About
This was built by somebody who sells cross-stitch patterns.
Not by a software company that noticed a market. It started as a private tool, because the programs that already existed got in the way of the work, and it is only a product now because other people asked for it.
Why it exists
The tools were the slow part.
Making a pattern worth selling is mostly judgement: which colours, how much detail, where to let the fabric show. None of that is the part that used to take the time.
What was slow
The tools were all over the place, and the ones that were there were clunky.
What that cost
A pattern used to take a few days. Now it takes a couple of hours.
Your files come with you
It opens and saves OXS, the file other cross-stitch programs share, so nothing you made somewhere else is stuck there.
Why a browser
Nothing to install and nothing to buy before you find out whether you like it. Open the editor and it is running.
Who builds it
Two people.
One of us sells cross-stitch patterns and decides what this should do. The other builds it.
The one who stitches
Owns what the product is for, how it should feel and whether it is good enough. Has no programming background, which is the reason nothing here is explained in jargon.
The one who builds it
Owns whether it is fast, whether it stays up and whether it costs more to run than it earns.
The founder still makes and sells patterns with it. That is why the tool keeps changing: every awkward step gets hit in real work before anyone else meets it.
What it will not do
Four promises that are easy to make and hard to keep.
These are decisions already taken, not intentions. Each one is a thing we could do to make more money and have decided not to.
No ads here and no pixels
There is no advertising on this site and no pixels. We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and does not know who you are. We do advertise elsewhere, through third parties. If you arrive from one of those ads, our server tells the third party that ran it when you arrive, sign up or start a paid plan. It sends the ad's click code, the IP address and browser description of the request, the address of the page for your arrival, and a hashed email address and account id when you sign up or pay. The free patterns page asks for an email address, and that is a box you choose to fill in rather than something taken while you read.
Making a whole pattern stays free
Everything you need to make a pattern by hand, with no account needed to start. The paid plans add generation, cloud patterns, tidying and finishing tools, and bigger patterns.
Nothing printed across your chart
Free exports carry a line at the foot of the page. The chart itself is clean on every plan, because a chart with a watermark over it is a chart you cannot stitch from.
No made-up proof
No invented reviews, no star ratings, no user counts, no fake logos. When there are real customers saying real things, that goes here. Until then you get the product.
The best way to judge this is to use it.
It is free and it needs no account. Drop a picture on it and see what comes back.