Turn a spreadsheet into a quarter of on-brand posts — bought once.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Canva Pro, at $12.99/mo — roughly $156 a year, every year. Postcraft Templates does the job for a one-time $19 — running locally on your own machine.
Quote, headline, stat, testimonial and image+headline cards, with every zone defined fractionally so one template renders at every size.
For freelancers, card presets pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $19, not metered per month.
Background, panel, accent and text colors, font family and logo set once and applied to every graphic.
For freelancers, locked brand kit pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $19, not metered per month.
Columns for headline, subtext, attribution and image, parsed by a zero-dependency RFC 4180 parser that handles quoted commas and newlines.
For freelancers, CSV batch generation pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $19, not metered per month.
One payment of $19 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/social-media-graphics-templates-mvp and run it yourself for free.
Open the native Electron desktop app and set your colors, font and logo once — they apply to every graphic.
Point it at a spreadsheet of headlines and export every platform size in one pass to a folder you pick.
Postcraft Templates is $19, once. Canva Pro at $12.99/mo — roughly $156 a year, every year. Generate 20 near-identical branded cards a week from a content calendar and Postcraft pays for itself in month one.
Generate 20 near-identical branded cards a week from a content calendar and Postcraft pays for itself in month one. Postcraft Templates costs $19 once; Canva Pro charges $12.99/mo — about $156 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — Postcraft Templates is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/social-media-graphics-templates-mvp. The $19 buys the packaged Windows installer; building from source is free.
No, and it's honest about that. Canva is a full design suite; Postcraft is a batch machine for repeatable branded posts. If you tweak every post by hand, keep Canva.