A free certificate maker that turns a few fields into a polished, print-ready award. Pick one of five templates, type the recipient’s name and what they achieved, add a date and signatures, and download the result as a high-resolution PNG or a print-sized PDF. It’s built for teachers handing out completion certificates, course providers issuing certificates of achievement, event organisers thanking volunteers, sports clubs awarding participants, and anyone who needs a tidy certificate without opening a design app.
Everything happens in your browser. There is no account, no watermark and no upload — the recipient’s name, your logo and the signatures never touch a server. Your draft is remembered locally, so you can close the tab and finish the batch later.
How it works
The certificate is drawn on an HTML canvas in real time. As you change any field, the preview redraws so what you see is exactly what exports. Each template is a small design system: it sets the heading and body fonts, a colour palette, a border treatment and corner decorations. The Classic and Elegant templates use serif type with ornamental corners; Modern and Corporate are clean and sans-serif; Playful adds warm colours and rounded blocks for kids’ awards and clubs.
The layout flows from top to bottom: optional logo, organisation name, the big heading, an accent rule, the “presented to” line, the recipient’s name in a feature script font with an underline, the connecting phrase, the course or achievement, and an optional italic description. Along the bottom the tool places a dated signature band — one to three signers spread evenly beside the date — and an optional embossed-style seal with your own short caption. You can flip between landscape and portrait, toggle the border and seal, and override the accent colour to match a brand. When you export, PNG renders at twice the on-screen resolution for crisp printing, and PDF fits the same artwork onto an A4 page in the matching orientation.
Example
Say a coding bootcamp is graduating a cohort. Choose the Modern template, set the
heading to Certificate of Completion, the organisation to Gera Academy, the recipient
to the graduate’s name, the connecting line to for successfully completing, and the
course to Full-Stack Web Development. Add two signers — a Course Director and a
Lead Instructor — set today’s date, switch the accent to the school’s brand blue, and
upload the logo. The preview shows a finished certificate; one click downloads a
print-ready PDF. To produce the whole cohort, change only the name field between
exports — every other setting stays put because the draft is saved locally.
Because the recipient name underline auto-sizes to the text and long course titles wrap
to two lines, the layout stays balanced whether the name is Mo Li or
Alexandria Constantinescu-Whitfield. Nothing is uploaded, so even sensitive internal
awards stay entirely on your machine.