Make a certificate PDF

Make a certificate PDF online for free. Pick one of five designer-made certificates, type the learner's name, the course, and the date, and download an A4 PDF with your logo and colours on it.

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A portrait certificate of completion with a dark green engraved band, gold foil title, and the learner's name centred on cream paper.
Portrait course certificatecompletion-certificate.pdf

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Free certificate generator: make a certificate PDF with your own logo

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A certificate PDF, logo and all, made right in your browser. This one's Rosa's, and you're about to make yours.

Say you run a weekend bread course. Rosa's last loaf is cooling on the rack, and she's earned this. Let's make hers, from scratch.

Under Choose a design, there are five: three portrait, two landscape, and a designer made every one. Rosa's getting the portrait course certificate.

Now make it yours. Click Your brand and type your website, and Find my brand puts your logo and colours on all five designs at once. You don't even sign in.

Next, fill in the details: your school as the issuer, then Rosa, her course, and the date. Watch the certificate. It changes as you type.

Click Download your PDF, and there's Rosa's: a free A4 PDF, ready to print or send her tonight.

And the rest of the class? Save the design on thirds.ai, add one row per learner in a CSV file, and out comes a certificate for every name. The whole class, in one go.

Rosa's got hers. Your learners are next. Make theirs at thirds.ai!

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Five certificate designs, from a simple course certificate to one with a seal and a signature

Pick the design that fits the occasion. The portrait course certificate puts the learner's name in large type under the course title. The landscape workshop certificate adds a gold seal, a certificate number, and a line for the signer's name and role. The attendance design records the hours and the place, and the achievement design shows the score. A designer made each one, so it looks like a proper certificate without any design work from you.

  • A portrait course certificate with a cream page and a large learner name
    Portrait course certificate. The portrait page, with your name and the date at the foot.
  • A landscape workshop certificate with a navy corner and a gold seal
    Landscape workshop certificate. A gold seal, a certificate number, and a line for the signer's name and role.
The thirds.ai editor with learner, course, and issuer boxes beside a course certificate for Alexandra Morgan
In the editor. Your saved certificate in the editor, with a box for the learner, the course, and the issuer.

How it works

How to make a certificate PDF

Pick one of five certificate designs, type the learner's name, the course, and the date, and download the certificate as an A4 PDF, in portrait or landscape. Click Your brand, type your website address, and click Find my brand, and your logo and colours go on the certificate before you download, with no sign-in. Got a whole class? Save the design on thirds.ai, add each learner as a row in a CSV file, and you get one certificate PDF for each name.

  1. Step 1

    Pick a design

    Under Choose a design, click one of the five certificates: three portrait pages and two landscape. To see it in your own colours, click Your brand, type your website address, and click Find my brand.

  2. Step 2

    Type the details

    Type your school or team as the issuer, then the learner's name, the course, and the date. The workshop design also takes a certificate number and the signer's name and role. The attendance design asks for the participant, the event, the hours, and the place, and the achievement design adds the score.

  3. Step 3

    Download the PDF

    Click Download your PDF, and the A4 PDF is yours to print or send to the learner. You don't need an account.

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Want your own look, or want the file made for you?

A free tool does one job on one file. thirds.ai puts your brand on a designer-made look in one step, and then your AI assistant or a spreadsheet can make the files for you.

The finished files list with six images from three designs: sale stickers, launch posts, and video thumbnails
  1. Pick a designer-made template and make it yours

    Choose a template from the gallery, or have AI build one from a sentence or a picture you upload. Your logo, colours, and fonts go on in one step.

    Set up your brand
  2. Get the file from the AI you already use

    Tell it what you need in plain words, and the finished PDF or picture lands in the chat, in your design and ready to send.

    Connect your AI
  3. Make one file for every row of a spreadsheet

    Got a list? Upload a spreadsheet, and each row comes back as its own finished file in your design, all of them in one ZIP.

    Make a batch

Questions about this tool

Is the PDF free?

Yes. Without an account, you get the finished PDF free, up to 5 a day. Signed in, a PDF uses one of your 50 free credits. Opening the page never spends a credit.

Can I put my logo on the certificate?

Yes. Click Your brand, type your website address, and click Find my brand. Your logo and colours land on the certificate right there, with no account. Save the design to use your own fonts too.

How do I make certificates for a whole class?

Save the design, then open Batches and upload your class list as a CSV file. You get one certificate PDF for each row, and you download them all in one ZIP file. Each certificate uses one credit, and the Free plan takes up to 10 names in each batch.

What should a certificate of completion say?

Who issued it, the learner's full name, the course or event, and the date. A formal one adds a certificate number and a signature with the signer's role, so someone can check it later. Every design here has a place for the first four, and the workshop design adds the number and the signature line.

Can ChatGPT or Claude make my certificates?

Yes. Save the design and connect your assistant to thirds.ai. Then give it the names and the course, and each certificate PDF comes back in your design with your logo on it. Connect ChatGPT or Claude.

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