Pay for actual runs.
Use your own provider key and see the cost of each generation before and after it runs.
Easel for macOS
AI is not a gym.
You pay for credits. The month ends. The credits vanish. That is a huge waste of money for what is basically visual API connectivity.
Easel lets you bring your own generation key, make images and videos, keep every file locally, and see what each run costs.
Latest macOS release: version 1.0.0, Apple silicon, macOS 12 or newer.
Run receipt
$0.38
Campaign stills, spring launch
Prompt
A clean studio photo of a small desk lamp, walnut base, cream wall, late afternoon light.
Estimated cost
$0.04
Run ledger
Today
4 images
$0.16
Prompt rerun
$0.04
Reference test
$0.18
Why
Credits should act like money.
Subscriptions work when you use the same thing every day. AI generation does not behave like that. Some weeks you explore hard. Some weeks you make nothing.
So the honest model is simple: use the API, see the cost, keep the output. No monthly credit reset. No bundle math. No little progress bar trying to make waste feel normal.
Benefits
You get the workbench, not another wallet leak.
Keep the files.
Outputs, references, logs, and project data stay in folders you control on your Mac.
Repeat what worked.
Every output points back to the prompt, model, parameters, references, logs, and cost.
Demo
Show the product doing the work.
A short product demo goes here: connect a key, make a run, check the receipt, and find the file on disk.
Product demo
60 sec
Drop the demo video here.
Download
Install Easel for macOS.
Latest release is version 1.0.0, published May 26, 2026. The current build is for Apple silicon Macs.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Platform
- macOS 12+
- Architecture
- Apple silicon