StitchThis is the most comprehensive cross-stitch platform on the market — handling pattern creation, in-browser stitching, floss stash management, and community in one place. The comparison below benchmarks it against the most popular cross-stitch tools: Pattern Keeper, Stitchly, Markup R-XP, Stitch Fiddle, Pic2Pat, and PCStitch.
| Feature | StitchThis | Pattern Keeper | Stitchly | Markup R-XP | Stitch Fiddle | Pic2Pat | PCStitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Photo-to-pattern | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Freehand designer | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Pattern import | ✓ | ✓ | partial1 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Smart detail preservation | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Floss stash tracker | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| In-app progress tracker | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗2 | ✗ | ✗ |
| Advanced image tools3 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Commercial use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in community forum4 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mobile-native app | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Price | Free plan; Maker $5.99/mo or $59.99/yr | $9 one-time after a one-month trial (Android; iOS not available yet) | Free trial, then a one-time purchase | £17.99/year (UK App Store) after a 2-week free trial | Free; Premium about $2.75/mo | Free; floss and fabric kits sold separately | $49.95 one-time (Windows) |
| Free plan limits | Unlimited patterns up to 600 stitches per side; first PDF free; track 2 patterns at a time | No free plan; one-month trial with all features | No free plan; free to try before buying the full version | No free plan; 2-week trial with all features | Charts up to 300×300 stitches and 50 colors; Premium allows 1,000×1,000 and 200 colors | Pattern and PDF download free, up to 1,000×1,000 stitches | No free plan; free download to evaluate |
StitchThis has 10 of the 11 features above. The one it lacks is a mobile-native app: StitchThis runs in mobile browsers and can be added to the Home Screen, but there is no app-store app.
Notes
1Stitchly views and marks up imported PDFs; it doesn't convert them to stitches.
2Stitch Fiddle's progress tracker is a row counter that, per its help page, doesn't support cross stitch yet.
3Advanced image tools means background removal, merging photos, remix, and generating an image from a description.
4Built in means a forum inside the product itself. Facebook groups and forums on a separate website are not counted.
How do the finished patterns compare? See our independent quality test
StitchThis is the only tool in this comparison that covers the full cross-stitch workflow:
All in one place, accessible from any browser, free to start. Other tools specialize. StitchThis covers it all.