ThreadHeads
Made-to-order custom garments you buy per piece
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MRCH
AI design plus a live store your fans buy from
The jobs
Print the garment you designed. Upload art or use a template, preview it, and buy the finished piece for yourself, your team, or your event. Bulk runs go through a quote with mockup sign-off.
Design, price, and sell in one app. Generate on a blank, see production next to price, publish a live store your fans check out from. No cartons to pre-buy. No quoting back-and-forth.
The loop
Generate in-app, or upload a file you already have. You do not need a finished design to begin.
Preview on a real garment. If it only works as a square crop, it is not ready to sell.
Production sits next to the sale price before the shop goes live.
Publish a store your fans buy from. Printing starts after someone checks out.
ThreadHeads is a custom print studio with its own retail line. You pick a blank, drop in a photo or your own artwork, preview it in their builder, and they print the finished garment and ship it to you. The builder handles background removal, text, and effects, and most custom orders ship within a few business days. There are no minimums in the online builder, and bulk discounts apply automatically from 5 units up.
For bigger jobs there is a managed path: send a brief, get a quote plus a mockup to sign off, then they print and ship. That path starts at 10 units and suits team kits, event tees, and brand runs, with white-label add-ons like relabelling so your own customers never see their branding. If what you need is a box of finished shirts in hand, that is a real strength.
What ThreadHeads does not appear to offer is a storefront: no creator program, reseller dashboard, or fan checkout was found on their public pages. You are the buyer there, paying per garment. Confirm current prices and tiers on their site.
MRCH is an AI merch maker for creators who want to sell merch online without pre-buying it. You generate artwork in the app or upload your own, preview it on real garments, set a sale price, see production cost and margin, and publish a live store. There are no deposits or order minimums. Print-on-demand fulfillment starts after a fan buys.
The product is phone-first (iOS and Android) with a matching web app. Sketch merch profit before you publish, or read how it works for the full path. Creators and streamers should also see merch for creators and the streamer store guide.
A product-fit table, not a ranking. We do not list prices or ratings here — those change. Confirm details on each product’s site.
| Feature | ThreadHeads | MRCH |
|---|---|---|
| AI design in-app | Templates and builder tools | Yes — generate in the app |
| Upload your own artwork | Yes | Yes |
| Live store fans buy from | No — you buy finished garments | Yes — your shop |
| Hold inventory | No — made to order | No — print after order |
| Order minimums | None in the online builder | None — quantity one |
| Bulk and team runs | Yes — quote runs from 10 units | No — prints per order |
| Profit visible before publish | You pay per garment — check their site | Yes — in the publish flow |
| Mobile-first merch studio | Phone and desktop builder | Yes |
Before you publish
You need finished garments in hand: a team kit, event tees, gifts, or a brand run with quote pricing and mockup sign-off. Their bulk path and white-label add-ons exist for exactly that job. Check their site for current prices and tiers.
You are a creator who wants a link fans can buy from. The path is: generate or place art, preview it, set the price, publish. That is the sell merch online flow MRCH is designed around, with no inventory and no minimums.
Neither product “wins.” They optimize for different buyers. If your bottleneck is getting quality custom garments printed and delivered, ThreadHeads is built for that. If your bottleneck is getting from an idea to a live product fans can buy on your phone, MRCH is built for that.
ThreadHeads is a made-to-order custom printer: you design in their builder and buy the finished garment. MRCH is an AI merch studio with a live store: you generate or upload artwork, set a price next to production cost, and fans buy from your link.
For the selling job, yes. No creator storefront or fan checkout was found on ThreadHeads public pages; you order finished garments there. MRCH publishes a live store your audience can check out from, with print-on-demand after each order.
ThreadHeads states its online builder has no minimums, with bulk discounts applying automatically from 5 units up. MRCH has no minimums either: a single fan order is a real order, printed after checkout. Check their site for current discount tiers.
ThreadHeads sells finished custom garments to you, including white-label add-ons for brands that resell themselves. But no storefront product was found on their public pages. If you want one link fans can buy from, that is the MRCH side.
Yes. You set a sale price and see production cost and margin in the publish flow. With ThreadHeads you pay per garment, so confirm their current pricing on their site.
ThreadHeads runs quote-based bulk from 10 units with mockup sign-off, which suits one-run team kits and event tees. MRCH prints per fan order instead, so it suits ongoing creator sales rather than a single bulk run.
ThreadHeads offers photo-tee templates or start-from-blank with your own upload. MRCH goes one step earlier: generate artwork in the app with AI, or upload a file you already have, then preview it on real garments.
ThreadHeads is a trademark of its owner. MRCH is not affiliated with ThreadHeads.
Generate artwork, see the margin, and open a live store. Free to install — iOS, Android, and web.
