You’ll need-le this app if you love creative cross-stitching. Stitchly makes it easy to draw or import an image and turn it into a pattern with 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, backstitches and French knots. You can export your creations as PDFs for easy printing and sharing.

What we love: Stitchly doesn’t just create patterns for you. You can also use it to track your progress while stitching, something that’s particularly effective on the larger screen of your iPad or iPad mini. You can highlight stitches of the same kind and colour, and swipe to mark multiple stitches as done.

Quick tip: When you’re drawing your own designs, you can get Stitchly to show an image in the background. That’s really handy if you want to trace a design from an existing photograph, or if you feel inspired and want to come up with your own interpretation of an existing design.

Meet the creator: Harry and Charlotte are the husband and wife team behind UK developer Subtlabs (pronounced “subtle labs”). Guided by their commitment to designing apps that are simple, helpful and fun to use, the creative couple have also released apps to help with making seed bead patterns in Loomerly, diamond art designs in Dotterly and retro-style pixel art in PXLBIT.