Design social-card templates visually, render them from a GET request. Your self-hosted Bannerbear.
Creators bleed money on per-month editing, caption and thumbnail tools that charge more the more they publish. Pay-once apps let them produce unlimited content without a meter running.
The tool this job usually means renting is Bannerbear, at $49/mo — roughly $588 a year, every year. Cardsmith does the job for a one-time $99 — running on infrastructure you control.
Canvas with drag positioning + snap guides, layers panel, and a live preview that matches server output pixel-for-pixel.
For content creators, visual template editor pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
Text (bundled fonts, weight, align, wrap, auto-shrink to fit), images (upload or URL, cover/contain/fill, radius, opacity), shapes and solid/gradient/image backgrounds.
For content creators, layer types pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
OG/blog 1200×630, X large card 1600×900, Instagram 1080×1080 and 1080×1920 story, LinkedIn 1200×627 — plus fully custom dimensions.
For content creators, sizes for every network pays off when there's a publishing schedule to hit — and it's covered by the same one-time $99, not metered per month.
One-time $99 for the packaged installer — Chromium and every render dependency pre-wired.
Drag layers on the canvas or start from one of 5 starter templates. Type {{title}} wherever dynamic text goes.
Drop the render URL into your og:image tag, script it from Node or serverless, or bulk-render a CSV into a zip of PNGs.
Cardsmith is $99, once. Bannerbear at $49/mo — roughly $588 a year, every year. Cardsmith costs about two months of Bannerbear — it pays for itself in 9 weeks.
Cardsmith costs about two months of Bannerbear — it pays for itself in 9 weeks. Cardsmith costs $99 once; Bannerbear charges $49/mo — about $588 a year. For content creators, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/og-image-studio-mvp. $99 buys the packaged installer with everything pre-wired, plus updates.
Server-side with bundled Chromium (Puppeteer), using the exact same HTML renderer as the editor preview — so WYSIWYG is literal. Fonts are bundled and base64-embedded, making output deterministic and fully offline.