Backie is a small browser tool for making animated, diffused gradient backgrounds.
- Open Explore Presets and choose a starting look.
- Open Customise to adjust composition, motion, blur, bloom, opacity, and blend mode.
- Use the colour controls at the bottom to edit the canvas and aura colours. Lock a colour when it should stay fixed while randomising.
- Open Export to copy a ready-to-use CSS or React snippet.
Your current settings are kept in the URL, so a design can be bookmarked or shared as a link. Backie runs entirely in the browser and does not require an account or API key.
- Animated diffused gradient canvas with still, calm, flowing, and chaotic motion styles
- Presets for aurora, pearl, ocean, velvet, glass, matcha, sunset, and lavender looks
- Fine control over colours, blur, bloom, opacity, blend mode, and composition
- Locked colours, random palettes, undo history, fullscreen mode, and pause control
- Copyable CSS and React output for using a finished background in another project
Keyboard shortcuts: Space pauses or resumes the animation, R creates a new palette, and Esc closes the active panel.
Requirements: Node.js 20.19 or newer.
npm install
npm run devThe development server runs at http://localhost:3000.
npm run devstarts the Vite development server.npm run lintruns the TypeScript checker.npm run buildcreates a production build indist/.npm run previewserves the production build locally.
Backie is a client-only app. It does not need an API key, database, or server-side runtime.
MIT. See LICENSE.
