Every studio has the same quiet frustration. You need one vector file edited — a logo cleaned up, a shape traced, a mockup for a client deck — and the tool for the job costs a monthly subscription, takes ten minutes to install, and updates itself at the worst possible moment.
So we built the tool we kept wishing existed. It is called Portfoliogram, and its whole pitch fits in one line: design like Illustrator, pay nothing.
What it is
Portfoliogram is a full vector studio that runs entirely in your browser. No install, no watermark, and free during early access. You can open it and start drawing as a guest — no account wall before the canvas. It is early beta, and we are improving it daily, but the editor is already the real thing, not a demo.
The drawing tools
The core is a proper Bézier workflow. The pen, pencil and brush come with full node control — anchors, handles, path smoothing and node-count resampling when a path needs cleaning up. Shape Builder lets you build and paint forms the way you would on paper, and Pathfinder booleans — unite, subtract, intersect, exclude — work non-destructively, the way Illustrator taught everyone to expect.
Selection is fast: direct node selection, a magic wand, a lasso, magnetic snapping to grids, objects and ruler guides, and precision rulers you can pull guides from. Stylus users get pressure and smoothing controls, including Apple Pencil Pro barrel roll.
The features that save real time
Image trace. Drop in any raster image and turn it into clean, editable vectors in one click. Anyone who has hand-traced a client’s low-resolution logo knows what this is worth.
Wrap and envelope distort. Bend artwork with Arc, Bulge, Wave, Flag and Squeeze presets and a bend slider — Photoshop-style warps, applied to live vector shapes.
Mockup studio. Preview your artwork on a T-shirt, a coffee mug, a billboard and a phone in one click, with a wrap-intensity control so the design follows fabric folds and curves instead of floating on top. Download the result as a PNG and it is ready for the client deck.
Layers and styling. Sixteen blend modes, opacity control, layer isolation, and a style system with RGB, CMYK and HSY swatches, stroke controls and mesh gradients. The 3D panel adds angles, rotation, shadows and a golden-ratio assistant.
Type that behaves. Google Fonts and Fontshare built in, manual font import, type on a path, threaded columns and paragraph controls — enough to set real layouts, not just headlines.
Export, taken seriously
This is where most free editors quietly fail you. Portfoliogram’s Export Studio outputs transparent PNG, high-resolution JPEG, true vector PDF for print and prepress, EPS, clean SVG, a native Adobe Illustrator .ai file, an Affinity Designer-ready PDF, and a direct-to-Canva route that copies editable vectors to your clipboard. Print work gets CMYK colour mode and DPI controls (72, 150, 300), with canvas presets for iPad, 4K presentation, social squares and mobile UI frames.
There is also a party trick we are quietly proud of: one tap exports the whole studio as a Swift Playgrounds package (.swiftpm), so the editor itself can run natively on iPad.
Your files
Projects save as lightweight .portfoliogram files, and encrypted Google Drive sync is rolling out now, so your work follows you without living on any single device. Your designs are yours — that line is in the footer and it is policy, not marketing.
Why a studio would give this away
Because it is the tool our own workflow runs on. idrawd is an AI-operated studio — agents do the production work, a human founder approves every pixel — and Portfoliogram is part of how we ship brand identity, content and campaigns at the speed we promise. If it makes your work faster too, that is the point of putting it on the open web.
Try it now: portfoliogram.pro — free during early access, straight from your browser.
And if the design work itself is the bottleneck, that is what the studio is for: see what idrawd does, or start a project from the homepage.
Quick answers
Is Portfoliogram really free? Yes — free during early access, with no watermark on exports. A basic plan may come later to cover running costs; early-access work stays yours regardless.
Do I need to install anything or create an account? No. It runs in the browser, and the full editor works as a guest. Accounts and Google Drive sync are rolling out.
What can I export? Transparent PNG, high-resolution JPEG, vector PDF, EPS, SVG, a native Adobe Illustrator .ai file, an Affinity Designer-ready PDF, and editable vectors straight into Canva.
Is it a real Illustrator alternative? For the work most people open Illustrator for — logos, icons, layouts, mockups, print-ready files — yes: Bézier pen and node editing, Pathfinder booleans, image trace, CMYK and DPI controls. It is early beta, so deep specialist workflows are still catching up.
Who made it? Portfoliogram is built by idrawd, an AI-operated creative studio. Agents build and maintain it; the founder approves what ships.