Photo conversion • Fixed: a converted photo could get "locked," so color swap, the eraser and fill couldn't change it. This happened if you switched tools right after converting a photo with layers turned off. Designs already affected are repaired automatically when you open them. • New: File > Import > Image… lets you convert a photo or add a reference image from the File menu. • Adding a reference image now switches to the Move tool, so you can drag and resize it right away. • Menu items that need an open design are now greyed out on the home screen. PDF chart import • Color keys printed on the same page as the chart are now read, so one-page charts come in with their colors instead of needing every symbol assigned by hand. • Fixed: a key printed under the chart could make the imported pattern too tall, with stray stitches along the bottom. • Thread search now finds codes typed the way chart keys print them, such as "D931" or "DMC 310".

New Features • Buy Canvas: order printed canvases of your designs from stitchalot.com. Tap Buy Canvas while a design is open, or the cart button on any design in your library, choose 13 or 18 mesh and extras, then check out on the website. • Saved palettes: save a set of threads and add it to any design. Search by palette name or thread number, and share palettes as files. • Backstitch tool: draw backstitch lines from hole to hole. They print on PDF charts and count in thread estimates. • Copy, cut and paste stitches, within a design or into another one. • Move designs into folders by dragging: press and hold a design until it lifts, then drag it onto a folder. • PDF charts: a bigger preview on the cover page, and a more compact Color and Symbol Legend showing each thread's symbol, stitch count and thread estimate. • The palette panel shows the thread estimate for the selected color. • File > Export > StitchALot shares a copy of a design as a .stitchalot file. • PDF chart import finds the chart in more PDFs, reads keys that name their colors, and keeps white stitches. Fixes • The file picker sometimes didn't open after the app sat unused for a while. • Save As now renames the design, not just the file. • The eraser and pencil size box follows your finger or Apple Pencil. • The eraser removes backstitch and reaches stitches past the canvas edge. • Pressing Esc on a picked-up selection puts the stitches back instead of deleting them. • Imported threads no longer merge with a different thread that has the same number, or reuse a chart symbol that's taken. • Stitches no longer lose their thread when two palette colors are the same shade.

Import chart PDFs as editable patterns — File ▸ Import ▸ PDF Chart… turns a chart PDF you own into a real pattern on the canvas. It reads the chart's own color key (thread codes, names, stated size, fabric count), its symbols, and half stitches, handles multi-page charts that tile across sections, and shows a review step before anything is imported. Thread estimates — every palette color shows strands, yardage (exact and with a waste allowance), and skeins to buy, so the PDF color legend doubles as a kit pull sheet. Import OXS and StitchALot files — one file or several at once, alongside the existing Stitchly import. Eyedropper tool (I) — tap a stitch or your tracing image to sample its nearest DMC thread; on Mac a "Sample from ▸ Screen" option grabs a color from anywhere on screen. Fine-tune tracing images — position and resize between squares in quarter-stitch steps, lock proportions, or type an exact size and position. Bigger pencil/eraser (1×1–10×10) with no skipped squares on fast strokes, arrow-key nudging for selections, bolder zoom-scaled grid lines, and clearer locked-layer indicators.

Sharper, smarter export - crisp vector chart PDFs, a new large-print layout, and a True Size mode that lines up exactly with your canvas holes at 100%. Now with SVG export too. iCloud sync - your pattern library now syncs across iPad and Mac. Turn it on or off, combine libraries from two places, and browse your files right in Finder or the Files app. Import from Stitchly - open a .stitchly file, or a whole folder at once. Colors are matched to DMC and symbols assigned automatically. More shapes - new Heart, Star, and Triangle (and the Clover is back), a Shapes button in the toolbar, and "save your canvas as a shape." Palette upgrades - delete a whole color's stitches in one click, plus 35 new DMC colors. iPad - use your own installed fonts, real Google-font previews, and improved stability on iPadOS 26. Little things - double-click a file to open it, press 0 to reset zoom, and a new About window. Thanks for stitching with us! Questions or ideas? Visit stitchalot.com/forum.

