# Pencil updates

Every Pencil update in one feed — release notes, features and changes, straight from the source.

11 updates

- ## [pen.dev lets an agent resolve collaborative comments](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-collaborative-comments-agents>)

Clients and coworkers can leave comments on a pen.dev file, and an agent can resolve them. Plans and platforms are unstated.

2026-10-28

- ## [Pencil adds Shader Mode for shaders in a design](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-shader-mode>)

Shader Mode is a focused Pencil mode for writing shaders in the context of the design. Availability by plan is unstated.

2026-10-27

- ## [Pencil adds Shader Mode for shaders in the design](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-pencil-adds-shader-mode-for-shaders-in-the-design>)

Shader Mode lets Pencil users write shaders alongside the design itself, though the announcement does not say which plans get it.

2026-10-27

- ## [pen.dev adds 100% zoom in Present mode](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-pen-dev-present-mode-supports-100-percent-zoom>)

Present long websites at full scale, with zoom animations on the canvas.

2026-10-04

- ## [Scale Tool Arrives in pen.dev](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-scale-tool-arrives-in-pen-dev>)

pen.dev's new Scale tool (K) resizes objects proportionally, with factors like 0.5x, 2x, or 3x enterable directly.

2026-09-26

- ## [Vectorize Images in pen.dev](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-vectorize-images-in-pen-dev>)

pen.dev's new Vectorize Image tool converts raster images into editable vectors, alongside the existing AI Pen tool.

2026-09-21

- ## [Introducing the New pen.dev, an Agentic Canvas](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-dev-introducing-the-new-pen-dev-an-agentic-canvas>)

Pen relaunches as pen.dev, an agentic canvas where you import any website or web app, iterate visually, and push the result back to code.

2026-09-17

- ## [Major Canvas Performance Improvements](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-major-canvas-performance-improvements>)

Pencil speeds up canvas redraws by 3.6x and cuts memory use 33% on large, image-heavy projects.

2026-09-09

- ## [Pencil's new AI Pen tool draws vector paths for you to refine](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-ai-pen>)

The free-during-early-access design tool adds AI-drawn beziers plus multipoint rotate, scale, and multipath editing.

2026-08-07

- ## [Pencil passes 1 million downloads on Cursor's marketplace](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-pencil-hits-1m-downloads-on-cursor-extensions>)

The design-to-code tool credits the milestone partly to pairing with Composer 2.5 for full editable layouts in under a minute.

2026-05-20

- ## [Pencil turns canvas designs into production-ready code](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/pencil-code-on-canvas-in-pencil>)

The design tool uses Claude and Codex to generate working code directly from layouts built on its canvas.

2026-04-18

[Open Pencil updates on Creators Toolbox](<https://creatorstoolbox.com/updates/pencil-dev>)

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