Desktop App

Peashell

A full Photoshop-class editor — legally, and it opens instantly. Peashell wraps the hosted Photopea editor in a real desktop app, then adds everything a browser tab can't do: native Open and Save, true save-in-place, file associations, and on-device AI.

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Peashell — CHIPPWALTERS.com // peashell.canvas
What it does

Photoshop-class. Zero baggage.

The complete Photopea editor — layers, masks, filters, PSDs — running legally in its own desktop window. No heavyweight install, no splash screens, no license nag: it opens straight to the canvas.

01

The whole editor, legally

Peashell hosts the real Photopea editor — every tool, panel, and menu, with full PSD support. The canvas is hosted, so it is always the current version; your files and all AI processing stay on your machine.

02

Opens instantly

Launch straight into the canvas. Double-click a PNG in Explorer and it opens as a tab in the one running window — never a second instance — and your last 12 files are a right-click away.

03

A wrapper that does real work

Real Windows and macOS dialogs, and Ctrl+S saves to your file — not a copy in Downloads. Saves are atomic and format-correct, Save As offers a real format list, and JPG/WEBP exports get a quality slider.

Everything a browser tab can't do. // peashell.files

Everything a browser tab can't do.

The editor is the canvas; Peashell is the desktop app around it. The shell owns the file behavior you expect from a native application — on Windows and on signed macOS builds.

  • Save overwrites the original in place; Save As and Export honor the exact format you pick
  • New from Clipboard, Revert-to-saved, recent files, and reveal-in-folder from the Files menu
  • Portable build — unzip and run, no installer, with a low-surface update notice
On-device AI, one menu away. // peashell.ai

On-device AI, one menu away.

The AI menu processes pixels on your own hardware and opens each result as its own clearly named tab. Nothing is uploaded — and when your machine can't run a tool, it says so and points you to the fallback.

  • Upscale 2x or 4x with Real-ESRGAN, or Lanczos when there's no GPU
  • Remove Background cuts the subject onto a transparent PNG
  • Straighten & Crop flattens angled photos of prints, documents, and whiteboards

The editor you know. The app it deserved.

Peashell opens instantly into a full Photoshop-class canvas — legally — then saves your work back to disk like a real desktop app.