Key takeaways
- Zakeke is the only tool here whose plans name a 3D configurator, an AR viewer and virtual try-on; Fancy Product Designer names real-time 3D previews.
- Zakeke and Kickflip take a percentage of each custom product sale; Customily and Teeinblue charge a fixed fee per order item that falls with volume.
- Zakeke Starter publishes up to 10 products, while Customily, Teeinblue and Kickflip list unlimited products on their one paid plan.
- Customily, Teeinblue and Zakeke name print-on-demand provider connections on their Shopify listings.
- Printcart has apps for Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix, complete web-to-print stores, and a migration service from Zakeke.
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Printcart wrote this comparison and is one of the products compared. Every statement about another company was checked on that company's own pages or its marketplace listings; anything we could not check there is left out.
How do they compare side by side?
Each statement about another product links to the public page it comes from (numbers refer to the sources list).
| Criterion | Zakeke | Printcart | Customily | Teeinblue | Kickflip | Fancy Product Designer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported platforms | Lists Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, PrestaShop, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, Salesforce, OpenCart, Etsy, Shopwired, Shopware and Amazon among its integrations.[8] | Separate apps for Shopify, WooCommerce (installed from WordPress.org) and Wix.[1] | Standard pricing applies to Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, WooCommerce and Shoplazza.[12] | Shopify and Etsy, plus Teeinblue Boundless for WooCommerce, Magento, Shopline and more.[15] | Works with Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix or a custom stack.[17] | WooCommerce, any WordPress post or page, and Shopify.[21] |
| Entry plan, per-sale fee and limits | Starter at $69.90/month, or $712.98/year, plus a 1.9% transaction fee on products sold via Zakeke (minimum 2 cents), with up to 10 published products, as of 26 October 2026.[9] | Free plan with limited products and storage; Premium plan with up to 100 products with the public designer and 500 order-upload file downloads per month; prices are on Printcart's store-plans page.[4] | Customily plan at $49/month, billed every 30 days, plus a $0.10 to $1 transaction fee per order item, with unlimited stores, options and products, as of 26 October 2026.[11] | Blue plan at $49/month, plus a $0.10 to $0.40 transaction fee per order item, with no transaction fee on the first 100 orders a month and unlimited options and products, as of 26 October 2026.[14] | Scale plan at $59/month, billed every 30 days, plus 1.95% to 0% per custom product sale, with unlimited products, page views and storage, as of 26 October 2026.[18] | Basic plan at $30/month, or $299/year, with 40 custom orders and 10 customised products, as of 26 October 2026.[22] |
| Free plan or trial | Free plan for development stores only, with all features; 14-day free trial on paid plans.[9] | Free plan, with an online designer on the storefront, limited products and storage, and CMYK print-ready export.[4] | Free plan for development stores only; a 9-day free trial.[11] | Free plan for development stores only; 14-day free trial on other Shopify plans.[14] | 14-day free trial, no credit card required.[19] | 14-day free trial on each listed plan.[22] |
| Customer upload | Images, PDF, EPS and AI upload, from local storage, galleries or social media.[10] | Buyers personalize items with templates, text and image uploads on any device.[2] | Custom file upload of PNG, JPEG, PSD and PDF files.[11] | Custom file upload of PNG, JPEG, PSD and PDF files.[14] | Customers can upload a logo or photo, and the preview and price update instantly.[20] | Customers upload images from social media or any device.[21] |
| Files for production | Print-ready files with the right resolution, based on customers' designs.[10] | Print-ready files in SVG, PDF, PNG and JPG.[2] | Automatic file generation (multi format) of ready-to-print, engrave or laser-cut files.[11] | Auto-generates production files; personalized orders can be sent to print-on-demand services.[14] | Turns customer designs, including uploaded images and text, into high-resolution, production-ready files.[20] | Orders exported in PDF, JPEG or PNG, in various sizes.[21] |
How did we compare Zakeke and its alternatives?
We compared Zakeke with Customily, Teeinblue, Kickflip, Fancy Product Designer and Printcart on five criteria that decide what a personalized-product store pays and ships: supported platforms, entry plan with its per-sale fee and limits, free plan or trial, customer upload, and files for production. Every competitor statement links to the vendor's own site or Shopify App Store listing, checked on 26 October 2026; anything we could not read there that day was left out.
