# Cross-Stitch: Color by Number — Cross stitch with your photos!

> Digital cross-stitch coloring by number with photo conversion. (iPhone/iPad app by 炳甲 梁.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cross-stitch-color-by-number/id1246165006 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [炳甲 梁](https://appshunter.io/developer/1157827144)
- Category: Entertainment, Games, Puzzle, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 15,807 App Store ratings · 938 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15 · 157 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2017-08-25
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cross-stitch-color-by-number/id1246165006/reviews.md

## What is Cross?

Enjoy doing Cross-Stitch patterns on your Tablet or Mobile device without threading a needle or hurting your finger!
100000+ different style patterns for you to choose.
Cross Stitch helps practice concentration and also have a great time!
Drop all the colored cross stitches in the correct place and watch your embroidery.
"This is a great activity to practice your drawing and coloring skills. It's also fun for any age to try to finish the drawing and coloring."
Turn your own photos into cross-stitch patterns!
New patterns released weekly!
Different categories: Animals, Art, Flowers, Landscape, People, Comic, Pets and more
Exquisite Tools for you.
Easy way to play with taps for stitches!
color by numbers game!
Sandbox coloring book!
Cross Stitch can be played anytime and anywhere!
It's time to relax! DOWNLOAD NOW!
Subscription information
Premium Membership Crossstitch Monthly subscription and Crossstitch Yearly subscription for unlimited access to all premium patterns, photo-to-stitch conversion, and removing ads. Prices vary by region.
(i) $9.99 / Month
(ii) $59.99 / Year
Pricing in countries may vary, and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence.
Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
You can turn off the auto-renew for the subscription whenever you want to through iTunes. Check https://support.apple.com/HT202039. When your current trial/subscription period expires, you will be unsubscribed. The current active subscription period can not be canceled. After your subscription expires, you will no longer be able to use sticker packs marked as Premium.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us at creative.feedback@hotmail.com.
Terms of use: http://incolor.cc/en/nodraw_termsofservice.html
privacy policy:http://incolor.cc/en/nodraw_privacy.html

## Key features

- Turn photos into cross-stitch patterns
- 100,000+ diverse patterns
- Weekly new pattern releases
- Practice concentration and coloring skills
- Easy tap controls for stitches
- Color by numbers gameplay

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cross Stitch subscribe | $59.99 | per year |
| Cross Stitch subscribe | $9.99 | per month |
| Weekly Subscription | $3.49 | per 7 days |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| coins level1 | $4.99 | one-time |
| coins level2 | $9.99 | one-time |
| coins level 3 | $19.99 | one-time |
| coins level 4 | $39.99 | one-time |
| gift | $4.99 | one-time |
| NO ADS | $0.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Cross?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 💡 Ability to import own pictures
- 👍 Relaxing and addictive gameplay
- 🚀 Decent coin earning system
- 👍 Saves progress and allows returning to projects

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Issues with syncing progress across devices
- 🐛 Disappearing purchased content
- 🐛 Glitches with completed pictures
- 🔍 Difficulty finding and accessing purchased content

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Completed pictures showing as unfinished
- Inability to access or continue in-progress pictures
- Coins not awarded for completed pictures
- Subscription issues and inability to restore purchases

**Most requested features**

- More free picture options
- Ability to zoom and pan with one finger
- Option to disable sound effects
- Ability to view all purchased content in one place
- Print completed pictures for physical cross-stitching

## Recent user reviews (10 of 938)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cross-stitch-color-by-number/id1246165006/reviews.md

### 1/5 — I loved this app, but there’s a massive glitch

*2026-08-14, version 1.2.0*

Edit: lowered my rating because it just keeps happening. It’s so frustrating. This app really was great but this glitch is disastrous and I can’t color anything myself anymore. I spend an hour working on one of the large size pictures, doing 50% of it, then I leave to do something else, only to find that it just auto-completed the rest. That is so. Frustrating. Please fix this!! It makes me so sad. I loved this app. If this glitch gets fixed I will raise my rating again because everything else about it is great. 


Old review:
I’m a big fan of the app, used it for a long time. But I’ve had a frustrating issue for several years now, and I’ve tried to report it multiple times in the app, and I’ve gotten no responses, and no updates have fixed the issue. Hopefully leaving a review on here works better. 

