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Linearity bets on generation that hands back editable layers, not a flat image.

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◆Current state
Curve ships roughly every six to eight weeks on iOS and macOS, and until now the releases were craft work: a glass effect with refraction and dispersion, corner smoothing and path bending, Super Resolution and snapping, a noise effect with SVG and performance gains. Version 6.12 changes the subject by adding Quiver AI generation, framed around keeping every layer owned and editable after the model has run. The companion app Move contributes on its own track, with Lottie export for web and mobile motion graphics.
◆Where it's heading
The pitch — generation starts it, the designer owns the layers — is a deliberate contrast with image models that return a finished raster. For a vector tool on Apple platforms, that is the only version of AI that fits the product: output has to arrive as paths a designer can keep working. The release cadence and the Move track suggest the wider ambition is a design-to-motion pipeline on iPad and Mac, with Lottie as the handoff format.
◆Prediction
Expect the next releases to extend generation deeper into the vector editing surface rather than adding separate AI panels, since editable output is the entire argument. How Quiver AI is priced or metered is not visible in these entries.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    Curve 6.12 adds Quiver AI generation with editable layers

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    After a year of craft-level tool refinement, 6.12 brings generation into Curve on terms that suit a vector editor: the output stays as layers the designer owns. It is the first release in this window that changes what the product is for rather than how well it does what it already did.

  2. 1mo ago

    Curve 6.11: noise effect, SVG and performance gains

    A noise effect plus SVG handling and performance work on iOS and macOS. Typical of the pre-6.12 cadence: texture and fidelity improvements aimed at designers already working in the tool.

  3. 3mo ago

    Curve & Move 6.10: corner smoothing, path bending and a community hub

    Corner smoothing and path bending are core vector-editing additions, joined by page colour and a community hub. The path tooling is the substantive part — it addresses the manipulation designers do most.

  4. 4mo ago

    Curve & Move 6.9: Super Resolution, snapping and image handling

    Super Resolution, improved snapping, better image handling and updated presets across Curve and Move. Framed by the release itself as smoothing everyday design work rather than adding capability.

  5. 4mo ago

    Linearity Curve & Move 6.9 brings smarter tools and cleaner workflows

    A duplicate feed record of the 6.9 release, republished hours apart with the same content. The substance is covered by its twin entry.

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  6. 5mo ago

    Curve 6.8 adds a Glass Effect with refraction and dispersion

    The Glass Effect brings translucent materials with refraction, dispersion and lighting to Curve on both platforms. A rendering feature that tracks the material language Apple's own interfaces have moved toward.