Printcart is our product: this site, solution.printcart.com, is run by Netbase JSC, the company behind Printcart, and the Printcart apps live on www.printcart.com. Printcart is held to the same criteria, its own limits are listed, and the last sections say where Zakeke or another tool fits better.
This article is for sellers of personalized products: gifts, print-on-demand apparel, engraved jewelry and configurable products. Print shops that sell business cards, flyers and large-format jobs have different needs, covered in Zakeke alternatives for print shops; the Shopify product customizer comparison covers the same apps from the Shopify side.
What does Zakeke offer for product customization?
Zakeke sells a 2D visual customizer, a 3D configurator, a 3D and AR viewer and virtual try-on, and its Shopify listing names all four on every paid plan. Customers can upload images, PDF, EPS and AI files, and Zakeke produces print-ready files based on each customer's design, as its pricing page describes.
On the pricing page, Starter publishes up to 10 products at a 1.9% fee per custom product sale, Grow 50 products at 1.7% and Scale 100 products at 1.5%, with 5, 10, 25 and 100 GB of storage; Enterprise is priced on request, with a 0% fee. Conditional rules inside the 3D configurator start on Scale, and the page prices virtual try-on as an add-on starting from $40, as of 26 October 2026.
Zakeke lists integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, PrestaShop, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, Salesforce, OpenCart, Etsy, Shopwired, Shopware and Amazon, and its Shopify listing names CustomCat, Printful and Order Desk among the apps it works with.
Why do sellers look for a Zakeke alternative?
Sellers of personalized products usually look for a Zakeke alternative for one of three reasons: the percentage fee on each sale, the product cap of the entry plan, or a feature set built around 3D and AR that a flat product such as a mug, a poster or a t-shirt does not use. A gift shop with many designs reaches the 10-product cap of Starter quickly.
The fee model matters most as orders grow. Zakeke and Kickflip take a percentage of each custom product sale, so a higher-priced item pays a larger fee, while Customily and Teeinblue charge a fixed amount per order item that falls as monthly volume rises, per their pricing pages (Customily, Teeinblue). Fancy Product Designer's Shopify plan cards list an order and product allowance, and no per-sale fee is printed on them.
The third reason is fit. A store that sells printed flat products needs an online product designer, artwork upload with checks and a clean production file more than a 3D configurator, so it compares on fees, limits and files rather than on visualisation.
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<a href="https://solution.printcart.com/insight/zakeke-alternatives-for-product-customization"><img src="https://solution.printcart.com/insight/zakeke-alternatives-for-product-customization/fit-matrix.webp" alt="Matrix of six seller situations and which tool's own pages fit each, from Zakeke for 3D and AR to Teeinblue for low volume" width="1440" height="810"></a><br>Source: <a href="https://solution.printcart.com/insight/zakeke-alternatives-for-product-customization">Printcart</a>What do the five Zakeke alternatives offer?
The five alternatives all cover the core job, customer personalization plus a production file, with different business models. Customily and Teeinblue are built around print-on-demand automation, Kickflip around products assembled from parts, Fancy Product Designer around 3D previews with a monthly allowance, and Printcart around the same designer on three platforms plus complete web-to-print stores.
Customily. Customily's listing describes ready-to-print, engrave or laser-cut files generated automatically, PNG, JPEG, PSD and PDF uploads, and unlimited stores, options and products. Its fee per personalized item sold falls from $1 for the first 100 items to $0.10 above 10,000, per its pricing page, as of 26 October 2026; the same page lists Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, WooCommerce and Shoplazza.
Teeinblue. Teeinblue's listing auto-generates production files and sends personalized orders to print-on-demand services. Its pricing page shows one plan at $49 a month with no item fee on the first 100 orders, then $0.40 per item up to 1,000 orders, $0.20 per item up to 10,000 and $0.10 above 10,000, as of 26 October 2026.
Kickflip. Kickflip's listing shows one Scale plan at $59 a month plus 1.95% to 0% per custom product sale, with unlimited products, page views and storage, as of 26 October 2026. It names conditional logic and a price per option, and its product customizer page describes print-ready files built from uploaded images and text. Kickflip alternatives for Shopify compares it with Zakeke, Inkybay, Zepto and Printcart.
