Loocie Design vs Tiler
Loocie Design
loociedesign.comTiler
boxlab.ioSide by side
| Figure | Loocie Design | Tiler |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Pattern Design Software | 8.3 (#4) | 7.5 (#11) |
| Privacy | Signed-in Studio files are private to the account and there is no public gallery. | The maker says artwork is read, drawn, and written in the browser and is not uploaded; no account is required. |
| Purpose | Loocie Design provides tools for making seamless repeating patterns for fabric, wallpaper, wrapping, stationery, and print-on-demand. | Tiler creates seamless repeating patterns from artwork supplied by the user. |
Plans
In their own words
Loocie Design
Loocie Design is a web-based Studio for turning artwork motifs into seamless repeating patterns for fabric, wallpaper, wrapping, stationery, and print-on-demand products. It is free during its beta and works on desktop, tablet, and phone. It is not a drawing app: users create motifs elsewhere and bring them into Studio. Extract accepts PNG, JPG, WEBP, and SVG files, detects and cleans motifs from a sheet, then sends sprites to Make Tile. Make Tile arranges motifs over solid or patterned grounds and exports print-ready PNGs. Repeat options include Brick, Half-drop, Grid, Diamond, and Scatter, with a background layer and up to four motif layers. Preview displays the repeating tile full-screen and checks vertical, horizontal, and four-corner joins. Projects can be downloaded as.loocie files containing sprites, layout, and background. Signed-in uploads are private per account, while site files are automatically deleted after a short time. Sprite Clean is an experimental single-motif cleanup tool, and results may be rough.
Tiler
Tiler creates seamless repeating patterns from artwork you supply. Set a field in millimeters, add SVG artwork, then place motifs by hand or scatter them using controls for count, size, size variation, rotation, mirroring, and spacing. Choose straight, half-drop, half-brick, or mirror repeats. Individual placements can retain their colors or use one ink, with separate opacity controls; backgrounds can be a ground or transparent. Export a true-size SVG tile, a PNG at 72–600 dpi, or a PDF sheet in several page sizes. The SVG stays vector, while the PDF sheet is rasterized at the selected resolution. SVG is the only supported input, so photographs and scans need tracing before import. Tiler runs in a web browser and requires no account. BoxLab says artwork is read, drawn, and written in the browser, not uploaded, and script-capable content is stripped from imported SVGs. It presents the tool for gift wrap, textiles, packaging, stationery, print, prepress, and screen backgrounds.