Create Mesmerizing Visual Communication in Motion

Playfully compose unique designs by exploring endless combinations of styles, shapes, colors, motion, and modernist text layouts. From 3D optical illusions to stylized results, for both print and digital use. A creative tool that’s as meditative as it is productive, designed for discovery.

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Use Cases

Announcements
Posters
Series
Websites
Art Assets
In Public
Music Videos

Announcements

Designed to be Noticed

Whorl helps your message stand out with looping motion, modernist text, and bold yet refined visuals, ideal for scroll-stopping posts, stories, and reels.

Whether launching a product, promoting an event, or just vibing with your audience, Whorl lets you create visual communication that feels alive. Add your message, choose a style, and export video ready to share.

POSTERS

Unique Poster Design. Simplified.

With the Whorl app, you can effortlessly create stunning posters by combining mesmerizing abstract visuals with custom text. Its intuitive tools make each design truly unique. Perfect for events or promotions.

Whorl supports high-resolution exports, ensuring your poster looks sharp and professional ready to print or share.

SERIES

A Thousand Designs

Whorl makes it easy to generate endless variation from a single expression.

By manually or randomly adjusting properties like style, shape, color distribution and text, you can generate striking variations that retain a shared visual language.

Whether you want subtle shifts or bold contrast, Whorl makes variation effortless, without losing coherence.

WEBSITES

Engaging Web Elements

Whorl’s animations provide dynamic visual anchors, adding depth and motion. Whether used subtly to enrich layouts or prominently to signal key messages, Whorl infuses websites with sophistication and engaging energy.

ART ASSETS

Layered Creativity

Artists and designers integrate Whorl’s generative outputs into broader creative pipelines, using them as core elements or subtle textures within complex compositions. For example, in Matt Mill's work, Whorl patterns serve as both striking focal layers and nuanced overlays, harmonizing with other layers like textures, graphic elements, photography, or 3D renders.

IN PUBLIC

Bring Motion and Presence to Public Spaces

When Whorl designs animate, they breathe life into electronic billboards, storefront screens, festival signage, conference interstitials, and transit displays. Captivating and informing audiences and passersby.

Music Videos

Animated Energy
for Creators

Whorl’s motion loops can enhance any motion‐graphics production, be it commercial spots, title sequences, social-media ads, music videos, and more. For example, electronic duo Pnau have used Whorl’s abstract animated forms as an energetic layer and rhythmic transitions. Gaining a fresh visual edge by weaving Whorl into one of their music video’s motion design.

Features

Randomization
Styles
Shapes
Text
Color
Motion
Modifiers
Dimensions
Export

Randomization

Surprise, Spun Beautifully

Randomization lets you loosen the reins and dance with the unexpected. Whether you're spinning things randomly on a grand scale or targeting specific features like style, shape, color, text, etc., it adds an element of surprise that keeps the process playful.

Think of yourself as a creative conductor, setting the vibe, and letting surprise work its magic.

Styles

Generative Styles

Unique, carefully crafted styles to express yourself. Combine with any shape and color to create a wealth of variations. You can even use your own text or emojis with the special text style.

Shapes

Infinite Forms

Explore over a hundred shapes to define the look and rhythm of your Whorl. Choose from many square and round geometric forms, or get playful with numbers, letters, and symbols. Go beyond the presets by importing your own SVG path to use as the shape for your Whorl.

Text

Typographic Layouts

Whorl’s text tool allows you to add your message to its abstract visuals. With modernist layouts and typographic styles ranging from bold to refined, your words become part of the art. Ideal for events, announcements, and standout moments. Each design communicates effectively while complementing your visual aesthetic.

Color

Instant Color
Harmony

Pick curated color palettes from muted Natural & Vintage to bold ’80s Retro. Or, input your own custom palette.

Apply colors using different distribution methods to map hues onto your Whorl. In every case, Whorl automatically adjusts text color for optimal contrast, readability and harmony.

Motion

Mesmerizing Motion Loop

Currently offered as a single seamless loop animation, its hypnotic motion instantly draws attention to any design. You can set the loop's duration and frame rate, then export to .mp4 or .gif to share your lively creations.

Modifiers

Dial in your Taste

Whorl offers a set of modifiers to fine-tune and transform your design. From Spin and Scale to Slice and Wave, each adjustment adds a new layer of visual personality.

Dimensions

Adaptive Page Dimensions

Whorl offers standard page dimensions, allowing you to effortlessly switch between formats. When you change dimensions, the content automatically reflows to fit the new layout, ensuring your design stays cohesive and visually appealing without manual adjustments.

Export

Choose your Output Format

Whorl offers flexible export options:

Static images from screen resolution up to 10,000 px for print-quality results.
Video exports are the primary format used for animations. Ideal for websites and social media, balancing visual quality with file size.
Animated GIF export as an alternative format to add your Whorl in motion to different kinds of media.

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Gallery

A curated peek at the possibilities.