Getting Started

GreenLight DashBoard is a desktop creative suite that puts an infinite moodboard canvas, a video editor, a 3D mockup studio, motion presets, and an AI generation system into a single local app.

What it is for

Use GreenLight DashBoard when you want to:

• Collect references — paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, X, Threads, Vimeo, or Behance link and the app pulls every image and video onto a board.
• Generate with AI — image and video generation through OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Kling, WaveSpeed, and GeminiGen, using your own API keys.
• Edit video — multi-layer timeline with keyframes, cross transitions, and presets for 1080p, 4K, vertical, and square exports.
• Animate 3D mockups — ten device models (iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, Browser, Grid, and more) with full 3D transforms, depth-of-field, and alpha-channel export.
• Apply motion presets — kinetic typography, sliders, and looping layouts rendered locally with no per-render cost.
• Build websites — HTML cards are live HTML and CSS, so you can design pages and components right on the canvas and sync them to a WordPress site.
• Run agentic AI workflows — hand the board to a terminal coding agent (GLAI) or any external agent and let it place media, render, build video projects, and run multi-step jobs end to end.
• Make video tutorials — screen-record your work, transcribe it word-by-word to edit by text, then redub with built-in voice cloning and voice change.
• Work with After Effects — inspect .aep projects, swap their inputs, and render them straight from the board without opening After Effects.
• Share live boards — publish a board as a hosted link with comment threads, powered by your own Cloudflare account.

How it is different

• Local-first. Boards, media, and settings live on your machine in a SQLite database and a local media folder. The app works offline once installed.
• Bring your own API keys. AI calls go directly from your machine to the model provider. There is no platform markup and no per-generation tax.
• One app, many tools. Most of the workflows people stitch together — Figma for moodboards, CapCut or Premiere for video, Luma or Higgsfield for AI, separate device mockup tools — happen inside the same window with the same media library.
• Editable, not throwaway. HTML cards are live HTML and CSS instead of one-shot images. Refine them in the visual editor or through conversation with an agent rather than re-rolling a prompt.

Where to go next

• New to the app — start with Quick Start Tutorial.
• Need to install — see Installing the Desktop App.
• Want the mental model first — read Key Concepts.
• Already have a Pro license — jump to License Activation.
• Moving a board to another computer — see Importing and Exporting Boards.