Fancy Product Designer. Fancy Product Designer's listing offers real-time 3D previews and print-ready files with proper resolution and color profiles; Basic is $30 a month or $299 a year with 40 custom orders and 10 customised products, as of 26 October 2026. Its site also sells it for WooCommerce and WordPress.
Printcart. Printcart's apps cover Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix with the same designer, templates, text and image uploads, and print-ready files in SVG, PDF, PNG and JPG. The store-plans page caps Premium at 100 products with the public designer and 500 order-upload file downloads a month. The app pages name no AR viewer or virtual try-on; 3D and wall previews of saved designs come with every full-store package.
Which Zakeke alternatives connect to print-on-demand providers?
Customily and Teeinblue name the most print-on-demand providers on their Shopify listings, so they suit sellers whose orders are printed by a provider such as Printful, Printify or Gelato. Zakeke's listing names CustomCat, Printful and Order Desk. Kickflip lists apparel and print-on-demand among its use cases, and Fancy Product Designer calls itself perfect for print on demand and custom merch.
Customily's listing names Printify, Printful, Gelato, CustomCat, Gooten, ShineOn, Merchize, merchOne and others; Teeinblue's listing names Printful, Printify, Gelato, CustomCat, Dreamship, Prodigi and others. A provider named on a listing still needs a test order, because the print area and file format each provider expects differ by product.
Printcart's app pages describe print-ready files and do not name print-on-demand providers. A store whose provider has no ready-made connection can have Printcart build one through the POD Provider and Fulfillment Connector service, quoted after a review of the provider's interface; stores that print their own products only need the files.
What does a year of each entry plan cost?
Twelve months of each competitor's entry plan, before per-sale fees, run from $360 for Fancy Product Designer Basic to $838.80 for Zakeke Starter billed monthly, as of 26 October 2026: the sums multiply the monthly price on each Shopify App Store listing by 12. Customily and Kickflip bill every 30 days, so 12 of their billing periods cover 360 days. Printcart's prices are on its store-plans page.
| Tool and entry plan | 12 months, billed monthly | Billed yearly | Fee per sale or order item | Limits on the plan | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zakeke Starter | $838.80 | $712.98 a year | 1.9% on products sold via Zakeke (minimum 2 cents) | Up to 10 published products | Zakeke listing |
| Customily | $588 (12 × 30 days) | Not listed | $0.10 to $1 per order item | Unlimited stores, options and products | Customily listing |
| Teeinblue Blue | $588 | Not listed | $0.10 to $0.40 per order item; none on the first 100 orders a month | Unlimited options and products | Teeinblue listing |
| Kickflip Scale | $708 (12 × 30 days) | Not listed | 1.95% to 0% per custom product sale | Unlimited products, page views and storage | Kickflip listing |
| Fancy Product Designer Basic | $360 | $299 a year | None listed on the plan card | 40 custom orders, 10 customised products | Fancy Product Designer listing |
The fixed part is only half of the cost, so add the fee at your own volume: Customily's fee falls from $1 per item for the first 100 items sold to $0.10 above 10,000, Teeinblue's from $0.40 to $0.10 per item after the first 100 orders a month, and Zakeke and Kickflip take a percentage of each sale, per their pricing pages (Customily, Teeinblue). A store that would rather have the whole shop built can start from a Shopify T-shirt store or a custom jewelry store; the full-store packages start at USD 799 a year.
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Zakeke fits better when the product needs to be seen in 3D or in the customer's own space: furniture, footwear, eyewear or a configurable object where an AR viewer or virtual try-on helps the buyer decide. None of the five alternatives names an AR viewer or virtual try-on on the pages we checked; besides Zakeke, Fancy Product Designer's listing and Printcart's full stores name 3D previews.
Zakeke also fits sellers who need one tool across many channels, since it lists the longest set of integrations of the six, including Etsy and Amazon besides the store platforms. A store with few, high-volume products can live with the Starter cap of 10 published products.
What should you check before switching from Zakeke?
