Everything BStudio can do

The Home dashboard is what loads at "/" right after BMS single sign-on hands you off into BStudio. It combines a hero template search, one-click "Quick create" format shortcuts, curated Collections, your Recent designs, Starred items, your Folders, your own published Brand templates, a row of "more of your most-used format" templates computed from your own design history, and general template suggestions.

The "Templates for you" row is a genuine per-category random sample — BStudio draws a handful of templates from each category so one huge category (like Print) can't dominate the row — rather than a personalization engine that learns your taste over time.

The Templates tab at "/new" is the full search/filter/browse experience for BStudio's template library. You can filter by free-text search, category (Instagram, Facebook, Print, etc.), genre (topical groups like "Event" or "Sale & Promo"), style (Minimalist, Modern, Bold, Elegant, Playful, Corporate, Retro, Brand), color, price (Free vs. ♛ Pro), and type (Static vs. ▶ Video).

Four scope tabs sit alongside the filters: All templates, BStudio library, Your brand (your own published brand templates), and ★ Starred. Every filter chip shows a live, contextual result count, and results load 48 at a time with infinite scroll as you approach the bottom of the page.

The Blank canvas tab lets you name a design, choose Static or ▶ Video, and pick a size — grouped by platform: Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, general formats like Presentation and Report, and Print (Flyer, Poster, Business Card, Brochure, Letterhead, Postcard, Invitation, Menu, Certificate, Label, Sticker), plus a fully custom pixel size.

Choosing a print format exposes a real production panel: genuine industry-standard sizes (US Letter/Legal/Tabloid, ISO A-series, real business-card and postcard standards), portrait/landscape orientation, available fold styles, and a "print on both sides" toggle — a double-sided design starts with front and back pages already in place. Designs are authored at 100 DPI so a 3× export lands on true 300 DPI for print.

Video-only presets are excluded from the Static list and vice versa, so it's not possible to accidentally end up with a "video-shaped" static design.

The editor combines a left-rail panel set (Elements, Text, Photos, Shapes, Video, Audio, Background, Brand, Templates, Layers, Settings) with a floating toolbar and type-specific inspectors for text, image, video, vector, and overlay elements.

Static designs get a Pages strip; video designs get a full Timeline with scene thumbnails, transition pickers with live hover previews, and a canvas-based player with real playback controls. Animation has two mutually exclusive modes per element: Presets (fade/slide enter and exit) and Keyframes — a real property-track system animating position, scale, rotation and opacity at arbitrary points with configurable easing.

Business cards and other double-sided print formats get a "Flip to back / Flip to front" button in the topbar. Autosave runs continuously with a visible Saving… / Unsaved / Saved indicator, alongside manual undo/redo and Cmd/Ctrl+S.

Every export renders client-side (Fabric.js for images, a vendored jsPDF for PDF, gifenc for GIF, Mediabunny for MP4) with a real progress bar. Static designs export as PNG, JPG, or a multi-page PDF; video designs export as MP4 with sound, a silent animated GIF, or scene-still PNG/JPG/PDF ("storyboard").

Options include which pages/scenes to include, output scale, JPG/PDF quality, MP4 quality tier, a PNG transparent-background toggle, and GIF frame rate/looping. Print-format designs export their PDF at the real trim size — an 8.5×11in Letter flyer exports as an actual 8.5×11in page, not just a same-ratio image.

Any design can get a public, view-only link that needs no BStudio account to open. It comes with a live view count and last-viewed timestamp, a "Reset link" action that immediately invalidates the old link, and configurable expiry (Never / 7 / 30 / 90 days).

An Embed toggle produces a ready-to-paste iframe snippet with a configurable width (height follows the design's aspect ratio automatically) that always reflects the design's latest saved version — so an embedded menu or price list stays current without re-embedding.

The owner gets an in-app notification whenever the link is viewed; repeat views collapse into one "viewed N times" notification instead of spamming the feed.

Comments can be a general thread entry, or a pin dropped at an exact (x, y) spot on a specific canvas page — the pin stays correctly positioned regardless of zoom level. Typing "@" mentions a specific teammate, who gets a distinct "mentioned you" notification rather than a generic "commented on" one.

Any comment can be marked resolved or reopened by anyone with comment permission on that design — resolving is the unit of closure, similar to how Canva's own commenting works, rather than a full nested discussion thread.

