Join the GuideGuide Beta Program
After years of lying dormant while I worked a full time day-job, GuideGuide is back under active development with a new major version on the way. Please help me test the newest plugins to ensure launch day delivers the best experience possible.
Download the beta
Existing customers may participate in the beta with a valid license .
To participate without a paid license, please download GuideGuide and use the trial. Once the trial expires, you can contact support to request a free beta license that last for the duration of the beta.
Give Feedback
If you'd like to let me know how you feel about GuideGuide or report problems with GuideGuide, please join the beta Slack in the #guideguide-beta channel.
Get notified
If you would like to be notified when the beta version of GuideGuide becomes available for your app of choice, or when they become the official versions, please join the beta mailing list. You will only receive messages about the GuideGuide beta and will be removed from the list once the beta closes.
By submitting this form, your email address will be stored by SendStack, my mailing list subprocessor.
Press kit
If you need logos, descriptions, or screenshots of GuideGuide, you can grab them in the press kit. Screenshots will be updated to show the new interface once the beta versions go public.
Press and Media
Interested in writing about GuideGuide or helping me promote it? I don't have a release date yet, but I'm aiming for some time in Q1 2023. Here are some assets to get you started.
Logo
Promo Images
Promo Video
Micro description
Easy grids and guides in your favorite design tools.
Short description
GuideGuide is an extension that lets you quickly and easily create grids and manipulate guides with a consistent UI in your favorite design tools.
GuideGuide talking points
- Guideguide has been around since 2011.
- It went from free to paid in 2015, and to subscription in 2018.
- When GuideGuide was free, it was Photoshop's most installed extension (verified verbally by an Adobe employee).
- This is the first major launch of GuideGuide since leaving my job to focus on independent develoment full time.
What’s new in GuideGuide?
New stuff
- The first ever major update to Grid Notation
-
Support for Feet
ft, Yardsyd, and Metersm. - Native M1 Mac support for Photoshop
- New Plugin: InDesign
- New Plugin: After Effects
- New Plugin: Figma
Changes
- A redesigned interface (🙄) which will more closely align with each platform’s design, while keeping consistent interactions across all plugins.
- The Photoshop version has been rebuilt with Adobe’s new(ish) UXP framework.
- I’m about 5 years more experienced writing software than last time. Hopefully that’s a good thing.
- I’ve removed all reliance on Google technologies, in favor of privacy-focused vendors like Fathom and SendStack.
- GuideGuide no longer shares data between installed plugins due to new sandboxing restrictions in various applications.
What’s new in Grid Notation?
New stuff
- Variables now support options
-
Built-in variables
$HEIGHTand$WIDTHto reference the context of the grid -
Commands can be wrapped in curly brackets
, called a blocks , to group them together. Blocks can have their own options, allowing complex nesting of wildcards, enabling things like having wildcard calculation inside a sidebar that is different from wildcard calculation elsewhere in a grid. - Blocks inside variables can be referenced directly , allowing the results of one grid to be used in another grid. This allows things like forcing aspect ratios between horizontal and vertical guides.
Changes
- Variables may now only be composed of letters and numbers. Previously, symbols were allowed.
- Options for grids no longer require a specific order.
- Only one size value is allowed in the options section. Previously, up to three were possible, the first and last used to position the grid if the grid was smaller than its context. This can now be done within the grid itself.