Errores
Me cierra solo el programa, cada que quiero poner diferentes cosas me marca error y se sale de la aplicación llevo 15 días así ya mandé msj a cricut pero no tengo respuesta
Can’t add new machine
I bought a maker 3 and I tried adding it through design space on pc and iOS it keeps saying can’t connect I even tried a usb connection on my pc and says usb connection failed the machine shows up under the hardware settings on Bluetooth and usb but design space can’t connect to it.
Crashing Constantly
It has not mattered if I access on my phone, MacBook, or iPad. Constant crashing. Sometimes you just open the app and it crashes! I pay for the yearly subscription and can’t even use it! When it does work it’s pretty good, but anymore that’s a rare occurrence.
SO MANY NOTIFICATIONS
why does a tool app need so many notifications? Also can’t you just make an app where it does the thing and you don’t have to have a paywall everywhere you look. It’s annoying.
Doesn't work off-line
Doesn't work off-line at all. Totally useless when I'm traveling. Please fix.
Frustrated with the wonky updates
I’m writing this review out of frustration because Cricut Design Space has become nearly unusable for my current project. The app crashes almost every time I use the sticker feature, making it incredibly difficult to complete my work.
I’ve been working on a sticker project for several days and have experienced more than 20 crashes. Each crash interrupts my progress, forcing me to reopen the app and start over. It’s become extremely time-consuming and frustrating.
To troubleshoot the issue, I’ve updated Cricut Design Space to the latest version and made sure my iPad is running the most recent operating system. Despite these updates, the crashes continue. I’ve noticed that the problem occurs most often when using the newest Cricut Design Space sticker template feature.
At this point, I’ve exhausted the troubleshooting steps I can take. This appears to be an issue that needs to be addressed by the developers. I enjoy using Cricut products, but this bug is preventing me from completing my projects efficiently.
Please investigate and fix this issue as soon as possible.
I’ve been working on a sticker project for several days and have experienced more than 20 crashes. Each crash interrupts my progress, forcing me to reopen the app and start over. It’s become extremely time-consuming and frustrating.
To troubleshoot the issue, I’ve updated Cricut Design Space to the latest version and made sure my iPad is running the most recent operating system. Despite these updates, the crashes continue. I’ve noticed that the problem occurs most often when using the newest Cricut Design Space sticker template feature.
At this point, I’ve exhausted the troubleshooting steps I can take. This appears to be an issue that needs to be addressed by the developers. I enjoy using Cricut products, but this bug is preventing me from completing my projects efficiently.
Please investigate and fix this issue as soon as possible.
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Regret buying this machine
I wasted almost $1,000 on a Cricut Maker, accessories, and materials.
I completely bought into Cricut’s marketing. They make it look like you’re buying into a polished, professional crafting ecosystem. Premium hardware. Premium experience. Premium software.
What I actually got was hardware that’s held hostage by software that is, frankly, total canine excrement.
Design Space is one of the worst pieces of commercial software I’ve ever had the misfortune of using.
The interface is unbelievably clunky. Simple operations take far more clicks than they should. Selecting objects, aligning them, grouping, arranging layers, resizing, or even navigating around the canvas feels like you’re constantly fighting the software instead of using it.
Even importing your own images or SVGs is more cumbersome than it should be. Rather than simply opening or dragging a file straight onto the canvas, Design Space routes it through an upload workflow before you can place it into the project. It isn’t difficult, but it’s unnecessary friction in what should be an instant operation.
Its bitmap conversion tools are also poor. Image cleanup, background removal, and converting artwork into clean cut paths often produce disappointing results. I quickly learned that if I wanted good results, I’d have to prepare my artwork in another program first.
To make matters worse, the interface is cluttered with locked content. Basic fonts, images, and design elements are littered with Cricut Access icons, constantly reminding you that even after spending hundreds of dollars on the machine, you’re still being pushed toward a monthly subscription. Instead of feeling like professional software, Design Space often feels more like a storefront than a design application.
Then there’s reliability—or rather, the complete lack of it.
