VectorPop.fr VS Vector-Boy.com

Vector-Boy.com's answer:

Two things. First, the vectorizing happens on your own device. The image is never uploaded to a server for processing, so unreleased logos, client artwork, tattoo motifs and your own handwriting stay with you.

Second, there is no contract. 10 EUR buys 100 credits, a credit is only spent when you actually download a file, and nothing renews. On top of that the export set is wider than most browser tracers: PDF, SVG, EPS, DXF and a cleaned up PNG, so the file goes straight into Illustrator, into a cutting plotter or into a laser.

Vector-Boy.com's answer:

Illustrator traces well, but it wants a subscription and an install. Most free online tracers send your file to their server and hand you one generic SVG back.

Vector Boy sits in between. Open a tab, drop the file in, then tune black level, contrast, brightness and edge smoothing while the original and the contour sit next to each other. Lasso away the dust, switch between pixel, fine and subpixel tracing, and export PDF, SVG, EPS, DXF or a cleaned up PNG.

Trying it costs nothing, because uploading, tracing and previewing are free. Only the download uses one credit, which is 10 cents.

Vector-Boy.com's answer:

People who make physical things and need a clean black shape to make them: screen printers, embroiderers, sign and vinyl shops, laser cutters, plotter owners, tattoo artists, stamp makers and stencil people.

Next to that, designers who get handed a logo as a bad JPG and have to rebuild it, and anyone who wants their own handwriting, a pencil sketch or an ink drawing as real paths instead of a pixel image.

Typical session: one image, two minutes, one file that a machine can actually read.

Vector-Boy.com's answer:

Fynn Kliemann, trained media designer, was preparing a new clothing collection built from his own handwriting and painted motifs. All of it lived on paper, and all of it had to become vectors.

The options were a subscription, an upload to somebody else's server, or a black box with a hundred sliders. So he built the thing he wanted: black level, contrast, brightness, a lasso, a smooth control, five export formats, done.

He mentioned it in one Instagram post, hundreds of people asked whether they could use it too, and Vector Boy was finished three days later. It is a product of O.D.E.R.S.O. GmbH in Zeven, Germany.

Vector-Boy.com's answer:

A Vite single page app hosted on Vercel.

The image work happens client side: threshold and contrast handling on a canvas, contour tracing and Bezier simplification in JavaScript in the browser, so no picture is sent to a backend for processing.

Accounts, credits and payments run through Stripe, including Stripe Tax for VAT. The use case pages are prerendered as static HTML so they load fast and stay readable for search engines.