What is Gridfinity? The plain-words guide

Open your junk drawer. Now imagine every screw, cable, and battery in its own little bin. Every bin snapped to a grid. Nothing sliding around. That is Gridfinity.

The idea is simple

Gridfinity has two parts. A flat baseplate covered in 42 millimeter squares. And bins that snap onto those squares. A bin can be one square wide or ten. Tall or short. Plain or split into slots.

Because every bin follows the same rules, everything fits together. Forever. You can rearrange your drawer in ten seconds.

Where it came from

An inventor named Zack Freedman shared Gridfinity for free in 2022. He made it open, so anyone can design bins for it. Makers have designed thousands since. Bins for screws. Bins for makeup. Bins for hot sauce packets. If it fits in a drawer, someone made a bin for it.

How does Gridfinity work?

Gridfinity works with two parts. A baseplate carries a grid of 42 millimeter squares and sits flat in your drawer. Bins drop onto those squares, and a small lip keeps them from sliding when the drawer moves.

Heights step in 7 millimeter units, so stacked bins stay level. Every number in the system lives in our dimensions cheat sheet.

You do not need a printer

Most Gridfinity fans print their own bins. But you do not have to. We print baseplates and bins to order, in the color you pick, and ship them to your door.

Start on our Gridfinity page. Or if you already have a bin design you love, upload it and we print that instead.

How to start

Measure your drawer in millimeters. Divide by 42. That is your grid size. Pick a baseplate that fits, add a few bins, and stop living the junk drawer life. Or type your drawer size into the Gridfinity generator and let it plan the whole thing.