All inone kiln

The Kiln tab: every module as a glazed brick in a fire-lit wall

Kiln is one desktop app for making games: 3D models, 2D rigs, pixel art, rooms and poses, sound, story and planning, each a brick in the same wall.

Download Kiln 0.9.0

Shade the pose

Pose people among boxes and furniture, then render the scene shaded, or as clean line art to colour in your drawing app.

Pose: a woman sitting on a chair and a man standing, shaded

The same scene rendered as black line art on white

Pick a brick

Twenty-five modules, each replacing a program you would otherwise juggle. Click one to see it working.

Art

Levels

Sound

Writing

Planning

Pose

Pose a mannequin with your own proportions among boxes and furniture, fly round it, and render shaded or line art references

.kpose How Pose works

Modules open as tabs in one window, with one look and one set of habits. No hopping between a dozen programs that each want their own account.

One window

Keep the bricks you use on the wall and leave the rest out. Kiln stays small, and each module has its own file type.

Pick your tools

No sign-in and nothing uploaded. Your work lives in files on your own disk, and Kiln only updates when you click Update.

Yours, offline

Export for Godot or Unity with the shaders, scripts and settings they need, or to glTF, PNG, GIF, WAV and MP4.

Into your engine

How it fires

Kiln is made for indie and adult game makers who would rather make the game than manage the tools. From download to export takes five moves.

Download

One file for Linux or Windows. Put it anywhere and run it: there is no installer and no account.

Lay the bricks

The Kiln tab is a wall of your modules. Add the ones you need; leave the rest out until you want them.

Open a tab

Click a brick and the module opens as a tab in the same window. Recent files sit next to the wall with their previews.

Make

Every module keeps its own file: a rig, a level, a song, a room. F1 shows the keys for the one in front of you, Ctrl+K finds any command.

Fire it

Export straight into Godot or Unity, or to glTF, PNG, sprite sheets, GIF, WAV and MP4 for anything else.

Download Kiln 0.9.0

One file, no installer. Kiln checks for new versions when it starts and shows Update; nothing installs until you click it.

Linux

Download for Linux

Download kiln-linux-x86_64.

Make it runnable and put it on your path:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/kiln-linux-x86_64
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
mv ~/Downloads/kiln-linux-x86_64 ~/.local/bin/kiln

Run kiln from a terminal, or add it to your app menu:

cat > ~/.local/share/applications/kiln.desktop <<'EOF'
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Kiln
Exec=kiln
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;Development;
EOF

Works on Wayland and X11 with any 64-bit distribution. Needs a graphics card with Vulkan (most from 2016 on). Cut and video export also need ffmpeg.

Windows

Download for Windows

Download kiln-windows-x86_64.exe.
Move it to a folder of its own, for example C:\Users\you\Apps\Kiln, and double-click it.
If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”, choose More info, then Run anyway. Kiln is not code-signed yet, so Windows does not know it.
Right-click the file and choose Pin to Start to keep it handy.

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with DirectX 12 or Vulkan graphics. Cut and video export also need ffmpeg on your PATH.

macOS is not supported yet. Settings and autosaves live in ~/.local/share/kiln-native on Linux and %APPDATA%\Kiln on Windows.

Firing log

Kiln 0.9.014 November 2026

Pose: a posing stage with scenes, a free camera, move and turn gizmos	Pose	New
Human figures to pose, with body proportions and twelve pose presets	Pose	New
Import your own rigged character and pose it with its own skeleton	Pose	New
Pieces turn at any angle; import meshes from files or from Model	Rooms	Better
Line art renders and perspective guides for drawing over	Rooms	New
Blender keys: G, R, S with axis locks and typed values, Shift+A, B	Model	New
Pick many cards at once, label them together, paste pictures in	Board	New

Kiln 0.8.014 November 2026

One program, one window: modules open as tabs	Kiln	New
The Kiln tab: a fire-lit brick wall of your modules and recent files	Kiln	New
3D split into Model and Level	Model	Better
Fifteen new modules, from Pixel and Cut to Board and Database	Kiln	New
Font packs, emoji and ligatures	Fonts	New

Kiln 0.7.01 November 2026

UV editor, reference images, skinning and a four-way view	Model	New
Damaged-project protection and a crash test across modules	Kiln	Fixed
About window with licences, and a user guide	Kiln	New

Kiln 0.6.01 November 2026

Every engine setting, fog that matches Godot, texture drag and drop

Level

Better

Kiln 0.5.01 November 2026

Export for Unity, booleans and the knife

Model

New

Kiln 0.4.01 November 2026

Colliders, fog walls and Sync with Godot	Level	New
Cleaner noise reduction that keeps the voice's level	Audio	Fixed

Kiln 0.3.01 November 2026

Studio for recording voice lines; tracker and DAW apart; library folders

Audio

New

Kiln 0.2.031 October 2026

Plain glTF export for any 3D app, next to the Godot one	Rig	New
Undo in every texture tool; file dialogs no longer freeze the window	Kiln	Fixed

Every release on GitHub

Kiln 0.9.0 for Linux and Windows. One file, no installer, no account. Download