How Booth Planner works
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Booth Planner lets you lay out your craft show booth to scale at home, so you know what fits and how to set up before you get there. It's free, needs no account, and works without the internet once it's open.
Getting started
Pick where to save (optional). Everything saves in this browser on its own. To also keep it in a folder on your computer, click Open folder… in the Your files box (Chrome or Edge).Look at the example. The first time, you see an example booth and example gear. Click and drag things to get a feel for it. When you're ready, click Remove the examples (or just change the example pieces to your own sizes; a changed piece becomes yours).Set up your gear once. Under Your gear , pick from + Add a common piece… (or click Blank piece ) for each table, grid, rack, display, chair or tub you take to shows, then change the sizes to match yours. Give its size in inches, where it goes (floor, on a table, or hung from the tent), and how many you own. Not sure what to measure? Open What to measure at the bottom of the page.Set up your booth. In the Booth box, give its size in feet (10' x 10' and other common sizes are one click) and mark each side as aisle, neighbor or wall.Lay it out. Click Add next to a piece of gear to put it in the booth, then drag it into place. Drag its round handle to turn it. Drag the You circle to where you'll stand.Read the Checks, then Print. The Checks box flags problems as you go. When you like it, Print gives one page with the plan and a numbered gear list to take with you.
Questions
Where are my plans saved? Is it on your website?
No. The website only sends you the page. Your gear and booths stay on your own computer, and nobody else can see them. There's no account or subscription. The note at the top right always says where they're saved:
"Saved in this browser": kept in the browser only.
"Saved to folder ...": also saved as a file named booth-plans.json in a folder you picked with Open folder .
How do I save my plans to a folder on my computer?
In the Your files box, click Open folder… and pick or make a folder, for example Documents\Booth Plans. When your browser asks to let the site edit files there, choose Edit files . From then on every change saves to booth-plans.json in that folder by itself. It works in Chrome and Edge on a computer.
After you restart the browser, a bar may ask you to click Open it before it saves there again. That's the browser checking it's still OK.
Do I need to save?
No. Every change saves on its own a moment after you make it: in this browser, and in your folder if you picked one. Save to file is for a one-time copy, for example to send to someone.
How do I back up my plans?
The easiest way: use Open folder and pick a folder that your usual backup or OneDrive already copies. Or click Save to file now and then: Chrome and Edge ask where to save it (other browsers put it in Downloads), with a name like booth-plans-2026-11-10.json. Clearing your browser's history and site data can erase what's saved in the browser only, so a folder or a saved file is your safety copy.
My plans are gone, or I'm on another computer or browser
Each browser keeps its own plans, and so does each web address. So Chrome and Edge, a different computer, or the planner opened from a file instead of this website, each start fresh with the examples. Your plans aren't lost; they're in the other place.
If you saved to a folder: click Open folder… here and pick that same folder. Your plans come right back.
If not: go back to where you made them and click Save to file . Then here, click Open file and pick that file.
Opening plans replaces what's shown here, so it asks first if you have anything of your own here.
What's the difference between gear, booths and layouts?
Gear is the things you own: you set up each piece once. A booth is a space at a show, with its size. A booth can have several layouts , so you can try different arrangements side by side (the buttons across the top). Copy this layout is handy for trying a change without losing what you had. Changing a piece of gear changes it in every booth.
How do I put a display on a table?
Set the display's "Where it goes" to Sits on a table or shelf . Click the table on the plan first, then click Add next to the display, and it lands on that table. From then on, things on a table move and turn with the table.
What do the Checks look for?
Anything outside the booth, or over the line into the aisle or a neighbor.
A display hanging off the edge of its table, or two displays overlapping on one table.
Floor pieces bumping into each other, or grid feet or a rack base landing on a table leg. Short things, feet and bases can slide under a tabletop; legs are what get in the way.
Using more of a piece than you own. Your gear shows "using 2 of 3": 2 in this layout, 3 that you own in all. If you use more than you said you own and you really own more, click I own 4 (or whatever the number is) to update it.
How much floor shoppers can step into from the aisle (the green area), room for you to stand at the You circle, and how wide your way out to the aisle is (the dotted line).
Click a problem in the list to find that piece on the plan.
How do I move things exactly?
Click a piece, then use the arrow keys: 1 inch per press, or 6 inches with Shift. R turns it 90°, and [ and ] turn it 5°. Or type the angle and position in the Selected box. Each grid square on the plan is 1 foot.
I made a mistake. Can I undo?
Yes. Click Undo at the right end of the row of buttons above the plan, or press Ctrl+Z. It goes back one change at a time.
Can I use it on my phone?
It's made for a computer screen, where you can drag pieces precisely, and saving to a folder only works on a computer. Plan at home, click Print , and take a photo of the printed page (or print to PDF) to have it on your phone at the show.
I removed the examples and want them back
Click Add the examples back in the Your files box. It adds the example booths and any missing example gear, and leaves your own things alone. Don't want the yellow note about examples? Click Keep them, hide this note on it. Remove the examples is also in the Your files box.
Do I have to measure and type in every piece?
No. Under Your gear , pick from + Add a common piece… : folding tables (4', 6', 8'), a card table, a round table, grid panels with feet or hanging, a clothing rack, shelves, a spinner rack, risers, a chair, a stool, tubs and more. Each comes in at a typical size; change the sizes to match yours. Blank piece starts from nothing.