This is the biggest BalloonBuilder update yet! Here’s everything new this month.
🎬 SceneBuilder — The Ultimate Mockup Tool for Balloon Decorators
The most anticipated feature is here. SceneBuilder lets you combine your exported balloon columns, arches, and walls into a single 3D scene — the ultimate mockup tool for balloon decorators. Present photorealistic proposals to your clients without setting up a single balloon! It comes with powerful backdrop tools:
- Sequin Wall Panels — Shimmering sequin backdrops with mirror, shiny, or matte finishes and adjustable tilt
- Backdrop Panels & Arches — Flat panels, rounded arches, and layered multi-panel backdrops in 6 shapes, with optional ripple texture and image/text overlay
- Fabric Drapes — Realistic procedural curtains: choose from Simple Backdrop, Side Drapes, Swag, or Full Setup presets with adjustable width, color, opacity, and fold density
Watch it in action:
All of this on top of full 3D staging with move/rotate/scale, recoloring, grouping, lighting (HDRI, sun, spotlights), camera presets with depth of field, and high-res image export.
🏛️ BalloonBuilder Update: Columns & Arches — 8 New Patterns + More Colors
8 New Color Patterns
We’ve added 8 new pattern designs to the Columns & Arches app, bringing the total to over 20 unique patterns:
Up to 12 Colors
Color patterns now support up to 12 colors (previously 7), giving you much more creative freedom for complex multi-color designs with ready-made patterns. Of course, you can color balloons also manually and create a completely unique pattern.
Save Your Size Patterns
You can now save up to 20 personal size patterns to the cloud. Size patterns store your balloon sizes per layer, so you can quickly reapply a size configuration to any new design.
🧱 Walls — Organic Mode & Decorators
The Walls app got a complete Organic Balloon Wall Mode — freeform layouts with physics-based balloon packing for a natural, professional look.
Add garland decorators (curved garlands along the wall surface), exploding stars, and big accent balloons — all with click-to-place positioning and individual recoloring.
We also added full undo/redo (20 steps), and SVG, WebP & GLB export with extended compatibility and smaller image sizes for exports, where needed.
📝 Quote Builder & 🎨 PaletteBuilder — Now Live!
Two brand new FREE tools:
Quote Builder — Create professional balloon event proposals with a 5-tab workflow: business/client details, product list with even built-in helium calculator, pricing with 33-country tax/VAT, margin analysis, and branded PDF export. Available in 6 languages with 24 currencies. Fully integrates to BalloonBuilder apps to allow direct export of designs from Columns & Arches + Walls apps — images and balloon counts are directly exported to save time.
PaletteBuilder — Build color palettes from scratch or pick colors from a reference image, preview them on 3D balloons, and export as a PDF. Choose best alternatives from different brands and compare balloon colors side by side.
⚡ Stability & Performance
Under the hood, this BalloonBuilder update brings significant improvements across all apps: the Columns block-paint feature is now even 15× faster (so no lag anymore!), 3D rendering uses Three.js instanced rendering for snappy performance even with thousands of balloons, and all apps now use on-demand GPU rendering (zero GPU usage when idle). We also added loading screens, fixed some minor export issues from mobile, and improved save/load reliability.
Ready to try this BalloonBuilder update? Start designing today — free plan available!