Quickstart

From opening cnaps.ai to your first AI result in about 30 seconds — then to your first custom workflow in ten minutes.

1. Open Home

Go to cnaps.ai. You land on Home: a gallery of cards, each one a complete AI task that has already been built and tested for you.

You can run a card right away, without signing in — three runs a day, free. A counter shows how many you have left, and guest results carry a watermark.

To download a result, you need an account. Signing up is also what opens the canvas, and the work you did as a guest moves into your new account, so nothing you made is lost.

The Free plan stays free after that, with basic usage capacity that refreshes every 5 hours, and every plan gives you all the models.

A card is a finished AI task. Someone already picked the models, wired them together, and tuned the settings. All that's left is your input.

2. Run your first card

① Find one. Scroll the gallery, or type what you want in the search bar at the top — "make my video sharper", "remove the background", "poster of me". New cards land continuously, so search is usually faster than scrolling.

② Open it. Every card opens with a finished example already on screen. Look at it first: this is exactly the kind of result the card produces. The example is a saved result, not a fresh run — browsing costs you nothing.

③ Swap in your own input. The panel on the right holds whatever the card needs — a line of text, an image, an audio file, a video. Replace the example with yours.

④ Click Run again. Your result replaces the example. The card tells you roughly how long to expect before you start.

⑤ Download it. Each result has its own download button — sign in to use it; guest runs are view-only. Some cards return several model outputs at once. The compare magnifier moves across every panel together, so the same region is magnified in each output as you move the cursor. You can also switch to Split Compare to drag a divider across two results instead. After a run, hit Start Over to return to the sample state and try different inputs from scratch.

Nothing to configure. If the result isn't quite what you wanted, the first thing to change is your input, not the settings. Be more specific: "a red fox in a snowy pine forest at sunrise, soft golden light" gets you much further than "a fox".

3. Find your results later

Once you're signed in, everything you make from a card is saved under My Work → My Creations in the left sidebar — including anything you made as a guest before signing up.

4. See how the card actually works

This is the step that turns a card user into a flow builder.

On any card, click Open in CNAPS Studio. (You'll need to sign in first — guests can run cards but can't open the canvas.) The card's real workflow lands on the canvas — every model, every tool, every connection, exactly as it ran.

Take a minute to read it left to right:

• Input nodes on the left hold your text, image, audio, or video
• AI model and tool nodes in the middle do the work, one job each
• Output nodes on the right show the result
• Colored lines connect them. Data flows left → right, and colors must match: 🔵 blue for images, 🔴 red for text, 🟢 green for audio, light blue for video

You now have something most people never get: a working, non-trivial flow whose output you have already seen.

5. Make it yours

Change exactly one thing. Swap a model for a similar one, adjust a single setting, or add an Output node in the middle of the chain to see what an intermediate step produces. Then click Run Flow and compare.

Repeat that a few times and the canvas stops being mysterious. Changing one thing at a time is the whole technique — it's how you learn which knob does what, and it's how experienced users debug.

When you're ready to build from nothing, click CNAPS Studio in the left sidebar for a blank canvas. Start with three or four nodes — Input → one AI model → Output — get it running, then add from there.

6. Where to go next

Coming from ComfyUI? See how CNAPS Studio compares with ComfyUI and other alternatives.