Connection issues are common enough that restarting Design Space, reconnecting Bluetooth, power cycling the machine, or simply hoping the next launch works has become part of the normal workflow. A cutting machine should behave like a printer: click Make, and it cuts. Instead, every project feels like a gamble.
Performance is equally terrible. Even on a modern PC, the application feels sluggish. Large projects slow to a crawl. Random freezes aren’t unusual. Every update seems to fix a handful of bugs while introducing new ones. Software updates should make a product better, not make you wonder what broke this time.
The irony is that the Maker itself is actually a capable machine. The hardware isn’t the problem. Cricut built a solid cutter and then shackled it to software that feels like it’s perpetually stuck in beta.
What’s even more frustrating is that Design Space isn’t trying to compete with Illustrator, Affinity Designer, CorelDRAW, or Inkscape. Most experienced users create their designs elsewhere anyway. Design Space’s job is simply to let me import artwork, make a few edits, arrange it on a cutting mat, and reliably send it to the machine.
It doesn’t even excel at that.
Design Space feels like software designed by marketers instead of people who actually make things.
I didn’t spend nearly $1,000 expecting perfection.
I expected software that was fast, reliable, and stayed out of my way.
Instead, I got slow performance, an awkward interface, constant upselling, mediocre image tools, connection headaches, and software that regularly turns what should be a five-minute task into a frustrating exercise in troubleshooting..
More importantly, Cricut’s customers deserve better.
I completely bought into Cricut’s marketing. They make it look like you’re buying into a polished, professional crafting ecosystem. Premium hardware. Premium experience. Premium software.
What I actually got was hardware that’s held hostage by software that is, frankly, total canine excrement.
Design Space is one of the worst pieces of commercial software I’ve ever had the misfortune of using.
The interface is unbelievably clunky. Simple operations take far more clicks than they should. Selecting objects, aligning them, grouping, arranging layers, resizing, or even navigating around the canvas feels like you’re constantly fighting the software instead of using it.
Even importing your own images or SVGs is more cumbersome than it should be. Rather than simply opening or dragging a file straight onto the canvas, Design Space routes it through an upload workflow before you can place it into the project. It isn’t difficult, but it’s unnecessary friction in what should be an instant operation.
Its bitmap conversion tools are also poor. Image cleanup, background removal, and converting artwork into clean cut paths often produce disappointing results. I quickly learned that if I wanted good results, I’d have to prepare my artwork in another program first.
To make matters worse, the interface is cluttered with locked content. Basic fonts, images, and design elements are littered with Cricut Access icons, constantly reminding you that even after spending hundreds of dollars on the machine, you’re still being pushed toward a monthly subscription. Instead of feeling like professional software, Design Space often feels more like a storefront than a design application.
Then there’s reliability—or rather, the complete lack of it.
Connection issues are common enough that restarting Design Space, reconnecting Bluetooth, power cycling the machine, or simply hoping the next launch works has become part of the normal workflow. A cutting machine should behave like a printer: click Make, and it cuts. Instead, every project feels like a gamble.
Performance is equally terrible. Even on a modern PC, the application feels sluggish. Large projects slow to a crawl. Random freezes aren’t unusual. Every update seems to fix a handful of bugs while introducing new ones. Software updates should make a product better, not make you wonder what broke this time.
The irony is that the Maker itself is actually a capable machine. The hardware isn’t the problem. Cricut built a solid cutter and then shackled it to software that feels like it’s perpetually stuck in beta.
What’s even more frustrating is that Design Space isn’t trying to compete with Illustrator, Affinity Designer, CorelDRAW, or Inkscape. Most experienced users create their designs elsewhere anyway. Design Space’s job is simply to let me import artwork, make a few edits, arrange it on a cutting mat, and reliably send it to the machine.
It doesn’t even excel at that.
Design Space feels like software designed by marketers instead of people who actually make things.
I didn’t spend nearly $1,000 expecting perfection.
I expected software that was fast, reliable, and stayed out of my way.
Instead, I got slow performance, an awkward interface, constant upselling, mediocre image tools, connection headaches, and software that regularly turns what should be a five-minute task into a frustrating exercise in troubleshooting..
More importantly, Cricut’s customers deserve better.
