Image-Line is a Belgian software company best known for creating FL Studio, one of the world’s most popular digital audio workstations. Founded in the early 1990s, Image-Line built its reputation by focusing on fast, intuitive music creation rather than traditional studio formalism, which helped FL Studio become especially popular with electronic, hip-hop, and bedroom producers. A defining philosophy of the company is its lifetime free updates policy: once you buy FL Studio, you get every future version at no extra cost, an almost heretical idea in the software industry that earned them fierce loyalty. Under the hood, Image-Line is quietly serious about engineering, developing much of its audio technology in-house while steadily expanding FL Studio from a pattern-based loop tool into a full professional production environment used by chart-topping artists as well as curious beginners.