Before switching, list your customizable products and your monthly orders, then price each alternative at that volume: the fee model, not the monthly plan, usually decides the cheapest tool. Check that the new tool's production files match what your printer or print-on-demand provider accepts, and run a test order on the free trial with your hardest product.
Moving also means rebuilding options, design areas and templates. Printcart's migration service from Zakeke does this in batches, and the migration service for other customizers covers Customily, Teeinblue and Kickflip. To score each tool on the same points during a demo, use the product designer feature checklist.
Which one fits which business?
Zakeke
Zakeke fits stores that want a 3D configurator, an AR viewer or virtual try-on next to the 2D customizer, and sellers on many channels at once, such as Etsy and Amazon besides their own store.[9][8]
Printcart
Printcart fits sellers who want the same product designer on Shopify, WooCommerce or Wix, or a complete web-to-print store built for them, and stores moving from Zakeke with a migration service.[1][6]
Customily
Customily fits print-on-demand, engraved jewelry, custom apparel and personalized gift sellers who automate fulfillment with print-on-demand providers and also sell on Etsy or Amazon.[11][12]
Teeinblue
Teeinblue fits Shopify and Etsy sellers of personalized products who send orders to print-on-demand providers, with no item fee on the first 100 orders a month.[14][15]
Kickflip
Kickflip fits brands whose products are built from parts, with pieces added, removed or customized in a live preview and a price that changes per option.[18]
Fancy Product Designer
Fancy Product Designer fits stores that want real-time 3D previews of t-shirts, jerseys, embroidery or phone cases, on Shopify or as a WooCommerce plugin.[22][21]
Frequently asked questions
Is there a cheaper alternative to Zakeke for personalized products?
It depends on order volume and product count. On their Shopify listings, Zakeke Starter is $69.90 a month plus 1.9% per sale with up to 10 published products, Customily $49 a month plus $0.10 to $1 per order item, and Fancy Product Designer Basic $30 a month with 40 custom orders and 10 customised products, as of 26 October 2026. The table above lists every fee and limit.[9][11][22]
Which Zakeke alternative offers a 3D preview?
Of the five alternatives, Fancy Product Designer is the one whose Shopify listing names real-time 3D previews, for t-shirts, jerseys, embroidery, phone cases and more. Printcart shows saved designs in 3D in every full-store package, as its 3D and wall previews page describes.[22][5]
Does Zakeke charge a fee on every sale?
Yes, on its self-serve plans. Zakeke's pricing page lists 1.9% per custom product sale on Starter (10 products), 1.7% on Grow (50 products), 1.5% on Scale (100 products) and 0% on Enterprise, with a $0.03 minimum per sale, while its Shopify listing gives a minimum of 2 cents, as of 26 October 2026.[10][9]
Which Zakeke alternatives also work on WooCommerce?
Customily offers a WooCommerce plugin from its own site, Kickflip says it works with Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix, Fancy Product Designer runs in WooCommerce and WordPress, Teeinblue reaches WooCommerce through Teeinblue Boundless, and Printcart has its own WooCommerce plugin on WordPress.org.[13][17][21][16][3]
Can a store move its personalized products from Zakeke to Printcart?
Yes. Printcart runs a migration service from Zakeke that rebuilds printing options, design zones and templates and switches products over in batches; the service page lists its packages and what each one includes.[6]
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- Printcart Store Plans: App Plans Per Store, checked
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- Migrate from Zakeke to Printcart, checked
- POD Provider and Fulfillment Connector, checked
- Zakeke — 3D Product Configurator & Customizer for eCommerce, checked
- Zakeke – Customizer 2D & 3D (Shopify App Store), checked
- Zakeke Pricing: Starter, Grow, Scale and Enterprise plans, checked
- Customily Product Personalizer (Shopify App Store), checked
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- Customily: WooCommerce Product Personalizer, checked
- Teeinblue Product Personalizer (Shopify App Store), checked
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- Teeinblue Boundless, checked
- Kickflip, checked
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- Kickflip Product Customizer, checked
- Fancy Product Designer, checked
- Fancy Product Designer (Shopify App Store), checked
About the author
Huy Nguyen (David)
Founder & CEO, Printcart
Huy Nguyen (David) is the Founder and CEO of Printcart. Questions about this article go straight to him and the Printcart team.
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