Klay

Digital clay, made for sculptors.

Windows · macOS · VR

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BuildsNew versions land there before anywhere else, with a note on what changed.
StudioWorks in progress, from the first lump to the last pass.
HelpQuestions answered by the people making it and the people using it.
WishlistSay what the tool is missing. Plenty of it has been built.

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Apple silicon

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Linux

Ubuntu · Rocky · Fedora

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Version history

14 releases
v0.0.52 Latest 18 Oct 2026

Stroke deposit engine 2.0, face, edge and vertex selection, updated clay and rake brushes with dynamic smoothing, and finer spacing and stroke direction controls.

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v0.0.51 17 Oct 2026

The Theatre menu on the Z key, French and Chinese, a faster PBR Fast, curve profiles and Curve tool setups in the library, and the toolbar's tools in the right-click menu.

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v0.0.50 15 Oct 2026

Klay and Community asset libraries, shared by Klay artists, now sit beside your own assets.

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v0.0.49 11 Oct 2026

Retopology rebuilt for clean all-quad loops that follow the main edges; Pan speed and an Invert stroke key in Settings; orbit and zoom close in on the point you click; light edits can be undone; Undo always stays on Ctrl+Z.

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v0.0.48 7 Oct 2026

Render region raytraces only a part of the view; Color correct v3 works like Lightroom’s develop panel; artists can publish their exhibitions from the Exhibitions tab.

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v0.0.47 6 Oct 2026

A Camera tool, a new Curve tool, Exhibitions and locked scenes, camera tracks, and sequence renders and movies.

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v0.0.46 29 Sep 2026

The Mirror tool gains a Spatial mode that cuts the mesh on the mirror plane and rebuilds the other half as a merged mirror or a live mirrored instance, and tessellation now keeps a mesh's UVs.

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v0.0.45 28 Sep 2026

The Canvas opens as a view inside Klay and is saved with each project, a new Water material turns any mesh into a body of water, and the Brush panel now serves the Clay and Stamp brushes.

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v0.0.44 22 Sep 2026

The interface now sizes itself to your monitor and its display scaling, with an Auto option in Settings; Trackball orbit gains an Absolute mode and lights show their size in highlights.

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v0.0.43 21 Sep 2026

Live session sharing with voice chat, a physical sky with volumetric clouds, multi-axis and radial symmetry, a viewport stencil for any brush, and saved bake jobs with UDIM displacement.

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v0.0.42 15 Sep 2026

Hold N to place and size a new clay layer at the cursor; hold E for a quick move, spin or scale from any tool.

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v0.0.41 14 Sep 2026

Head and cube sample scenes plus Import mesh on the welcome screen; radial hub ring with Display and Scene buttons; Fire light follows its object.

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v0.0.40 14 Sep 2026

A curve Deformer, sculpting and weather sounds, and a Fire material.

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v0.0.39 10 Sep 2026

Vertex, edge and face selection, a Measure tool, and one lattice for several objects.

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Klay is a solo project by a visual artist.