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Last updated Jul 5, 2026

Every template in Popcorn Editor is a ready-made design sized for a real print or digital format, so the fastest way to start is rarely a blank canvas. This guide shows you how to find the right one using the category nav, search and sort — and how to read what the cards are telling you.

The Browse templates page

The Browse templates page is a gallery of every template, reachable from the site navigation and the landing page. Its heading reads Browse templates, with the subtitle "Find a template across every category." Everything you need sits on this one page: a category nav, a search box, a sort control, and the grid of templates itself.

Templates appear as a responsive grid of cards. Each card shows a preview image, the template title, and a short subtitle — usually its format or a one-line description. Hover a card and a Use template prompt slides up over the preview; if a template ships with several preview images, a small count badge appears in the top-right corner.

Just above the grid, a running total tells you how many templates match your current view — for example, 24 templates. That count updates live as you filter and search, so it doubles as quick feedback that a filter is working.

Category & subcategory nav

Along the top of the gallery is a row of pill buttons. The first, All, shows every template; after it comes every top-level category.

Click a category and a panel drops open beneath the row listing that category's subcategories. The first pill in that panel is All — it keeps every template in the category visible — followed by each subcategory. Selecting a subcategory narrows the grid to just that format set.

Only one category's panel is open at a time. To close it, click any category again, click outside the panel, or press Esc.

Tip: filtered views are shareable. A URL like /templates?category=<slug>&subcategory=<slug> opens the gallery with that category and subcategory already selected — handy for pointing a colleague or customer straight at the right set.

The Search templates… box filters as you type. It matches on a template's title and its tags, so a search for "label" surfaces both anything named "label" and templates tagged for labels even if the word isn't in the title.

Search stacks on top of the active category filter — pick a category first, then search within it, or search across everything from All. If nothing matches, the grid is replaced by No templates match your search. Clear the box or widen the category to bring results back.

Sort

The sort dropdown next to search offers two orders:

Option What it does
Name Alphabetical by title. This is the default.
Format size Largest format area first, so big formats like posters float to the top.

A card can also tell you two things about access and placement:

  • Premium — a lock badge marks templates reserved for subscribers. You can still open the preview, but opening the design requires a subscription. See Premium templates for exactly what the lock and Upgrade to use do.
  • Featured — editorially surfaced templates appear in the Featured section on the home page. Featured is purely about placement and doesn't change who can open a template. The Template categories guide covers how the taxonomy and featured curation fit together.

Open a template

Found a good match? Click any card to open its preview, where you can look at a larger image, read the details, and load it into the editor as your own editable copy. That's the subject of the next guide — Using a template.

Once a template is on the canvas, Premium templates explains anything that stayed locked along the way.