# klad-app/klad

> A Rust 2D painting and animation app where a human draws with a pen and a coding agent paints with the same brushes via CLI, both seeing each other's strokes live. Every stroke is stored as data, not pixels, so it stays editable later.

- Magnitude: 4.0 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 203 total · +22 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:04–11:14 UTC, ≈ 40 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Generative media · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-11-04 · Last push: 2026-11-13
- GitHub: https://github.com/klad-app/klad · Homepage: https://klad.studio · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/klad-app/klad

## Useful for

- Have an agent paint a character sprite, then hand-fix individual strokes
- Build frame-by-frame animation from key poses with automatic in-betweens
- Export sprite sheets or assets straight into a Godot project

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:04–11:14: 181 → 203 stars (+22). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +40 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.7× that of the previous 8 days.
- The repository is 10 days old and already has 203 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)” — 83 points, 2 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 10
- Issues and pull requests: 32
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 33 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: v0.2.0 (2026-11-12)

## Stars per day, last 11 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-04 … 2026-11-14: 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 4, 136, 31, 22, 22

## Magnitude by day, last 4 days

11-11 5.1, 11-12 6.2, 11-13 4.6, 11-14 4.0

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available) — 83 points, 34 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454951

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

1. **LibreSprite/LibreSprite** — 1.2 · Steady · Games & graphics · C++ · +2 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:12–11:19 UTC, ≈ 5 by evening
   Free and open source animated sprite editor and pixel art tool, forked from the last GPLv2 commit of Aseprite. It offers layers, frames, onion skinning, tiled drawing and pixel-precise tools for creating and animating sprites.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/LibreSprite/LibreSprite.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.