Documentation
Guides for the desktop app, free on your computer, and for the cloud: Studio to edit and the cloud library to store and search. Sorted by what you want to do.
Getting started
- Desktop app
Getting started with Polimake Desktop: a tour of the app
How Polimake Desktop is laid out: the sidebar, Libraries, tabs, background activity and the settings you'll actually use.
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Install the Polimake desktop app and first launch
Download and install the Polimake desktop app on Windows, go through the welcome steps and keep the app up to date.
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Getting started with Studio: plan, review and publish in one place
What Polimake Studio is and how it's organized: spaces, projects, calendar, board, folders and the page of each piece.
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Welcome to your cloud library
What the Polimake cloud library is, who it is for, and how it helps you store, organize, and find your photos and videos by describing what you are looking for.
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Create your account and set up your profile
Step-by-step guide to creating your Polimake account, signing in, and setting up your profile so you can start using the platform.
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Desktop and the cloud: sign in and bring your libraries
Sign in to Polimake Desktop to work with your cloud libraries too: bring them to your computer, upload files and check your plan.
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Projects in Desktop: your material, your brand and what you create
Create a project in Polimake Desktop: gather a client's or brand's material, set its style and ask for videos and images from «What should we create in…?».
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Creating a project in Studio
Create a project in Polimake Studio in three steps: choose the views, fill in the basics and set the style and brand.
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Your first project: create and organize your library
Learn how to create your first project in Polimake, set up its cover and description, and start organizing your images in a structured way.
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Roles and permissions in Studio
What each role can do in Polimake Studio: owner, editor, commenter and viewer, in projects, spaces and guest links.
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Pieces and formats in Studio
Polimake Studio's content formats and everything on a piece's page: tabs, status, details and more options.
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Basic navigation: understanding the interface
A complete guide to understanding and navigating the Polimake interface. Learn about the sidebar, gallery, header, and all the main areas of the platform.
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Polimake Desktop keyboard shortcuts
Every Polimake Desktop keyboard shortcut: tabs, file explorer, quick look, the player and type-to-search.
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Studio keyboard shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut in Polimake Studio: video player, comments, drawing on a frame, canvas and documents.
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Keyboard shortcuts and productivity tips
Master keyboard shortcuts and discover productivity tips in Polimake to work more efficiently with your image library.
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Edit video
- Desktop app
The Polimake Desktop video editor
Create and open videos in Polimake Desktop: the Simple and Advanced modes, the side panel tabs, the viewer and how your edit is saved.
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Edit on the timeline
Add, move, trim and split clips in the Polimake Desktop video editor, and adjust speed, framing, filters, audio and transitions.
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Text and subtitles in your videos
Add titles and captions, generate automatic subtitles with Whisper and edit the video from its transcript in the Polimake Desktop editor.
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Automatic transcription of your videos and audio
Polimake Desktop transcribes everything said in your videos and audio on its own, with Whisper on your computer, so you can read, copy and search it.
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Export the video
Export your edit as MP4 from Polimake Desktop: quick presets, quality, resolution, codec, audio only and subtitles. No watermark.
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Video editor keyboard shortcuts
Every shortcut in the Polimake Desktop video editor, in Simple mode (like CapCut) and Advanced mode (like Premiere).
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Design
- Desktop app
Designing in Polimake Desktop
How to create and edit designs in the desktop app: sizes, pages, text, photos from your folders, layers, autosave and where the files live.
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Templates and brand in Polimake Desktop
How a project's templates and brand work in the desktop app: colours, typefaces, brand texts and how the AI uses them when it designs.
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Exporting and sharing designs in Polimake Desktop
How to export a design from the desktop app as PNG, SVG or PDF, prepare the piece's caption and hashtags, and share it with the cloud.
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Create with AI in Desktop: videos, designs and text from your material
Connect Claude or Codex to Polimake Desktop and ask for videos, designs and text in each project's conversation, with your material and your brand.
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Designing on the Studio canvas
How to design a piece in the Studio Canvas tab: pages and sizes, text, shapes, layers, images from Resources and how to save your changes.
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Brand and components in Studio
Set up brand kits with logos, colours, typefaces, brief, voice and memory, apply them on the canvas and reuse pages as components.
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Exporting and downloading Studio designs
Download your Studio designs as PNG, SVG or PDF, page by page or whole, and save a version to the project library.
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Documents in Studio: briefs, scripts and notes
Write briefs, scripts and notes in Studio with the block editor: the / menu, formatting, library images and videos, and autosave.
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Plan
- Studio
The content calendar in Studio
Plan your pieces by month or week in Studio: create content, upload it by dragging files, change dates and filter by format, status or tag.
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The board: your pieces by status
Use the Studio Board to see each piece at its workflow stage and move it to another column by dragging it.
