Professional vector software has become heavy. Heavy on memory, heavy on start-up time and heavy on the monthly bill. For a lot of people who simply want to open an SVG, move a few points, draw a new shape or build a character, that is far more software than the job needs.

So we're building something lighter.

SAVAGE is a new SVG editor and organiser from the team behind Devastator. It lets you open and edit SVG files, manipulate individual points, draw new outlines and shapes, and design complete characters, all inside a fast, memory efficient desktop app. It's being built as a genuine alternative to Adobe Illustrator for everyday vector work.

No subscription. No account renewals. Buy it once and it's yours.

What Is SAVAGE?

SAVAGE is a vector based design tool built specifically around SVG, the format the modern web runs on. Logos, icons, illustrations, game sprites, UI graphics and characters all live happily as SVG, and SAVAGE treats it as a first class format rather than an export option buried in a menu.

It combines two things that usually live in separate apps:

An editor for drawing and reshaping vector artwork point by point
An organiser for browsing, sorting and managing your whole SVG collection

Think of it as a digital illustrator's pack in one compact program: the core drawing tools you reach for every day, without the thousands of features you never touch.

Edit Points with Precision

At the heart of SAVAGE is a proper node editor. Open any SVG and every path becomes editable, right down to the individual anchor points and curve handles.

Select, move and nudge single points or whole groups of points
Drag Bézier handles to reshape curves smoothly
Add and delete points anywhere along a path
Convert points between sharp corners and smooth curves
Join, split, open and close paths
Snap to a grid, guides and other points for clean alignment

That makes SAVAGE ideal for tidying up downloaded icons, fixing awkward curves in a logo or adapting existing artwork without redrawing it from scratch.

Draw New Outlines and Shapes

When you're starting from a blank canvas, SAVAGE gives you the familiar tools for building artwork quickly:

Pen tool for precise, curve by curve outlines
Pencil and freehand tools for natural sketching that's smoothed into clean paths
Shape tools for rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars and lines
Shape combining to merge, subtract, intersect and exclude shapes into new forms
Fills and strokes with solid colours, linear and radial gradients, stroke widths, caps, joins and dashes
Text that can be converted to outlines when you need it as pure vector

Everything stays fully editable. A shape drawn today can be reshaped point by point tomorrow.

Design Characters

SAVAGE is being built with character design in mind, not just logos and icons. Characters are rarely one shape. They're heads, eyes, mouths, limbs, clothing and accessories, layered and arranged on top of each other.

Layers and groups keep every body part separate and easy to select
Lock and hide parts while you work on the details underneath
Reusable parts so the same eyes, hands or outfits can be dropped into new designs
Transform tools to rotate, scale, flip and skew parts into new poses

Because every part is a clean SVG element, characters designed in SAVAGE are ready to animate, drop into a game or use across a website straight away.

Organise Your SVG Library

Most designers end up with hundreds or thousands of SVG files scattered across folders, and most operating systems are poor at previewing them. SAVAGE includes a visual organiser so you can actually see what you have.

Browse folders as a grid of live SVG thumbnails
Tag, favourite and group files into collections
Search by name and tag to find artwork in seconds
Open any file straight into the editor with a click
Batch rename, copy and export

Lightweight and Memory Efficient

SAVAGE is built with Tauri and Electron, modern desktop frameworks that let us deliver a fast, native feeling app on Windows, macOS and Linux. The focus throughout is on staying lean: quick to open, light on memory and responsive even on modest laptops.

It works offline, it doesn't need a cloud account to open your own files, and it won't sit in the background eating resources while you work in other programs.

Clean SVG Output

Plenty of design tools save SVG files stuffed with editor metadata and unnecessary code. SAVAGE is being built to export clean, tidy SVG that's ready for the web: sensible view boxes, optimised paths and no clutter. You can also export to PNG when you need a raster version.

An Illustrator Alternative for $19.99

Adobe Illustrator is a superb professional tool, but it's sold as an ongoing subscription and it's built for every possible use case. If your work is mostly SVG based, whether that's icons, logos, web graphics, game art or characters, you're paying for a lot you may never use.

SAVAGE takes a different approach: the essential vector tools, done well, for a single payment.

$19.99 one-off price
Full licence with every launch feature included

Coming Soon

SAVAGE is in development now and will be released soon. Whether you're an illustrator, a web designer, a game developer or someone who just needs to fix an SVG without firing up a heavyweight suite, it's being built for you.

Open it. Draw something. Own it for life.

Introducing SAVAGE A Lightweight SVG Editor and Illustrator Alternative