Grovetracks is built around a few powerful ideas: symmetry tools that multiply your creativity, a browser that connects every drawing, and a lineage system that tracks how art evolves.
Activate the kaleidoscope and every stroke you draw is mirrored across 2 to 12 radial sectors. Draw a single curve and watch it bloom into a mandala. Adjust the sector count in real time to shift between subtle bilateral symmetry and dense, intricate patterns.
Draw a small motif, then trace a path across the canvas. Your motif repeats along the curve, automatically scaled and rotated to follow the path. Great for borders, vines, chains, and decorative edges.
Quick-access geometric shapes and stamp tools for building structure. Circles, rectangles, lines, and polygons snap to the grid or flow freehand.
Every doodle starts in one of two modes, and the mode shapes how your creation connects to the rest of the grove.
Others can branch and remix your work, and every stroke traces back to a single root. Collaborators welcome — but no outside integrations. The whole tree grows from one shared canvas.
Open the Grove Browser, weave in other compositions, and build something from many sources. Universe mode tracks every connection — the full web of what you drew and what you wove in.
Open the Grove Browser from inside the canvas to search, browse, and integrate other compositions into your work. Five tabs organize everything you need:
When you weave a composition into your work, you get a full set of tools to make it fit. Every integration is non-destructive — the original stays untouched while you shape how it appears in your piece.
Position and scale any integrated composition on your canvas. Drag to place, handle to resize.
Spin an integration to any angle. Align it with your composition or set it at an unexpected tilt.
Apply color transformations — remap the palette, shift hues, or match the integration to your drawing's color scheme.
Select which parts of an integration to show or hide. Clip sections to reveal only what fits your composition.
Mirror an integration horizontally or vertically for the perfect orientation.
Studies are your private sketchbook inside the canvas. Pin reference images, experiment with compositions, and develop ideas without publishing. When you're ready, weave your studies into finished work.
Only you can see your studies. Experiment freely without committing to the grove.
Promote a study into a published composition, or integrate it into new work through the Grove Browser.
Every composition in Grovetracks knows where it came from. When you remix, branch, or integrate another drawing, the system records the connection. The result is a directed acyclic graph — a living web of creative lineage.
Every composition in the grove has one of three origins, and all three feed into the same creative web.
Created on the canvas by a human artist, stroke by stroke. The most personal source type — every line is intentional.
Algorithmic art generated by Understory, our procedural art engine. Mathematical patterns, fractals, and organic forms — building blocks designed to be remixed.
Photographs converted into stroke-based compositions through edge detection and tracing. The camera becomes a drawing tool.
Seeds power two systems: trellises frame your work with decorative borders, and blooms let you send real warmth to compositions you love.
Learn how blooms work →The Spruce button appears on any composition you own. Tap it to open a picker where you can apply a trellis border from your collection and set a bloom color — all in one place.
Don't have any trellises yet? Visit the Trellis Shop to start your collection. Trellis Shop →
Pick up a pen, trace a photo, or explore what others have grown. The grove is waiting.
Start creating