Honest comparison: Fancy Product Designer vs Lumise

How do Fancy Product Designer and Lumise compare at a glance?

	Fancy Product Designer	Lumise
What it is	A plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce, which calls itself a “Web to Print solution & Product Configurator”; a Shopify app is sold separately	A plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce (“Product Designer for WooCommerce & WordPress”); its documentation also offers a PHP version
Where it runs	In your WordPress; the WordPress version comes with its full source	In your WordPress, as a plugin
How it is sold	A licence per website on its own site, and on CodeCanyon	Lifetime use of the version you buy with a year of updates and support, renewed yearly; or a yearly plan
Update status	CodeCanyon: maintenance-only, no new versions there, last updated 9 June 2026	Updates for a year at a time; lumise.com lists a new edition, Lumise NEO, as coming soon
Support	Not included on CodeCanyon (“radykal does not support this item”); its site links to a support centre, video guides and an FAQ	24/7 live chat, for a year at a time, and a help centre
Platforms	WooCommerce, any WordPress page, Shopify (app)	WooCommerce and WordPress, or its PHP version; Shopify not stated
Versions named	WordPress 4.9 to 7.0 and WooCommerce 7 to 10 (CodeCanyon); works with WPML	WordPress 6.9.x and WooCommerce 9.x (lumise.com)
What the customer can do	Text with custom fonts, images from a device or social media, a colour per layer, several views per product	Text effects, clipart, shapes, templates, QR codes, drawing, layer masks, cropping and filters; several sides (front, back, left, right)
Templates and clipart	Templates not stated; an Assets Library is named	Templates and clipart managed in the admin; “thousands of ready-made templates” with its Sync add-on
3D and AR	Not stated for the WordPress plugin on the pages read	Not stated
Print files	PDF, SVG, JPG or PNG; its Pro Export extension attaches a print-ready file to each order	Print-ready files at 300 DPI attached to the order; PNG or SVG downloads; crop marks and bleed guides in the editor; PDF export in its changelog
Print pricing	By layer, element type or product view	From the product’s base price, its attributes and the print method (DTG, Silk, Sublimation, Screen, Digital, Embroidery)
Products	No limit on how many	Not stated
Print-on-demand	Not stated	A Printful Integration add-on
On WordPress.org	Not listed	Not listed

Where is Fancy Product Designer stronger?

• More export formats. PDF, SVG, JPG and PNG from the order, in the sizes you choose, which suits screen printing, cutting and paper products.
• Finer pricing. A price per layer, per element type or per product view, on top of the WooCommerce price.
• Shopify as well. The same designer is sold as a Shopify app, so one tool can serve a shop on each platform.
• A long record. Its CodeCanyon item was created about 13 years ago and shows 23,480 sales, and it lists versions back to WordPress 4.9.

Where is Lumise stronger?

• Still sold with updates and support. Each purchase includes a year of updates and 24/7 live chat, renewed yearly, while Fancy Product Designer’s CodeCanyon edition gets no new versions and no support from its author there.
• More for customers without artwork. Templates, clipart, shapes and QR codes are part of the designer, with a Sync add-on for a larger template library.
• Print methods in the price. Each product can offer DTG, sublimation, screen, embroidery and other methods, each priced on its own.
• A Printful add-on. Designs can be sent to Printful for printing and shipping.

Where PrintBlob fits

PrintBlob is a third self-hosted option, for WooCommerce shops that print garments. The free plugin is on WordPress.org and in active development; customers design the front of its bundled t-shirt in every colour you sell, and each order keeps its design. PrintBlob Pro, sold yearly or once (see PrintBlob’s pricing), adds your own products on your own photos, the back and the sleeves, a 3D view, custom fonts, design templates, a clipart library of your own art, a print queue, and per printed side a transparent PNG at 300 DPI, a vector PDF and an SVG at the print area’s exact size.

PrintBlob is not the right choice if you need QR codes, a price per print method, print-on-demand, paper products such as business cards, or a Shopify store: Fancy Product Designer or Lumise does more there. The alternatives page sets all of them side by side.

Sources

Every fact about Fancy Product Designer and Lumise on this page comes from these pages. PrintBlob’s facts come from PrintBlob’s pricing and its features.

• Fancy Product Designer: what it is, its platforms, text, images from social media, colours per layer, views, export formats, pricing rules and extensions, read 20 October 2026.
• Fancy Product Designer for WooCommerce: the product types, export to PDF, SVG, JPG or PNG, the order details and Pro Export, read 20 October 2026.
• Fancy Product Designer pricing and its FAQ: one licence per website, the Shopify app, no limit on products and the full source with the WordPress version, read 20 October 2026.
• Fancy Product Designer on CodeCanyon: maintenance-only status, no support from its author, the last update on 9 June 2026, its sales and the WordPress and WooCommerce versions it lists, read 20 October 2026.
• Lumise Product Designer for WordPress and WooCommerce: how it is sold, the year of updates and support, and 24/7 live chat, read 20 October 2026.
• lumise.com: templates with the Sync add-on, print-ready files at 300 DPI, print methods, the Printful add-on, the versions it names and Lumise NEO, read 20 October 2026.
• Lumise documentation, its product base and editor menu pages: templates, clipart, shapes, QR codes, languages, the PHP version, sides, pricing by print method, PNG and SVG downloads, crop marks and bleed, read 20 October 2026.
• Lumise changelog: PDF export with bleed and crop, and an optimised DPI for PDF print files in version 2.1.2, read 21 October 2026.
• The WordPress.org plugin directory: searched for both names, neither listed, read 20 October 2026.

The facts behind these comparisons, each with its source and the day it was read, are open on GitHub in the comparison data. If one is out of date, open an issue there with the page that shows the new one.