Flag Maker: Design Your Own Flags Online
Flag Creator is a free flag maker that runs in your browser on desktop, tablet, and phone, with no sign-up needed. Start from a real flag or a blank canvas, add stripes, stars, emblems and text, and download your design in HD. Worldbuilders, gamers, teachers, and vexillology fans use it to design flags for countries, factions, clubs, and fictional worlds.
symbols
country flags
US state flags
historical flags
How to make a flag in three steps
Pick a starting point
Open a country, state, or historical flag, let the random generator surprise you, or start with a blank canvas.
Make it yours
Change colors, add symbols and stars, choose the shape and proportions, and write text in straight, curved or ring form.
Download or share
Download it as an HD PNG with a transparent background, JPG or PDF, with no account needed. Or print it, or share it straight from your phone.
Start from 197 countries, 50 US states, and 160 historical flags
Every country in the world and every US state, plus 160 flags of former states and empires, from the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Prussia and Austria-Hungary to Yugoslavia, the Soviet republics and eight historical flags of the United States.
You also get international organisations such as the UN, NATO, the African Union and ASEAN, regions such as Scotland, Wales, Quebec and Kurdistan, and pride flags. Open any of them as your base, or add one on top of a design you have already started.
Design tools made for flags
Generic graphics apps make you draw every star by hand. Flag Creator generates them for you, and every part stays editable.
Star and symbol generators
Five configurators build the elements you would otherwise draw by hand. Set the values and every part stays editable. Crosses and polygons have generators too.
Stars
3 to 20 points. Adjust every point, color, and proportion.
Star fields
Rings, rows and grids of stars, like on the US or EU flag.
Symbol fields
Arrange any symbol in rings, rows, grids, or curved fields.
Suns
Set the number, length, and shape of the rays.
Crescent and star
Adjust the star and the thickness of the moon.
Pattern Maker
Build stripes, bars, crosses and bordures in seconds, with any number of bands and line styles.
Stripes
Horizontal bands, as many as you need.
Bars
Vertical bands, as many as you need.
Crosses
Crosses that span the whole flag.
Bordures
A border around the whole field.
Any shape, any ratio
Rectangular flags in any proportion, plus pennants, swallowtails, multi-tailed banners, circles, and heraldic shields. Everything is clipped to the shape automatically.
800+ symbols
Heraldic animals, crosses, religious and political symbols, and 195 country silhouettes. Many new symbols come straight from user requests on our Vote for Features board.
14 color families
Pick a color family such as Vintage, Sci-Fi or Militaristic, and every template and symbol you add takes on its palette. With Pro, you can save your own color families.
Curved and ring text
Add mottos and names in straight lines, along an arc, or all the way around an emblem.
Random flag generator
Out of ideas? Generate a random flag and keep editing whatever sparks something.
Precise editing
Smart guides, a grid, alignment tools, groups and locking. Works with a mouse or with touch on phones and tablets.
Export, print, and share
Download your flag as PNG with a transparent background, as JPG or as PDF, at up to ultra resolution for print. Add a waving flag overlay for a realistic look, print directly from the browser, or share your design to WhatsApp, Instagram, AirDrop and more.
- PNG
- Transparent background
- JPG
- Up to 4× resolution
- Share
Put your flags on a map
Open the world map, redraw borders, or invent your own countries, and fill each region with a flag. It’s perfect for alternate history, fantasy worlds, and strategy-game scenarios.
- World map and map templates
- Draw and color your own countries
- Apply any flag template to a region
- Stretch, move and scale flags inside borders
- With Pro, use your own Flag Creator designs
For worldbuilders, gamers, schools, and clubs
Worldbuilders & writers
Flags for kingdoms, empires and alternate-history nations. Need a name? Try the nation name generator.
Gamers
Flags for factions and alliances in strategy games, roleplay servers, and tabletop campaigns.
Teachers & students
A free tool for school flag projects. It runs in the browser, so there’s nothing to install.
Clubs, teams & micronations
Design a flag for your community and export it in print quality.
Get inspired by flags from other designers
Browse thousands of flags made by other users. Like and follow your favourite designers. With Pro, you can clone shared designs and use them as your template.
What’s free, and what Pro adds
Free
$0, with ads
- The full editor on desktop, tablet, and phone
- All country, state, and historical templates
- Star, sun, crescent, cross, and polygon generators
- 190+ symbols and 195 country silhouettes
- Pattern Maker, flag shapes, and color families
- HD export as PNG, JPG, and PDF, with no account needed
- Your current design is kept in your browser
Pro
from $5.99/month or $99 once
- All 800+ symbols, 100+ patterns and every waving overlay
- Use thousands of gallery designs as templates, on top of the 450+ built-in ones
- Upload your own emblems and import SVG flags
- Save custom color families and generated elements
- Designs saved in the cloud, in folders, on all your devices
- Export whole collections as one ZIP
- Use your own flags in Map Maker and save maps
- No ads. Commercial license with Advanced and Lifetime
Frequently asked questions
Is Flag Creator free?
Yes. The editor, all templates, the symbol generators and HD export are free. The free version shows ads. Pro removes them and adds the full symbol library, uploads of your own images, cloud saves in folders and collection export.
Do I need an account?
No. Open the editor, design your flag and download it as a PNG without signing up. The design you are working on is kept in your browser. An account adds cloud saves, the gallery and Pro features.
Which file formats can I download?
PNG (including a transparent background), JPG and PDF, at up to four times the base resolution. On desktop you can also print directly.
Does Flag Creator work on phones and tablets?
Yes. The editor supports touch, pinch-zoom and two-finger panning, and you can share designs straight from your phone.
Can I use my flag commercially?
Commercial use is included with the Advanced and Lifetime Pro plans. See our license page for details.
Can I make a flag that isn't rectangular?
Yes. Choose any proportion, or a pennant, swallowtail, multi-tailed banner, circle, diamond or heraldic shield, and adjust tails, taper and cut depth.
Can I edit an existing flag?
Open any country, state, historical or organisation flag as a template and change whatever you like. Pro users can also import SVG flags and turn them into editable designs.
Where are my designs saved?
On the free plan, only the design you are currently working on is kept in your browser. With Pro, your designs are saved in the cloud, organised in folders, and available on all your devices.
Can I put my flags on a map?
Yes, with Map Maker: apply any template flag to regions or draw your own countries. Pro users can use their own Flag Creator designs and save their maps.