Bug fixes and stability improvements for iPadOS 26. From 1.5.21 Layers — smarter and simpler Each pattern now remembers its own layers setting. Patterns with multiple layers open with layers on; single-layer patterns open ready to draw. Toggle layers on or off with a single switch — turning it off merges everything down with a confirmation first. Stitch Tracker mode now sticks If you close a pattern while in Stitch Tracker, it reopens in Stitch Tracker. If you switch back to editing first, it reopens in edit mode. Previously it could get stuck in Stitch Tracker forever. Subfolder save fixed Creating a new canvas while browsing inside a folder now saves it there — not back at the top level of your library. Save As respects your current location too. Black screen on launch — fixed Fixed a crash that collapsed the app to a blank screen on startup on iPad and iPhone. Also fixed a separate black screen issue affecting iPadOS 26. Cleaner home screen The welcome banner is gone for a more spacious file browser. Create New Pattern has moved to the menu bar so it's always in the same place.

Layers — smarter and simpler Each pattern now remembers its own layers setting. Patterns with multiple layers open with layers on; single-layer patterns open ready to draw. Toggle layers on or off with a single switch — turning it off merges everything down with a confirmation first. Stitch Tracker mode now sticks If you close a pattern while in Stitch Tracker, it reopens in Stitch Tracker. If you switch back to editing first, it reopens in edit mode. Previously it could get stuck in Stitch Tracker forever. Subfolder save fixed Creating a new canvas while browsing inside a folder now saves it there — not back at the top level of your library. Save As respects your current location too. Black screen on launch — fixed Fixed a crash that collapsed the app to a blank screen on startup on iPad and iPhone. Also fixed a separate black screen issue affecting iPadOS 26. Cleaner home screen The welcome banner is gone for a more spacious file browser. Create New Pattern has moved to the menu bar so it's always in the same place.

Export 1:1 PNG option for one pixel per stitch, no gridlines, for print services that require pixel count to match stitch count PNG/JPEG export now opens the file picker immediately and shows a progress indicator instead of feeling frozen PNG export option for no background

What's New in v1.4.2. Bug fixes and reliability improvements: Fixed a startup hang on macOS where the app would show a blank window for several seconds before becoming usable. This affected licensed users on Sequoia with M-series Macs. Fixed an empty home screen for users who had never configured a working directory — your patterns are now found automatically in your Documents folder. The app now recovers gracefully if your working directory has been deleted, moved, or disconnected (external drive, network share, etc.), instead of showing a blank grid. New Refresh button on the Font Browser's Local tab — tap it to pick up fonts you've installed while the app was already open, without needing to quit and relaunch. Fixed a bug where renaming a pattern with a capitalization-only change (e.g. "Rose" → "rose") could delete the file on iPad and macOS. The Delete and Rename confirmation dialogs are now protected against accidental double-taps — the destructive button is disabled while the operation is in flight, and the Delete button requires a brief moment before it becomes tappable. Folders on the home screen — organize your patterns into folders, navigate with the breadcrumb bar, and move files between folders with the Move button. Fixed the iPad home screen showing "No files found" even when patterns were present in your Documents folder. Fixed a display glitch where stitches appeared as a red emoji while moving a selection on iPad. Selection rotate and resize improvements: 45° rotation steps, free rotation on area selections, and resize handles that follow standard conventions.

v1.4.1 — Bug fixes • Fixed a bug where renaming a pattern to a different capitalization (e.g. "Pattern" → "pattern") could delete the file. Renames now happen safely in place, and trying to rename to a name that already exists now shows an error instead of silently overwriting another file. • Hardened the Delete confirmation dialog. The Delete button is now briefly disabled when the dialog appears, preventing a stray tap from triggering a deletion before you've seen the prompt. Delete and Rename buttons also stay disabled while the operation is in progress, so a quick double-tap can't fire the action twice.

