Excali Up
Local File System Vault with Auto-Save, Animated GIFs and SVGs, Motion Flows, and the Complete Iconify Library for Excalidraw
Excali Up brings a native Local Vault auto-save file manager, animated GIF and SVG playback, per-element line and arrow motion flows, and a complete Iconify-powered icon library directly into Excalidraw.
What's New in 5.5
- Redesigned Local Vault: A native-looking file manager that follows Excalidraw's light and dark themes, with All, Starred, and Recent views, vault-wide search, a row action menu, and full keyboard navigation.
- Safer saving: No more silent overwrites. Name collisions are refused or resolved with unique names, Undo can no longer restore the previous drawing after opening another one, and auto-save now reacts to real scene changes instead of polling.
- Much faster arrow effects: A new batched renderer without per-dot canvas blur runs the heaviest effects 5–10x faster, draws less when zoomed out, and skips off-screen parts.
- Effect colors: Give any animated line or arrow its own color, from Excalidraw's palette or a custom picker, or keep matching the line color.
- Theme-aware motion toolbar: The in-canvas toolbar and tuning panel now follow Excalidraw's light and dark modes.
- Streamlined styles: Eight motion styles; drawings using the retired Snake and Electricity styles keep animating as Comet and Wave.
- Iconify insert options: Insert icons in the current stroke color and at S, M, or L size; click-to-insert now works even while the search box has focus.
- Reduced motion: Flow effects freeze when your operating system asks for less motion (can be turned off in the popup).
See the full changelog.
Features
1. Local Vault & Auto-Save File Manager
Save and organize all your drawings locally on your computer using the native browser File System Access API:
- Direct Local Storage: Pick any local folder on your disk as your drawing vault. Drawings are saved as standard
.excalidraw JSON files.
- Smart Background Auto-Sync: Debounced background saving (1.2s threshold) persists scene edits automatically without manual saves.
- In-Canvas Status Indicator: A vault button next to the main menu shows the open drawing and its live sync state (saved, unsaved changes, saving, reconnect needed, save failed).
- Safe by design: Files are never silently overwritten: renames refuse existing names, copies and new drawings get unique names, and after a reload the vault only re-links a scene that clearly belongs to the last opened drawing. Opening a drawing clears undo history so Undo can never restore the previous one.
- File Manager Drawer (styled with Excalidraw's own theme, light and dark):
- Folder Hierarchy & Breadcrumbs: Create subfolders, navigate breadcrumbs, and organize drawings across directories.
- All, Starred & Recent views: Star drawings for a unified Starred view, or jump back into the ten most recently edited ones.
- Search & Management: Search every drawing in the vault, then rename, move, duplicate, or delete from the row menu.
- Keyboard friendly:
↑/↓ to move, Enter to open, F2 to rename, S to star, Del to delete, Backspace for the parent folder, Esc to close.
- Drag-and-Drop Relocation: Move drawings between folders or drag onto breadcrumb ancestor links.
- Instant Scene Switching: Click any drawing in the drawer to seamlessly load and switch active canvases.
2. Complete Iconify Library Integration
Search and browse Iconify's open-source icon sets directly inside Excalidraw via a dedicated sidebar panel:
- All available packs: Browse more than 200 collections, including Material, Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, Font Awesome, logos, emoji, and thematic sets.
- Library filters: Narrow packs by collection category and tags such as animated, stroke, precise shapes, and padding.
- Animated SVG category: Browse Iconify's animated collections separately and insert their native SVG animations onto the canvas.
- Favorite icons: Star frequently used icons and reopen them from the persistent Favorites view.
- Quick access: Press
B outside text fields to open or close the Iconify Library.
- Pagination system: Renders 96 items per page to prevent browser rendering bottlenecks and keep canvas performance high.
- Click to insert: Clicking an icon fetches its clean vector SVG and inserts it on the canvas (the SVG is also copied to the clipboard when the browser allows it).
- Insert color: Single-color icons take the current canvas stroke color by default (the grid previews it); choose Original to keep the published colors. Multicolor packs always keep their own colors.
- Drag-and-drop support: Drag any icon directly from the sidebar grid and drop it exactly at your cursor position on the Excalidraw canvas.
- Canvas-ready sizing: Pick S (48px), M (96px), or L (160px) as the largest dimension at 100% zoom; aspect ratio is preserved.
- Global search: Search across more than 300,000 icons, or search within one selected pack.
- Dynamic theme matching: The sidebar automatically transitions between light and dark modes to synchronize with Excalidraw's theme state.
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