👋 Welcome to AR Clip
AR Clip is a platform for building augmented-reality and 3D experiences that open from a link, in a browser, with nothing to install.
You do not need to know 3D, and you do not need to write code. Most of what people build here is made by arranging objects and saying "when this is tapped, do that".
🚀 Your first ten minutes
1. Make an account
Sign up at arclip.design. The free plan is enough for everything on this page.
2. Open a new project
You land in Studio, the editor, with an empty scene ready to go.
3. Put something in it
Press + in the top bar and add a cube. Drag it around. That is your scene — it already works.
4. Make it do something
Select the cube, add an Events component, and build one event:
WHEN someone taps it
THEN move it up 0.2 m over 400 ms
No code. That pattern — a trigger and a list of steps — covers most of what a project needs.
5. See it
Press Preview. Tap the cube.
The editor deliberately does not run your logic while you build — an animation playing as you work would fight you for control. Always check behaviour in Preview.
6. Share it
Press Publish. You get a link. Send it to someone — it opens on their phone, no app required.
That is the whole loop. Everything else is variations on it.
🧱 Not sure this is the right tool?
AR is what the platform is known for, and plenty of what people build here never opens a camera at all — configurators, product viewers, games, training, dashboards.
🎯 Start from something, not from nothing
Pick whichever is closest to what you have in mind.
A poster that comes alive
An Image scene: upload the printed artwork, set its real width, and put your content on top. Point a phone at the poster and the content appears in place.
Good first project. → Scene triggers
A product you can walk around
A 3D scene with a model in it and orbit controls. No AR, works everywhere, opens instantly.
Good for a shop or a portfolio. → Cameras
Something on your table
A Surface scene: the visitor taps to place your content on a real floor or table, then walks around it.
Good for furniture, machines, anything room-sized. → Scene triggers
A face filter
A Face scene with a mask or an object anchored to a facial point.
Good for campaigns and toys. → Scene triggers
A small game
Objects with physics, a character to drive, a score on screen.
Good when you want to learn the whole toolkit. → Game controls
🧭 Where to go next
| You want to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Learn the editor panel by panel | Studio |
| Understand how a scene behaves | Creators Engine |
| Make things interactive | Events |
| Write your first script | Your first script |
| Have an AI assistant help | Build with AI |
| Work with real-world positioning | VPS |
| Work out why something is not working | Troubleshooting |
🔑 API access (only if you need it)
Most people never need this. You do if you want to drive AR Clip from your own tools, or let an AI assistant build in your project.
Profile → API Access generates a key, and you can limit what it may do — read-only is enough for analysis and cannot break anything.
🔐 Treat a key like a password. Never paste it into a chat, a screenshot or a public repository. Nobody legitimate will ask you for it in a conversation.
🙋 Stuck?
Most first-time problems are on the troubleshooting page, and the first two entries cover the majority of them.
Still stuck? The community on Discord is the fastest way to get an answer from someone who has hit the same thing.