Pick a photo
A camera shot or a picture from the gallery. Crop it freely or to a ratio, rotate it or flip it.
How it works
Three steps to the first stitch
Set the pattern up
Size in centimetres or stitches, Aida count from 8 to 20, from 2 to 120 colours and the manufacturer's palette. Smoothness softens the transitions, and blends — two shades in one needle — make them softer still. One tap drops the background around the edges.
Stitch it
Mark stitches with a tap, watch the progress of every colour and buy thread from a ready list of skeins.
Screenshots
A look inside
Works on phones and tablets — iPhone, iPad and Android.
Features
What the app does
Everything cross-stitch needs — without complicated settings and spare parts.
Nothing to learn
No complicated settings and no tutorials: pick a photo, get a pattern — and a couple of minutes later you can make the first stitch.
Photo becomes a pattern
Cropping, size in centimetres or stitches, Aida count from 8 to 20, from 2 to 120 colours. One tap drops the background at the edges.
Real floss palettes
DMC, Gamma, Anchor and Madeira — actual manufacturer catalogues. Matching uses CIEDE2000 — the way the eye tells colours apart.
Soft transitions
A smoothness slider takes the hard steps out of the edges between shades: in-between threads come from the same palette.
Stitching mode
Mark a stitch with a tap, the current colour is highlighted, a mini-map shows where you are. The screen stays awake while you stitch.
Progress you can see
Overall completion, per-colour progress and the pure time spent stitching.
Thread list
How many skeins of each colour to buy — taking canvas count and thread strands into account. The working is shown right beside it.
Your works
A gallery and the stats behind it: finished works, stitches made, time spent stitching. A finished piece can be shared.
Your data stays yours
Photos are processed in the phone's memory and never stored. An account is optional: signing in by e-mail turns on syncing.
Dark theme
A calmer look for evening stitching. A switch in the settings turns it on, and thread and pattern colours stay the same as in the light theme.
Palettes
Real floss catalogues, not “similar colours”
Matching uses the perceptual CIEDE2000 formula — the way the eye tells colours apart, not raw RGB distance. In-between threads for soft transitions come from the same palette.
454DMC shades
598Gamma articles
441Anchor shades
366Madeira shades
Thread palette
Gamma · 5 of 10 colours43218Светлый горчичный409
b3248Светлый горчичный363
A3205Светлый коричневый355
a3180Серо-бежевый307
K3206Красно-коричневый293
Questions and answers
How the app works — from the first photo to a finished piece. 78 questions answered in detail: pattern parameters, stitching mode, the thread estimate, syncing and privacy.
Telegram community
App news, stitching tips and pattern breakdowns. Ask when something will not come out right, and show your work. The group is Russian-speaking; for an answer of your own write to stitchy@alexforge.org.
Stitchy is made by a stitcher for stitchers — so that cross-stitch stays easy and enjoyable.
Free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. App news and stitching tips — in the Telegram group.