Cross-stitch chart reader · iPhone & iPad

Stitch from your PDF

Markstitch turns the pattern you bought into one chart you can tap. Every page joined, every colour easy to follow, every stitch you make marked off.

First pattern free. Then pay once.

A rose chart in Markstitch, two thirds stitched, with the thread chips under it

It reads the chart for you

Open a PDF from Files, Mail or Messages. Markstitch finds the grid, joins the chart pages into one and reads the key with its DMC numbers. No lining up pages by hand.

Your pattern is ready: grid found, two chart pages joined, key read, every stitch counted

Tap a colour, see where it goes

Pick a thread and every stitch of it lights up across the whole chart, while the rest fades back. No more hunting for one symbol among thirty.

One thread picked: its stitches stand out in red across the chart

Mark as you stitch

Switch to Stitch and mark what you’ve done. Moving and marking are separate, so a stray finger never leaves a mark.

Tap a cell or drag along a row
Hold to fill a whole 10 × 10 block
Park a thread where it goes next
Undo takes back the last mark

Stitch mode: the stitched cells of one thread filled in solid

Know what floss to buy

Every colour with its DMC number, how many skeins the piece takes and how much of it is left to stitch. Fix a number by hand if the chart’s key leaves one out.

The threads list: DMC numbers, names and stitches left for each colour

Watch your piece grow

Your stitching days on one map, how much you did today and, once there’s a pace to go by, when you’ll finish.

Progress: 63 percent done, today’s stitches, a finish estimate and a map of stitching days

Roomier on iPad

Turn it sideways and your threads sit beside the chart. With Apple Pencil, the pencil marks stitches and your fingers move the chart, so a resting hand never marks anything.

Markstitch on iPad in landscape: the chart in Stitch mode with the threads list beside it

Simple, and yours

Free

Your first pattern

Stitch one pattern, any size, for as long as it takes. No trial that runs out.

Once

Unlock the rest

One purchase adds unlimited patterns, thread parking, the stitch journal with finish estimates, and backups. No subscription, and it comes back on a new phone or iPad.

Private

Nothing leaves your device

No account, no servers, no ads, no tracking. Your patterns and progress stay on your phone or iPad.

Which charts work

Made by pattern software

Most PDF charts sold online are made with pattern software: symbols in a grid and a key of threads. Those open as one chart you can tap.

Scans and photos

A scanned or photographed chart has no symbols to read. It opens as a PDF with a row ruler and a highlighter, so you can still keep your place.

Only patterns you own

Markstitch doesn’t sell or share patterns. It opens the ones you bought or made, and they stay with you.

First pattern free. Pay once.

Open your next chart in Markstitch.