హైదరాబాద్CRIT Studio · Independent by design
Free apps and plugins for creative work, learning and fieldwork.
Most of them are arguing for somebody else.
Made by Kamalanarayanan Kamalakannan in Hyderabad, from problems found in the studio and the classroom.
Free on the App Store, always the latest version. Choose a tool for your next project. Red pins explain the thinking behind it.
Keep the photo. Keep the details.
A field camera that keeps measured location, time and notes with the photo, then brings the visit together in a PDF report.
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Point. Shoot. Make it yours.
An iPhone camera for your own look: a colour from 22 places across India, a year from 1996 to now, a camera character. Save the recipe to use again.
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Experience colour first. Take it into the world.
Learn colour through predictions, experiments and play, from what you see to a palette you can explain and specify for print.
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Convert anything. Keep what matters.
Convert documents, spreadsheets and images on your Mac, and check the fidelity rating before you save. Nothing is uploaded.
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Crit Panel and Settle work inside After Effects, CRIT Bridge inside Figma, and the two pass palettes between them.
Make the colour decision. Keep making the work.
Build a colour harmony and apply it across selected layers, without leaving the composition.
A palette chosen in another window still has to make its way into the composition.
Let the design travel. Keep the decisions intact.
Move Figma shapes and text into editable After Effects layers, and bring a palette back as paint styles.
It is not a live connection. Send the frame again when the design changes.
Let it settle. Keep the keyframes.
Make 2D layers fall, bounce and collide, then bake plain Position and Rotation keyframes.
Falling and bouncing usually means a paid plugin, or keyframing by hand and hoping it reads as weight.
In use privately, or still being built. Ask if you want to see one.
A coach that asks. A student who thinks.
Keeps briefs, references, submissions and critique together. Its coach pushes a student’s reasoning rather than completing the assignment.
The obvious move is an AI that gives students answers. Crit questions that.
Make the call before the crew rolls.
Plan framing, green screen coverage, performer position and lighting before the shoot.
A shoot gets planned properly and the green screen still turns out too small.
Follow each tool’s releases in the timeline, or read the dated list below. Select a keyframe to see what changed.
| Date | Tool | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | Colour Studio | From light to material: eight phases, the Dictionary, Palette Stylist and printable specifications. |
| Oct 2026 | Kachik | Sparks inspiration joins photos, short video, camera characters, recipe sharing and a private roll. |
| Oct 2026 | Bearing | Multi-photo PDF reports, readable stamp presets and portable .bearing packages. |
| Sep 2026 | Markshift | Converts anything. Word, PDF, spreadsheets and images, each with a fidelity rating. Still offline. |
| Sep 2026 | Bearing | The shutter never waits. Instant capture, motion-corrected position, offline place names with DIGIPIN. |
| Sep 2026 | Settle | Out, open source. 2D physics for After Effects with eight material presets. MIT. |
| Sep 2026 | Kachik | Out on iPhone. No feed, no account. |
| Sep 2026 | Colour Studio | Play: twelve colour missions across three rooms, and a personal exhibition. |
| Sep 2026 | Bearing | Arrives on iPhone. A GPS field camera that records how accurate the location actually was. |
| Sep 2026 | Markshift | Out on the Mac. Documents into clean Markdown, with the token count shown first. |
| Aug 2026 | Colour Studio | The studio’s first App Store release, on iPhone and iPad. |
| Jul 2026 | CRIT Bridge | Stable. A Figma frame goes to After Effects as real layers, and a palette comes back. |
| Jul 2026 | Crit Panel | Open student build. No licence gate. |
Professional software is built for the studio pipeline, not for the person learning inside it. These tools sit in that gap.
Three years compositing on international features, then twelve years teaching. Each tool began as a difficulty in a real course or a real shot, and each was handed to a cohort who broke it in the first week.