About thimblely
The operating system for fashion businesses.
What is thimblely?
Fashion is one of the most creative industries on earth, run on some of the least creative tools. Measurements in a notebook. Orders in a chat thread. Sales on one app, clients on another, money tracked in your head.
thimblely brings it together. It’s two things in one: a marketplace where clients discover your work, and a full set of business tools to run everything behind it — orders, measurements, payments, inventory, and your team. Get found and get organised, without switching between five apps to do it.
A storefront and a business, in one app, built from the ground up for the people who make fashion.
Whether you’re a one-person tailoring studio, an atelier, a boutique, or a made-to-measure label, thimblely is how you run and grow the business, all from your phone.
Our mission
To give every fashion maker the tools to run their business professionally, see their progress, and grow with confidence.
Our vision
A world where any tailor, designer or shoemaker can build a credible, thriving business and unlock new opportunities, based on the track record they build.
Who it’s for
Tailors & seamstresses
Save every client’s measurements, track each order from first fitting to final pickup, and always know who’s paid.
Fashion designers
Showcase your collections, get discovered by new clients, and run your production pipeline from sketch to delivery.
Boutique owners
Track inventory, process orders, coordinate your team, and keep your payments and records in one place.
Creative entrepreneurs
Jewelry, accessories, bags, custom clothing — whatever you make, thimblely runs the way your craft does, and scales as you grow.
What makes thimblely different
Marketplace and management, one app
Selling apps help you get found. Business tools help you get organised. Nobody does both, so fashion creators end up stitching together half a dozen apps that were never built for them. thimblely is one place to get discovered and run the work.
Built for fashion, not bent to fit it
Measurement templates, fabric tracking, fitting schedules, group-order workflows — these aren’t add-ons we tacked on. They’re the core of the platform, because fashion doesn’t work like a generic business and shouldn’t be forced to.
Built for makers everywhere
Fashion makers all over the world run on the same broken tools. thimblely is built for tailors, designers, shoemakers and bag makers globally, helping any fashion business look and operate more professionally and reach new markets, wherever they are.
Mobile-first, because you are
You don’t run your business from a desk. thimblely is built for the phone in your hand on iOS and Android, not a clunky desktop tool squeezed onto a small screen.
Everything in the platform
One platform, three jobs — get found, run the work, handle the money.
Get discovered
- Fashion marketplace & discovery
- Portfolio & business profiles
- Trend discovery feed
Run the work
- Order tracking & management
- Client relationship management
- Measurement templates
- Inventory & fabric tracking
- Smart calendar & scheduling
- Team collaboration
Handle the business
- Financial management & reports
- Multi-currency support
- AI-powered content moderation
Built for impact
By professionalizing fashion businesses worldwide, thimblely contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Decent Work & Economic Growth
We help informal tailors, designers and shoemakers formalize and grow real businesses, with proper tools for orders, invoicing and payments (target 8.3).
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
Our marketplace connects small-scale makers to customers and value chains, opening access to new markets and financial services (target 9.3).
Responsible Consumption & Production
Made-to-order means a garment is produced only when a customer commits, cutting the overproduction and waste that define fast fashion (target 12.5).
We also support SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) by expanding economic opportunity for fashion makers across emerging markets, many of them women-owned.
Ready to grow your fashion business?
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