A PDF chart now brings its beads along: symbols the key lists as beads, under their own heading or among the threads, become beads instead of cross stitches. In PDF Preparation the brush places and erases beads just like French knots. Lots of small fixes and quiet polish have gone in alongside. May every bead find its place, and every evening feel cosy!

Export to Needlentory: a chart now goes to Needlentory as a ready project with all its materials, so nothing has to be typed in by hand. Open a chart, choose Materials in the Palette menu, and pick Export to Needlentory from the export button. Before anything is sent, the whole project is shown: the cover on its canvas, size, difficulty, author and notes; the canvas with its stitched size and the piece to cut; every thread in skeins and every bead in pieces; and the settings the amounts were worked out with. Needlentory receives all of it, together with the stitching history day by day. Export needs StitchHub 3.7 and Needlentory 8.8 or later. Plenty of small fixes and improvements have gone into this release as well. Wishing you full thread boxes and calm, cosy evenings!

PDF charts now open in the same workspace as digital charts, with the PDF page underneath to check against. Digitally made PDFs now bring in their backstitch and French knots, and each floss arrives in its real colour. Charts from other programs keep symbols that look like the ones they printed. Backups made with an earlier version of the app now restore, instead of being reported as damaged. A colour's page in Palettes now shows Closest Colors too: threads, beads and fabrics of other brands that look nearly the same, for when there is no exact match. Plenty of small fixes and improvements have gone into this release as well. Cosy evenings at your stitching!

Designs now have a Progress tab. It shows whether a design is Not Started, In Progress or Completed, how much time it took, its Model stitch — in the app or on paper — and a goal with a deadline and a reminder. The Designing gallery sorts designs into folders by where they stand. Stitch by Stitch now opens from the Designing tab too: every day you designed in one grid, the last year and all time, the designs in progress and what is Worth noting. Set a Month's goal in hours and follow it on the Home Screen with the Designing Goal and Designing Days widgets. Plenty of small fixes and improvements have gone into this release as well. Cosy evenings and happy designing!

Added support for iPhone Duo. Optimizations, improvements and bug fixes throughout the app. Unhurried evenings and happy making!

A chart can now have a goal. Open the chart's Statistics, choose Set a goal, give it a name and a date to finish by. The goal shows how many days are left and how many stitches a day that takes, suggests when to start from your recent pace, and can remind you on the start day. Mark the last stitch and the goal is ticked off. Bug fixes and improvements throughout the app. Cosy evenings at your stitching!

Stitch by Stitch is a new screen holding all your stitching across every chart, opened from the button at the top left of the stitching tab. Every day you have worked, drawn as one scrolling activity grid; beneath it your last year and your whole time stitching, the charts you have under way, and Worth noting: the weekday you stitch on most, your longest run of days in a row, and the longest break you came back from. Month in Stitches turns a finished month into a picture worth sharing: every chart you worked on, with its picture, what it gained and how far it has come, and the month's total beside the month before. Pick a month from that screen's menu. Month's Goal lets you set how many stitches you want to add this month, across every chart. Set it from that screen's menu, and the screen shows the month against it, what today added and how many a day would get you there. There is a Month's Goal widget too, for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. Bug fixes and improvements throughout the app. Cosy evenings at your stitching!

An imported PDF Space no longer has to be opened before the days it was already stitched on show in your stitching activity. Its file is also much smaller now, so one exported from this version will not open in older versions of the app.

A new design no longer starts with two empty boxes. Pick a size by name — Mini motif, Coaster, Card, Ornament, Bookmark or Sampler — and the stitch count is filled in for you. Custom is still there whenever you want to type your own width and height, and changing either number brings it straight back. The canvas is chosen at the same moment. Set the fabric and its count while you create the design and it opens on that canvas, with the Display settings already matching, instead of starting on Aida 14 and being changed afterwards. Plus plenty of small fixes and polish throughout the app, so everything runs a little smoother. Happy new starts and cosy stitching!

Choosing an area is no longer only a box. The area editor now has two modes: Box, as before, and Lasso. Switch to Lasso and draw a line around a motif with your finger or Pencil — it runs along the grid lines as you draw and closes when you lift. Copy it, cut it, clear it, move it, turn it or flip it: whatever you do happens to the shape you drew, and the stitches around it stay exactly where they were. Plus plenty of small fixes and polish throughout the app, so everything runs a little smoother. Cosy evenings and happy making!

