Designing

Design History

How versioning, restore, and comparison work.

What gets versioned

Graphicly saves a new version every time your design changes meaningfully — AI generations, manual edits, template instantiation. Version 1 is always created automatically the first time a design has real content.

Opening history

In the design editor, open the History icon in the toolbar. A sheet opens on the right (or as a mobile bottom sheet) with every version, newest first, showing a scaled preview that fits the entire design in view — no zoom needed.

Actions on a version

  • View — open the version full-size in a fitted preview.
  • Restore — bring this version back as the current state. Restore is append-only: the restored content becomes a brand new version at the top, so the previous work remains in history.
  • Save as Template — promote this version to a reusable template.
  • Compare — open two versions side by side to see exactly what changed.

Why restore is additive

History is an audit trail. If restoring overwrote history, you could accidentally erase good work. Appending the restore keeps every past version reachable.