Lighter, faster syncing. • Big libraries sync faster and use less storage and data. • Photos of charts with faint grid lines line up more reliably. • Deleting a pattern is instant, even on older iPads. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Smoother starts with your charts. • Photos and screenshots of charts line up on their own more often. • Stuck lining up a chart? Help now walks you straight to the fix. • Smoother on older iPads. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Getting your charts in, made easier. • Scanned chart? Tap two corners, type the stitch count, and you're lined up. • More PDF charts import right the first time. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Bring your paper charts along. • Scan or photograph a printed chart and mark it stitch by stitch. • Place and tick off French knots and beads right on the chart, Mill Hill beads included. • Backstitch now has its own progress, so "finished" really means finished. • Keep your stitching session on the Lock Screen. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Ready for iOS 27. • Chart not importing the way you hoped? Send it to us straight from the help screen, and we'll take a look. Charts like yours are how imports keep getting better. • Runs beautifully on iOS 27, on iPhone and iPad. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Keeping your stitches safe, as always. • Progress backups keep every kind of stitch you've marked, from full crosses to backstitch. • Behind-the-scenes improvements to how your progress is stored and synced between your devices. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Big charts, ready to stitch. • Patterns printed across many pages come together as one chart, lined up and ready to mark. • Even very large charts — hundreds of stitches wide — arrive with their symbols, so Find, symbol counts and colour assignment all work. • More charts arrive with their symbols and floss colours already read, so there's less to set up before your first stitch. • Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Some designers publish a pattern twice — a black-and-white edition and a colour one. Both now count only the stitches in the design, so your completion percentage is right from the very first square. Both editions also arrive with their grid lined up and their symbols and floss colours already read, so there's nothing to set up before you start. Happy stitching!

More patterns import ready to stitch. Charts drawn without printed gridlines are now recognised on their own, so there's nothing to line up by hand, and more floss keys are read — including those that list DMC numbers with a letter in front, or print the key on a single line. The colour list now covers DMC's full range, so the newer shades show their real colour and count towards your skein estimates. Happy stitching!

More patterns arrive with their colors already read, including keys that list DMC numbers with a letter in front of them. And if your pattern's PDF has no floss key at all, you can now set each symbol's DMC color yourself, picking from the full catalogue by number or name. Those colors show up in your Floss buy-list with skein estimates. Happy stitching!

Charts open ready to stitch. The demo — and anything you've already started — goes straight into marking, with your progress counted against the stitches your chart actually has. When Stitchwork can't sync, it now says so plainly and shows you how to put it right, keeping every stitch safe on your device until it can. Colour chips on the chart carry their own thread colour, so you can tell at a glance which is which. Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

More of the charts you already own import at exactly the size they print, with fewer corrections needed — large multi-page patterns especially. Your floss list picks up a few more colours straight from the chart key. Bulk stash and parking changes apply straight away, and the app is ready to use sooner after launch. Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

See how big your finished piece will be. Stitchwork reads the fabric count from your chart and shows the finished size in inches and centimetres — change the fabric to match what you're actually stitching on and the size follows. More PDFs import cleanly the first time.

Multi-page charts now come in at exactly the size they print. The sheets line up, so your counts and percentages match the pattern in front of you. Marking stays smooth on very large charts, no matter how much you have stitched.

Marking stitches is faster and no longer pauses on large charts. Large multi-page charts use less memory and stay open reliably.

Chart coordinates now line up exactly with your printed pattern, so the row and column numbers on screen match the ones on the page. VoiceOver reads the unlock screen cleanly.

Many charts now arrive already in colour. Your library shows the finished picture instead of a page of symbols, and your floss list comes with every colour counted — no assigning threads by hand. Large charts also open and stay smoother.

Refinements under the hood to keep Stitchwork running smoothly. As always, your patterns and every stitch you've marked stay safe, synced, and yours.

Sharper symbol detection: when a chart prints its symbols as text, Stitchwork now reads each cell's symbol straight from the chart — so highlighting a colour selects exactly that colour, every time. Charts drawn with very light or faint symbols now count every stitch, too.

Marking big charts is smoother than ever, and your progress saves instantly in the background while you stitch. Smarter imports, too: charts that arrive as several renderings of one design now come in correctly as a single chart, and when a pattern needs manual set-up, Stitchwork reads the size printed on the chart and fills it in for you.

Colour keys now come through from more design apps, including patterns you've recharted yourself in MacStitch — import the PDF and your floss list is simply there.

Patterns usually arrive as a zip. Now you can import one straight from Files, Mail or Safari — Stitchwork looks inside, shows you the charts it found, and you choose the one you want to stitch. It also opens more of what designers actually send: HEIC and WebP images, TIFF and BMP scans, and OXS charts. And whatever you're sending it from, "Open in Stitchwork" works. Undo is instant now, no matter how big the fill or how far along your project is.

Found a mistake? Mark it, and carry on stitching. • Mark an area to frog and come back to unpick it when you're ready — your progress doesn't change until the thread is actually out. • Changed your mind? Clear the marks and every stitch stays exactly as it was. • Your progress backup is easier to find, for when you want a copy of your own. Plus the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Turn your chart, see it finished, and fly through a colour. • Rotate the chart to match your fabric — for wide pieces on a scroll frame. • See the finished picture in its real thread colours, from the chart or your pattern list. • Finish a whole colour across the area you're working, in one go. • Parking now follows the corner you stitch from. • Choose when your stitching day begins, so a late night counts as one session. Plus a better iPad layout and the usual round of polish. Happy stitching!

Fixes for the freezes. • Filling a block no longer stalls. Each cell in a block was being written to disk on its own — one tap on a 10×10 block meant up to a hundred separate saves, and on an iPad you could feel every one of them. It's a single save now, and your marks are still on disk before you lift your finger. • The Library, Progress and Floss tabs no longer lock up while they add your stitches back up. That work has moved off the screen's thread, so the app stays responsive with a large library or a big chart. Nothing changed about how your stitches are stored or synced.