Free tools for print and packaging

Tools for print, packaging, diemaking and production. Everything runs right in your browser: nothing to install, no files sent to a server, no sign-up. It’s free. Actually free.

Why it is free

A tool, not another service with a price plan

We make BoxLab, a packaging editor. These tools grew out of the same work and solve the jobs that come up here every day. So we opened them in full, to everyone.

See all the toolsOpen BoxLab
No sign-up
Open the page, type the figures in, take the result. No account needed.
No settings to wade through
Each tool is built around one job — from laying parts on a sheet to working out a pallet.
No paid features
Everything a tool can do is there from the first run. No PRO, no limits, no trial period.

boxlab.io

Where the box itself comes from

Pick a template, set the sizes in numbers, add your artwork and take away a dieline a factory will accept. Corrugated and rigid boxes, tubes, bags, folding cartons, cups, cans and flexible packaging.

Open boxlab.io
Parametric
templates, not drawings
3D
preview with your artwork
PDF, SVG, DXF
dieline export
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sections in the catalogue

Comparison

How this differs from the usual software

The same jobs are covered by desktop programs — with a licence, an install and a learning curve. Here the same thing opens from a link and costs nothing.

Rectangular cutting

  • OptiCutter online
    Free up to 5 stocks and 500 parts, then from EUR 9 a month
  • Cutting Optimization Pro Windows
    Price on request
Imposer no cap on parts or sheets
Free

Contour nesting

  • SigmaNEST industrial package
    Price on request
  • Deepnest desktop, abandoned by its author
    Free
Nestizer DXF and SVG, nesting by outlines
Free

PDF imposition

  • Imposition Wizard Appsforlife, Acrobat or standalone
    USD 249 permanent or USD 240 a year
  • Quite Imposing Plus Adobe Acrobat plug-in
    Price on request
  • Montax Imposer Windows
    Price on request
PDF Imposer N-up, Booklet, Step & Repeat
Free

Pallet stacking

  • Cape Pack Esko
    From EUR 750 a year, Prime at EUR 280 a month
  • TOPS Pro enterprise package
    Price on request
  • Quick Pallet Maker Mac and Windows
    Price on request
Palletizer five algorithms, 3D preview
Free

Barcodes

  • Barcode Generator Appsforlife
    USD 199 permanent, updates USD 99 a year
  • Barcode Studio TEC-IT
    EUR 75 a year for Lite, EUR 249 a year for Pro
  • BarTender Seagull Scientific
    From USD 199 a year
Barcoder in the works
Soon · Free

PDF personalisation

  • Ticket Wizard Appsforlife
    USD 299 permanent, updates USD 199 a year
  • XMPie personalisation and variable data
    Price on request
  • FusionPro VDP Marcom Central
    Price on request
Personalizer in the works
Soon · Free

Prices are the ones the vendors publish themselves, as of August 2026.

Packaging editor

  • Pacdora online, templates and 3D
    Free with a watermark; Lite $14, Pro $29 a month
  • ArtiosCAD Esko, Windows
    Price on request
  • Origami Appsforlife, Illustrator plug-in
    $349 perpetual, $199 a year for updates
BoxLab online, templates and 3D
Free tier; full access $10 a month or $80 a year

What this costs elsewhere

You save more than USD 2,000 a year

The yearly plans of the same programs: about USD 2,500 for pallet stacking (Cape Pack Advanced), USD 240 for imposition, about USD 245 for cutting layouts. Add the one-off licences — USD 199 for barcodes and USD 299 for personalisation. And that leaves out the programs that quote only on request.

Here it is nothing. All the services are open in full, with no account and no limits.