The written guide
Everything this tool does, in words
Paper sizes in real millimetres, all 25 styles, what prints and what does not. Written down so you can check it before you spend paper on it.
Three things, and the choice changes both the layout and what the sheet is for.
One label per container, one per line of your list. Type or paste the list and each line becomes its own label. Bullets, dashes and numbering are stripped automatically, so a list copied out of a notes app arrives clean. You can give any label a second, smaller line by separating it with a dash, a colon or a pipe character — Winter coats — attic, bin 4 prints "Winter coats" large with "attic, bin 4" underneath.
One page per box, listing what is inside it, to tape to the box or drop in the top. End a line with a colon and it starts a new box on a new page, so a single paste can produce a sheet for every box in a room. Items take the same dash, colon or pipe separator for a note — Spice jars — fragile.
Tick-boxes, one task per line, for packing, moving day or a seasonal sort-out. Empty [ ] checkboxes in your pasted text are stripped rather than doubled up, so a checklist copied from somewhere else does not arrive with two boxes per line.
Eight, from a full A4 sheet down to a business card:
| Paper | Millimetres | Inches |
|---|---|---|
| A4 | 210 × 297 mm | 8.3 × 11.7 in |
| Letter | 215.9 × 279.4 mm | 8.5 × 11 in |
| A5 | 148 × 210 mm | 5.8 × 8.3 in |
| Half Letter | 139.7 × 215.9 mm | 5.5 × 8.5 in |
| A6 pocket | 105 × 148 mm | 4.1 × 5.8 in |
| Index card | 101.6 × 152.4 mm | 4 × 6 in |
| A7 mini | 74 × 105 mm | 2.9 × 4.1 in |
| Card | 85.6 × 54 mm | 3.4 × 2.1 in |
The card size is the standard business-card format, and it is the only one that is landscape by habit rather than portrait. Everything else starts portrait and can be turned.
It depends on the label size rather than the paper, because smaller paper holds fewer labels, not smaller ones. A label has a size below which it stops being readable across a room, so the three sizes stay the same physical dimensions on every sheet:
The panel prints the live count on each size button, so you can see what a choice costs before you commit to it. Nothing is allowed below 45 × 24 mm.
If the sheet you picked is smaller than the paper in your printer, it is tiled onto a larger carrier sheet at true size with a dashed cut line around each one. Six carriers are available: A4, Letter, Legal, A3, Tabloid and Photo 4×6. A carrier is allowed to turn sideways, which matters more than it sounds — two A5 sheets are 296 mm across and do not fit on portrait A4, but on landscape A4 they are exact.
Four plain ones, three drawn borders, and eighteen pieces of painted artwork grouped into four families.
The drawn borders are line art on purpose: strokes and hairlines only, with no filled shapes bigger than about a millimetre across. That keeps a home inkjet honest and survives being printed in greyscale, which is how a good half of these will actually be printed.
Press Print / Save as PDF and the browser's own print dialog opens. Two settings in that dialog decide whether the sheet comes out right:
To save a PDF instead of printing, choose Save as PDF as the destination in the same dialog. There is no separate download step and no file is generated on a server, because there is no server involved.
Anything on the preview can be clicked and edited directly before you print, including text the generator produced for you.
No, and it is worth being straight about that. This prints onto ordinary paper and marks a dashed cut line around each label, to be cut apart with scissors or a guillotine. It does not align to the peel-off grid of Avery, Herma or any other pre-cut adhesive sheet, and there is no template picker for those products.
That trade is deliberate. Aligning to a peel-off sheet means committing to one manufacturer's grid and one paper size; cutting your own means any of the eight sizes above, any of the 25 styles, and no special stationery to buy. If you want the labels to stick, print on plain paper and use tape, a glue stick, or a sheet of full-page adhesive paper cut to size.
It is free, with no signup, no account and no watermark, and there is no paid tier of it to upgrade to.
It collects nothing. The whole tool is one page that runs in your browser: the words you type are never sent anywhere, nothing is stored between visits, and there is no analytics script and no tag manager on the page. Once it has loaded you can disconnect from the internet and it will still print. This is stated in the privacy policy as well, under "The label maker collects nothing".
It is made by the people behind My Orderly Home, a photo-rich home inventory app — but you do not need the app, or an account for it, to use anything on this page.
Each of these opens the tool with the right mode and style already chosen.
Printing stays free and signup-free. Leave your address and we'll email you when My Orderly Home reaches the app stores — and when new seasonal label styles go up here.