Results grouped by kind of work. Each section names where to start: a shipped skill you type after / in chat, a guided flow on New project, or an app from the Examples page. Models run on your provider keys, hosted credits, or locally, and any model can be swapped without rebuilding the project. See Costs & Credits.
Product marketing and e-commerce
Launch films, product spots, and listing images built from your real product photos and pages.
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| A launch film from a product page | /launch-commercial with the page URL |
| A polished product film | /product-commercial, or the Storyboard flow |
| A full image set from one packshot | The SKU Factory app, or the packshot recipe |
| Lifestyle mockups, then video | The Product Launch Kit app |
| A campaign with one cast across stills and cuts | /launch-kit, or the Directed Campaign Kit app |
| Your brand filled in from your website | The Brand & Social app |
Add the product as an entity once, and every shot uses its reference image.
Performance ads
Many ad variants, each editable, so you can test angles and refresh them.
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| A 15-second sound-off ad from screenshots | /motion-ad, or one of the sixteen ad-format apps |
| A phone-shot creator testimonial | /ugc-video, or the UGC Product Video app |
| Copy and hooks compared before rendering | The Viral Ad Engine or Ad Maker app |
| Your version of an ad you saw | /video-clone with the reference video |
| The same ad in 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 | The Three Ratios workflow |
The ad library shows each ad format with a beat sheet and a sample cut.
Film, trailers, and narrative
Stories boarded shot by shot, with stills approved before any video renders.
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| A short film, scene, or trailer | The Storyboard flow, or /short-film |
| A trailer from a story pitch | The Trailer Room app |
| A music video treatment | /music-video-treatment |
| One brief in, a cut film out, unattended | The Direct a Short Film workflow |
Characters and locations are entities, so they look the same in every shot. The Creative Agent page covers redoing a single shot by note.
Creators, podcasts, and explainers
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| Show notes, a newsletter, and social posts from an episode | The Podcast Production Desk app |
| A narrated explainer | The Script flow, or /script-video |
| A vlog or creator video | /ugc-video |
| Captions and titles on a finished cut | The timeline, or /caption-titles |
Localization
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| A clip dubbed into another language | The Dubbing Desk app, or the dubbing recipe |
| An explainer voiced and captioned per language | The Localized Explainer workflow |
You review and edit the translation before it is voiced.
Design and key art
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| One image with variations to choose from | The Image flow, which opens the pick as a sketch |
| Concept art directions from one brief | The Concept Studio app |
| One change to an image, such as lighting or pose | The Vary Image app |
| Photo grading and batch retouching | The Photo Studio app |
| A set blocked out in 3D as a shot reference | The 3D editor, or /nodetool-3d-scene |
Games
Describe a world, a player, and a goal. The agent builds a playable 2D or 3D
game in the game editor, where you play
it, change it, and export a web player. Start with the Game flow or
/native-game, or open one of the five shipped games.
Team tools and automation
| You want | Start with |
|---|---|
| A simple screen a coworker runs without seeing the graph | A mini app, or /nodetool-app-builder |
| Answers from your own documents | Collections, or /nodetool-rag-indexing |
| Work in Drive, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar | Google Workspace |
| A run on a schedule, a file drop, or a webhook | Triggers |
| Your agent in Telegram | Telegram Bot |
| A procedure the agent repeats the same way | Your own skill |
Developers
NodeTool runs inside other tools as well as on its own. Claude Code and other agents drive it through the MCP server. Your code calls workflows over the API or runs them with the CLI. New node types are written in TypeScript, as covered in the Developer Guide.
Private and local AI
Run language, image, and speech models on your own machine with Ollama, llama.cpp, or MLX on Apple Silicon, so your files stay on it. Self-host the server with Docker for a team. See Local vs Cloud and Self-Hosted.
Showcase walkthroughs
These pages take one showcase workflow apart node by node. Each one starts from a few inputs and ends with a finished result you can re-run with your own brief.
Movie Trailer Generator
Type one logline and the canvas builds a cinematic teaser: a Director node storyboards it into shots, each shot is rendered as key art, animated, and cut into a finished trailer.
Documentary Teaser Generator
Describe the film in a sentence and the storyboard boards it shot by shot: a card per beat, a still on every card, animated clips, and a cut teaser on the timeline.
Product Video Generator
Turn a campaign brief and a single product photo into a cinematic 16:9 product video. Your inputs feed a prompt, an agent directs the shot, and an image-to-video model animates the photo.
Ad Creative Factory
One product photo and one offer become a batch of ready-to-test vertical video ads. A strategist agent plans a persona × angle test matrix, and every cell becomes a spoken hook, a staged scene, an animated clip, and a voiceover.
Movie Poster Generator
From a title, genre, and visual style, the canvas writes a creative strategy and renders a batch of cinematic poster concepts, one image per concept.
Podcast Repurposing Studio
Drop in one episode and ship the whole content pack: titles and show notes, a newsletter edition, five social posts, and quote cards rendered as square images. Transcribed once, written four ways.
SEO Content Engine
One topic in, a keyword-targeted article batch out. A strategist agent plans the cluster, and every brief becomes a full article with title, meta description, keywords, and body, plus an editorial hero image.
The Movie Trailer Generator, Product Video Generator, Movie Posters, Podcast Repurposing Studio, and SEO Content Engine ship as workflow templates. The Documentary Teaser Generator and Ad Creative Factory do not, so build them from the node lists on their pages.