StitchStash: Cross Stitch2.5 - App Store

StitchStash helps you organize your embroidery floss, match colors across brands, and plan every project, so you never accidentally buy the same skein twice.

Multiple brands, one stash:
Browse and search the full color catalog of every supported brand. Keep track of every thread you own and how many you have. See what's in your stash from any screen. No more guessing at the craft store. Mix several brands at once or focus on just one, and keep your whole collection in a single organized stash. Currently supported brands include DMC, Anchor, Cosmo, Olympus, CXC, Madeira, J. & P. Coats and Sullivans.

Compare & convert between brands:
Found a pattern in DMC but stitch with Anchor? Open any color to see the closest matches in other brands, so you can swap with confidence and never hunt for a substitute again.

Color Matcher:
Found the perfect color in a fabric, photo, or painting? Match it to thread in the brand you prefer:
. Snap or pick a photo, then tap to sample any color
. Pinch to zoom up to 10x for precise sampling
. Use the color picker or enter a hex code
. Get the closest matches ranked by accuracy
You can also create a complete palette of up to 10 colors from a photo!

Pattern Maker (Pro):
Turn a favorite pet, a special memory, or your own artwork into a personal cross-stitch pattern. Crop your photo, choose the size in stitches and number of colors, and match it to your preferred thread brand. Use the threads you already own, adjust or merge colors, and preview the result. Save a PDF chart with symbols and a thread key straight to your project, with estimated skein quantities. You can reopen your saved pattern to keep refining it.

Shopping List:
Build a list of the threads you need. Use multi-select for bulk actions, swipe to move threads into your collection after buying, or export your list to Apple Reminders.

Project Management:
Plan and track your projects from start to finish:
. Add a photo and attach a PDF pattern
. Assign the threads you need with quantities
. See which threads you own, which are missing, and which are on your shopping list
. Add all missing threads to your shopping list in one tap
. Add updates over time and keep track of how long you've worked on a project with the built-in timer

Project Tools:
Use the Fabric Calculator to work out the fabric size for your pattern based on your stitch count, fabric count, and preferred border. Use the Skein Calculator to estimate how many skeins your project needs.

Pattern Tracker:
Open your PDF pattern to zoom and pan in close. StitchStash remembers exactly where you left off. Go Pro to draw right on your pattern and mark off what you've finished with draw, erase, and undo.

Sync across devices:
Your collection, shopping list, and projects sync automatically via iCloud. Update your stash on iPhone and see it on iPad.

StitchStash is built by a fellow stitcher for anyone who wants a simple, focused way to manage their threads without the clutter.

Happy stitching!

Version History What's new in 2.5

Projects & patterns
• Add patterns from photos or PDF files. A photo of a paper pattern becomes a one-page PDF in your project.
• Replacing a pattern with drawn progress now asks for confirmation. Removing a pattern also requires confirmation, and tapping its filename no longer removes it accidentally.
• Fixed the add-tag button in the project editor so it responds only when you tap the button itself.

Pattern Maker (Pro)
• Turn a favorite photo into a cross-stitch pattern. Crop and rotate it, choose the shape, thread brand, colors and chart style, and optionally remove the background or center the subject.
• Create charts up to 600 stitches per side. Set an exact width or height while keeping the photo's proportions.
• Use all available colors, favor your collection or use only threads you own. Preview the chart, replace or merge colors, estimate skein quantities and add missing colors to your Shopping List.
• Save a PDF chart with symbols and a thread key to a new or existing project, with estimated thread requirements added automatically. Reopen and refine it later; the source photo and settings are included in project backups.
• Find Pattern Maker in the Projects add menu or the Tools menu.

Appearance & reliability
• A new terracotta icon for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Choose terracotta or the original green app icon in Settings → Appearance → App Icon.
• If StitchStash cannot load your data, a recovery screen lets you try again, contact support or share technical details without deleting or changing your data. Support reports also leave your stored data unchanged.

Happy stitching! 2.5 Oct 7 New: Backups & data transfer

• Choose which data to export: Collection, Shopping List, projects, floss notes, saved palettes, and custom flosses.
• Preview an import before anything changes and decide how to handle duplicate quantities and content.
• Project backups keep their threads, photos, PDFs, pattern markings, updates, timers, tags, notes, and dates.
• Reminders access now uses the latest iOS permission flow, and Mica and Bloei have joined the Saku Studio app list.

