Open source

Built on open source.

Glyph is built on the shoulders of dozens of open-source projects. This page lists every one of them, their license, and what they do for us.

Diagram engines

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ProjectLicenseUsed for
Mermaid

Renders the Mermaid engine. We bundle Mermaid 11 directly.

MITclient-side rendering of Mermaid diagrams
PlantUML

Renders the PlantUML engine. We do NOT bundle PlantUML; we proxy to the official public server at plantuml.com.

GPL v3 (server, not bundled)remote rendering of PlantUML diagrams via /api/plantuml
Graphviz (via @hpcc-js/wasm)

Graphviz DOT rendering compiled to WebAssembly.

Apache-2.0 / EPL-1.0client-side DOT rendering
Vega + Vega-Lite (vega-embed)

Grammar-of-graphics charts.

BSD-3-Clausescientific chart rendering
Plotly.js

Publication-quality scientific + 3D + 4D plots.

MITPlotly engine rendering
Nomnoml

Sketchy UML / whiteboard diagrams.

MITNomnoml engine rendering
WaveDrom

Digital timing diagrams + register bit-fields.

MITWaveDrom engine rendering
KaTeX

LaTeX math typesetting.

MITmath equation rendering
smiles-drawer

2-D molecular structures from SMILES.

MITSMILES engine rendering
3Dmol.js

Interactive 3-D molecular visualisation.

BSD-3-Clause3-D protein and molecule viewer
Cytoscape.js

Network / graph visualisation.

MITCytoscape engine rendering
bpmn-js

BPMN 2.0 modeler (Camunda). MIT terms plus one extra condition: the bpmn.io watermark linking back to bpmn.io must stay fully visible in rendered diagrams.

bpmn.io license (MIT + watermark clause)the dedicated /bpmn workspace
bpmn-io ecosystem

bpmn-js-properties-panel, @bpmn-io/properties-panel, camunda-bpmn-js-behaviors, zeebe-bpmn-moddle, bpmnlint and bpmnlint-loader.

MITBPMN properties editing, Zeebe/Camunda extensions, and BPMN linting
@mermaid-js/layout-elk

Mermaid's ELK-based layout engine.

MITELK layout for Mermaid diagrams
three.js

WebGL 3D engine.

MITFloorplan-3D engine rendering + camera controls
@xyflow/react (React Flow)

Node-based UI framework for the Weave canvas.

MITWeave workspace canvas + minimap
markmap-lib / markmap-view

Mindmaps from Markdown bullets.

MITMarkmap engine rendering
resvg-js

Rust-based SVG → PNG rasteriser used server-side.

MPL-2.0server-side PNG / PDF export via /api/export

Canvas, layout & documents

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ProjectLicenseUsed for
elkjs

The Eclipse Layout Kernel compiled to JavaScript. Lazily imported (elk.bundled.js) so the ~150KB cost is only paid on first auto-layout.

EPL-2.0one-click auto-layout on the Weave / canvas graphs
PDF.js (pdfjs-dist)

Mozilla's PDF renderer. Text extraction runs entirely in the browser — no PDF is uploaded to our servers.

Apache-2.0reading PDFs for Evidence + Study ingest (worker served from /pdf.worker.min.mjs)
DOMPurify

XSS sanitiser for HTML and SVG.

MPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0sanitising every rendered SVG / HTML fragment (lib/sanitize.ts)

The platform voice (on-device)

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ProjectLicenseUsed for
kokoro-js

Runs the Kokoro-82M speech model in the listener's browser. The text being read never reaches our servers.

Apache-2.0read-aloud in the learning surfaces
Kokoro-82M (model weights)

The voice model itself, by hexgrad. Downloaded once by the listener's browser from the Hugging Face CDN and cached locally — we do not redistribute the weights.

Apache-2.0on-device speech synthesis
Transformers.js + phonemizer

@huggingface/transformers runs the ONNX model in WebGPU/WASM; phonemizer turns text into phonemes.

Apache-2.0 / MITmodel execution and text preprocessing for the voice

Editor + UI

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ProjectLicenseUsed for
Monaco Editor

VS Code's editor in the browser.

MITthe code editor pane
Next.js

React framework + Vercel deployment target.

MITapplication framework
React

UI library.

MITcomponent model
Tailwind CSS

Utility-first CSS.

MITstyling
Lucide

Icon set.

ISCUI icons
Zustand

State management.

MITclient state
Papa Parse

CSV parsing.

