OctoPrint was created by Gina Häußge in 2012,[2] who initially developed the software to support her first 3D printer.

[3] Between August 2014 and April 2016, Spanish smartphone manufacturer BQ financially supported OctoPrint development by employing Gina Häußge full time to work on it.

OctoPrint monitors the status of the print job, as well as the printer itself, including the temperature of the print head (hot end) and the temperature of the bed, if the bed on the printer is heated.

[17] It has also been used by Thomas Sanladerer in a PrintrBot as a self-contained and fully mobile printer build.

A distribution called OctoPi based on the Raspbian OS for Raspberry Pi, provides a pre-configured version of OctoPrint along with an mjpg-streamer support for webcams.