4 Best Polotno Alternatives

Polotno is a solid in-app image editor. But you need real coding chops to wire it up, and the price can sting if you’re just starting.

Looking for an editor you can embed in minutes and afford on a bootstrapped budget?

You’re in the right place. In this read, I will give you the best alternatives that I have tested and feel are best for options available for you to try on your app.

Also, I will introduce you to my own image editor, which you can embed with a single line of code. (It is first on our list 😊)

Let’s get started.

Here are the best Polotno alternatives:

Templated White Label Image Editor

I am the founder of Templated, an API to automate images. We also offer a white-label image editor straight into your product in the time it takes to paste atag. The editor loads from Templated’s servers, so you skip package installs, build steps, or API token hand-offs.

You can try it here without even creating an account.

Just add your unique embed ID, set the width and height, and the canvas appears inside your page ready for action. Once inside the frame, the editor feels like a native part of your brand. Swap the Templated logo for yours, pick your accent colors, upload house fonts, and even hide tools you don’t need.

You can decide whether users land on a blank canvas, your private template set, or Templated’s public gallery and the interface adapts to modal, inline, or full-screen launch modes to suit your layout.

Behind the scenes, developers keep tight control. A domain whitelist blocks iframe hijacking, while webhooks fire on save, render, or download, allowing you to pipe events directly into email triggers, storage buckets, or print queues.

Permissions are granular; you can toggle cloning, renaming, or downloading per user or plan without touching the code. Localhost is allowed for testing, then locked down when you move to production.

You can obtain the editor as part of the scale plan, which starts at $99 per month and $79 per year.

Pixelixe

Pixelixe gives you a ready-made design studio that you add with a single iframe link. Copy the URL (it holds your API key and canvas size), paste it into Webflow, Bubble, or any page, and the editor appears.

Swap their logo for yours, set brand colors, and hide any tool you don’t want new users to see.

Inside the editor, your audience can search more than two million stock photos, 900 fonts, and 700 icons. They’ll also find a bank of simple templates for social posts, ads, and blog banners. Finished images are downloaded as PNG, JPEG, PDF, or even HTML.

Pricing is straightforward: the white-label editor starts on the Automate plan at $49 per month.

IMG.LY CreativeEditor SDK

IMG.LY’s CreativeEditor SDK is a full-scale design engine that you wire into your codebase. It runs on the web, iOS, Android, and even desktop, so one setup can power every screen you ship to easily

The editor is fully white-label. You can re-skin every panel, swap icons, translate labels, and switch features on or off until the UI feels 100 percent your own.

The setup takes a little more time than a one-tag embed. You import the SDK, add a license key, and build the UI into your app flow.

However, the upside is total control; the trade-off is developer effort. Pricing is by quote only; you tell IMG.LY about your project, and they price the license to match. A free 30-day trial key is available for testing!

If you’re specifically evaluating Polotno against other embedded editors, I’ve also shared a detailed comparison of Design Huddle vs Polotno vs Templated: Choosing the Best Image Editor To Embed on Your App.

VistaCreate

VistaCreate gives you an editor that you can slot into your product under your brand.

The API Suite is completely modular: embed only the parts you need — design editor, AI image generator, background remover, or media libraries.

Once the iframe is live, you can replace the VistaCreate logo with yours, recolor every panel, and even translate every label, so the interface feels native.

The editor allows you to hide tabs, inject your asset library, or lock certain features, ensuring everything stays on-brand. Pricing is enterprise-by-quote; you talk to Vista’s team for a license, and it’s sold with dedicated support and “flexible, partnership-oriented” terms aimed at large platforms.

Conclusion

Polotno provides a great image editor, but as a customer, you have all right to test all the other white label image editors out there.

And every white label image editor mentioned here is unique & tested.

So you can trust each one blindly; however, you can test each before installing it in your app.

And each one has a unique design, capabilities, and functionality. See which one would be better for your app. And if you’re also looking for image automation tools, don’t miss 5 RenderForm Alternatives to Try for Bulk Image Creation, where you’ll find more options for bulk image generation.

Recently, I wrote a comparison article on Polotno vs IMG.LY vs Templated's white label image editor, do check it out too. I wrote this full comparison blog with a feature table in the end.