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Tattoo Stencil Maker

Tattoo stencil maker

Clean tattoo stencils from any photo, printed true to size. AI clean lines, or a private mode that never leaves your browser.

New stencil

Classic lines: unlimited, on your deviceRefused or failed runs are never charged

Photo or sketch

Classic keeps your photo on your device. AI styles send a scaled-down copy to our AI provider, SeeAPI, only after you pick one. Privacy

Pets, flowers, objects, your own drawings. No celebrities or brand characters.

Faces and fine detail: use AI lines or Touch-up.

From the library

418 designs

Use any design as a base: resize, touch up, print true to size. Browse all

Describe it

Soon

Type an idea (“swallow carrying a rose stem, bold outline”) and get a stencil. Coming after launch.

Line style
Making:

Choose a photo. Next: touch up lines, then print at true size.

1Style
Style
2Lines
Line weight
Clean-up
Advanced
3Size & print
Placement

12 × 12 cm

Processed on your device. Nothing is uploaded unless you save to your Studio.

Try a sample

Sample photos are public domain or CC0 (Wikimedia Commons).

Save to Studio

Only the finished stencil lines are stored, never your photo.

Keep it in your Studio

  • A saved library on any device (100 or 500 designs)
  • Re-print any design at another size in two clicks
  • Flash sheets from your own designs
  • Print batches: many designs and sizes on few sheets
  • ZIP export: PNG, SVG and PDF
See Studio plans

From $9.99 a month. Full refund within 7 days if you haven't used it. The stencil maker itself stays free.

Real results, made by this editor

The sample photos at default settings. No retouching.

  • Original dog before conversionStencil lines made from the dog
  • Original rose before conversionStencil lines made from the rose
  • Original lettering before conversionStencil lines made from the lettering

Create → Clean → Print

  1. 1

    Create

    Drop a photo or drawing, or start from a free public-domain design. Choose AI clean lines or private, on-device mode.
  2. 2

    Clean

    The editor turns edges into single, continuous lines and drops fur, grain and specks. Pick a style and a line weight.
  3. 3

    Print

    Choose the placement, check the transfer badge and print a true-size PDF, tiled across pages when it is big.
Browse all designs

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Questions

Is this tattoo stencil maker really free, with no signup?

Yes. The stencil maker is free, needs no account and adds no watermark. For photos you get a few free AI clean-lines runs per day (more when you sign in); a run that is refused or fails costs nothing. Private mode has no limit: it runs in your browser and the photo never leaves your device.

How do I turn a photo into a tattoo stencil?

Drop the photo into the editor or pick a sample. The editor guesses the style (photo, drawing or lettering) and draws clean single lines. Change the line weight or the clean-up level if needed, choose a placement or type the size you want on skin, then press Print PDF and print it at 100%. Photos with a plain background and good light give the cleanest lines.

How do I print a tattoo stencil at the right size?

Set the size on skin in step 3, press Print PDF and print at 100% ("Actual size") with "Fit to page" switched off. Every sheet has a 5 cm calibration bar: measure it with a ruler. If it reads 4.8 cm, the printer shrank the page by 4%.

Do I need to mirror a tattoo stencil?

Mirror it when the printed side touches the skin, for example with stencil-ink inkjet prints or direct hectograph prints. Leave it off when a thermal copier or the carbon layer of 4-ply paper already reverses the image. Lettering must read correctly on the skin, so check the print in a mirror.

Can I print a stencil bigger than one page?

Yes. Type the full size you want on skin and the PDF splits the design into equal tiles on A4 or US Letter, with crop marks and sheet labels (A1, A2, B1…). Trim, butt the edges together and tape them on the back. A 30 cm tall, 15 cm wide design takes 2 sheets of A4 or 2 of US Letter.

Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

Only if you use AI clean lines: then a scaled-down copy of the photo is sent to our AI provider to be redrawn (details in the privacy policy). In private mode, decoding, line extraction, the preview and every export run in your browser, and the page only sends small usage events such as "stencil exported" with the file type and size. Never the image.