Professional needlepoint design software
The studio built for professional needlepoint designers — superior tools, real thread palettes, and smart repeats that do the tedious work, so your hours go to the art instead of the grid.
Runs in your browser · installs on your PC or Mac · design on iPad · 7-day free trial
Why designers switch
Most charting software was built for hobbyists and never grew up. Needlepoint Studio was built for the working designer — the precision, speed, and output of a professional studio, with none of the busywork slowing you down.
Layers, motif libraries, one-click repeats, and photo-to-stitch handle the tedium — so the hours go into designing, not re-charting the same border by hand.
Every stitch lands exactly where you mean it. Non-destructive move and true undo let you experiment freely and never lose your place.
Build palettes from actual brands and numbers — the chart your customer receives is one they can source and stitch, down to the skein.
Switching costs you nothing. Open your existing MacStitch (.chart), Open Cross Stitch (.oxs), and Stitchly files right here — plus photos — so your entire back catalog comes with you on day one.
The toolkit
Everything you need to chart a monogram, a bargello repeat, a pet portrait, or a full canvas — and hand off a file that's ready to paint, print, or stitch.
Build your chart in stacked layers, like paint. Rearrange, hide, and refine any element — a border, a motif, the background — without disturbing the rest.
Draw, erase, lines, shapes, fill, and text — even curved lettering — all snapping cleanly to the grid, so your first pass looks like a finished chart.
Save motifs to a library and tile any element into an all-over pattern with full spacing control — a whole canvas from a single stitch.
Import a photo and turn it into accurate thread coverage automatically, or trace over a reference by hand with full control.
Export a file your painters and printers can work straight from — add a blank margin, stamp on your color palette, and drop in your signature, all in a single click.
Switch instantly between full-color, printable symbols, both, or a realistic painted-canvas preview — then export a clean PDF chart with a complete thread key, ready to sell or stitch.
Work in real thread brands and numbers, or dial in an exact HEX/RGB color and let the studio snap it to the closest real thread — precision for when the spec matters.
Export a PDF or JPEG at the chart's real dimensions — lay the printout under your canvas and paint every line onto the exact mesh. Oversized canvases tile across pages you tape together.
Paint mode
The feature hand-painted-canvas designers ask for by name. Turn any finished chart into a painting companion: tap two points to read the exact stitch count across and down, pan smoothly as you work, and save counts as you go — so every painted line lands on the right mesh intersection.
Works where you do
One design, always in sync — however you like to work. Start in your browser, install it to your desktop, or design by hand on iPad.
Web & Windows PC
Open it in any browser and start in seconds, or install it straight to your Windows PC, Mac, or Chromebook, where it runs like a native app right from your desktop — online or off.
Open the web appWindows · Chromebook · any browser · works offline
Mac & iPad
Get Needlepoint Studio on macOS and iPad from the App Store — draw by hand with the Apple Pencil and automatic palm rejection, and keep every design in sync.
Download on the App StoremacOS · iPadOS · Apple Pencil
Simple pricing
Start with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Redeeming the 50% code? On Mac & iPad · On the web — enter STITCH50 at checkout.
Your ideas
Found a bug, want a feature, or just have a thought? Send it straight to the studio — it comes right to us.
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Ready when you are
It runs right in your browser — no install, no setup. Your first canvas is one click away, and the 7-day trial is on us.