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Saving, Publishing & Exporting
The difference between the auto-saved draft, Save, Publish, and exporting a file.
Comic, Manga, and GIF projects have three related-but-different actions, plus a background one you never have to think about.
Draft (automatic, always on)
Every keystroke and generated panel is saved to a small draft in your browser's local storage as you work. This is what protects you from losing work if a tab closes or crashes -- reopening the same maker restores exactly where you left off, including in-progress art the server finished while you were away. You don't do anything for this to happen.
Save
Save copies your current project to your Gootaku account on our servers. Do this when you want the project to survive clearing your browser data, be reachable from another device, or just exist as a permanent copy rather than only a local draft. Free accounts can save a limited number of projects; hitting that limit shows an upgrade prompt rather than silently failing.
Publish
Publish does everything Save does, and additionally posts the project to the public Explore community feed, where anyone can view, vote, and comment on it. A published project needs at least one generated panel/frame. If a weekly contest is running, you can also submit to it at publish time.
You can unpublish later from your dashboard -- it returns to being a private, saved (not public) project.
Exporting a file
Exporting produces an actual downloadable file -- this is separate from Save/Publish and doesn't touch your account.
- Comic/Manga: export a Webtoon Strip (one tall PNG image, panels
- GIF Maker: Export GIF builds and downloads the animated file
- Wobble Maker: see Using the Wobble Maker -- export
Watermarks
Free accounts export with a small Gootaku watermark on exported files. A Pro token pack purchase removes it.