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Folders: undated designs, documents and videos
Keep a project's undated designs, documents and videos in Folders, sort them into folders and send them to the calendar.
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Review and approve
- Studio
Commenting on a design in Studio
Leave comments anchored to a page or a layer of the canvas, reply, resolve and quickly find what's pending in the review panel.
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Commenting on a video in Studio
Upload a video to a piece and review it with comments at an exact moment or over a range, with drawings on the frame.
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Approving and sending back pieces
How Studio's status workflow works: approve a piece, send it back with a reason and adapt the states to your process.
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Publish
- Studio
Publishing to social media from Studio
Connect YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn to a Studio project and publish each piece whenever you decide with Publish now.
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Replying to Instagram comments from Studio
Read, post and reply to the public comments on an Instagram post without leaving the piece in Studio.
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Search
- Desktop app
Search your folders with Polimake Desktop
Find photos and videos on your computer by name, folder, tag or by describing what's in them, with type filters. Everything is searched on your computer.
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Basic search: finding files by name
Learn how to use basic search in Polimake to find images by file name. A complete guide to traditional search.
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Semantic search: find images by content with AI
Discover the power of semantic search in Polimake. Find images by typing natural descriptions, without needing to remember file names.
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Advanced AI search: reasoned search
Master reasoned search in Polimake. Use advanced AI reasoning to find images that match complex, specific concepts.
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Finding similar images: search by similarity
Learn how to find visually similar images in Polimake. Use an image as a reference to discover related variations and alternatives.
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Store and organize
- Desktop app
Add folders to Polimake Desktop
Add folders from your computer to Polimake Desktop to index and search them, without moving or uploading them. Plus how to read them again or remove them.
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The Polimake Desktop explorer: view, sort and inspect
Browse your folders in Polimake Desktop: views, filters, quick look, the info panel with what's in each photo, and the actions on your files.
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Uploading images: methods and best practices
A complete guide to uploading images to Polimake. Learn the different upload methods, validations, progress tracking, and best practices.
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Organizing with folders: hierarchical structure
Learn how to create and organize folders in Polimake to keep your image library structured and easy to navigate.
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Advanced Drag & Drop: move and organize visually
Master drag & drop in Polimake to move images and folders intuitively. A complete guide to visual organization.
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Multiple selection: working with several files at once
Learn how to select multiple images in Polimake using a drag box and individual selection. Perform batch actions efficiently.
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Gallery view: Standard vs. Masonry
Learn the differences between the Standard and Masonry views in Polimake. Choose the view that best fits the way you work.
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Detail view: complete information about an image
Learn how to use the detail view in Polimake to see complete information, metadata, and AI analysis, and to perform actions on individual images.
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Deleting files and folders: cleaning up your library
Learn how to safely delete files and folders in Polimake. A guide to cleaning up your library and keeping only the content you need.
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AI analysis
- Cloud
AI Analysis: automatic tags and descriptions
Discover how Polimake automatically analyzes your images with AI to generate tags, descriptions, and metadata that make searching and organizing easier.
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Re-analyzing images: improving the automatic analysis
Learn when and how to re-analyze images in Polimake to get improved tags and descriptions when the initial analysis wasn't accurate.
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Collaborate
- Studio
Inviting your team to Studio
Add people to a project or a whole space by email, choose their role, change it or remove their access, and transfer ownership.
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Links for clients: review without an account
Share a project, a piece or a file with a temporary link: your client reviews and comments without creating an account.
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Collaborating between projects
Share a piece with another project or team: it appears in their calendar, they comment on it and can publish it from their own accounts.
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Share designs with Studio from Desktop
Share a Desktop project's designs with a Studio project: they stay up to date both ways and conflicts are resolved with one click.
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Sharing from Desktop: libraries, people and links
Invite people to a cloud library and share files with a link from Polimake Desktop, with roles and expiry dates.
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Working as a team: adding collaborators to projects
Learn how to invite collaborators to your projects in Polimake, manage permissions, and work efficiently as a team with shared projects.
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Managing projects: edit, delete, and organize
Learn how to manage your projects in Polimake. Edit settings, change cover images, delete projects, and keep your library organized.
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Connect your AI
Developer API
- Cloud
Build: integrate Polimake
Overview for developers who want to integrate Polimake, understand its API, and connect semantic search and AI indexing with their own tools.
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API Authentication
How to authenticate requests against the Polimake API using API keys and Authorization headers.
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Media objects
Base data model for representing images, videos, documents, and other assets within the Polimake API.
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Search API
Preview reference for Polimake's semantic search API to find creative assets using natural language.
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Webhooks
Planned webhook events to react to uploads, AI analysis, and indexing of your files within Polimake.
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