Your gallery now opens on its folders. All Patterns, Favorites, In Progress and the rest sit right on the main screen, with your Collections below them — each one showing what is inside. Tap a folder to open it. The filter button is gone. New collections are made from the + menu. Hold a collection to rename or delete it, and sort them from the Collections heading. Your work can now travel. A backup saves everything — patterns, progress, designs, collections and palettes — to your own iCloud, and restoring it on another device puts your whole library back where you left it. You will find it in More, under Backups: one tap to back up, and each device keeps its own backup with its date and size. Restoring replaces what is on the device, so the app asks first — and if it is ever interrupted, it either finishes or leaves your work exactly as it was. Backups are named, and the name is yours to change: the same name replaces that backup, a new one keeps both. You can also export a backup as a file and import it back, so a library can travel between devices that do not share an iCloud account. Stitching one color at a time is clearer now. The outline around the color you are working is heavier, so it stands out from the grid instead of blending into it. The highlight that marks the color you are stitching now has a color of its own. It starts out as your grid color, so your patterns look exactly as they did until you decide otherwise.

Two things you no longer have to open first. Hold down a prepared PDF chart in your gallery and choose “Export PDF Space” — the chart, its calibration, its palette and everything you have stitched travel together. Hold down a design and choose “Export Design” — layers, text and all, as a HUBD project.

A chart you have only on paper can now come in and be stitched. Photograph each printed page, or choose the pictures from your library, drag the outline onto the chart to straighten it, and work it just like a PDF chart. Look for "Import Pattern Images" when you add a pattern. Charts you are still preparing now show how far along they are, so you can see what is waiting before you open one. Preparing a PDF chart also reads its symbols more accurately, and a round of fixes has gone in along the way. New designs now open with a color ready, so you can start drawing right away. Thanks for telling us the tools looked locked — they never were.

Fixes for preparing and importing PDF charts.

Calibration of a PDF chart can now be paused and continued later — a help with large charts you cannot finish in one sitting. Stop any time: the chart waits in your gallery, marked "In Preparation", and reopens on the step you left, with every calibrated page and marked symbol in place.

Added support for PC Stitch patterns. Import a PAT file and it opens as a full digital chart: the palette, symbols, stitch types, backstitches and knots all come across, so you can stitch it with every tool the app offers and track your progress stitch by stitch. Files from PC Stitch 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11 are supported.

Added support for PDF charts. Import a chart, and the app helps you calibrate it — stitching multi-page charts into one large sheet, detecting the grid, and setting up the color palette — so you can track your stitching progress right on the chart, use many of the features of digital patterns, and keep all your charts together in one convenient format. Calibrated charts are stored in the new HUBW format — a PDF chart together with its calibration and stitching progress. Export a HUBW file to back it up or move it to another device, then import it to keep stitching right where you left off. PDF chart export is now fully vector: symbols are drawn as real vector shapes instead of images, so charts stay crisp at any zoom level, print sharper, and take up less space. Because the symbols are real vectors, exported charts should also be recognized correctly by third-party apps for stitching from PDF charts.

The way text layers work has changed: switch between horizontal and vertical text by resizing the text box. As a reminder, to resize it, long-press a corner until the frame turns blue, then drag. To move it, long-press the frame until it turns blue, then drag. To edit the text, tap the frame; once it turns green, you can start editing. A yellow frame means the layer is inactive.

Added an option to reset the palette to its original state in patterns being stitched. Fixed bugs and improved app stability for a better experience.

Stability improvements and bug fixes for a better experience.

Added text layers for placing lettering directly on the canvas, with controls for font, size, orientation, and stitch type, plus the ability to convert everything into a regular stitch layer.

Stability improvements and bug fixes for a better experience.

Added outline actions: one Area, all matching Areas, an Object silhouette, inner Borders, or Empty space around a gap. Outlines follow the real stitch shape and replace existing lines on the path. Updated Shape Actions: use the new Line shape to create straight rows of stitches or beads. Reworked Underlayer: the new menu is now faster and easier to use, with Desaturate, Invert Colors, Flip, Center, and Snap to Grid.

Stability improvements and bug fixes for a better experience.

You can now view a pattern complexity analysis right on your device, including a level, key factors, and a short overview with tips. Canvas count has also been added to the canvas menu, and PDF exports are now cleaner.