🖼️ Mockcraft
The product mockup generator you buy once and own forever.
Placeit charges $14.95 a month, forever — about $179 a year — to drag your image onto a stock photo of a phone. Mockcraft is $19 once and runs entirely on your machine. Your mockups are not a subscription.
Mockcraft screenshot is being captured — the app is shipped and real.
Features
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.
Full-resolution PNG export
Every template exports at its full scene resolution of 1600 to 1920px wide, with a true alpha channel on transparent templates.
Extensible template pack
Every scene is vector-defined in one spec file — add an object and you have added a template, no bitmap assets to license.
Mockcraft vs Placeit
Placeit at $14.95/mo runs roughly $179/year — $358 over two years. Mockcraft is $19, once.
| Mockcraft | Placeit | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19 once | $14.95/mo |
| Cost after 3 years | $19 | $538.20 |
| Your files live | On your machine | Their cloud |
| Works offline | Always | No |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Export resolution | Full scene res, always | Gated by plan |
| Batch across templates | Yes, one pass | Manual, one at a time |
| Template pack license | MIT, extensible | Rented |
Mockcraft pays for itself in under two months of Placeit — and every month after that is pure savings.
Three steps, no subscription
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $19 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/mockup-generator and run it yourself for free.
Install and open
Run the one-click NSIS installer for a native Electron desktop app — no account, no build step.
Drop a design and export
Drag your image onto any scene, adjust placement, and batch-export full-resolution PNGs to a folder you choose.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Mockcraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/mockup-generator. 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.
Own Mockcraft forever
$19 once. Signed installer, 1-click setup, updates included. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.