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.

Surface patterns

Patterner

Patterner
  • Seventeen families, generated at the size of the page rather than tiled
  • Topographic contours, terraces, terrazzo, Voronoi, scales, star grids
  • Colourways in CMYK, and SVG or PDF at the size it prints
Patterner
Rectangular imposition

Imposer

Imposer
  • A plan of straight cuts
  • Automatic sheet format selection
  • One setting for the whole run
  • Allowance, rotation lock, mm or inches
  • Sheet presets: A, B, SRA, RA, board
  • Export a sheet or the full PDF guide
Imposer
Pallet packing

Palletizer

Palletizer
  • Five stacking algorithms
  • 11 pallet presets to ISO 6780
  • Three ways the carton can stand
  • The weight of a pallet and of the run
  • 3D preview of the carton and pallet
  • The carton dieline as SVG or PDF
Palletizer
PDF imposition

PDF Imposer

PDF Imposer
  • N-up, Booklet and Step & Repeat
  • Rows × columns or auto-fit
  • Margins and gutters between pages
  • Actual size, fit or fill
  • Marks, colour bar and page info
  • The PDF is kept without rasterising
PDF Imposer
True-shape nesting

Nestizer

Nestizer
  • DXF and SVG import
  • Nesting by outlines, not bounding boxes
  • Automatic filling of several sheets
  • Part allowance and sheet margins
  • An iterative search for the nest
  • Export a sheet or the full PDF guide
Nestizer
Barcodes

Barcoder

Barcoder
  • EAN, UPC, Code 128, GS1 and others
  • Size, colour, caption and margins
  • Vector export to SVG or PDF
  • Batch generation from a list of codes
Barcoder
Printing large

Splitizer

  • A poster from ordinary A4 sheets
  • Overlap for gluing, with a cut line
  • Any size, or the drawing at 1 : 1
  • The sheets, plus a map to assemble them
Splitizer
Colour

Swatcher

  • A palette in one press of the space bar
  • Contrast checked as you build it
  • Every colour in CMYK, with a print preview
  • Copy as CSS, or take the swatch card
Swatcher
Type

Fonter

  • Your word in every font in the folder
  • No installing — drop the client's archive in
  • x-height in millimetres, against the label rule
  • Glyphs, licence and a specimen sheet to print
Fonter
Foam cutting

Foamer

  • A drawing becomes one continuous cut
  • The wire never lifts — the route is worked out for it
  • Says where a slit is needed before you cut
  • G-code in the dialect the machine already runs
Foamer
Security patterns

Guillocher

  • Rosettes, ovals, frames, ribbons and backgrounds
  • Interlaced hairlines that photocopy into moiré
  • Backgrounds that tile exactly, not nearly
  • SVG and PDF, in RGB, CMYK or one ink
Guillocher
Variable data

Personalizer

  • A PDF design plus a spreadsheet
  • Names, numbers, barcodes and pictures
  • Checked before a sheet is printed
  • One PDF with every copy in it
Personalizer
Image conversion

Converter

  • A dozen formats in, nine out — including BMP, TIFF, ICO and PDF
  • Resize by pixels or by a printed size, with the resolution written into the file
  • Silhouettes traced out to SVG or DXF for a cutter
Converter
Stamps and seals

Stamper

  • Round, oval, oblong, polygon
  • Type round the perimeter, set as outlines
  • Rings, stars and a logo in the middle
  • Preflight against the process that makes it
  • The plate comes out mirrored, as it must
  • SVG and vector PDF at true size
Stamper
Labeler

Labeler

  • Nine label silhouettes, from a rounded rectangle to a cartouche
  • As many concentric frame lines as the job wants — and none of them cross
  • Scalloped, cogged, pinked and waved edges on any of the nine
  • A die line as a CutContour spot, so it is cut rather than printed
Labeler
Calendarer

Calendarer

  • A year on one sheet, a month to a page, or the long wall planner
  • Week numbers by ISO or by the week that holds New Year, not both at once
  • Your own holidays, in your own colour, with the names beside them
  • Set in outlines at the size of the paper — no font to go missing
Calendarer
Marker

Marker

  • The ISO 780 handling marks, drawn rather than traced
  • The Mobius loop, the resin codes and the crossed-out bin
  • A slot for every mark somebody else owns — drop your own SVG in
  • Set the size in millimetres: the standard states one, so the tool asks
Marker
Moulds and forming tools

Moulder

  • Cavities with draft, floor radius and vent
  • Grids that stay centred on the tool
  • Bolt holes, channels and pockets besides
  • Everything placed from the centre, as a drawing is
  • Weight in the panel before the file is sent
  • STL out, in millimetres, Z up
Moulder
Clouds and marble

Texturizer

Texturizer
  • Skies, and a view from inside a cloud
  • Six marbles, veins branching as a level set does
  • Vein width and cloud size in millimetres
  • A mask that clears room for a headline
  • Any size at any resolution, from a seed
  • PNG, JPEG or a PDF with trim and bleed
Texturizer
Prepress checks

Preflighter

  • Bleed, trim boxes and whether the artwork really carries past the knife
  • Image resolution at the placed size, fonts, spot inks, hairlines, overprint
  • Your printer's own thresholds, and a report to send with the file
Preflighter
Line engraving

Engraver

  • Ten effects: line screens, hatching, contours, stipple, halftone
  • Tone carried by the width of every mark, in real millimetres
  • SVG and PDF, one ink or four separated plates
Engraver

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.

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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 twenty-five symbologies, vector out
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.