See your own picture as a chart before you pay. Get its DMC thread list, then make it a project you can stitch.
Free, for good. Install before January 1, 2027 and the whole app is yours. On Google Play and the App Store.
489 DMC shades · 17 cloths · saves itself
A photo, a drawing or a painting. See its chart free.
Say how wide, how tall and which cloth. See the thread you’ll need.
Unlock once to follow it on your phone or print it on paper.
Tap the thread in your needle, and only its squares light up.
Drag over what you have stitched. Finished squares turn green, and anything can be undone.
Row done ticks off the row and moves the band down one.
Pocket Heart comes with the app: a two-minute tour on it, no thread needed, then stitch it for real. Free.
See its printout (PDF, 2 pages): the chart and the thread list, as the app prints them.
Install Cross Count before January 1, 2027 and it’s yours, for good. No subscription, no ads, no account.
From January, new installs can still make and see charts free; stitching and printing their own takes one payment.
No subscription, no ads, no account.
$8.99one-time purchase: unlimited patterns
A sheepdog, a cardinal, a cartoon kitten, a horse and a tree.
Blended shades, and a one-tap size of about 200 stitches across, so fur and feathers stay soft.
Drawings, paintings and cartoons: solid colors and clean edges, with fewer lone stitches.
Pick a picture and Cross Count knows whether it is a photo or artwork, and charts each its own way. Chart it as changes it at any step, and Compare puts both charts side by side, with the thread each one needs.
Start a blank chart, or tap By hand on any picture to draw over it: pencil, lines, boxes, ovals, fill, select, mirror and words. Every tool works on every chart, drawn or converted.
And the rest: 17 cloths from 6 to 40 count, backstitch and Outline it for me, the 67 symbols, progress photos and notes, a portfolio of finished pieces, and one-file backup. The user guide walks through every screen.
Start with a clear picture, in good light, where your pet fills the frame. Cross Count sees that it is a photo, charts it with blended shades, and offers a size with room for fur, about 200 stitches across. Every picture gives a different chart, so look at yours, free, before you unlock.
Yes. The chart tiles across sheets fifty squares by sixty, with three squares repeated on every join so nothing falls down the crack between two pages, and the thread list prints with it. Save it as one PDF, as images, or as a Pattern Keeper PDF, or open it in your phone’s PDF viewer to print. Printing your own charts is part of the unlock; the beginner patterns print free. Here is Pocket Heart’s printout.
Until January 1, 2027, everything: install before then and the whole app is yours, for good. From January, new installs get these free: making and editing as many charts as you like, from your pictures, by hand or from OXS files, with every symbol, color and the DMC thread list; the two-minute tour; stitching and printing the beginner patterns, Pocket Heart first; and backing up and restoring your library. Stitching or printing a chart of your own then takes one payment through Google Play or the App Store: $8.99, paid once. No subscription, no ads.
If it is an OXS file, yes: tap Open a pattern file on Home or the Import tab, and its threads come in by their DMC number, or as the closest DMC color. A PDF chart, or a file in another program’s own format, can’t be opened: it is a picture of a chart, not the chart itself.
Screen colors are a guide: no screen shows dyed cotton exactly, and DMC publishes no screen values for its floss. Cross Count picks from all 489 current DMC stranded cottons, the shade that looks closest to a person. Check a real shade card before you buy thread.
Ten, in two groups. The beginner patterns are free to stitch and print, Pocket Heart first, with its tour. The intermediate ones are free to look at; stitching or printing them is part of the unlock.
Yes. Cross Count is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, iOS 15 and up, and on Google Play for Android 7.0 and up: phones in portrait, and tablets either way up. Large text is a switch in Settings, and it scales the whole app rather than only the labels.
No. The conversion runs on the phone, and your pictures and charts never leave it unless you save or share a file yourself. The app uses the internet only for the store’s purchase system (Google Play or the App Store) and anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off. The only thing it asks you for is the camera, to take a picture. Choosing one you already have uses the phone’s own picker, so the app sees only the picture you pick.
In Settings, Back up all projects writes every design and every piece, pictures, progress, and photos, to one .ccbackup file on the phone. Copy it to a computer or Google Drive and it outlives the phone. Restore from a backup on a new phone brings all your work back. Backing up and restoring are free.
DMC is a trademark of DMC Corporation; Cross Count is not affiliated with or endorsed by DMC, and floss colors on screen are approximations. Pattern Keeper is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Cross Count. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC.
Example photos from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and charted: orange kitten (CC0); Shetland sheepdog by Karen Arnold (CC0); cardinal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain).
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