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Install ​

Creator Toolkit has no published download on its GitHub releases page yet, so you build it from its source code. Then you install FFmpeg, which the video and audio tools use.

If installing software from the command line is new to you, read Installing apps first.

What you need ​

  • The Flutter SDK. The project's own builds use Flutter 3.44.6.

  • Git, to download the source code.

  • On Linux, the desktop build tools. On Ubuntu:

    bash
    sudo apt install clang cmake ninja-build pkg-config libgtk-3-dev liblzma-dev libstdc++-12-dev

  • On Windows, Visual Studio with the "Desktop development with C++" workload, as the Flutter install guide describes.

Build on Linux ​

  1. Download the source code and enter its folder:

    bash
    git clone https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/creator_toolkit.git
cd creator_toolkit

  2. Fetch the libraries the app uses:

    bash
    flutter pub get

  3. Build the app:

    bash
    flutter build linux --release

  4. Start it:

    bash
    ./build/linux/x64/release/bundle/creator_toolkit

    On an arm64 computer the folder is build/linux/arm64/release/bundle/.

Build on Windows ​

In a terminal with Flutter on the path:

bash
git clone https://github.com/Dhiva-Labs/creator_toolkit.git
cd creator_toolkit
flutter pub get
flutter build windows --release

Run creator_toolkit.exe from build\windows\x64\runner\Release\ (build\windows\arm64\runner\Release\ on an arm64 computer).

Build for Android ​

With an Android SDK set up for Flutter:

bash
flutter build apk --release

The Android app needs Android 7.0 or newer and includes its own FFmpeg, so nothing else is needed.

Install FFmpeg (Linux and Windows) ​

The image and PDF tools work without FFmpeg, except saving images as WEBP. The video and audio tools need it.

On Ubuntu or Debian:

bash
sudo apt install ffmpeg

On Windows, for example:

bash
winget install Gyan.FFmpeg

Then restart Creator Toolkit. If FFmpeg is still not found, the video and audio tools show a red box that says FFmpeg was not found on this system.

WARNING

Fedora's own ffmpeg-free and openSUSE's ffmpeg leave out the H.264 encoder that video compression and MP4, MKV and MOV output use. Install the full FFmpeg from RPM Fusion (Fedora) or Packman (openSUSE).

Next steps ​