Shipping labels are one of those small workflow problems that can waste a surprising amount of time. A label arrives as an A4 PDF, your thermal printer wants 4x6", and suddenly you're cropping, resizing, exporting, and checking margins before you can ship anything.
Croplet.app is built to remove that friction. It combines an iOS app with a web tool so you can handle shipping labels, including Vinted labels, from wherever you prefer.
The Croplet iOS app
The iOS version is the fastest way to process a single label at a time, on the go. You can import saved PDFs from Files, share them directly from other apps—like Vinted, or paste a URL and let Croplet fetch the document for you.
Once a file is loaded, Croplet detects the label and crops it into a print-ready 4x6" PDF. The app supports both automatic and manual modes, so you can let OCR do the work when the layout is standard or fine-tune the crop when a courier uses an odd or new template.
What stands out
- On-device OCR: label detection happens locally on the device.
- Privacy-first design: no account, no ads, no tracking, and no external processing server.
- Thermal-printer output: export in full quality as 4x6" PDF or PNG at 203 or 300 DPI.
- Broad carrier support: works with common label formats from carriers like Poste Italiane, BRT, DPD, InPost, Mondial Relay, Hermes, UPS, DHL, and more.
- Built for sharing: if you receive labels in apps like Vinted, Croplet fits naturally into the iOS share workflow.
That combination makes the app feel less like a generic PDF utility and more like a focused shipping tool. It does one job, but it does it in the place where shipping labels are often created and forwarded first: the phone.
The Croplet Web tool
The browser version of the tool is aimed at a different kind of pain point. If you handle multiple labels on a desktop, switching back and forth between phone, file manager, and printer settings gets old quickly. Especially if you don't have a Bluetooth thermal printer. The web tool gives you a faster way to work through batches of PDFs from a computer.
It is a good fit when you want to:
- process labels directly from your desktop browser,
- avoid moving files between devices,
- keep a more repeatable workflow for frequent shipping,
- and work through a larger number of PDFs without opening a separate app.
The Croplet Web tool shares the same core idea as the iOS app: take an A4 shipping label (either via drag and drop or by pasting a URL), crop it to 4x6", and export a PDF ready for thermal printing. The difference is the workflow. On desktop, the browser becomes the main workspace, which is exactly where many high-volume sellers already keep their order files and downloads.
One product, two workflows
Croplet works well because it does not force every user into the same interaction model.
- If you're on mobile, the iOS app keeps the workflow short: import, detect, crop, export.
- If you're on desktop, the web tool gives you a familiar browser-based path for handling a lot of labels quickly.
That split matters. The real problem is not just cropping a PDF. It is cropping it in the context where the label already exists, with as little friction as possible.
Pricing and Pro features
The Croplet iOS app is free to download. Croplet Pro unlocks automatic OCR-based label detection, with monthly, yearly, and lifetime options for different usage patterns, based on your shipping habits and frequency.
Open source and roadmap
The Croplet Web tool is and will always be free and open source for everybody, with privacy in mind, and no login required. You can check it out on GitHub.
The public roadmap currently points to features like multiple PDF selection and a bulk processing workflow, which makes sense for the desktop use case where volume matters more than one-off convenience.
Try it
If you want to see it in practice, start here: