The price anchor
| Mockcraft | Placeit | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $14.95/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $179 |
| 5-year total | $19 | $895 |
| 10-year total | $19 | $1,790 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($14.95/mo, ~$179/yr); the Mockcraft column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
Mockcraft pays for itself in under two months of Placeit — and every month after that is pure savings.
- After 1 year: Mockcraft has cost you $19 total — Placeit has cost $179.
- After 3 years: Mockcraft is still $19 — the subscription is at $537.
- After 5 years: Mockcraft is still $19 — the subscription is at $895.
What you get for $19 once
- 12 bundled templates. Devices (phone, laptop, tablet, browser), apparel (t-shirt, hoodie) and print (business card, framed poster, book cover, sticker).
- Real perspective placement. Angled scenes use a full homography transform with bilinear sampling, so your design sits on the surface like it was photographed there.
- Placement controls. Scale, X/Y offset, rotation and cover/contain/stretch fit modes, all live-previewed as you drag the sliders.
- Garment color variants. Eight swatches swap the shirt or hoodie color instantly, with the design multiply-shaded into the fabric so it looks printed.
- Batch mode. Check any set of templates and export your design across all of them in one pass into a folder you pick.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $19 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Mockcraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/mockup-generator-mvp. The $19 buys the packaged Windows installer; building from source is free.
Does it ship stock photos of devices and models?
No — that's the licensed imagery Placeit rents you. Every scene is honestly generated from vector shape specs by Mockcraft's own raster engine, so the whole pack is MIT-licensed with your copy.
Does anything leave my computer?
No. Mockcraft makes no network calls at all — your designs never leave your disk and exports go exactly where you choose.
Mockcraft — $19, one time
Or get Mockcraft plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.