One connected workflow: lay out the cabinets, choose your materials, and nest every part onto sheets. A built-in AI Designer helps at every step.
Made for cabinet shops and serious DIYers who want drawings and a cut list without buying a desktop CAD program. Nothing to install: it runs in your browser, on a Mac or a PC. Built around European frameless on the 32mm system and Gola handleless fronts.
Bank paid months while you use it free. The code 3FREE is worth three months of service once paid plans start, and a bug report that leads to a fix earns another month, up to six. Both are in the open beta terms.The code 3FREE is worth three months. Type it at checkout and your first three months of service are free. What the code covers.
The calculators, the Materials Library and every guide open right away, with no account.
Free during the open beta, which runs until December 31, 2026. No card, and nothing to switch on. What it costs later.The full Designer is open now, and it comes with a CabDesign plan.
Three things are live and free while the beta runs. Everything else on this page is open too, and most of it needs no account at all.
All three are free while the open beta runs, until December 31, 2026. No card, and nothing to choose.StackDesign sells on its own. The Designer and the Cut List Optimizer come with a CabDesign plan.
Plan a Systainer wall sized to what you own, and take it all the way to a cut list.
The full kitchen and cabinet designer: draw a room, size the cabinets, and take the whole job to a cut list.
Design a whole kitchen of custom cabinets and take it to a cut list.
Nest every part onto your sheets and offcuts, with grain matching, saw kerf and edgebanding handled.
Nest every part onto your sheets and offcuts, with grain matching, saw kerf and edgebanding already taken out.
What is inside
Three of them carry a job from a blank wall to a stack of parts. The rest solve one thing each, and any of them opens on its own.
Lay out base, wall and tall cabinets against a real wall, then look at the same room three ways: a floor plan, an elevation, and a 3D view. One geometry engine feeds all three, so moving a cabinet in one view moves it in the other two. The cut list builds itself while you size things, and the AI Designer sits alongside, reading your saved design before it answers.
Open the DesignerSet up your sheet goods, edgebanding and hardwoods once, with species, thickness, grain direction and what each one gets used for. Every other module then sizes its parts to what you actually stock, and a roll of edgebanding reads back in the unit you bought it in.
Open the Materials LibraryNest every part onto full sheets and onto the offcuts you already have on the rack. Tell it whether to burn through remnants first or chase the best yield. The blade or bit width comes off between parts and the edgebanding comes off every edgebanded edge, so the number on the diagram is the number you cut.
Open the Cut List OptimizerEight more.
Plan a wall of Systainer cabinets sized to the Systainers you actually own. Stack them in each column and the height is derived for you, then level the run so every top lines up, and send the parts straight to the Cut List Optimizer without retyping a thing.
Enter the door and the overlay you want, and get the exact hinge and mounting plate to order plus where the holes go. It keeps the middle hinges clear of any fixed shelf you tell it about.
Handleless fronts, worked out properly. Set the cabinet type, size and finish, and get a front elevation with the C, L and top profile lengths you need to order.
Slides, hinges, pulls, knobs and legs with the maker, the part number and the price. Slides carry the clearance, the drop and the minimum cabinet depth, which are the numbers a drawer box gets sized from, and they are priced per pair the way you buy them.
Price a material the way your supplier actually sells it: by the sheet, by the stick, by the linear foot, by the board foot, or edgebanding by the roll. It runs the same engine as the optimizer, so the numbers agree.
Photos or sketches of doors and drawer fronts, turned into a parts list for the optimizer. It writes the prompt that reads your images, and the images stay on your own machine.
Your shop name and contact for quotes, your pricing defaults, and the sizes every new cabinet starts from, including the countertop margin around a sink cutout.
One form that captures the client, the room measurements, the appliances and the reference photos before you quote. Your private notes stay out of anything the client sees unless you say otherwise.
None of this is a setting you go hunting for. It is how the modules behave by default, because a shop that has to remember to turn it on will forget once and eat a sheet.
Group the doors that sit in a row and they are nested together on a single board, in the order they hang on the cabinet, so the grain runs straight across the run instead of jumping at every gap. Set the columns and the stacking order, or drag them until they match.
The width your blade or bit removes comes off between the parts, and the edgebanding thickness comes off every edgebanded edge, before a single size is printed.
Millimetres, centimetres, decimal inches, inches down to a sixteenth, or feet and inches. Switch at any time and every number on the page follows, because one formatter drives all of them.
Every usable leftover goes on a rack that belongs to your account, not to one project. Ask for remnants first and the optimizer works through the rack before it opens a new full sheet, on whichever machine you happen to be sitting at.
The floor plan, the elevation and the 3D view are not three drawings kept in step by hand. They are three readings of one geometry engine, so a cabinet you nudge in the plan has already moved in the elevation and in 3D by the time you switch to them.
