Designing a card

When you open the editor you get a two-column layout. Controls and tabs sit on the left, a live preview of your card on the right. Four tabs run across the top: Setup, Design, Templates, AI.

Pick a grid size. 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 for a custom card. Classic card types lock the grid for you. Changing size redistributes your items to fit.

Add items. In the Setup tab, type or paste one item per line in the items panel. You can also click any cell in the preview to edit it directly. A pink pill in the header tells you if you are short ("3 more items needed"), and Print and Play online stay disabled until the grid is full.

Free center space. Available on 5x5 grids. Toggle it on and the middle cell shows "FREE". A 5x5 needs 24 items with free space on, or 25 without.

Shuffle. Tap the circular Shuffle button in the card preview header to rearrange items. Same items, different layout. The shuffle is deterministic, so a saved card always looks the same until you shuffle again.

Save status. A small colored dot in the header shows where you stand: grey "Unsaved", pulsing blue "Saving…", green "Saved", pink "Save failed". You do not need to hit a save button; changes save as you work.

Themes and presets

Open the Design tab to pick a theme. You get eight built-in themes:

• Parchment (the default): warm cream with ink-style type.
• Schoolhouse: chalkboard and paper for classrooms.
• Wedding Parchment: elegant, serif-forward.
• Neon Night: vivid colors on dark.
• Kids Party: candy colors and playful type.
• Corporate Clean: muted, legible, for office events.
• Holiday Cheer: festive seasonal warmth.
• Music Hall: deep emerald and warm stage gold.

Each theme tile shows color swatches, name, and a short description. The active theme is outlined in tangerine. One click re-skins the card; your items stay put. Theme choice changes background, text color, accent color, fonts, and cell shape.

Getting item ideas with AI

AI is a paid feature. Trial includes 10 fills a day. Paid plans add the AI add-on for $10 a month for unlimited fills. Free accounts can see the tab but cannot generate.

The AI tab lives next to Templates. Describe what you want in the big textarea ("5th grade vocabulary about the solar system", for example) and tap the Generate button. The count you get scales with grid size: 27 items for a 3x3, 48 for a 4x4, 75 for a 5x5.

Six quick-prompt chips give you a starting point: 90s songs, Subtraction, Car brands, Icebreakers, Halloween, Dolch words. Tap a chip and it auto-fills and runs the prompt.

Suggestions come back as tappable chips. Tap a chip to add it. Tap the small "x" to skip one. Accepted items show a checkmark and turn light green. Two buttons below help you move faster: Add all to card and Clear and try again.

When you hit the daily limit you get a yellow panel: "Daily AI limit reached" with a button to add the AI add-on. You can try again after UTC midnight.

Previewing and printing

Open the print dialog from the printer icon in the header, next to Play online. The icon is disabled when your card is underfilled; a tooltip explains what is missing.

The print dialog lives at its own page with a "Back to editor" link. Options:

• How many cards. Pick from 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, or 100, or type any number up to 100 (the current cap for PDF rendering).
• Layout. 1-up (one big card per page), 2-up (two cards stacked, the default), or 4-up (four cards in a 2x2 grid).
• Paper size. US Letter or A4.
• Cut-mark borders. Dashed outlines to help you trim. On by default.

Tap Render N cards. The PDF generates in your browser and downloads as card-title-N-cards.pdf. Each card in the set is shuffled differently, so all copies are unique.

Print quota:

• Free plan: 5 cards per month.
• Trial: unlimited for 7 days.
• Paid: unlimited.

When you hit the free cap the dialog shows a yellow panel ("You've hit the free plan's 5/month cap") with a button to see plans.

Downloading a PDF is different from placing a physical print order. Physical card orders are covered in Product: Print Orders.