Happy stitching! 2.4 Sep 13 New: Close matches & faster swiping

• Pro: Find close color alternatives from your collection, the same brand, or other supported brands in Color Detail.
• Swipe right to add a color to your shopping list, or swipe left to add it to your collection.
• Color Detail has a clearer layout, and All Colors now shows when the catalog is loading.

Happy stitching! 2.3 Aug 21 New: Olympus & Japanese

• Browse the complete Olympus No. 25 and No. 5 thread catalogs, choose Olympus as your main brand, and compare its colors with DMC, COSMO, and other supported brands.
• StitchStash is now available in Japanese, including Japanese fabric-count notation in the Fabric Calculator.
• The Fabric and Skein calculators now understand the number and decimal formats used by your selected language.
• Translations have been refined throughout the app, widgets, Apple Watch app, reminders, and Live Activities.

Happy stitching! 2.2 Aug 7 Improved Search:
Search in All Colors now shows the most relevant results first and more reliably finds thread numbers, names, and brands, including searches with punctuation or leading zeroes.

Happy stitching! 2.1.2 Jul 29 Version 2.1.1 makes photo palettes more useful and reliable.

Save Photo Palettes (PRO):
Save any generated palette with a name and thumbnail, revisit its matched thread colors, and delete it when you no longer need it.

Turn Inspiration into a Project:
Create a planning project directly from a generated or saved palette, with every matched thread already attached. Missing colors? Add them all to your shopping list in one tap.

Better Color Matching:
Palettes now preserve distinctive accent colors more effectively, show the full source photo, and only suggest colors from your collection when they’re a close match.

Also in this update:
• More reliable photo changes, including reselecting the same image
• Fabric Calculator defaults based on your device’s measurement system
• Fixes for calculators, reminders, synced quantities, and color data

Happy stitching! 2.1.1 Jul 23 Version 2.1 gives you new ways to plan projects and track the time you spend stitching.

- Use the new Fabric Calculator to work out the Aida size you need from your stitch count, fabric count, and optional framing border. The Skein Calculator estimates how many DMC skeins a color needs. Find both free tools in Projects and Settings.

Project Timer (PRO):
Start a timer for any project and follow it from Projects, the Lock Screen, and Dynamic Island. Stop it directly from the Live Activity, then review every saved session and your total stitching time in the project’s Timer section.

Colot Notes:
Add personal notes to any color. Notes save automatically and sync across your devices with iCloud.

Also in this update:
- Review requests are calmer and better timed.
- Deleting a project now cleans up its associated threads and notes.
- Small styling, navigation, localization, and stability improvements.

Happy stitching! 2.1 Jul 15 Version 2.0 brings StitchStash beyond DMC.

ALL COLORS, ALL BRANDS
"DMC Colors" is now "All Colors". Pick the brand you want to browse and match against. Switch to a single brand for free, or mix several at once with Pro.

PATTERN TRACKER
Keep your place in any project. Open your PDF pattern to zoom and pan in close, and StitchStash remembers exactly where you left off.

DRAW ON YOUR PATTERN (PRO)
Stitch with confidence by drawing right on your pattern. Mark off what you've finished with draw and erase tools, undo, and clear a page when you start fresh.

JOIN THE COMMUNITY
I started a Facebook and Discord community where you can share your designs and works in progress, and stay in touch if you have ideas for the app.

ALSO IN THIS UPDATE
- Smarter color matching across brands, so the right thread of the right brand shows up every time.
- Tidied up search so your results stay focused on the threads you actually use.
- A "What's New" page now lives in Settings.
- Restoring a purchase now tells you what happened, whether it worked or there was nothing to restore.
- A steadier subscribe button and small performance improvements.

Happy stitching! 2.0 Jul 3 Added:
- Brand conversion: see the closest matching colors in other brands (Anchor, Cosmo, CXC, Madeira, J. & P. Coats, and Sullivans) on any color's detail screen.
- A setting to choose which brands appear as matches.
- DMC Satin threads with a fabric sheen effect.
- DMC Diamant Grandé threads with a metallic shine, including in the thread type filter.
- Discontinued DMC colors and a Discontinued thread type.

