# dot Customizer

> Creative Embroidery App

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.drawstitch.customizer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.drawstitch.customizer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.drawstitch.customizer`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** DRAWstitch International Ltd.
- **Category:** LIFESTYLE
- **Downloads:** 17,711
- **Rating:** 3.35 / 5 (115 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.10.101
- **Last updated:** 2024-08-20
- **First published:** 2018-08-09
- **Publisher country:** CY
- **Size:** 90 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drawstitch.customizer)
- **Website:** [https://www5.janome.co.jp/wce/](https://www5.janome.co.jp/wce/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.drawstitch.com/index.php/drawings/Privacy\_Policy\_dot/](https://www.drawstitch.com/index.php/drawings/Privacy_Policy_dot/)

## Description

dot Customizer is a free creative embroidery app designed to work seamlessly with compatible embroidery machines. It enables users to create and edit embroidery designs effortlessly and send them wirelessly directly to the machine, eliminating the need for cords or USB drives.

Featuring 260 built-in embroidery designs across various categories and 13 fonts (including English and Japanese Kanji), dot Customizer offers two modes, including a beginner-friendly option. Users can combine designs with letters, add embroidery to projects, and perform editing functions like resizing, color adjustment, and stitch density modification. Embroidery simulation and fabric-trace features allow precise positioning before stitching. This app is ideal for anyone seeking easy and creative embroidery fun, from novices to experts.

## Rankings

- #455,919 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`

## Review summary

Users find the dot Customizer app essential but problematic; it enables adding custom embroidery designs and works well near wireless internet. However, it frequently crashes, is not user-friendly, and has limited design options. Importing designs, especially from Dropbox, is difficult. The app's instability disrupts embroidery sessions, and it lacks good multi-tasking support. Despite these issues, beginners appreciate its basic functions, and responsive customer support helps resolve some problems.

### Pros

- Works well when connected to wireless internet
- Allows adding custom designs into the app
- Good introduction for beginners to machine embroidery
- Customer support responsive to issues
- Basic functionality to get custom designs working with the machine

### Cons

- App frequently crashes and freezes, causing interruptions
- Difficult to use and not user-friendly, especially for those with limited tech skills
- Limited built-in design options and difficulty importing new designs
- Requires constant connection and does not minimize well, limiting phone usage during embroidery
- Integration issues with Dropbox and importing files from cloud storage

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.drawstitch.customizer)