I pay for the subscription, and I often upload my own images to cross stitch in the largest size. I enjoy the process of a big cross stitch of an image I like. I used to have no issues with it, but since several years ago, there’s been a very annoying glitch. If I leave a stitch and return later, randomly, it will automatically fill in a bunch of squares in the cross stitch. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it’s a random speckle of correct colors filled in, sometimes it’s massive, thick lines of one color (usually white?) spanning the whole image (creating thousands of mistakes I have to unpick), or sometimes it just fills in the entire image instantly. All three of these are very, very frustrating to me. Occasionally, if I leave quickly before it saves, and enter it again, the problem will be gone. Usually, however, the problem either persists or worsens, adding even more filled-in squares. The only workaround I’ve found is to completely renew the image, restart all my progress, and just complete the entire thing in one sitting. This is not reasonable, as the stitches are huge and often take me several hours to finish, which is why I separate it out across multiple days. 

I just want to complete the images myself. Sometimes it lets me do it without issue, but I shouldn’t have to struggle this much just to complete my own images. I really hope the developers see this and help me out by removing this huge glitch.

### 3/5 — Still not fixed

*2026-08-06, version 1.2.0*

Got a pop up that my problem had been addressed. NOT A
tHING different. I have now lost three and a half months of sub scription as well as all the work I have completed...some 80 so far. I am incredibly disappointed and angry that the owners seem to be impossible to contact. Not everyone does the stupidity called Facebook. At this point, no update has happened, my work and money are lost, the app developers are non responsive. There should be negative stars at this point.

### 3/5 — From 10/10 to 3/10

*2026-07-23*

I originally had my mom download this app on my phone back when CS came out and I saw it advertised on another app. But I noticed it had an update, so I deleted and redownloaded the app on my own account. AND THATS MY PROBLEM. I hate the current version of CS. The only good thing that came out of updating CS is that when I miss click, it doesn’t incorrectly color (and I don’t have to erase it). I can’t color without being moved, and I hate that I can’t zoom out without the image appearing over my progress (I miss the button that made the image pop up in the corner). Also, I can’t tell if it’s image quality that went down or if it’s a font change? Something is visually tripping me up while coloring. I miss the old version of CS that I was playing. I own almost 80 packs and was dreading having to redo over 600 images (bc I deleted and redownloaded the app). But now I don’t have to dread as I probably won’t have to do that unless there is an update to fix the issues I mentioned above.

### 1/5 — Horrible update

*2026-07-21, version 1.2.0*

I am no longer a fan of this ap. I had to uninstall and reinstall the ap so it would work. I lost ALL of my works and coins. The screen is too touchy.  When filling in colors the screen suddenly moves. Touch the screen an it enlarges.  There needs to be a lock button to prevent it from moving. I like to use my own photos, but when I select it to be large and use 20 colors, it automatically uses all of the colors.

### 1/5 — why is everything ai?

*2026-07-17, version 1.2.0*

used to have this app and loved it, only deleted it because i was having storage issues. redownloaded and went to buy a pack, why is almost everything ai slop? highly disappointed. went to look at recent reviews and saw apparently the quality has tanked recently. not even going to try and use, especially after seeing a review claiming malware came from an ad on here.

### 2/5 — Quality

*2026-07-14, version 1.2.0*

The quality has gone so down in the last year. It doesn’t make you fix your mistakes anymore and there’s an ad every few minutes.
There animals listed under the wrong labels and most of the pictures look like AI slop.

### 2/5 — I loved this app, but there’s a massive glitch

*2026-07-13, version 1.2.0*

I’m a big fan of the app, used it for a long time. But I’ve had a frustrating issue for several years now, and I’ve tried to report it multiple times in the app, and I’ve gotten no responses, and no updates have fixed the issue. Hopefully leaving a review on here works better. 

I pay for the subscription, and I often upload my own images to cross stitch in the largest size. I enjoy the process of a big cross stitch of an image I like. I used to have no issues with it, but since several years ago, there’s been a very annoying glitch. If I leave a stitch and return later, randomly, it will automatically fill in a bunch of squares in the cross stitch. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it’s a random speckle of correct colors filled in, sometimes it’s massive, thick lines of one color (usually white?) spanning the whole image (creating thousands of mistakes I have to unpick), or sometimes it just fills in the entire image instantly. All three of these are very, very frustrating to me. Occasionally, if I leave quickly before it saves, and enter it again, the problem will be gone. Usually, however, the problem either persists or worsens, adding even more filled-in squares. The only workaround I’ve found is to completely renew the image, restart all my progress, and just complete the entire thing in one sitting. This is not reasonable, as the stitches are huge and often take me several hours to finish, which is why I separate it out across multiple days. 

I just want to complete the images myself. Sometimes it lets me do it without issue, but I shouldn’t have to struggle this much just to complete my own images. I really hope the developers see this and help me out by removing this huge glitch.

