The Thesis

A look under the hood at how Panel Haus renders, stores, and generates, built for speed and reliable export.

A five-layer canvas

Everything you make is composited in real time on a fast canvas. Five layers stack in a fixed order: backgrounds at the bottom, then panels, then the images that fill them, then text bubbles, and stickers on top. The order never changes, which is what keeps a busy page readable and an export predictable.

Locked dimensions, stable art

Every page locks its size the moment it is created: Square at 700 by 700, Portrait at 490 by 700, Landscape at 700 by 560. Positions are stored in absolute pixels against that fixed size, so nothing drifts when you zoom, pan, or come back a week later. What you see is what exports.

Local-first and pluggable AI

Your images live on your own device for instant performance, not a round trip to a server every time you adjust a panel. Generation is pluggable: Gemini handles images, ChatGPT or Claude handle stories, and you can bring your own API keys to remove limits and pay providers directly.