with a coach that asks rather than answers.
Screen Check
Make the green screen decisions while you can still move something.
The studio
A designer’s eye. A maker’s instinct. A teacher’s questions.
CRIT Studio turns recurring problems in creative practice and the classroom into tools people can use. Each one starts with a task that could work better, then improves through use and critique.
Run by Kamalanarayanan Kamalakannan in Hyderabad. He spent three years as a compositor on international features, kept the practice going after leaving the industry, and now leads Communication Design at Woxsen University’s School of Arts & Design.
How the work happens
Four steps, shown in the tools.
In practice · Bearing
A field photo says where it was taken, but not how sure the phone was. Bearing starts from that gap: record the accuracy, not just the pin.See the tool ↗
Notes from the studio
The latest from the studio.
- Oct 2026App StoreBearing 2.1: keep the detailsMulti-photo PDF reports, accessible stamp presets and portable .bearing packages bring the campaign promise into everyday use.↗
- Oct 2026App StoreKachik 2.7: find your next ideaSparks inspiration joins photos, short video, camera characters, recipe sharing and a private roll.↗
- Oct 2026App StoreColour Studio 2.0: from light to materialEight phases, the Dictionary, Palette Stylist, printable specifications and a private classroom pilot.↗
- Sep 2026Update Markshift 2.0 converts anythingWord, PDF, spreadsheets and images join Markdown for AI, with a fidelity rating for every file. Still offline.↗
- Sep 2026Release Settle v0.2.2 is out, open source2D physics for After Effects. Eight material presets, bakes to plain Position and Rotation keyframes. MIT, on GitHub.↗
Earlier releases from the studio
- Sep 2026App Store Kachik is out on iPhonePoint. Shoot. Make it yours. A free camera for building your own look from places across India and years from 1996 to now. No feed, no account.↗
- Sep 2026Update Colour Studio 1.3 adds PlayTwelve colour missions across three rooms, a personal exhibition, and a cleaner look for iPhone and iPad.↗
- Sep 2026Update Bearing 2.0: the shutter never waitsInstant capture, motion-corrected position, offline place names with DIGIPIN, Muted Capture and a Capture Record PDF anyone can check.↗
- Sep 2026App Store Bearing arrives on iPhoneA GPS field camera that records how accurate the location actually was, and seals every capture on the device.↗
- Sep 2026Mac App Store Markshift is out on the MacIdeated in April, shipped in September. Documents into clean Markdown on your Mac, with the word and token count shown before anything reaches a model. Free.↗
- Aug 2026App Store Colour Studio arrives on iPhone and iPadThe studio's first App Store release. Learn colour by doing it first.↗
- Jul 2026Figma CRIT Bridge v1.0.1, stableMoves a Figma frame to After Effects as real layers, and brings a palette back.↗
- Jul 2026Build Crit Panel v1.9.0: open student buildNo licence gate. A studio build adds the AI layer for teams that want it.↗
Let’s talk
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Collaboration & ideashello@critstudios.com
Something not working?support@critstudios.com
Licensing & studio buildslicensing@critstudios.com
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