Crosstela: Cross Stitch Studio

Free, with no purchases and no ads. Import your charts, track every stitch, and keep your work in your own iCloud — nothing is ever sent to us.

Crosstela is a cross stitch studio for iPhone and iPad. It is free: no purchases, no subscriptions, no ads, no account.

BRING YOUR CHARTS IN Import PDF, Pattern Maker .xsd and OXS. Crosstela reads the grid, the palette and the symbols — and when a layer cannot be read, it tells you which one and why, instead of importing something silently wrong.

TRACK WITHOUT LOSING YOUR PLACE Mark stitches with a finger or Apple Pencil. Undo anything. Park needles where you left them. Isolate one colour, so the rest of the chart recedes and only the work you are doing is lit.

WORK ON ONE PIECE AT A TIME Point at a block, an area or a whole colour and make it today's work. No clock, no deadline, no streak to keep. It ends when it is finished, or when you take it off the list.

SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE Time stitched, stitches per day, a year at a glance, and what is left thread by thread. An estimate in your own pace — which stays quiet until it has seen enough of your stitching to be honest.

EDIT, DON'T JUST VIEW A real editor: draw, fill, erase, swap a thread under stitches that stay where they are, resize the cloth, and tidy confetti.

MAKE A CHART FROM A PHOTOGRAPH Entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

THREADS YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY Real mill catalogues, by the mills' own colour numbers — and every colour value is marked as published by the mill or approximated by us, so you always know which you are looking at. A buy list in skeins, ready for the shop.

YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS Sync runs through the private database of your own iCloud account. There is no Crosstela server, no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking of any kind.

iPhone and iPad. Apple Pencil supported. Interface in English.