Changed:
- Replaced the Pro paywall with a redesigned, native paywall.
- Combined Visible Thread Types and Brand Matches into a single Settings section, with brands listed alphabetically.
- Search now looks across all thread types, so results from hidden types (like Discontinued) still appear.
- Improved accessibility across the app, including the paywall.
- Expanded localization (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish) to cover all the new features.
- Small iPad layout improvements.
- Corrected RGB values for a number of colors.

Fixed:
- Fixed the Appearance setting (Light/Dark/Automatic) so it now applies immediately across the app.
- Fixed other-brand threads appearing in DMC-only places such as the Color Matcher, Collection, and project pickers. 1.8 Jun 16 - You can now also use a Select in your Collection to easily add multiple threads to your shopping cart or to remove them. 1.7.2 Jun 14 - Small update to also include the Satin variations in the overview. 1.7.1 May 28 - StitchStash is now available in more languages: French, Danish, German, Italian, and Spanish. Please let me know if you see any translation errors!
- New Preferred Language shortcut in Settings to quickly open app language preferences, if you want it in English instead.
- Improved project deletion flow with a confirmation prompt.
- Added a deleting option for a project from the edit screen.
- Free version now stores up to 10 colors instead of 5.
- An embarrassing bug where the Color Picker showed special non Mouline threads when selecting black tints is now removed. 1.7 May 22 - The Color Matcher now supports palettes! In addition to finding a specific color in a photo, you can now generate a full palette that represents the image. Choose how many prominent colors you’d like to extract (up to 10), and instantly get the matching colors along with their closest DMC thread matches. Already own similar shades? The app will let you know. Missing colors can be added directly to your shopping list with a single tap. Color Matching requires Pro.
- Small improvements have been made to widgets when using custom threads. 1.6 May 19 - You can now delete threads that you have added to your projects.

Sorry that this wasn't already in there, that was definitely an oversight on my part. 1.5.1 May 8 - You can now add your own threads to the collection that are not from DMC. You can give it a name, brand, and color on which you can sort. Add those custom threads to your projects if you need those! This feature requires Pro. 1.5 Apr 29 - There was a bug in the widgets, where it didn't show the color in the circles anymore. This is fixed now.
- Sorting added to the shopping list.
- Sorting on color groups in Projects. 1.4.1 Apr 24 - Next to the almost 500 colors that we already had, I've added all the other special types of DMC thread as well. Think of Variegated, Color Variations, Coloris, Light Effects (including the metallic threads) and Étoile. Those can be added to the All Colors overview from your Settings. The type of thread is also displayed on the detail page of the color and there can be filtered on those colors as well.
- Small fix in the menu, where sometimes to Settings went to Projects. 1.4 Apr 1 - You can now add updates to projects to see how your masterpiece came to life! (Pro required)
- In your collection you can now see the the total of colors and flosses you have.
- Changed the accent color of the app to a lighter bright red/brown, to make it pop out a little more! 1.3 Mar 24 - Some colors didn't show up properly in the ColorMatcher, this is now fixed!
- You can see the detail color view in the ColorMatcher
- When buying Pro via ColorMatcher, it will immediately work instead of having to go back to your collection first.
- I made an Apple Watch app, to easily see which colors you have on both your collection and wishlist. Click on the color to get it full screen on your watch. Ideal when you have your hands full with new threads and you still want to see what you need ;) 1.2 Mar 20 - Improved UI for selecting flosses on both the colors view and the shopping list view
- Improved adding/edititing project page 1.1.5 Mar 16 - Added an easier way to select more colors at once to add to your collection
- Dutch is added 1.1.4 Mar 13 - Small updates to Settings 1.1.3 Mar 12 - Improved some colors, also added DMC 24 (which was really embarrassing that is was missing)
- Spotlight search: You can now search on your projects from the spotlight, where you don't have to be in the app to find it.

Happy crafting! 1.1.2 Mar 6 A couple of things are added:
- Onboarding for new users
- Full screen color view when in the color details.
- Home and Lock screen widgets (Pro)
- Tags and Due Dates with notifications for projects (Pro)

Happy stitching! 1.1.1 Feb 24 Added a settings tab. Here you can:
- Select your preferred appearance mode
- Set your default sorting orders
- More info on the developer with ways to contact me if you have feature requests or feedback. 1.1 Feb 19