Home page - Folders on the home page. Organize your patterns into folders. Tap New Folder to create one, tap a folder to open it, and use the breadcrumb at the top of the home screen to go back. Folders support rename and delete. Deleting a non-empty folder asks for confirmation and removes everything inside. - Move files into folders with the new Move to folder button on each file tile. The picker shows the full folder tree under your working directory. - The home grid no longer hides files that share a name with a file in another folder. Previously, two patterns named the same thing in different subfolders would collapse to one tile. - Fixed the iPad home page showing "No files found." when your Documents folder had patterns in it. The iOS Documents directory is now treated as the implicit home root, and folder navigation and breadcrumbs work on iPad. - Fixed selection-move on iOS rendering heart stitches as the red heart emoji while the selection was floating. The floating-selection layer now uses the same vector renderer as the rest of the canvas, so all symbols look identical to placed stitches across iOS, macOS, and Windows. - Fixed PNG and JPEG export so canvases export at the correct physical size. A 7 inch canvas at 14 mesh now exports as a 7 inch image. Previously the export dimensions were tied to the preview's zoom level and dialog size, so the same canvas could export at different sizes from one session to the next. - Image exports now embed accurate DPI metadata at roughly 300 DPI. The exact value is round(300/meshCount) times meshCount, so 14 mesh produces 294 DPI. PNG uses a pHYs chunk. JPEG uses the JFIF density fields. - Tip: when adding exported images to Word or Affinity, use Insert, Picture from File rather than copy and paste. The OS clipboard strips DPI metadata, so pasted images come in at the OS default of 96 DPI on Windows or 72 DPI on macOS and appear about 3 times larger than the canvas. Selection and rotation - Rotate buttons now step 45 degrees instead of 90 degrees. Tapping 8 times returns the selection to its starting orientation. Rotation accumulates against the original snapshot, and at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees the math collapses to a bit-exact integer permutation. The lossy 45, 135, 225, and 315 degree steps round each cell to the nearest grid position. - Free rotation, the white circle handle above the selection, now works on area selections. Previously it was only available for whole-layer selections. - Free rotation no longer compounds distortion across gestures. Each rotation re-renders from the original snapshot at the cumulative angle, so multiple rotations do not progressively degrade the image. The pivot point also stays pinned across gestures. - Rotating an area selection no longer destroys the underlying canvas. The rotated stitches are held as a floating selection until you commit by pressing Enter or tapping outside the floating bounds, preserving any stitches outside the selection rectangle that the rotation would otherwise overwrite. - Resizing a selection now keeps the selected stitches in sync with the new bounds. Previously the rectangle moved but the underlying selected stitches did not update, so later move, rotate, or delete operated on the original set. - Resize handles now follow standard conventions. Side handles at the top, bottom, left, and right midpoints resize one axis only. No more width changes when dragging the top handle. Corner handles are free-form by default. Hold Shift to constrain them to the original aspect ratio. This inverts the previous Shift modifier on corners. Selection and layers - Area selection now respects the active layer in multi-layer files. Marquee selection only grabs stitches on the active layer, matching Photoshop and other layered editors. Single-layer files are unaffected.

- **Home Screen Fixes** Fixed file duplication on home page, wrong thumbnails, missing-file error dialogs, thumbnail mismatches, delete race condition on network volumes, and sort order. - **Layers Auto-Flatten Improvement** Allows more adjustments when adding new images when auto-flatten is enabled. - **iPad Touch and Pencil** Fixed pencil color changing inconsistency after copy/paste, touch shape placement, and touch handling in Font Editor. - **Stitch Conflict and Fill** Fixed stitch conflict rules and flood fill behavior for half-square stitches. - **Font Rendering** — Fixed font baseline alignment and descender rendering, stitch font baseline issues, duplicate colors in font palette, and text resize font consistency. - **Save and File Operations** Fixed Save As, file rename, iOS save reliability, and export dialog behavior. - **Startup Validation** Increased startup validation timeout on iOS and added re-validation on window focus. - **Platform Portability** Improved platform portability for file paths and pattern storage.

New Features Share PDF on iOS — After exporting a PDF, Share and Done buttons appear so you can send it directly from the app First-launch working directory setup — New users are prompted to choose a working directory (defaults to Documents/StitchALot) StitchALot file import — File > Import > StitchALot File copies .stitchalot files into your working directory with duplicate handling Improvements Completed shading color picker — Preset color swatches are now visible inline without clicking, matching the highlight color layout Circle/ellipse tool fix — Shapes now match the preview size instead of drawing undersized Shape placement fix — No more extra row/column offset when placing shapes Shape library polish — Added delete and rename icons to shape library items Renamed "Import as Shape" to "Add Shape" on home screen Keyboard shortcuts updated — G toggles grid, F for fill tool, W for fit-to-window Home page thumbnails — Pattern cards now display uniform thumbnail sizes Save button styling — Wider, rust-colored Save button in unsaved changes dialog Bug Fixes iOS PDF export fixed — Resolved NotAllowedError from user gesture expiry Large PDF/pattern fixes — Fixed stack overflow crashes on large PDFs and patterns iOS canvas size cap — Prevents WebView crashes on very large patterns Menu cleanup — Removed duplicate items, reorganized Export submenu on iOS

Launch Special with additional bug fixes.