Design Huddle vs Polotno vs Templated: Choosing the Best Image Editor To Embed on Your App

Building an image editor for your app or website may sound interesting at first. But maintaining it in the long run can put a strain on your team’s time and focus.

That’s where these already-built SDKs can make a big difference. If you’ve landed on this article and are reading along, chances are you’ve done your research and are weighing the top options.

And I can assume that Design Huddle and Polotno are among your leading contenders.

Rightly so. Both are solid image editors that can be integrated into your platform and perform well. So in this post, I’ll walk you through their core features, flexibility, and where each of them truly shines.

I’ll also introduce you to Templated’s White Label Image Editor, which stands out among both and delivers exceptional value in some areas.

Design Huddle

Design Huddle is a white-label design platform you can embed in your product. It gives you a modern, drag-and-drop editor with brand control, template locking, and print-ready export. It is built for teams that need users to create on-brand graphics for web and print without leaving the app.

The UI is clean and fast. You can style the editor to match your product and decide what tools appear for your users.

Integration

From a developer’s perspective, Design Huddle runs as a hosted editor that you embed in an iframe. You launch projects with a secure URL that includes a short-lived token. Templates, assets, and users are managed through REST APIs. A small frontend SDK lets you listen for events, update elements, fetch previews, and save back to your storage.

This means you keep your own auth and data model while the editing happens in the embedded window. You can brand the editor with your logo, colors, and domain so it feels native.

Feature highlights

Design Huddle covers the core features you expect in a design editor:

• Canvas and layout: Multi-page designs, layers, guides, snapping, zoom, and print bleed and margin controls

• Image tools: Upload, crop, resize, mask into shapes, filters, and background removal

• Text and fonts: Rich text editing, custom fonts, alignment, spacing, curved and outlined text, right-to-left support

• Templates: Lock elements, define editable zones, and create placeholders for text and images

• Brand assets: Assign fonts, logos, and libraries per tenant or user group

• Export options: High-quality PNG and JPG, plus print-ready PDF with CMYK, crop marks, and bleeds

• Stock libraries: Access to images and icons from popular sources

• Mockups: Render live previews on product photos for a real-world view

In terms of white labeling, the editor UI is skinnable. You can change branding, rename tools, and hide features to match your workflow.

Design Huddle Pricing Overview

• Pricing: Available on request

• Plans: Vary by usage, features, and support level

• Notes: Editor is included in paid plans, print exports, and advanced features may have limits based on tier

Ideal Use Case

Design Huddle is well-suited for teams that need a robust web-based editor with strict brand control and print specs. It is popular with web-to-print platforms, e-commerce personalization, franchise portals, and SaaS tools that want non-designers to produce on-brand assets at scale.

Pros

• Strong brand control with template locking and editable zones

• Print-ready PDF export with CMYK, bleeds, and crop marks

• Solid asset management with stock libraries

• Mockup previews for product personalization

• API plus frontend SDK for workflow control

Limitations

• Pricing available on request

• Iframe embed requires token generation and backend setup

• Some advanced features sit behind higher tiers

• Right-to-left text editing and alignment may need extra configuration and may not cover all scenarios; verify full RTL layout support during trial

Polotno Overview

Polotno is a developer-friendly JavaScript SDK that lets you add a Canva-style image editor inside your product. It ships as a set of UI components and APIs so you can build an in-app editor that feels native. Teams use it to give users a multi-layer canvas, rich text, image tools, and template workflows without building everything from scratch.

The editor is quick and responsive. You control branding and which tools are visible.

Integration

From a developer’s perspective, Polotno is a JS or TS library that you install in your codebase. You render the editor inside your React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, or vanilla app and wire it to your auth, storage, and backend. You can subscribe to events, modify panels, and extend behavior because the components are modular.

This approach gives you deep control, but it does require engineering time to configure options, manage assets, and handle save and export flows in your app.

Feature highlights

Polotno covers nearly the full spectrum of features you expect in a design editor:

• Canvas and layout: Multi-page designs, layers panel, zoom and pan, snapping and alignment, guides, and print bleed settings

• Image tools: Upload, crop, resize, rotate, and flip, masking, one-click background removal through a cloud API

• Text and fonts: Rich text editing, custom font upload, alignment and spacing, text curving and styling

• Shapes and graphics: Libraries of shapes, lines, icons, and optional stock search through Unsplash API

• Templates: Create and load templates, lock elements, and reuse layouts

• Export options: Download PNG and JPG, PDF, and SVG available for print quality output

• White label: Skin the UI to your brand and enable or hide features per your workflow

Polotno Pricing Overview

Team plan — $199 per month

• For teams with under ten employees
• Up to ten thousand editor loads per month
• Tiered support access

Business plan — $399 per month

• For teams with under fifty employees
• Unlimited editor loads
• Higher priority support

Enterprise plan — custom pricing

• For larger teams and companies
• May include source code access and custom SLAs

Notes

• Rendering through Polotno cloud is billed per use, at about $0.004 per image render

• Background removal uses a cloud service at about $0.03 per removal

• A 100-day free trial is available on a development domain

Read More: 4 Best Polotno Economical & Feature Rich Alternatives

Templated Overview

Finally, let me introduce Templated’s white label Image Editor for your app, a product I have built after working closely with SaaS teams, agencies, and web-to-print businesses. It gives you a Canva-like image editor that lives inside your own product, looks like your brand, and stays easy to run over time.

