Clade Studio 0.1.0

The first release of Clade Studio: a local browser app for turning supplied trees into editable figures with sources and methods attached.

Included

• Newick import, complete-source search and a zoomable read-only Explore viewer.
• Rectangular, circular and fan cladograms; source-distance phylograms; supplied-rank classifications; and unrooted equal-angle/daylight layouts.
• Junction and label adjustments, pins, readability previews, artistic copies and Organic silhouette fitting.
• Editable V4 project saves with V1–V3 migration.
• Labeled/unlabeled SVG export packages with source mappings, QA, references and Sources & Methods.
• Offline datasets from Hug et al. (2016), Upham et al. (2019), dos Reis et al. (2018) and Kew release 4.0, plus a bundled guide.

Downloads and quick start

Browser ZIP — clade-studio-0.1.0-browser.zip: extract and serve the extracted folder over local HTTP. For example, with Python 3 installed, run this inside that folder:

:::sh
python3 -m http.server 4173 --bind 127.0.0.1

Source ZIP — clade-studio-0.1.0-source.zip: requires Node.js 22.18 or later and npm. Extract, then run:

:::sh
npm ci
npm run dev

Open http://127.0.0.1:4173. Stop either server with Ctrl+C. Use Guide in the app for the walkthrough. Opening the HTML directly from disk is unsupported.

Each ZIP has a companion .sha256 file and an internal release-manifest.json with file hashes and component licenses. On systems with sha256sum, verify a download from its folder with:

:::sh
sha256sum -c clade-studio-0.1.0-browser.zip.sha256

Known limitations

• Layout and fitting can leave overlaps or spacing issues. Draft exports disclose unresolved geometry, font measurements and work limits; review the drawing before using it.
• There is no persistent autosave. Download a project before closing; editing images remain embedded in project files, including those inside export packages.
• One source per project. No online organism lookup, relationship inference, dated/fossil layouts, trait analysis or cross-source comparison.
• Explore is nonmetric and read-only. Its temporary viewing summaries do not change the exported drawing. Adaptive unrooted Explore is not included.
• Newick inputs are limited to 20 MB, 100,000 nodes and depth 800; project imports to 50 MB. Large inputs should be explored in full and drawn as selected subsets.
• Text depends on available browser fonts. Changed font measurements can require regeneration before export.

Original software is 0BSD. Hug and Kew data retain CC BY 4.0 terms; the included Upham and dos Reis tree components are CC0. Consult REDISTRIBUTION.md, the included notices and each archive's manifest for exact attribution and component terms.