Free Certificate Maker
1824 templates - 1560 landscape, 394 portrait - across 22 categories. Logo, signatures, QR code, batch from Excel
100% free. Runs entirely in your browser - your files and data never leave your device and nothing is uploaded to any server.
Category
Certificate text
Tip: any field can use {name}{course}{hours}{grade}{rank}{id} - filled per person in batch mode.
badge Course, hours, grade & ID
workspace_premium Logo, seal & signatures
Images stay in your browser - they are never uploaded.
qr_code_2 QR code
Put {id} or {name} in the link and every certificate in a batch gets its own QR code.
translate Urdu / Arabic / Hindi (bilingual)
Any field can be typed in Urdu, Arabic or Hindi too - Urdu and Arabic are set right-to-left and every script gets a Noto font automatically.
tune Placement, name style & sizes
groups Batch: many certificates at once
save Save, backup & reuse
cloud_off Your certificate is saved only in this browser - it is not on our server. Download a JSON backup to keep it or move it to another device.
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Templates - 70 designs in Birthday / Milestone
About this tool
A birthday certificate, worded and laid out before you start. The heading is set to "Happy Birthday" and the citation to "celebrating another wonderful year, with warm wishes for health, happiness and success", across seventy landscape designs (fifty premium ones for this type plus twenty classic frames) and a set of premium portrait designs, which you can switch between without retyping anything. Add your logo, a seal, drawn or typed signatures and a QR code, or fill a whole class from an Excel sheet. A birthday certificate is the one type here that can be light-hearted. A funny, specific citation - "for surviving 30 years of terrible puns" - is exactly the point. Built for families, friends, offices and classrooms, for when someone celebrates a birthday or a personal milestone. It is normally signed by friends and family - there is no official signatory, which is half the fun, and once printed it tends to end up handed over with a card or gift, and kept as a playful memento. Type the name, pick a design and a colourway, and download a print-ready file - or paste a whole list of names and generate every certificate in one pass. Nothing is uploaded. Names, dates and signatures stay on your own device, which matters when you are working from a list of students or staff.
How to use this tool
- Pick one of the birthday designsSeventy landscape designs (fifty premium plus twenty classic) and premium portrait layouts - each in five colourways, in A4 or US Letter.
- Fill in the wordingRecipient, citation, date, and up to two signatures - normally friends and family - there is no official signatory, which is half the fun.
- Download or batch itExport one certificate, or paste a list of names and get one file per recipient in a ZIP.
Key features
- Wording already written for when someone celebrates a birthday or a personal milestone.
- Free, no signup, no watermark, and nothing is uploaded.
- Batch mode - paste a list of names and generate all of them at once.
- Thirty designs made for birthday certificates - ten of them premium layouts with foil badges and the occasion's own emblem - not one generic frame recoloured.
- Your logo and two signature lines, positioned properly on the page.
- Five colourways per design, plus a custom colour if none of them fit.
Common uses
- Keeping recipient names off third-party servers where that matters.
- Families, friends, offices and classrooms issuing certificates at the end of a programme.
- Replacing a word-processor template that never quite lines up when printed.
- Making something that will be handed over with a card or gift, and kept as a playful memento.
- Producing a full set for a cohort in one afternoon rather than one at a time.
Tips for better results
- Print on 160gsm or heavier. Certificate designs look thin on ordinary copier paper, and the difference is obvious in the hand.
- Export at the largest size offered if the certificate is going to be framed.
- Two signature lines read as more formal than one. If only friends and family - there is no official signatory is signing, leave the second blank rather than deleting it.
- Remember where this ends up: handed over with a card or gift, and kept as a playful memento. That is the audience to design for, not the person handing it over.
Mistakes to avoid
- Making it look like an official award. Casual colours and warm wording suit the occasion far better than a formal frame.
- Choosing a dark colourway and then printing it - it drains ink and reads worse than a light design with a strong border.
- Spelling the recipient name from memory instead of copying it from an official list.
- Dating the certificate the day you made it rather than the day the thing happened.
Frequently asked questions
Pick one of the seventy landscape or premium portrait designs on this page, type the name and the wording, then download. It is already worded for this type, so most people change only the name and the date.
A heading - "Happy Birthday" - then a presenting line, the recipient name, a citation saying what it is for, the date, and one or two signatures. All of that is pre-filled here and editable.
Usually friends and family - there is no official signatory, which is half the fun. There is room for two signature lines with a name and title under each, and you can upload a signature image or leave the line blank to sign by hand.
No. The certificate is drawn and exported entirely in your browser, so names never leave your device. That matters for student and employee records.
Yes. Paste your list of names into batch mode and it produces one certificate per name, downloadable as a ZIP. The design and wording stay identical across the set.
Landscape at a standard certificate ratio, which prints correctly on both A4 and US Letter. Export the high-resolution file if it is going to be framed.
Most often it is handed over with a card or gift, and kept as a playful memento. Worth knowing before you design it, because that is who ends up reading it.
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