Open .xsd, PDF, .oxs and .pat cross-stitch charts. Mark your stitches, follow one colour and pick up where you left off.
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No retyping a pattern into a blank grid. Stitch Garden reads the chart file itself — Pattern Maker, PCStitch, the open OXS format and printable PDF charts — with its squares, threads, symbols, outlines and rulers.
Vector PDF support has been tested with Pattern Maker exports. Image-only PDFs may need corrections; backstitch and fractional stitches are not recognized in those images.
Add charts from the app, or open them straight from Files, AirDrop or Mail. Several at once is fine.
Every screen answers a question a stitcher asks with a needle in one hand.
Tap a square to mark it, or press and hold to fill a whole ten-by-ten block. Undo is always one tap away.
Tap a square to isolate its thread. Everything else steps back, so a forty-colour chart reads as calmly as a one-colour one.
Track your cross-stitch progress: which evenings you stitched, and how much. A record of the work, not a streak to chase.
Before the first stitch: how much fabric, how many skeins of DMC or any other floss, and what it will cost.
On iPad the palette sits in the toolbar row, sheets open as cards, and every orientation works — on a stand beside the hoop, or flat on your lap.
Your progress and charts sync through your own private iCloud.
Soft surfaces that step back, so forty thread colours don't have to fight the interface.
Search, filter and sort by recent, name or progress.
Select the area you're stitching this evening — drag a rectangle, or trace any shape with your finger. Everything outside it fades back, so the part in hand is the only thing that stands out on a big chart.
Every stitch you mark is kept with the evening it was made, so a chart can play itself back — from the first cross to tonight's.
Stitching with the parking method? Leave each needle on the square where its thread goes next. The chart shows where every one is parked, lists them all, and lifts them all in one tap when the section is done.
Add charts from the app, or open them straight from Files, AirDrop or Mail — several at once if you like.
Zoomed in on one corner of a big chart, a small navigator shows where you are on the whole chart.
While a chart is open the screen doesn't dim or lock, Low Power Mode included — no tapping it awake between stitches.
Don't like a mark? Give that thread another one. Only that thread changes, and the correction carries to every chart in the same font.
Grid shape, weight, strength and colour, which rulers show, the marking colour — the choices you'd make with the fabric in your hands.
A progress file carries your marks, resets and parked needles from iPhone to Android and back, for one chart or a whole shelf. Open the same chart file on the new phone and the work is there.
Reset takes the fabric back to bare and keeps the evenings in your diary. Delete takes the chart and its days together.
Whole, half, quarter and petite stitches, backstitch in the ink the designer chose, French knots and beads at the chart's own size.
Stitch Garden follows your device's language, with dates, numbers and plurals written the way you'd write them.
No account to create and no Stitch Garden server to trust. The app's privacy manifest declares no data collected.
No subscription, nothing to unlock later and no cap on how many charts you keep. Every feature is in the app from the first chart.
The price will be on the App Store at launch.
An original garden sampler designed for Stitch Garden, free to stitch. Save it to Files, then tap + in the app and choose it.
Download the chart (.oxs)90 × 110 stitches · 19 DMC threads · half stitches, backstitch and French knots.
Pattern Maker .xsd files, PDF charts, .oxs files and PCStitch .pat files from versions 6 to 11. Encrypted formats such as .saga and .cstx can't be opened.
Vector PDF support has been tested with Pattern Maker exports. Stitch Garden reads the page's drawing and checks it against the printed stitch count. Image-only PDFs use on-device recognition and may need corrections; backstitch and fractional stitches are not recognized in those images. Photos and scans of paper charts are not supported.
Open it in Stitch Garden: tap the file in Files, send it by AirDrop or Mail, or tap + in the app and choose it. Pattern Maker's .xsd format is read directly, with its colours, symbols and backstitch.
Yes. PCStitch .pat files from versions 6 to 11 open in Stitch Garden on iPhone and iPad.
OXS is the open cross-stitch format that many charting programs export. Save the .oxs file to Files, then tap + in Stitch Garden and choose it.
Add a supported PDF to Stitch Garden, check the imported chart, then tap squares to mark them as stitched. Vector PDFs have been tested with Pattern Maker exports. For image-only PDFs, check the recognized colours and stitches before starting; backstitch and fractional stitches are not recognized.
The materials screen lists every thread in the chart with how many skeins it needs, from the strands and skein length you choose. Mark what's already in your stash and the rest becomes the shopping list.
The stitching diary records the time you spend and the crosses you make each day, and after a week of work it forecasts the date you'll finish.
No. There is no sign-up, no login and no Stitch Garden server. Everything is kept on your device.
Between iPhone and iPad, through your own private iCloud. On Android, through a private folder in your own Google Drive that only the app can see. Photos stay on the device they were taken on.
Yes. Share a progress file from one and open it on the other. It carries your marks, resets and parked needles for one chart or several; open the same chart file on the new device and the work is there.
No. Stitch Garden is bought once. There are no in-app purchases, no ads, no subscription and no limit on how many charts you keep, and Family Sharing is on.
Stitch Garden is designed for iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 17 or later, and Android 8 or later. Public App Store and Google Play releases are coming soon; no public release date has been announced.
Write to support@stitchgarden.app with the chart's name and a screenshot. More on the support page.
Stitch Garden for iPhone, iPad and Android. Launching soon on both stores.