Visual storytelling
See your story come to life.
kaampi Comic turns moments, characters, and scenes into comics — a different way to tell the stories that already live in your creative universe.
More than a hobby tool
Bubbles and panels you can actually shape by hand, and an export that holds up in a real print workflow.
Shaped, not just dropped in
Speech, thought, caption, and SFX bubbles — organic, wide, tall, shout, or whisper — each editable node by node, with a tail that tracks the bubble's real outline and text that flows to fit its actual shape, not just a box.
Any shape, snapped to a real grid
Rectangles, diamonds, parallelograms, triangles, or fully custom polygons, laid out from page templates or built by hand, with straight or hand-drawn borders and tactile resize feedback.
A real IDML file for InDesign and Affinity Publisher
Panels, speech bubbles, and lettering export as live vector shapes and editable text, with linked image files and preserved layers — ready for print production, not a flattened screenshot.
Start from what you've already written
Pull a scene straight out of a kaampi Write manuscript and turn it into panels, instead of starting a visual story from nothing.
The same characters, a new medium
A character's established look and facts travel with them, so the person on the page and the person in the panel stay recognizably the same.
A visual sketch, not a rewrite
Illustrating a scene in Comic never changes what's locked in that story's own Story Bible — the prose stays the prose's own truth.
Share back on your terms
What you build in Comic is yours by default. Bring it back into the shared world only when you decide it should be visible there.
How a scene becomes a page
Comic reads from a world it doesn't own, and that's deliberate at every step.
Pick a scene
Pull one straight out of a kaampi Write manuscript, or start fresh from an Explore sketch.
Characters arrive with their facts
Looks, relationships, and established details travel with them, so panel and page agree.
Lay out the panels
Break the scene into beats, choose framing, and sketch each panel in turn.
Share back, or keep it yours
Nothing returns to the shared world unless you decide it should.
Who it's for
For turning a story you already have into something you can look at.
Novelists who want a visual key scene
Bring a single chapter to life without redoing the work of the whole book.
Comic-first storytellers
Start directly in panels, and lean on Write or Explore only when you want the backstory behind them.
Anyone pitching a world
A handful of drawn panels says more to a reader in ten seconds than a paragraph of description.
The same world, drawn instead of written — not a second, competing version of it.
— why Comic reads from a world instead of owning oneFree forever. Supported by writers.
kaampi Comic is free, open source under GPL 3, and completely independent — no subscriptions, no venture capital, and no telemetry. If it's helped you see a scene the way you imagined it, you are warmly welcome to support continued development.
Questions people ask first
Does illustrating a scene change my manuscript?
No. Comic reads from the Story Bible; it never writes back to it without an explicit proposal you approve.
Do I need kaampi Write first?
No — Comic works standalone too. Pulling from an existing manuscript is a shortcut, not a requirement.
Who can see what I draw here?
Only you, until you choose to share a page or a panel back with the rest of the family.
Is kaampi Comic open source?
Yes — GPL 3, the same license every kaampi app uses. You can inspect how it works, and your pages never live at the mercy of a closed app.
How much does it cost?
Nothing. kaampi Comic is free, open-source software — no subscription, no upsell later. If you find it valuable, you are welcome to buy a coffee to help keep development going.