✦  Free & Open Source

Beautiful challenge coins.
Designed in minutes.

A coin designer built for laser engraving — curated rings, coin-true arc text, AI photo import, and files that drop into your laser software at the exact size. Watch one come together:

▶  Try it free ⬇  Download for Windows
No account needed on desktop Open source (MIT) Runs in your browser Nothing uploaded — AI runs locally New in v1.7: cards, tags, tokens & stamps
🔒 app.coinforgestudio.com
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Real app, real time — a full coin in under 30 seconds. Every step you just watched is one click.

Or start from something finished

27 complete templates, 90+ curated symbols, 13 ring presets — pick one, make it yours.

Everything a coin needs

Purpose-built tools instead of wrestling a general-purpose vector editor.

Ring designer

One-click curated frames — star circles, rope, beaded, reeded mint edge, chains, laurel wreaths, knockout-star military bands. Every part stays editable.

Coin-true arc text

Top and bottom text that behaves like real coinage — upright both sides, baseline-true radii, justify-across-arc, bare-metal knockouts on marked bands.

Smart photo import

Paste a screenshot or drop a photo. AI background removal runs locally — nothing is uploaded — then your subject lands centered and sized.

Templates & symbols

27 complete layouts — coins first, plus cards, tokens and stamps — and 90+ curated vector symbols with hundreds of ornament glyphs.

Multi-pass export

Group elements into engraving passes, export one aligned file per pass or a color-mapped SVG your laser software auto-splits. PNG at exact DPI.

Cut outline generator

One click traces a smooth vector silhouette around your whole design — even when the art has no continuous edge — ready for the cutting layer.

The coin engine, on more blanks

New in v1.7 — the same tools and exact-size exports, beyond the round. Coins stay the star; these came along free.

Engraved metal business card with a QR code

Cards & tags

Credit-card blanks, business cards, dog tags and key fobs — with corner radii, contact quick-adds, a rectangular frame element and align-to-blank tools.

Shield crest and hexagon maker token

Shaped tokens

Hexagons, octagons, ovals, shields, hearts and dog bones. Pick the shape, set the size — the safe-margin guide and exports follow the outline.

Round rubber stamp die

Rubber stamps

Design it readable — the export flips and inverts automatically for a perfect raised die. Round dies take arc text and ring presets, just like a coin.

Brass coin engraved with a scannable QR code

Offline QR codes

A real QR element — URL, phone or vCard — generated entirely on your machine and scannable straight off the metal. Yes, it works on coins too.

Three steps to a coin

Design

Start from a template or a blank. Add rings, text, symbols — or paste a photo and let Smart Import do the cutout.

Export

PNG at 1016 DPI (0.025 mm/px), dithered or grayscale, sized exactly to your blank. SVG for vector workflows.

Engrave

Import into LightBurn, WeCreat MakeIt, or any laser software — don't rescale — and burn. The built-in guide covers settings.

Simple, honest pricing

Nearly everything is free forever — even the AI. Pro is for running orders.

Free

$0
forever · no card, ever
  • The complete designer — every tool, no watermarks
  • Unlimited local projects + full-quality PNG & SVG export
  • AI assistant (MCP) — design coins with Claude & friends
  • 1 cloud project that follows your account
  • Desktop app — offline, no account needed
Start designing
Early bird — first year $39

Pro

$59 $39 first year
then $59/year · limited-time launch price
  • Everything in Free
  • 10 cloud slots (up from 1) — your coins on every device
  • Production toolkit — batch personalization from a spreadsheet, serial-number runs, laser-bed sheet nesting · in development, included with Pro as it ships
  • Supports the forge directly ☕
Get Pro — $39

Secure payment by Stripe · cancel anytime · 14-day money-back guarantee · lapsing never deletes your work.

Free forever. Fueled by coffee.

Hi — I'm Hratch. I build CoinForge nights and weekends because I make coins too, and the tool I wanted didn't exist. It's open source, has no ads and no tracking, and the designer itself is free — and stays that way.

If it saved you an evening of fighting a vector editor, a coffee keeps the forge hot. And if you're saving your coffee money — a GitHub star helps other makers find it, and that's worth just as much.

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