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Problemas desde mi aplicación en el celular
Desde qué actualizaron la plataforma tengo muchas fallas no me deja imprimir no me deja hacer prácticamente nada y todo se me hacía más fácil desde mi celular y no veo respuesta y ni que me ayuden a resolverlo
Do not use
Tries to get you to pay a subscription to features that were free a month ago
Unreliable
I’m not a new user and am extremely familiar with the program itself. My issue is that if I need to do anything else on my phone (click a notification, answer a call) or need to set my phone down while cleaning up a file to upload, the app just lets it go back to the blank canvas. I have spent literal hours on files that have disappeared into the ether. Honestly, I wouldn’t even use it on my phone anymore because it chews up the battery, but my laptop runs Linux, which isn’t supported.
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Not happy with the Auto Save feature
I hadn’t used Design Space for a couple of months and this week I found projects were automatically saving after every adjustment or tweak. Although good in theory, it’s been very frustrating because I keep losing some of my desired setups when I continue experimenting and then can’t get back to the way I had it. Also…it keeps saving my projects as ‘untitled project’ before I have the chance to name the project. I work primarily on an iPad. I was able a few times to turn off Auto Save but not always. I liked it much better when I was able to decide when I was ready to save my project.
Update…..customer service shared how to disable Auto Save (…. Menu) and that has worked. I still have to go I and rename the project (it still initially saves as untitled project) but at least I can decide when it is ready to save.
Update…..customer service shared how to disable Auto Save (…. Menu) and that has worked. I still have to go I and rename the project (it still initially saves as untitled project) but at least I can decide when it is ready to save.
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Me gustaría saber
En Cricut joy quitaron la opción de dibujar, porque? Espero que con la nueva actualización la regresen
Always Something
I bought my machine in 2020 and there is always something wrong with the app. They are usually changing something that literally nobody wants changed. Leave it alone! It is not user friendly whatsoever.
I hate this app
Genuinely the most user unfriendly app I have ever used. Don’t get me wrong I use it willingly but it’s because I love doing crafts like putting vinyl on shirts and cars and things. HOWEVER if I zoom out or zoom in it’s because I meant to this stupid app makes me do it twice every freaking time. It is so touchy but then it isn’t at all you have to do everything twice to get it to work.
The developers seriously need to fix that.
Also. Stop changing the app and moving everything around. The effects section pmo now just should have left it the way it was before.
Signed a very frustrated user.
The developers seriously need to fix that.
Also. Stop changing the app and moving everything around. The effects section pmo now just should have left it the way it was before.
Signed a very frustrated user.
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So buggy
Bro this app for my iPad is so frustrating to use my gosh it lags nothing moves when you want it to move you click on something and it selects something else it’s so bad fix it!!
Not happy with the Auto Save feature
I hadn’t used Design Space for a couple of months and this week I found projects were automatically saving after every adjustment or tweak. Although good in theory, it’s been very frustrating because I keep losing some of my desired setups when I continue experimenting and then can’t get back to the way I had it. Also…it keeps saving my projects as ‘untitled project’ before I have the chance to name the project. I work primarily on an iPad. I was able a few times to turn off Auto Save but not always. I liked it much better when I was able to decide when I was ready to save my project.
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Hate
I absolutely hate this app, it tries to force their subscription service constantly. The last design I made it stopped progress at around 75% on my iPad but was actually finished and it just stayed on that screen. After much time I finally got the design released but now I have tried to work on another project and it will not load. I checked to see if the app needed to update, unplugged my cricut, counted and retried. I wish I could print projects from procreate. This is extremely annoying considering the pricey tag to purchase the device to begin with. I see that there is an update coming, hopefully that will help. I will update if loading and unloading problems are resolved.
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Crashing all the time
This app has been crashing for days now & you have still not fixed it why?
Horrible
This app and or printer does not working I’ve been messing with it for 4 hours straight now n it’s just gotten so much worse Bluetooth issues it won’t cut anything it keeps misreading the size of my vinyl saying it’s too small because it’s 2 inches meanwhile it’s actually 15 inches and it won’t read correctly the app is so difficult too work as well constant issues !!!!
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Crashes Galore
constant crashing after uploading one image. not ideal.
