Markup turns your PDF, image or photographed cross stitch chart into an interactive pattern that you mark off as you stitch. Keep track of where you are, see what you have completed, and let the app take care of everything else while you concentrate on the stitching.
How It Works
From Chart to Stitching |
- Load a chart: a PDF, an image from your gallery or a photo of a printed pattern.
- Use the Project Wizard: identify the grids, arrange the pages and set up your symbols and colours.
- Start stitching: tap stitches to mark them off and watch your progress update as you go.
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New to Markup? Start Here
One tip before you begin: please do not make your own chart your very first project. Setting up a chart is straightforward once you are familiar with the app, but there is quite a lot to take in the first time, and it is easy to become frustrated.
Start With a Free Sample |
Ready to stitch from the first tap
The Free Sample projects come already set up. Explore the Markup screen, tap a few stitches, try the tools and change whatever you like. Don't worry about maklng mistakes, its easy to start again. |
Watch the short videos
A few minutes of video covers the dashboard, loading charts and marking up. Watch here. |
Join the community
Register from the Profile tab for news and support, and stitch alongside people who already know the ropes. Full guide. |
Explore the Free Samples
Once you are comfortable with the basics, your own charts will make much more sense. |
How the App Is Structured
One App, Two Parts |
| Main Dashboard all your projects and more |
↔ | New Project Wizard set up and stitch |
Open a project to move between them. |
The Dashboard
Plan, track and browse. Five tabs: Home, Statistics, Settings, Profile and Tutorials. Everything outside a project lives here. Take the Dashboard tour. |
The Project Wizard
Set up and stitch. Loading a chart, aligning grids, tuning symbols and marking off stitches all happen here, step by step. Take the Wizard tour. |
Ready for Your Own Charts?
When You Are Ready |
Set up your own chart
Select Load Document from the Dashboard and the Project Wizard guides you through the whole setup: arrange pages, align grids, handle overlaps, set symbols and colours, preview the finished chart and move straight into Markup. Take the Wizard tour. |
Start stitching
Tap a chart grid square to mark a stitch as completed, and use two fingers to move around and zoom. From there, explore highlighting, progress tracking, drawing tools and more. Explore the Markup screen. |
Why Stitchers Switch
Coming From Paper Charts? |
Put the highlighters away
Tap a stitch and it is marked, in your colours, forever. No pens drying out, no photocopies, no ruined originals. Full guide. |
Your place is always kept
A ring marks your last stitch, guide bars frame the area you are working, and the chart reopens exactly where you left off. Full guide. |
Every chart in your bag
Your whole stitching library lives on one device, backed up and portable, ready wherever you are. Full guide. |
Watch your finish date get closer
Stitch counts, daily goals, your pace and a live forecast of the finish, with little celebrations along the way. Full guide. |
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Coming From Another App? |
Load any chart at all
Any PDF works, with no special formats needed. Photograph paper charts from books and magazines, and colour charts without symbols work too. Full guide. |
Backstitch you can mark off
Draw backstitch on its own layer and mark it off as you go. Fractional stitches and French knots too. The feature other apps skip. Full guide. |
Stop the wrong-shade mistake
Pick a colour and only that symbol lights up across the whole chart, matched to your key. Full guide. |
Setup and stitching are separate
Set your chart up once in the wizard. While you stitch, a stray tap can never change your symbols, colours or grid. Full guide. |
Did you know?
- Multi-page charts are assembled into one continuous stitching map, with the page overlaps handled for you.
- The free trial starts when you open your first project, not when you install, so take your time looking around.
- Prefer stitching at night? Colour themes and display settings keep long sessions easy on your eyes.
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