Learn the editor by doing.

Find your way around Home: start a pattern from a photo, a PDF, a pattern file or a blank grid, and find your patterns, palettes, motifs, stash and tools.

Turn a photo into a pattern in three steps: Photo (crop, straighten, erase the background), Pattern (size, threads, colors, detail, clean up), and PDF.

Change colors without breaking your pattern: swap a thread everywhere or in a selection, merge look-alikes, show one color alone on the chart, and keep symbols in sync.

Change your whole palette in one place: apply another palette or color style, switch thread brands, adjust color feel, merge down to fewer colors, and save palettes.

Remove confetti (lonely speckle stitches) with a real-time brush, a previewed Auto pass, or one press in the Check tab. Show ConfettiScope to see hotspots at a glance.

Paint stitches with a round brush. Fast fills, partial stitches with smart Merge, symmetry, two-color texture, and keyboard-precise placement.

Select stitches so you can copy, fill, erase, expand, or hand them off to Transform.

Export your cross-stitch pattern as a multi-page PDF with cover page, thread legend, pattern grid tiles, watermark, and branding.

Find your way around Home: start a pattern from a photo, a PDF, a pattern file or a blank grid, and find your patterns, palettes, motifs, stash and tools.

Move around the pattern fast: zoom, drag, jump to fit, and get back to center instantly — on mouse, trackpad, or touch.

Control what you see on the canvas: pick a view preset, or customize symbols, grid, fabric, backstitch and rulers that count stitches or measure in centimeters or inches.

Keep parts of your pattern separate: background, text, backstitch, experiments. Hide/show, reorder, duplicate, and merge layers when you're ready — all undoable.

Show your original photo or illustration as a faint overlay while you edit. Great for tracing, checking alignment, and comparing colors.

Every keyboard shortcut in Stitchmate, grouped by where you use it: the editor tools, canvas navigation, colors, progress tracking, the import screens, and search fields.

On the desktop app your patterns are files on your computer, with an optional copy in your account. What "linked" means, what the badges say, and what happens when you change a pattern in two places.

Turn a photo into a pattern in three steps: Photo (crop, straighten, erase the background), Pattern (size, threads, colors, detail, clean up), and PDF.

Turn a chart PDF you bought into a pattern: compare the reading with your PDF, fix a thread, and start tracking it on any device.

Change colors without breaking your pattern: swap a thread everywhere or in a selection, merge look-alikes, show one color alone on the chart, and keep symbols in sync.

Change your whole palette in one place: apply another palette or color style, switch thread brands, adjust color feel, merge down to fewer colors, and save palettes.

One Color Style picker for image import and Apply a Palette: saved palettes, the threads you own, monochrome, duotone and art styles, or a gradient you build.

Pick how the symbols on your printed chart look, from clear marks to tonal shading, shapes or letters. Keep the ones you like, ban the rest, and fix look-alikes.

Paint stitches with a round brush. Fast fills, partial stitches with smart Merge, symmetry, two-color texture, and keyboard-precise placement.

Fill large areas fast. Click once to paint a connected area, fill within a selection, or clear a region. Instant results, one-step Undo.

Blend two or more thread colors across a region. Drag to set direction, pick as many palette colors as you like, and let dithering do the shading.

Draw clean geometric shapes in stitches — rectangles, circles, and more — filled or outlined. Perfect for borders, frames, labels, and geometric patterns.

Draw clean straight lines of stitches — perfect for borders, outlines, and pixel-art style edges.

Add lettering to your pattern — names, dates, labels, and short quotes — with a live preview. Choose a font, size, and style, then apply to convert it into stitches.

Select stitches so you can copy, fill, erase, expand, or hand them off to Transform.

Move, resize, rotate, or flip the stitches inside your selection — with a live preview. Press Enter to apply, Escape to cancel.

Remove confetti (lonely speckle stitches) with a real-time brush, a previewed Auto pass, or one press in the Check tab. Show ConfettiScope to see hotspots at a glance.

Add crisp outlines and detail lines on top of your stitches. Draw single lines or connected paths, edit points, and auto-outline color areas with one click.

How Brush, Fill, Shape, Text, Line, and Confetti Cleanup tools interact with the active selection. Edit only within the selected region.

Your pattern's stitching comfort score. The FLOW view shows which of its four parts holds the score back, the facts behind each one, and a fix you can press.

Export your cross-stitch pattern as a multi-page PDF with cover page, thread legend, pattern grid tiles, watermark, and branding.

Save how your PDFs look and use it on any pattern. What a preset carries, what each pattern keeps, and what neither touches, listed from the app itself.

Mark stitches as you work, highlight one color, park threads, track backstitch per segment, and see how many evenings are left. Free, syncs across devices when signed in.