Opening a design sends a heartbeat roughly every 8 seconds; the editor topbar shows an avatar stack of up to 4 other current viewers (plus a "+N" overflow), alongside a "last edited by" indicator on every save.

"/projects" is organized into tabs for Designs, Folders, Images, Videos and Audio. Designs can be browsed at root or inside a nested (unlimited-depth) folder, filtered to Starred, searched by name, filtered by type or date modified, sorted several ways, and viewed as a grid or list — your view preference is remembered.

Multi-select unlocks bulk actions: move to folder, star, batched download with a progress counter, and move to trash. Deleting a folder never deletes its contents — designs and subfolders simply move up one level. The Images/Videos/Audio tabs show everything you've ever uploaded, independent of whether any design still references it; clicking one offers "Use in a new design" directly.

Every card in Trash shows how many days remain before it's eligible for permanent removal. Restore puts a design back exactly where it was — same folder, same star state. Deleting a design anywhere else in the app always routes here first; "Delete forever" and "Empty trash" are the only genuinely permanent, unrecoverable deletions in BStudio.

The Brand Kit at "/brand" stores your colors (the first is treated as primary and applied to headings and the largest share of elements), a heading/body font pairing, and a logo — uploaded directly, or imported from Logo Maker, BStudio's sibling BMS app, via a live popup handoff or a one-click "Send to BStudio" link.

For teams, a workspace switcher lets any member view or apply the team's shared brand kit; only the team owner or an admin can edit it, with a clear read-only banner explaining that to everyone else.

Publishing snapshots a design's current pages into a reusable template row. The original design stays untouched by later edits — re-publish any time to update the template with newer content. It's available from any design's "⋯" menu, in the dashboard or the editor.

A team shares folders, designs, and a brand kit, with a live activity feed. Four roles: Owner (created the team; only role that can rename/delete it or touch another owner), Admin (manages members and the brand kit, full content access, can't delete the team), Editor (creates/edits team designs and folders, comments), and Viewer (read-only on content, but can still comment).

Invites are real, per-person, by email, with accept/decline — since BStudio has no live outbound mailer wired up, an invite surfaces in-app on both ends: under the invited person's "My invites" the moment they're authenticated with that email, and under the team's "Pending" list until resolved. Invites expire after 14 days; re-inviting an already-pending email refreshes it rather than duplicating it.

The Activity feed logs real events — created, invited, member joined, role changed, member removed/left, comment added/resolved. Deleting a team never deletes its content: every team folder, design, and brand kit falls back to being personal to whoever created it.

The Planner is a genuine month-calendar scheduler: schedule any design to a specific date and time against a target platform (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Pinterest, Other), with an optional caption up to 2200 characters. An "Upcoming" sidebar lists what's scheduled next.

The notification bell in the topbar covers: a design published as a brand template, a share link being viewed (deduped so repeat views collapse into one "viewed N times" entry), team invites and their status, role changes, being removed from a team, comments and mentions, comment resolution, and client-reported events like an export finishing.

Every response carries a live unread count for the bell badge.

The sidebar and account panel show design count, storage used against a per-user quota, folder count, brand template count, upcoming scheduled post count, and upload count/total size.

BStudio reads and displays your BStudio-specific credit/wallet balance from BMS's shared central payment service — the same wallet infrastructure other BMS apps (Logo Maker, Site Builder, etc.) use. It's auto-provisioned the moment a reseller adds BStudio to "My Apps," entirely on the BMS side.

Your theme preference is synced two ways: locally for instant, flash-free first paint, and to the server so the choice follows you to other devices — the server value wins if the two ever differ.

The Apps page lists BStudio's own tools (Content Planner, Brand Kit), sibling BMS apps that open in a new tab (Background Remover, Logo Maker, Site Builder, BMS Print), and a clearly-labeled "Coming soon" set (Mockups, Product Photos, QR Code, Social connections) — honestly marked unavailable rather than hidden or faked.

Every authenticated route requires a valid BMS session plus a specific granular permission — e.g. one permission gates the whole panel, others separately gate the catalog, creating designs, editing designs, sharing, folders, team management, the activity feed, the planner, the brand kit, uploads, the media library, and presence. These are seeded centrally in ms-bms as a contract with BMS's plan/role system, so a BMS plan could gate individual BStudio features going forward.

Inside a team, the four roles — owner/admin/editor/viewer — are a completely separate, BStudio-specific authorization layer on top of that BMS gate, governing team folders, designs, the brand kit, and membership specifically.