Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Tervika's Standard tier is free and gives you full access to every feature — coordinate lookup, plate creation, 2D and 3D preview, and all export formats (DXF, PDF, and GLB). The free tier shows ads inside the editor at tervika.app/app/ and is capped at 10 saved signs. Premium raises the limit to 100 signs and removes ads.

Premium removes all ads in the editor, raises the sign capacity from 10 to 100, and supports continued development of Tervika. Every design and export feature — DXF, PDF, GLB, AI prompts, custom fonts, cloud sync — is already available on the free Standard tier; Premium is about capacity and an ad-free experience. It is billed at €3.99 per month or €29 per year (a 39% saving on the yearly plan). Billing is handled by Stripe, and you can cancel any time from the Account page.

No. The marketing pages on tervika.app — landing, about, guide, blog, FAQ, and so on — are ad-free for everyone. Ads only appear inside the editor at tervika.app/app/ for users on the free tier. Premium subscribers see no ads anywhere.

Open the app, tap New Sign, give it a name, and pick a location either by searching, by using your current GPS position, or by tapping on the map. Then add a plate for each destination you want to point to. The full walkthrough is in the Get Started and Guide pages.

Tervika is currently a web app that runs in any modern browser — desktop, tablet, or phone — at tervika.app/app/. There is no separate native iOS or Android app yet. If you sign in, your signs sync across every device you use, so you can start a design on your laptop and finish it on your phone.

Yes. From the empty signs page, tap the sparkle icon or the Browse Examples button. Pick an example sign to copy it as your own — a quick way to learn the workflow before you start from scratch. Examples count toward your sign limit just like any other sign and can be edited freely.

A plate is a single arrow on your sign that points from the sign's location to one destination. Each plate carries a destination name, a calculated true bearing, and the distance from the sign — all derived from real GPS coordinates. You can customize each plate's shape, dimensions, color, and font, either individually or through the Master Template that all plates inherit from.

Bearings are calculated as true bearings using the WGS84 spheroid, which is the same model GPS receivers use. Distances use great-circle math, so a plate pointing from London to Tokyo shows the actual flight-line distance, not a flat-map approximation. The accuracy is well within the precision needed for any physical sign.

Yes. Tervika ships with eight plate shapes, configurable colors and finishes, and a curated set of fonts chosen for legibility on directional signs. You can set these globally in the Master Template, or override them per plate. Custom font upload is on the roadmap; for now, the bundled fonts cover the most common sign-making styles.

Tervika exports DXF for CNC routers and lasers, PDF for documentation and 1:1 templates, and GLB 3D models for renders or AR. DXF and PDF are the production formats; GLB is for visualization and client preview. All three respect the dimensions, fonts, and Master Template settings exactly as shown in the preview.

Yes. The DXF export uses real-world units (millimeters or inches based on your settings), separates plate outlines from text on distinct layers, and avoids self-intersecting paths. Most CAM tools — V-Carve, Fusion 360, Lightburn, EstlCAM — import the file directly without cleanup. For the full CAM-side workflow, see the DXF preparation article.

The app interface is available in 18 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. The blog and FAQ are currently English only. Sign content — destination names and labels — is free text, so you can mix scripts and languages on a single sign.

Sign data is stored on your device by default. If you sign in, it syncs through Tervika's account service, but we do not sell personal data and only collect what is needed to operate the service. You can export or delete all your account data at any time from the Account page. Full details are in the Privacy Policy.