MITData → Chart panel
lz-string

URL-safe compression.

MITshareable diagram links
jsPDF

Client-side PDF generation.

MITPDF export
html-to-image

DOM → PNG.

MITPNG fallback export path
plantuml-encoder

Client-side encoder for PlantUML URLs.

MITencoding PlantUML source for /api/plantuml proxy

Icon library

9
ProjectLicenseUsed for
Material Design Icons (mdi)

Pictogrammers' Material Design Icons, bundled via @iconify-json/mdi.

Apache-2.0the built-in offline icon library
Tabler Icons

Paweł Kuna's Tabler set, bundled via @iconify-json/tabler.

MITthe built-in offline icon library
Phosphor

Phosphor Icons core set, bundled via @iconify-json/ph.

MITthe built-in offline icon library
Health Icons

Resolve to Save Lives' public-health icon set, bundled via @iconify-json/healthicons.

MITthe built-in offline icon library (biology / medical diagrams)
Remix Icon

Remix Design's icon set, bundled via @iconify-json/ri.

Apache-2.0the built-in offline icon library
Carbon

IBM's Carbon Design System icons, bundled via @iconify-json/carbon.

Apache-2.0the built-in offline icon library
Lucide (icon set)

Lucide Contributors' icon set, bundled via @iconify-json/lucide.

ISCthe built-in offline icon library
Font Awesome 6 Solid

Dave Gandy / Fort Awesome. The one bundled pack whose license requires attribution wherever its icons are used — if you publish artwork containing fa6-solid icons, credit Font Awesome alongside it.

CC-BY-4.0 (attribution required)the built-in offline icon library
Iconify

Free public icon API providing 200,000+ icons across hundreds of collections (Healthicons, MDI, Tabler, Logos, Simple-Icons, Noto, Lucide, etc.).

MIT / various per collectionthe Icon library modal's optional online tier + Biology/Weave icon search

AI

2
ProjectLicenseUsed for
Anthropic Claude API

Generates diagrams from natural-language descriptions, refines them iteratively, explains errors, restyles to journal palettes, converts to LaTeX/TikZ.

Commercial API/api/ai, /api/tikz
OpenAI API

Alternative AI provider — handles diagram generation, refine, vision (Photo → Engine).

Commercial API/api/ai with X-User-Ai-Provider: openai or BYOK

Backend

9
ProjectLicenseUsed for
Supabase

Postgres + Auth + Realtime + Storage backbone. Stores profiles, plans, cloud-synced workspaces, API keys, encrypted BYOK, audit log.

Apache-2.0every backend persistence path
Supabase Auth (@supabase/ssr)

GitHub + Google OAuth sign-in with cookie-based sessions; no password storage.

MITsign-in, /auth/callback, session refresh
Stripe

Billing for Starter and Plus plans — checkout sessions, webhooks, customer portal.

Commercial API/api/stripe/checkout, /api/stripe/portal, /api/stripe/webhook
Upstash Redis (optional)

Cross-container rate-limit storage when configured. Falls back to in-memory.

Apache-2.0 (client) / Commercial (service)lib/server/rate-limit.ts KV backend
Anthropic SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)

TypeScript client for the Anthropic API.

MITserver-side calls from /api/ai/*
OpenAI SDK (openai)

TypeScript client for the OpenAI API.

Apache-2.0server-side calls from /api/ai/* when OpenAI is the provider
Stripe Node

Server SDK for checkout, portal and webhook verification.

MIT/api/stripe/*
undici

Node's HTTP client, used for outbound fetches with explicit timeouts.

MITserver-side HTTP (proxied renders, provider calls)
yaml

YAML parser / stringifier.

ISCfront-matter and config parsing

Attribution conditions

Two dependencies attach conditions beyond a notice file. bpmn-js is MIT-licensed on the condition that the bpmn.io watermark linking back to bpmn.io stays fully visible in rendered BPMN diagrams. Font Awesome 6 Solid is CC-BY-4.0, which requires attribution wherever its icons are used — credit Font Awesome alongside any artwork or export containing them.

Trademark notice

Glyph is the name of this studio. Mermaid, PlantUML and Font Awesome are separate projects this studio renders or bundles, and their names are used here nominatively — to identify the syntax and assets this studio is compatible with. "Mermaid" is a trademark of Mermaid Chart Inc, "PlantUML" a trademark of Arnaud Roques, and "Font Awesome" a trademark of Fonticons, Inc. No endorsement by, or affiliation with, their respective owners is implied.