Product 01 · Popcorn Editor

Made in a browser.Ready for the press.

Popcorn is a design editor for things that get printed. Stickers, packaging, menus, business cards, a magazine. It runs in a browser tab, and the file it hands back is the file your printer runs. Not a version of it that somebody has to convert first.

Live at popcorneditor.com
Runs inAny modern browser. Nothing to install.Good forStickers, labels, packaging, menus, cards, posters, booklets.Start from482 templates, or an empty page.CostsFree to start. Paid plans from nineteen dollars a month.Also onMac and Windows, as a desktop app.
The problem

Where it usually goes wrong.

Most design tools do a good job right up to the export dialog. Then they hand the important part to somebody else, and you find out how that went a week later.

The colour changes on the wayYou approve something on screen and the press prints something else. Somebody has to convert it into the printer’s colours, and that somebody is usually not you, and usually not asked.
The special ink is a note in an emailA gold foil, a white layer under the artwork, a varnish, a cut line. Most tools cannot describe any of those, so they become instructions in a message, and then they become a mistake.
You find out lateThe problems turn up at the printer, on the day, when the run is already booked and the deadline is the reason you are printing at all.
What we built

Register

We built that part ourselves.

Popcorn has its own print engine, and it sits inside the browser tab you are already working in. The colour conversion, the special inks and the finished file all happen there. Nothing is handed off to anybody else, which is the whole reason what you approve on screen is what comes off the press.

It is the piece nobody wants to write. It is also the only reason the rest of it is worth having.

What you get backA print file in the formats printers ask for, with your printer’s colour profile written into it.
Where it happensOn your machine, in the tab. Your artwork does not need to go anywhere to be turned into a print file.
What you can check firstEach ink on its own, and the whole thing composited, on screen, before anybody commits to a run.
What it handles

The awkward bits, done for you.

These are the things that normally need a second piece of software, a prepress operator, or a phone call.

Your printer’s colourThe document is built in print colour from the first click, rather than converted at the end and hoped over. You choose the profile your printer uses.Special inksName a gold, a white underlayer, a varnish or a cut line, and it travels all the way through as its own plate, with tints and overprint doing what you asked.The cut lineDraw the shape a sticker or a box gets cut to, or let it follow the outline of the artwork, and it goes out as a proper cut contour.Many up on one sheetPut forty-eight of the same sticker on a press sheet, with the marks and the spacing where the shop expects them.Checks before you sendIt flags too much ink, lines too thin to hold, and photos that will look soft at size. Before the printer does, and while you can still fix it.Five hundred of them, each differentA spreadsheet of names becomes five hundred personalised cards, or a sheet of labels where every one is different.Your existing artworkBring in a PDF, an Illustrator file, an SVG or a Photoshop file and edit what is inside it, rather than looking at a flat picture of it.Long documentsMaster pages, facing pages, text that flows from one frame to the next, contents pages, tables. The things a magazine needs and a poster does not.
Assistants

Describe it, then fix it by hand.

There is an assistant on the canvas that makes and changes designs while you watch. If you would rather work from Claude or ChatGPT, Popcorn can be driven from there too.

It makes a real documentWhat comes back is an actual print document. Editable text, real inks, the cut line where it belongs. Not a picture of a design that you then have to rebuild by hand.
You stay in chargeEverything it does lands on the canvas in front of you, where you can move it, retype it, undo it, or throw the whole thing away and start again.
It understands printingAsk for a label with a cut line and a white layer underneath and you get one, because the assistant is working in the same document the print engine reads at the end.
Straight answers

What we do not claim.

Three things you might reasonably assume, that would not be true if we let you.

Not certifiedPopcorn writes the print file formats your printer asks for. There is no independent body that certifies a file as conforming, so we do not use the word certified, and neither should anybody else.
Not magicIt cannot rescue a photo that was too small to begin with, and it will not pretend otherwise. It tells you before you send, which is the most useful thing it can do about it.
Not a world firstWe have not found another browser design tool that does the final print step in the browser itself. That is not the same as being the only one, and we are not going to say that it is.
Everything on this page is something the product does today.
Have a go

Open it and push something around.

Free to start, and you do not need an account to open the editor and have a look. You need one when you want to save it or send it to a printer.