Tap a spool.It tells you everything.
Brand, material, colour, grams left — straight from the chip, read by the phone already in your pocket. No account, no cloud, no guessing.
- Works with your printer
- Your brands already ship it
- Tap to check it's genuine
- One tag, a second life
Free. No subscription. Works offline. Nothing locked in.
How it works
Three steps. Zero typing.
- 1
A chip lives in the spool
Your favourite brands already ship it in the box. No chip? Stick one on — any tag, bought anywhere.
- 2
Tap it
With your phone — or drop the spool in the Pod on your desk.
- 3
Everything just knows
Your printer loads the right settings — through the app. Your inventory updates itself. You just print.
Never print with the wrong settings again.
And never wonder what's left on a spool. Every spool you own — weighed, sorted, remembered — so your printer loads the right numbers by itself.
Tiger Studio — the free desktop app.
Works everywhere
Works with your printer. And any spool you own.
Six printer brands, one tap. Picked up a random spool with no tag? Add your own — any NTAG, any reader.
- Bambu Lab
- Creality
- Anycubic
- Elegoo
- FlashForge
- Snapmaker
The whole system
One tiny chip. A whole toolkit around it.
Each piece works on its own. Together, they know your spools better than you do.
The mobile app
The NFC reader already in your pocket. Tap a spool to see what it is — and push it straight into your printer's slot.
Tiger Studio
The free desktop app. Every spool, every printer, live cameras — one screen.
TigerPOD
A CD player, for spools. Drop one in, your computer reads it. Print it yourself, or grab the kit — it costs less than the parts.
TigerScale
A scale that speaks spool. Weigh one; the app knows what's left, to the gram.
TigerData · TigerData+ · TigerTag · TigerTag+
Four ways to know a spool.
Start anywhere. A spool can move up whenever you like — nothing is ever locked.
TigerData
No chip? No problem. The app tracks the spool anyway — and it can graduate to a real chip anytime.
TigerData+
Same thing, but picked from the catalogue — so it knows exactly which product it is: the real brand, the real material, the real settings. Still no chip.
TigerTag
The chip. 100% offline — everything lives on the spool itself. Any phone, any app — and every supported printer through the apps. Free, forever.
TigerTag+
The same chip, with superpowers: it proves your spool is genuine, and its info stays right — even years after it left the factory.
Proof of origin
Tap a spool. Know it's genuine.
A real tag proves where it came from. A fake can't. One tap on your phone tells you which is which.
Second life
When the spool's finished, the tag isn't.
Reuse it on another spool, or turn it into anything — a link, a contact, a home-automation trigger. Nothing wasted.
Live
It really talks to your printer.
Watch the camera, jog the axes, set the temperatures, load filament per slot — right from the app.
Tiger Studio — live printer panel.
They announced it themselves
Public posts on their own channels — not our press release.
12.03“ROSA 3D FILAMENTS has officially integrated the open TigerTag RFID protocol across 100% of our filament production.”
More than 250,000 spools already produced with TigerTag.
Read the announcement →
08.03“R3D Filament has officially begun large-scale deployment of the open TigerTag RFID protocol across its filament production in Europe.”
Open protocol. Offline signature. Cross-brand interoperability.
Read the announcement →
09.02“eSUN has officially integrated TigerTag RFID technology!”
Launching as a pilot programme in the French market, expanding across Europe.
Read the announcement →
Built on TigerTag
Others are already building on it.
Independent projects that read the open spec and shipped. No partnership, no endorsement, no certification — just an open protocol doing its job.
OpenRFID
github.com/suchmememanyskill
A community toolkit that reads many vendors' spool tags. TigerTag is one of them — the open payload made it a straightforward add.
Visit the project →Spooly Tracker
spoolytracker.com
An independent filament-inventory platform — web, mobile, Home Assistant, OrcaSlicer, self-hostable. It identifies spools with TigerTags.
Visit the project →Snapmaker U1 Extended Firmware
GPL-3.0 · 850+ ★
First printer to read TigerTag natively
An independent community firmware for the Snapmaker U1. With it, the U1 reads TigerTags on the machine itself.
Visit the project →
Building on TigerTag? Tell us — and if you want the integration verified, TigerTag Certified is there for that. Join the Discord →
Free. No subscription. Works offline. Nothing locked in.
Get Tiger Studio on your desktop, and the app on your phone.