Pikimov Offline

Why I made this

Pikimov is a free online motion design and video editor. Its online app can process projects entirely locally in your browser (nothing is uploaded to a server), so I made an offline mirror of it so it keeps working without an internet connection.

This project is modeled on the excellent suzuke/photopea project, which does the same thing for Photopea.

How to use

1. Download the repository (or just the pikimov.com folder).

2. Open a terminal.

3. cd into the folder where you downloaded it.

4. Serve the pikimov.com folder with ./serve.sh. On first HTTPS run it generates a self-signed certificate. Use HTTPS — the app's timeline / WebCodecs / scrubbing need a secure context, which plain HTTP on a LAN IP does not provide:

   ./serve.sh            # serves https://localhost:8080/app/ (self-signed TLS)
   ./serve.sh 8443 --http   # or plain HTTP if you only use localhost
   

   serve.py also sends the same Cross-Origin-Opener/Embedder/Resource-Policy headers as the live site, so workers and video features initialize. (A bare python3 -m http.server --directory pikimov.com 8080 serves files but without TLS or those headers, so interactive timeline/scrolling can misbehave.)

5. Open https://localhost:8080/app/. Your browser will warn about the self-signed certificate — accept it once. The app should load and work like the online site.

The app/ sub-path matters: the app's internal paths expect to be served at /app/..., which is exactly how https://pikimov.com/app is structured.

Updating & checking for updates

The app exposes no version API, so changes are detected by comparing the hash of the live app bundle (app/assets/pikimov.js) against the local copy.

• Check whether an update is available (also shows the online/local changelog version and bundle hashes):

  python3 Updater.py --check
  

• Update the offline mirror to the latest online version, then review and commit/share the result:

  ./update.sh                # checks first, then updates if one is available
  ./update.sh --force        # refresh regardless, no prompt
  ./update.sh --check        # only report, make no changes
  

  ./update.sh refreshes the bundled AI models automatically (the repository is merged into a single main that includes them). Equivalent manual commands:

  python3 Updater.py --update        # re-snapshot the app
  python3 Updater.py --models        # refresh the offline AI models + onnx wasm
  

Plain python3 Updater.py still re-snapshots the app as before.

Notes

• This is an unofficial mirror for reference/offline use. Please support the Pikimov author via Patreon.
• Demo videos, fonts and particle presets are included so the demo projects keep working offline.

Branches

The full-offline-ai-models work has been merged into main (single-branch repo), so main now includes the offline AI models too.

• main — the offline mirror with the three "AI" tools bundled for full offline use:
  • Editing, effects, and video export all work with no internet.
  • Subtitles (whisper), remove background, and depth estimation also work with no internet because their models and the onnxruntime WebAssembly runtime are included in the repo.
  • The tool files (pikimov.com/app/js/tr/*.js) are patched to set env.allowRemoteModels = false and point localModelPath / env.backends.onnx.wasm.wasmPaths at the bundled files.

Updating the local AI models

Download (or refresh) the bundled models and onnxruntime WebAssembly files with:

DOWNLOAD_MODELS=1 python3 Updater.py

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial mirror of the Pikimov web application for private, offline study and use. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Pikimov project. All trademarks, model files and application code remain the property of their respective owners. Please refer to the Pikimov terms of service and support the author via Patreon.