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Patterner

Surface patterns
  • Twenty-one families, generated at page size
  • Contours, terrazzo, Voronoi, streamlines, mazes
  • CMYK colorways, SVG or PDF at print size
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Extruder

3D text
  • Text or SVG cut into a real thickness
  • Separate face and cut edge: plywood, paint, metal
  • The packaging editor's own lighting, with soft shadows
  • PNG and a looping fly-around film
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Wrapper

Text on a body
  • Text or your own SVG wrapped around six bodies
  • The seam closes: no word is ever cut in half
  • Paint, metal or see-through, lit in the browser
  • A still, a film, or code you can paste into your site
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Imposer

Imposer

Rectangular imposition
  • 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
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Palletizer

Palletizer

Pallet packing
  • 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
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PDF Imposer

PDF Imposer

PDF imposition
  • N-up, Booklet and Step & Repeat
  • Rows × columns or auto-fit
  • Margins and gutters between pages
  • Actual size, fit or fill
  • Marks, color bar and page info
  • The PDF is kept without rasterizing
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Nestizer

Nestizer

True-shape nesting
  • 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
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Moulder

Moulds and forming tools
  • Cavities with draft, floor radius and vent
  • Grids that stay centered on the tool
  • Bolt holes, channels and pockets besides
  • Everything placed from the center, as a drawing is
  • Weight in the panel before the file is sent
  • STL out, in millimeters, Z up
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Barcoder

Barcodes
  • EAN, UPC, Code 128, GS1 and others
  • Size, color, caption and margins
  • Vector export to SVG or PDF
  • Batch generation from a list of codes
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Splitizer

Printing large
  • 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
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Swatcher

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

Type
  • Your word in every font in the folder
  • No installing — drop the client's archive in
  • x-height in millimeters, against the label rule
  • Glyphs, license and a specimen sheet to print
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Foamer

Foam cutting
  • 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
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Guillocher

Security patterns
  • 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
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Personalizer

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

Image conversion
  • Twelve formats in, nine out, PDF among them
  • Resize by pixels or by printed size, at a set dpi
  • Silhouettes traced out to SVG or DXF for a cutter
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Stamper

Stamps and seals
  • Round, oval, oblong, polygon
  • Text around 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
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Labeler

Labeler
  • Nine silhouettes, from rectangle to cartouche
  • Concentric frame lines that never cross
  • Scalloped, cogged, pinked and waved edges
  • A die line as a CutContour spot
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Calendarer

Calendarer
  • A year to a sheet, a month to a page, or a planner
  • Week numbers by ISO or by the New Year week
  • Your own holidays, in your own color
  • Set in outlines: no font to go missing
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Signer

Signer
  • A photograph of your signature, paper removed
  • Multiply, so the ink darkens rather than covers
  • Drag it into place, size it from a corner, turn it
  • The PDF keeps its text; nothing is redrawn
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Stylizer

Material effects
  • Stitched leather: marks along a lit outline
  • Every dial live; an effect is data, not a stack
  • Reads Photoshop actions, styles and brushes
  • PNG out, nothing uploaded, no sign-up
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Parallaxer

Camera moves
  • A flat picture in real perspective, unbent
  • Six camera moves, or a timeline with keys of your own
  • Blur put where you point, as a spot or a tilt-shift band
  • PNG and WebM, framed as you will post it
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Tiler

Seamless patterns
  • Your own SVG, tiled with no seam to find
  • Straight, half drop, half brick or mirror
  • A seeded strew that holds its spacing across the edge
  • SVG, PNG, or a page filled with the repeat
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Marker

Marker
  • The ISO 780 handling marks, drawn rather than traced
  • The Mobius loop, resin codes, the crossed-out bin
  • A slot for any other mark: drop your SVG in
  • Size in millimeters, as the standard states
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Texturizer

Clouds and marble
  • Skies, and a view from inside a cloud
  • Six marbles, veins branching as a level set does
  • Vein width and cloud size in millimeters
  • 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
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Preflighter

Prepress checks
  • Bleed, trim boxes, artwork past the knife
  • Resolution, fonts, spot inks, hairlines, overprint
  • Your printer's thresholds, and a report to send
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Engraver

Line engraving
  • Ten effects, from line screens to halftone
  • Tone carried by the width of every mark
  • SVG and PDF, one ink or four separated plates
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Watermarker

Watermarks
  • A phrase or your own logo, over a picture or a PDF
  • One in a corner, or repeated over the whole page
  • PDF pages are drawn on, never rasterized
  • Read and written in your browser, never uploaded
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Asciizer

ASCII art
  • Each cell takes the glyph whose ink sits where the picture’s does
  • Edges drawn with the stroke that runs along them
  • PNG, SVG, text, ANSI or MP4 — every frame converted
  • A snippet that does the same on your own page
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Bentoizer

Feature walls
  • Drop pictures, get the bento wall an event opens with
  • Drag to reorder, pull a corner to make a card matter more
  • PDF, PNG, SVG — or one HTML file that plays the assembly
  • Nothing uploaded: the pictures are read in your browser
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Brailler

Braille
  • A product name as braille dots, at the size they are embossed
  • Marburg Medium, as ECMA states it for folding cartons
  • The eight millimeters to a crease, checked while you type
  • SVG or PDF holding the dots and nothing else
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Worder

Word clouds
  • A passage counted and set, the commonest words largest
  • Poured into a circle, a heart, a letter or your own SVG
  • Any font on your machine, cut to outlines
  • SVG or PDF in millimeters, every word a filled path
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Templater

Die lines
  • Fourteen templates, from leaflets to point of sale
  • Quoted size, with bleed outside and safety in
  • Folds that close, cut-outs that do not tear
  • How many fit on your press sheet, both ways around
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Puzzler

Jigsaw puzzles
  • Seven lattices and seven ways to cut a joint
  • Cut to a circle, a heart, a star or your own SVG
  • Every joint one shared line — a laser cuts it once
  • SVG, PDF, DXF and PNG, in millimeters
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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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Comparison

How this differs from the usual software

The same jobs are covered by desktop programs — with a license, 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 personalization

  • Ticket Wizard Appsforlife
    USD 299 permanent, updates USD 199 a year
  • XMPie personalization 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 licenses — USD 199 for barcodes and USD 299 for personalization. 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.