Stitchy — cross-stitch charts

Stitchy turns any picture into a cross-stitch pattern and walks you from the first stitch to the finished piece. There is nothing to learn: pick a photo, get a pattern — and a couple of minutes later you can make the first stitch. Inside there is only what stitching actually needs: a clear, pleasant interface with no complicated settings and no clutter. It fits seasoned stitchers and complete beginners alike. Everything happens right on your device — phone or tablet: the pattern is built and stitched offline, an account is optional, and there are no ads. A PHOTO BECOMES A PATTERN • A camera shot or a picture from the gallery • Cropping: free or by ratio, rotation and mirroring • Finished size in centimetres or in stitches, proportions kept • Aida count from 8 to 20 — the app suggests how many strands to use • From 2 to 120 colours: you decide where the balance between likeness and the number of skeins is • Smoothness: a slider removes the hard steps between shades, with in-between threads picked from the same palette • Blends: two threads of different shades in one needle — even softer transitions, and not a single extra skein • One tap drops the plain background around the edges — only the subject gets stitched • Single stitches can be dropped, so you never rethread the needle for one cell TRUE-TO-LIFE COLOUR MATCHING • Real manufacturer palettes: DMC, Gamma, Anchor and Madeira • Thread colour is matched the way the eye sees it, not by the numbers in the pixels • The finished pattern comes with its table: symbol, colour, number, name and cells STITCHING MODE • A symbol chart with smooth zooming and panning • A tap marks a stitch, progress is saved automatically • Brush mode: run a finger across the chart and the stitches of the current colour are marked along the way • A tap on a cell of another colour switches to that colour — no need to look for it in the palette • Search a thread by number or name, sort the palette by stitch count or by colour code • Pick a thread and the chart flies to the nearest unstitched cell of that colour • A centre mark like on printed charts, and a mini-map of the whole piece in any corner of the screen • The screen stays awake while stitching mode is open • On a tablet the chart and the palette sit side by side PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE • Overall percentage and the number of stitches placed • Progress for every colour separately • Start date, time spent stitching and the total number of days THREAD LIST • How many skeins of each colour the piece needs — fabric count, strands and a margin for securing the thread taken in • "Bought" marks and a "Hide bought" switch • Total thread length and the total number of skeins, with the calculation spelled out YOUR WORKS • A gallery of your works • Stats: finished works, stitches placed, time spent stitching • Finished a piece? Share it straight from the app: four picture styles, from a mounted view to a card with the numbers • Settings: Russian or English, centimetres or stitches, default floss manufacturer • Signing in with e-mail is optional: your works sync across your own devices and come back after a phone change, and progress stitched on a phone and a tablet is merged • An FAQ right inside the app, a support e-mail one tap away and a Telegram community PRIVACY BY DEFAULT The photo is processed on your device and never leaves it — only the finished pattern stays in the work. Without an account all data stays on the device; only anonymised statistics of how the app is used are collected, with no photos and no patterns. Data and account are deleted right in the settings. Stitchy is made by a stitcher for stitchers — so that cross-stitch stays easy and enjoyable.