Brother P-touch Editor vs MasoLabel

Brother P-touch Editor 6 is free software for designing and printing custom labels. It supports styled text, images and barcodes, including QR code labels, and tables can contain text, numbers, symbols or barcode data. Designs can draw on more than 700 clip-art items, frames, patterns and shape tools. For text, users can choose installed TrueType or OpenType fonts or fonts included with the software. Search helps find templates and previously created labels. Label content can be drawn from Excel and other databases, including for mailing lists and asset-management labeling. Brother lists JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIF/TIFF image support. Barcode and specialty labels may be printed individually or in batches. Printing requires connecting a compatible P-touch or Brother QL printer to a PC through USB or Bluetooth. Brother describes the software as compatible with Windows and Macintosh and says it works with select P-touch and QL models. The Windows version is listed as 6.0. For macOS 10.15 or higher, Brother directs users to download the app from the App Store.

MasoLabel is Windows desktop software for editing and printing barcode labels. Labels can contain barcodes, QR codes, text, lines, tables, icons, and dates. Excel imports support batch printing with changing fields, while serial-number jobs can increment values with prefixes, suffixes, and zero-padding. PDF workflows allow print-range selection, cropping, or placing a PDF into a label template as an image. Image batches support cropping, print ranges, and copy counts. The site says people can edit, print, and manage templates on different computers, with labels stored in the cloud account and retained after computer changes or reinstallations. It describes compatibility with various printer brands and unlimited printer licenses. Supported systems are 64-bit Windows 11, 10, 7, and Server 2022–2008. Starter costs nothing; Basic $6.90 a month; Pro Single-user $13.90 a month; Pro Multi-user $20.90 a month.