Brother Artspira 17+

Brother, you sure bold for charging 1299 a month for some of the most elementary, basic useless, pre-set or available embroidery patterns… honestly, I might pay 399 a month for what it has to offer, and if it wasn’t for the freehand lettering design and layout (that is a challenge to fit on a 4”x4” space), I would have no use for this. The preset options on my embroidery machine are better than what Artspira has to offer. It has the potential to be great, but whoever is in charge of choosing the designs that you have to pick from, for lack of better words, it’s an outdated and a very lame selection. i’ve never used one design from the Artspira app. I will be looking for something better. In the three months, I’ve had this app, nothing has been updated, there are no new fonts or really anything to choose from, I don’t really know what I’m paying for. Tighten up brother! That’s a steep price to pay for what it’s supposed to be used for.

Edit: due to the fact that brother responded with news that they will update and keep adding new options, I appreciate that so the reviews get better

Hi, Michelle. We appreciate your valuable feedback. Artspira will continue to expand with new features, enhancements, patterns and more. Please continue checking back to see what's new! And thank you for being a Brother customer.

Love the free embroidery designs, editing on my iPhone, and transferring via Bluetooth. However, getting the p-900 to access my router was an exercise in patience (futility). After a week of calling (literally a week) and repeating the same identical and ineffective steps 50 times (literally 50 times), and constantly being told by the operator (I certainly wouldn’t call the people who initially answered the phone “technical support”) that someone would return my call, but didn’t, I got a very knowledge, helpful, and very knowledgeable, computer savvy tech support technician. Within 5 minutes we had the machine connected to my router (internet). We had to manually configure it on the machine. Now I’m very happy with the app and the machine. I was prepared to return the machine for a refund that day because repeating the stupid steps over and over with operator after operator was insanity. A week of that….!!! Seriously Brother?? Stop the madness.

We apologize for the troubles you've had with getting the machine connected to your router and glad the tech was able to help you. Hope you enjoy using Artspira and your machine!

This app works very well for transferring designs to my embroidery machine. The technology works perfectly. What is badly lacking is the actual design interface. You need to know that it is extremely rudimental. It’s missing many features you would expect to see in a basic design editor. One is that there is no way to copy and paste or duplicate an element in your design. If you add an image and want more than one you will have to go look for it in the catalog again instead of easily duplicating what is already on your screen. Another shocking omission is that there is no way to draw a straight line in the drawing feature. There are many shapes to choose from but no straight line.

I signed up for the paid subscription to unlock the additional features but will not be continuing with it unless some improvements are made.

Hi, we appreciate your valuable feedback. Artspira will continue to expand with new features, enhancements, patterns and more. Please continue checking back to see what's new!