Ask it a question and it checks the project you have saved before it answers, so the numbers it quotes are yours. What it remembers about your preferences sits in a panel you can read and clear.
How it works
Each step hands its work to the next, so you never re-type a dimension.
Lay out your cabinets with a live elevation, and watch the cut list build itself as you size them.
Free during open beta Included with a CabDesign plan Open the Designer →Set your sheets, edgebanding and hardwoods once, and every tool sizes its parts to exactly what you stock.
Open the Materials Library →Nest every part onto your sheets and offcuts, with grain matching, saw kerf and edgebanding already taken out.
Open the Cut List Optimizer →Good to know: what you can open today is listed above. The Cut List Optimizer, StackDesign, Shop Details, and the Hardware Library keep your work in the cloud, so they ask you to sign in first. The Materials Library works right in your browser with no account.
Every other module lives in the Modules button at the top of this page: the hinge and Gola calculators, the cost calculator, the photo-to-parts tool and the hardware library. The build and install guides are here.
On the board
A tall unit, a run of bases, a grain matched pair of wall cabinets, and the sizes marked as you go. This is the elevation view of the Designer, which is the same room as its floor plan and its 3D.
Every front you see here already knows what it costs in board area, so the cut list is filling in beside you while you are still moving cabinets around.
Three screenshots from one project: the wall as it is drawn, the same wall in 3D, and the cut list it produced.
Built in, early preview
CabDesign is growing into a platform where you can plan a whole kitchen just by describing it. The first piece is live now: a built-in AI Designer that knows every module in the studio and, once you sign in, reads your saved design.
Ask it what a part should measure, how to set something up, or what to do next, in plain English.
Meet the AI DesignerFree during open betaIncluded with a CabDesign plan
Pricing
Everything is free right now, with no card to enter. We publish the plans below before anyone is charged, so the number is never a surprise later.
For any shop, any bench.
No card needed. Paid plans start after the beta, and we give notice first.
One person designing their own kitchen.
The full Designer, after the beta. Cancel any time.
Included free while the open beta runs, and the Start free button covers it.
Choose DIYA shop designing for customers.
The full Designer, after the beta. Cancel any time.
Included free while the open beta runs, and the Start free button covers it.
Choose ProPro, at a month, is coming soon. Everything it lists is in DIY today. See the full pricing page for what each plan includes.
The beta ends on December 31, 2026, later if we need more time. On that day every account moves onto a plan with the first month free. If you never save a card, nothing is charged and your account moves to our free plan: the Designer stays open, and cut lists come with a paid plan. The pricing page has the detail and the open beta terms cover how the beta works.
Enterprise, at $229 a month, is built for a shop that cuts on a CNC machine: send a job straight to the machine, so the parts you designed become the file the router cuts and nobody redraws them in between, with room for a team on one account rather than one person at one workstation.
Enterprise is still being built, so there is nothing to buy there yet and no date on it.
Most calculators, the Materials Library and all the guides need no account at all (see the FAQ below).
If toolbox stacks are the only thing you came for, you do not need all of this. StackDesign is one of the CabDesign modules and it sells on its own at its own site: $19 a month for unlimited projects, or $49 once for a single project.
Questions
Mostly no. The Materials Library works with no account: open it on this device right away, and sign in later to save your work to the cloud. Four tools keep everything on your account, so they ask you to sign in first: the Cut List Optimizer, StackDesign, Shop Details, and the Hardware Library. The AI Designer also needs a sign-in, so it can read your saved design. Sign-in is free, with Google or email, in about 30 seconds, and while the open beta runs a new account gets the whole product free. Everything else, the calculators, the Gola and hinge tools, the photo tool and all the guides, works right away with no account. The full kitchen Designer needs a sign-in too, and during our open beta it is free for everyone who has one.The full kitchen Designer needs a sign-in too, and it comes with a CabDesign plan of its own.
An assistant built into the Designer page. It knows every tool in CabDesign, and once you sign in it can read your saved design, so you can ask it questions in plain English: what a part should measure, how to set something up, or what to do next. It is an early preview today, on its way to planning the whole job with you.
Projects from the signed-in tools are saved to your account in the cloud: sign in on any device and your work is there. The free calculators keep their settings in your browser, on the machine you used them on. Saving costs nothing while the open beta runs; the pricing page says what it will cost once the beta ends.
Yes. The optimizer deducts the saw kerf between parts and the edgebanding thickness from each edgebanded edge, so the size on the cutting diagram is the size you actually cut.
When a row of doors should read as one continuous piece of timber, you group them and the optimizer keeps them on one board, in the order they sit on the cabinet face. You set the columns and stacking order, or drag them to match.
It is built around European frameless (32mm) and Gola handleless cabinets, the way the studio builds. The cut list and optimizer work for any panel parts you give them.
Still stuck, or found something broken? Email support@cabdesign.app and a person answers.
Free to start, and it runs in your browser.