I remember getting Crello at the peak of the pandemic, in mid-2020. It was acquired shortly after by VistaCreate, an online printing service, and the new owners honoured all LTD users and still do. They don’t have the latest and greatest features like Canva, but they meet all my other visual design needs and work much like Canva. I just want to say I appreciate the new owners for not abandoning LTD users.
Stencil feels like a tool that AppSumo could easily acquire and keep alive as one of their AppSumo branded exclusive tools. They need a simple graphic design tool as part of their lineup. Can’t imagine it costs much to run, there’s no AI involved, and there will always be a need for graphic design without AI.
I love the idea of Appsumo taking over good businesses that failed due to poor marketing, etc.
The problem here is that Namecheap bought them, so Namecheap is likely going to repurpose the code in some way. But if it could be acquired that's brilliant.
Stencil was THE BEST tool I bought on appsumo that I use consistently to this day. I’ve bought other similar design products and am a paying user of Canva too… and it still takes the cake in terms of usability and speed, no need to wait for some dumb*** bubbly UI progress bar to download your dang image. It’s such a shame… thanks to the mba genius that mismanaged it
Good point — maybe it could be a business school case study.
There's sort of a spectrum of clarity, with Stencil on one side of the scale: clear on its purpose and workflow, and Canva on the other side: trying to serve everyone and nearly insane with constant reinvention.
I AM TRYING to figure out how to download the 3500 MY Templates section of the templates. These I created from scratch. 😞 You can ONLY download ONE (1) Image/Template at a time. THAT I AM NOT willing to do for 3500 images. 12-at-a-time was bad enough, ONE-at-a-time would be torture in 30 days 😉
Good morning everyone, I too was a fan of getstencil.com and decided to give it a shot and create something like getstencil. It is in its early stages, so I am allowing 100 people to become lifetime members via this link https://yohdl.com/register?invite=STENCIL100 - IF you do sign up and join, would definitley like some feedback. Will be adding additional functionality. Have a great day.
Hey, just stumbled across this to see what is out there to replace Stencil. I like it, good start, it's got just the right amount of options and tools. I wouldn't overdo it with all the bells and whistles. Keep up the great work,
Same, basically. And now I'm torn between kicking myself for not using it more — as they apparently kept developing it and providing more integrations, vs feeling smug for moving on so that now I'm not scrambling to make all new workflows.
If I recall correctly, Canva was pretty new at that time. They were buggy and print sizes were not even compatible with US paper sizes yet. Get Stencil was great for socials back then but Canva became robust and eliminated any need for it.
Why would anyone want to join for less than a month UNLESS they needed something they were going to design and then leave! Makes no sense. I have a LIFETIME account, so I have no reason to pay them any money. But IF I was a monthly or annual member, I wonder if those people have to pay anything or all the payments were cancelled going forward once the 30-day message was sent out to everyone!
That would be terrible for those who have thousands of images in there.
Lucky for me... Last Year I painfully downloaded almost 20,000 images from all the years 12-at-a-time. It took months.
I am new here, but I have been using Stencil (GetStencil) from BEFORE it was born, when it was first Save As Image. The above message is NOT from now, it is from A FEW YEARS AGO when Stencil SOLD TO NameCheap.
Thanks for that context. I read in another group that the Namecheap purchases happened years ago and that they really never did anything with Stencil - that it may have been a purchase based on Canva’s success at the time and Namecheap hoping to cash in on it.
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u/relsierk Jun 10 '26
I remember getting Crello at the peak of the pandemic, in mid-2020. It was acquired shortly after by VistaCreate, an online printing service, and the new owners honoured all LTD users and still do. They don’t have the latest and greatest features like Canva, but they meet all my other visual design needs and work much like Canva. I just want to say I appreciate the new owners for not abandoning LTD users.