Easel runs in your browser and works with the CNC machine you already own. Start free, and move up when your projects ask for more.
No card, no trial clock.
For the maker who just got the machine running and wants to learn the software before paying for anything.
Create a free accountUpgrade later without losing any of your work.
Or $72 a year when billed annually.
For the maker who has stopped experimenting and is carving most weekends, and keeps running into the one carve a week limit.
Start your free trialRenews automatically. Cancel any time.
Or $216 a year, or $599 for three years.
For the maker whose projects have started paying for themselves, and who needs the work to come out right the first time.
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The whole drawing and editing toolset is here. The limit is how often you can send a job to the machine.
Everything on the Free plan stays exactly as it is. These are the additions.
Raster carving, ramping plunges and center work zero all come with Pro as well. These are what Pro adds on top of them.
Every plan gets the same drawing and editing tools, Starter included. What Pro adds here is raw material: 10 million vectors and more than 300 fonts, so a job can start from something instead of an empty canvas.
Search more than 10 million vectors and drop one straight onto the canvas. Favorites and recently used designs stay within reach.
A customizable font library with more than 300 fonts, plus text effects. Bold styling is available on select fonts.
Bring in a font that is not in the library and use it like any other. Italic styling works on imported fonts as well.
Name a dimension once, reuse it everywhere, and write math against it. Change the value and the whole project rescales.
A separate text editor with bold and italic styling, alignment options, and much better handling of rotated and vertical text.
Add a cutout outline around a whole group of shapes while the shapes inside stay editable, so you can build complex parts out of simple ones.
Draw a shape by hand on the canvas, then simplify it to clean up the node count before you cut it.
More than a dozen ways to edit vectors, including node editing, shape separation, trimming line segments, and offset and linked measurement lines.
Turn an image into vectors, with cleaner results after the 2026 update, and import or export SVG and G-code.
Toolpaths are where the paid plans separate. Starter refines the carve you are already doing: raster toolpaths that follow the grain for a cleaner finish, and ramping plunges that are easier on your bits. Pro adds work you cannot do at all otherwise, the shaped bit toolpaths for V-carving, 3D carving and inlays, plus the tiling and depth controls for material that does not fit the machine.
V-shaped bits cut grooves that change depth as they change width, which is what gives lettering and line work crisp, sharp corners.
Import an STL and carve smooth contoured surfaces with a ball end mill, for relief work and shaped parts.
Generates a pocket and a matching plug using V-bit geometry so two different materials seat together with no gap.
Clear a filled shape in straight parallel passes instead of spiralling in from the middle, so the bit runs with the wood grain and leaves a cleaner surface.
Enter the material at an angle instead of straight down. Less load on the bit when it engages, and the bit lasts longer.
On a machine with an open front and back, carve material longer than the work area by tiling the job in the Y direction.
If a part did not cut all the way through, duplicate the workpiece and add depth to just those shapes instead of running the whole job again.
Add your own bits and materials and save the cut settings that work in your shop, on top of the built-in library of roughly 600 bits from five brands.
Choose climb or conventional milling to control how the bit loads into the material and how clean the edge comes out.
148 validated machines from 25 manufacturers, plus any GRBL machine you can point at it. Design and machine control live in the same browser tab.
Keep a saved profile for every machine in the shop and switch between them. Free and Starter hold one at a time.
Send the spindle to a set park position between jobs so the bed is clear when you go to swap material.
If a bit breaks or the power drops, pick the carve back up where it stopped. Works on 3D designs too.
No weekly ceiling. Free is one carve or G-code export a week, Starter is 20, Pro is unlimited.
Set X and Y zero at the center of the material instead of the front left corner, which is what round and symmetrical work needs.
Connect to a GRBL machine straight from the browser with no driver install. GRBL-ESP32 is supported and FluidNC is in beta.
Live machine position in the jog menu, the carve walkthrough and the machine inspector, so you always know where the spindle is.
Rough out with one bit and detail with another, and dial the feedrate up or down while the job is running.
Feeds and speeds other makers have already run on the same bit and material, so you are not guessing on the first pass.
Interactive apps generate whole designs for you, and the gallery lets you build on work other makers have already published.
Turn an image or a pattern into 3D wall art made from slats. Eight patterns so far, with automatic nesting.
Search a US lake by name and get a carvable shoreline with stepped depth pockets from real bathymetry data.
Build three letter, name and crest monograms that are already shaped for a CNC to cut.
Keep build photos, notes and settings attached to the project while you work, then publish the whole story.
Cover images, achievement badges and social links on your profile, plus follows so you can keep up with makers you like.
Talk through a project in context with the people you are making it with.
Label your projects so you can still find things once you have a few dozen of them.
Use a drill bit to plunge holes directly instead of milling them out with a circular toolpath.
Play the toolpath before you cut it, scrub the timeline, and catch a mistake while it is still free to fix.
Easel gets updates most months. Here is a sample of what landed this year, and which plan each one needs.
Add a cutout outline to a whole group of shapes and keep the inner shapes editable.
Lattice, Terrain, Eddy and Echo joined the Wavy Wall Art app.
Build 3D wall art from slats arranged against a backing, with pattern shuffling and automatic nesting.
Generate a pocket and a matching plug so two materials fit together cleanly. One of the most requested features from the community.
Save build photos, notes and settings as you go, then publish the finished project to the gallery.
Search tens of thousands of US lakes and carve a stepped depth map built from real bathymetry.
Cover images, achievement badges, social links and visibility controls on your profile.
Named, reusable dimensions with math expressions that rescale a whole project at once.
A separate text editor with bold and italic styling, alignment options, and better rotated and vertical text.
Feeds and speeds that other makers have already proven on the material in front of you.
Connect to your machine straight from the browser, on any GRBL machine.
Draw shapes by hand directly on the canvas, then clean them up with simplify.
Free gives you the full design toolset and one carve a week. Starter lifts that to 20 and adds raster carving. Pro removes the limit entirely and opens up V-carving, 3D carving and the shop tools makers reach for once projects turn into orders.
Create a free Easel account today, or start a free trial to unlock every Starter and Pro feature.
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