Again and again, customers asked for the same things. A clean editor that launches fast. Strong control over templates so designs stay on brand. Print-ready output when needed. Helpful chat support from real people. Templated is shaped around these needs so your users can start creating in minutes.

Templated keeps your brand front and centre and works well for global audiences. We listened to teams that create in Arabic and Hebrew and added full right-to-left text support.

Here’s a small video walkthrough of our editor: -

Feature highlights

Templated covers the core features you expect in a modern Canva like editor:

• Canvas and layout: Multi page designs, layers panel, drag and drop, zoom and pan, snapping, align and distribute, grouping, duplicate, and precise size and position controls

• Text and fonts: Rich text editing, font library, custom font upload, headings and styles, color, letter spacing, line height, lists, and full right to left text and alignment

• Images: Upload from device, crop, resize, rotate, flip, opacity, masks into shapes, and corner radius

• Shapes and graphics: Basic shapes and icons with fill, stroke, and shadow controls

• Templates: Ready templates to start with, create your own templates, lock elements, define editable areas, and keep everything on brand

• Brand assets: Shared folders for logos, fonts, and reusable elements so teams work from one place

• Export options: High resolution PNG and JPG, transparent PNG, and PDF for print workflows; control size presets and custom dimensions

• Controls: Turn tools on or off per project, lock layers and positions, limit colors and fonts for brand safety

• Keyboard and speed: Common shortcuts for faster editing and quick actions for duplicate, align, and reorder

• Security: Domain allowlisting and developer mode for safe testing

• Automation-ready: The same templates can be rendered at scale with the Image Automation API when you need batch creation

Integration

Templated runs as a hosted editor that you place in your app with a single embed URL inside an iframe. You set everything in the dashboard, copy the URL, allowlist your domain, and the editor loads inside your product with your branding. There is no package to install & it works with any web stack or site builder.

Typical flow

1. Create a project in the dashboard and choose which tools and templates are available.

2. Allowlist your app domain and copy the unique embed URL.

3. Place the URL in an iframe in your app. You can pass identifiers such as a user or template id as query parameters.

4. Handle saves and exports with webhook callbacks. Your backend receives the event and downloads the exported files from secure links.

5. Manage assets and fonts in the dashboard. Teams can update templates and brand libraries without shipping code.

Security and control

• Domain allowlisting keeps the editor loading only where you intend.

• You decide which features are visible per project, so the editor matches your workflow.

Templated Pricing Overview

• Editor embed on monthly billing: $99 per month

• Editor embed on annual billing: $79 per month billed annually

• Free trial available for testing on a dev setup

• Custom plan for larger teams and compliance needs

• No SDK to install and no end-user fees. Your users do not need a paid account

Ideal Use Case

Templated is a strong fit when you want a Canva-like editor that launches fast and stays simple to maintain. It works well for SaaS products, agency portals, and internal tools where teams edit from brand templates and export web or print files. It suits global audiences that need right-to-left text and alignment. If you later want automated image creation at scale, you can reuse the same templates with the automation API.

Here’s a full comparison of the feature list of all three products.

Conclusion

Choosing between Polotno, Design Huddle, and Templated comes down to your use case, team capacity, and how much setup you want to manage.

• Polotno: A capable canvas editor with a light SDK. Good if you have developer time and want flexibility without a heavy footprint.

• Design Huddle: Built for brand control and print needs. Good if you require CMYK, bleeds, and a managed iframe flow.

• Templated: The quickest route to a white label editor. Embed by URL, keep control, and ship without a long build.

Templated is newer, yet it covers the core needs teams ask for while removing extra steps.

If you are also weighing IMG.LY, I have a separate comparison that looks at Polotno vs IMG.LY vs Templated with more detail on SDK depth and pricing notes. You can read it here!!

Where Templated Stands Out

• Embed by URL. Add the editor in minutes. No SDK required.

• __Smart default__s. You start with sensible settings and tweak as you grow.

• Full RTL support. Right-to-left text and alignment work across the editor, which solves a common gap you see elsewhere.

• Real-time help. Live chat with humans who unblock you fast.

• Editor plus automation. Generate images with the API at scale, then open the same designs in the editor for final tweaks inside your app. This is the workflow teams use for social posts, catalog updates, and ads. See how Fastpost.es does it in our case study: [Read Case Study].

With Polotno, you still have the option to generate images through its cloud rendering API. You build the design with the SDK, send the design data to a render endpoint, and get a PNG, JPG, or PDF back, but it sits outside the editor flow & you manage usage-based rendering on top of your SDK work.

With Design Huddle, you can create a project from a template by API, swap text and images, request previews, and export print-ready files, but it usually needs backend token handling and an OAuth setup to orchestrate the flow.

Templated keeps both parts together. You call a simple REST endpoint to generate at scale and then open the same design in the embedded editor for quick last-mile edits inside your app.

If you need a production-ready image editor without a long integration, Templated gets you there quickly.

Additional Resources

4 Best Web to Print SDKs in 2026

5 Best Image Editors That You Can Embed in Your App