The best Print Laser Pro alternative depends on which part of it you use. For a customizer on your store, look at Print.App, Customily or Zakeke; for design and production files, the Forge apps do each job with no cut of your sales.
The short version
- Print Laser Pro: $79 a month, 7-day trial, plus 5% and $0.50 on each store order, team members $9 a month.
- Print.App: a customizer and DTF gang sheet builder billed by usage, with no per-order fee.
- Customily: $49 a month plus $0.10 to $1 per order item. Zakeke: from $69.90 a month plus 1.9%.
- The Forge apps: patch hats, tumblers, vectors, halftones, maps, nesting and settings, with native LightBurn and xTool files and no percentage of your sales.
- If you want storefronts, booth intake and a CRM in one plan, Print Laser Pro covers more of that.
What Print Laser Pro does
Credit where it is due: Print Laser Pro is ambitious. Their features page covers AI-assisted design, mockups on real hats, gang sheets and cutlines, proofs and quotes, storefronts and embeds for Shopify, Wix, Squarespace and GoHighLevel, booth and QR intake, a CRM, Shippo labels and exports to LightBurn, xTool, PNG, TIFF, SVG, DXF and PDF.
That is a lot of software in one plan. The question is how much of it your shop will use. Most of the makers we talk to need one or two of those jobs done really well, not all of them.
What it costs
From their pricing page, checked November 3, 2026:
- $79 a month, with a 7-day free trial and a price lock while active.
- A store-order usage fee of 5% plus $0.50 per order on customer orders through their storefronts and embeds.
- Optional team members at $9 a month each.
At $40 orders that fee works out to $2.50 an order, so 25 store orders a month adds about $62.50 on top of the plan. Design and production work you do in your own shop is not a store order.
Alternatives for a store customizer
If the reason you looked at Print Laser Pro is letting customers design on your product page, these are the closest matches. Prices from the Print.App site and the Shopify App Store, checked November 3, 2026.
Print.App
A product customizer and DTF gang sheet builder for Shopify, WooCommerce, Shopware, Odoo, PrestaShop and OpenCart, plus an API. It is billed by usage: 100 print file downloads a month free, then $0.10 each, with 1 GB of storage free. Their page says there is no per-order fee and no percentage of revenue.
Customily
A Shopify personalizer at $49 a month plus a $0.10 to $1 fee per order item on products that use it, with a 9-day trial. It has a 4.8 rating from 280 reviews on the Shopify App Store.
Zakeke
A 2D and 3D customizer. Starter is $69.90 a month plus 1.9% per sold product for up to 10 products, Grow is $129.90 plus 1.7%, and Scale is $299.90 plus 1.5%, with a 14-day trial.
Alternatives for design and production files
If what you really need is the design side, turning a customer's logo into a patch, a tumbler wrap or a clean laser file, that is the job the Forge apps do. We build them in a working maker shop, so weigh our view with that in mind. Each one does one product deeply and writes the files your machine opens:
| Job | Forge app |
|---|---|
| Patch hats: mockups on real hats, cut lines, gang sheets, proofs | PatchForge |
| Tumbler wraps on a live 3D cup | TumblerForge |
| Image to laser vectors | VectorForge |
| DTF and DTG halftones | ToneSmith |
| Laser-cut maps of any place | MappSmith |
| True-shape nesting | NestSmith |
| Laser settings library and quote builder | Workbench |
No Forge app takes a percentage of your sales.
PatchForge, TumblerForge, VectorForge, MappSmith and NestSmith write native LightBurn .lbrn2 and xTool .xs projects with the layers already split. One membership unlocks every one of them at full version.
Side by side
| Print Laser Pro | Print.App | Customily | Forge apps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base price | $79/mo | Usage based | $49/mo | Free tools plus paid apps |
| Fee on your orders | 5% + $0.50 per store order | None listed | $0.10 to $1 per item | None |
| Storefront customizer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Native LightBurn and xTool files | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Yes, five apps |
| Patch, tumbler, map and halftone tools | Yes, as builders | Gang sheets | Not listed | Yes, one app each |
| Free laser settings library | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Workbench |
Each tool's own pages, checked November 3, 2026. 'Not listed' means we did not find it there.
Which one should you pick?
- You want customers designing on your Shopify product pages: Print.App if you want no order fee, Customily or Zakeke if you want a mature Shopify personalizer.
- You want storefronts, booth intake, CRM and production in one login: Print Laser Pro is built for exactly that.
- You want the design work done fast and the files ready for your laser: the Forge app for your product, or the whole set if you make all of it.
- You are just starting: begin with the free ones. Workbench, the VectorForge converter, the NestSmith engine and the TumblerForge demo cost nothing.
Whatever software you pick, it only pays when it turns into product. These are the blanks the Forge apps were built around:
Start with the free tools
78,000+ laser settings, a free vector converter and true-shape nesting. No card, no cut of your sales.
Questions makers ask
What are the best Print Laser Pro alternatives?
It depends which part you use. For a product customizer on your store: Print.App, Customily or Zakeke. For design and production files (patches, tumblers, vectors, halftones, maps, nesting, settings): the Forge apps, with no cut of your sales.
How much does Print Laser Pro cost?
Their pricing page lists $79 a month with a 7-day free trial, a store-order usage fee of 5% plus $0.50 per order, and optional team members at $9 a month (checked November 3, 2026).
Is there a Print Laser Pro alternative with no per-order fee?
Yes. Print.App lists no per-order fee and bills by usage. No Forge app takes a percentage of your sales. Customily charges $0.10 to $1 per order item and Zakeke 1.5% to 1.9% per sold product.
Do the Forge apps export LightBurn and xTool files?
Yes. PatchForge, TumblerForge, VectorForge, MappSmith and NestSmith write native LightBurn .lbrn2 and xTool .xs projects, plus SVG and DXF. ToneSmith exports PNG and CMYK TIFF with a white spot channel.
Do the Forge apps include a storefront or CRM?
No. The Forge apps are design and production tools; you keep selling through the store you already run. If you want storefronts, booth intake and a CRM in one subscription, Print Laser Pro does more of that.
Can I try the Forge apps free?
Yes. The VectorForge converter, the NestSmith engine, Workbench and the TumblerForge demo are free with no card. FoundryPass also starts with a 7-day free trial.
FoundryPass
Every Forge app, one membership
PatchForge, TumblerForge, VectorForge Pro, ToneSmith, MappSmith and NestSmith Pro at full version, with native LightBurn and xTool files and no cut of your sales.
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