Tessel: Mood Boards
Mood boards for creatives
Only for Mac
$29.99
Mac
Studio-grade mood boards, storyboards and pitch decks
Every pitch, every treatment, every visual presentation — I'd lose hours building templates, dragging images around, battling alignment tools, adjusting margins that wouldn't behave, diving deep into menus to look for the tools to solve the task I needed done. And UI controls that are too small on a big monitor, so you can't move fast.
The software on the market was built for graphic designers. I needed something more professional, more elegant, with all the control I needed right there at hand. I needed something that worked the way I thought it should: visually, quickly, under pressure. So I built Tessel.
It started as a tool for myself. Something I could open at 11 pm when a client needed a concept deck by morning. Drag in references. Arrange them on a grid. Add a title, a few notes, number the images, and maybe some page numbers. Export a clean PDF and move on.
I've used it on film pitches. Commercial treatments. Photography edits. Production design presentations. And throughout several films for look development. It works — because it only does what you need and nothing else. I use it every day. Now it's yours.
FEATURES
Composition
- Three grid systems engineered for visual storytelling and presentations. It’s all real-time.
- Uniform — architectural structure for clean presentation.
- Storyboard — image-and-caption pairs aligned for narrative flow.
- Harmonic — golden-ratio composition for inherently balanced layouts.
- Adjust rows, columns, spacing and alignment. The system preserves proportion as you work.
Image Control
- Drag from Finder, browsers or folders. Scale and position independently within each cell.
- The Image Shelf retains references while you compose, and you can edit any image from the Image Shelf back in your favourite image creation software.
- Displaced images remain organised and recoverable — nothing gets lost.
Selection
- Marquee selection for bulk operations. Drag to select multiple cells, then move, delete or adjust scale and position across the selection in one gesture.
Guidelines
- Drag guides from the rulers onto the page — horizontal and vertical, per-page. Measurement labels appear on the ruler in your chosen unit. Toggle visibility with ⌘;
Typography
- Professional typographic control. Titles, captions and page numbers with full formatting authority.
- Headers and footers support repeating elements across the entire document, including logos and dynamic fields.
- Multi-Page Workflow
- Build decks across unlimited pages. Duplicate, reorder and refine without breaking layout integrity.
- Each page maintains an independent grid, guide and content control.
Export Pipeline
Three production-ready outputs
- PNG Sequence (2× resolution) — HD pages export at 3840×2160 for editorial or presentation workflows.
- Presentation Export — opens directly in Keynote, PowerPoint and Google Slides as full-bleed slides.
- PDF — pixel-accurate to your layout.
- Design once. Deploy everywhere.
Built for macOS
- Native application. Metal-rendered canvas. No web layer. And is working locally on your machine.
- Near-instant document open with progressive image loading. Offline capable. No account required.
- Apple Silicon and Intel. Light and Dark modes.
- One purchase. No subscription.
Ratings & Reviews
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What's New in 1.2.5
This update focuses on performance, stability, and polish.
- Smoother scrolling and zooming on the canvas.
- Faster image handling — adding, pasting, and dragging images no longer hitches the interface.
- Responsive PDF export — exporting large, multi-page documents no longer freezes the app.
- Improved stability when working with large images.
- Fixed an issue where a selection could carry over to the wrong page when switching pages.
- Image selection highlights now clear correctly.
- Caption height adjustments are now smooth.
- You can now start a rubber-band selection anywhere in the image shelf.
- Refined the selection highlight color for a more consistent look.
The developer, Paul Butterworth, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Paul Butterworth
- Size
- 14.2 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paul Butterworth