### 1/5 — New version SUCKS

*2026-07-09, version 1.2.0*

The old version was WAY better. I paid for ad free and used it everyday, but the new version isn’t the same. They changed how the images look and how you can color. 
You can’t make any mistakes, it basically just lets you drag your finger across all the boxes and colors the ones it wants. 
It’s completely unenjoyable now, this was my favorite app. 
I ended up deleting the app entirely because the new version SUCKS.
Change it back!

### 2/5 — Used to be a great Cross Stitch app.

*2026-07-09, version 1.2.0*

For whatever reason they’ve taken the little viewfinder away in the corner so I can no longer see my progress as I go unless I actually zoom out. (Just give me a button to turn it on and off) not to mention there’s literally only 8 free ones so once those are done, it’s basically impossible to be able to get more without actually spending money. The “free” gifts of coins you get as a reward while working requires you to watch a whole 30 second- 1 minute video ad in order to accept it. For 50 coins. This app has become a predatory, money-grubbing nightmare. Do better developers.

### 4/5 — Super Spiel

*2026-07-07*

Ich habe schon sehr viele Bilder „gestickt“. 
Leider lassen sich meine ersten Bilder nicht mehr aufrufen. Sie werden sofort gelöscht.
Schade ist ganz besonders, daß auch viele private Bilder nicht mehr da sind.
Ansonsten macht es sehr viel Spaß.

## Frequently asked questions about Cross

### What is Cross-Stitch: Color by Number?

This app allows you to create digital cross-stitch art. You can either choose from a large library of pre-made patterns or convert your own photos into cross-stitch designs. It's a relaxing way to practice coloring and concentration without the need for physical materials.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include the ability to turn your photos into cross-stitch patterns, access to over 100,000 different style patterns, weekly new pattern releases, and easy tap controls for placing stitches. It functions as a color-by-numbers game and a sandbox coloring book.

### How much does Cross-Stitch: Color by Number cost?

The app is free to download and play, but offers optional premium subscriptions for unlimited access to premium patterns, photo-to-stitch conversion, and ad removal. Pricing varies by region, with monthly and yearly options available.

### What kind of patterns are available?

The app offers a wide variety of patterns across many categories, including Animals, Art, Flowers, Landscape, People, Comic, and Pets. New patterns are also released weekly, ensuring a constantly updated selection.

### Who is this app for?

This app is designed for anyone who enjoys coloring, pixel art, or cross-stitch. It's a great activity for practicing concentration and creativity, suitable for all ages looking for a relaxing and engaging digital pastime.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-05-01

In this version, we're dedicated to bringing you more fun, more challenges, and more creativity!
Performance Optimization: We've been working hard to boost performance, fix known issues, and refine the overall user experience.
Diverse Themes: We've carefully curated a variety of themed coloring pages so you can enjoy the charm of different cultures while you color.
Update now and join players around the world on this dazzling coloring adventure!

### 1.1.22 — 2026-03-26

In this version, we are committed to bringing you more fun, more challenges, and more creativity!
Performance optimization: We have been working hard to improve performance, fix some known issues, and optimize the overall user experience.
Diverse Themes: Carefully selected a variety of themed coloring pictures, allowing you to experience more cultural charm while filling in colors.
Update now and enjoy thousands of new patterns in our growing collection!

### 1.1.21 — 2026-03-05

In this version, we are committed to bringing you more fun, more challenges, and more creativity!
Performance optimization: We have been working hard to improve performance, fix some known issues, and optimize the overall user experience.
Diverse Themes: Carefully selected a variety of themed coloring pictures, allowing you to experience more cultural charm while filling in colors.
Update now and embark on this vibrant coloring adventure with players worldwide!

### 1.1.20 — 2026-02-13

In this version, we are committed to bringing you more fun, more challenges, and more creativity!
Performance optimization: We have been working hard to improve performance, fix some known issues, and optimize the overall user experience.
Diverse Themes: Carefully selected a variety of themed coloring pictures, allowing you to experience more cultural charm while filling in colors.
Update now and embark on this vibrant coloring adventure with players worldwide!

### 1.1.15 — 2025-01-11

In this version, we are committed to bringing you more fun, more challenges, and more creativity!
Performance optimization: We have been working hard to improve performance, fix some known issues, and optimize the overall user experience.
Diverse Themes: Carefully selected a variety of themed coloring pictures, allowing you to experience more cultural charm while filling in colors.
Update now and embark on this vibrant coloring adventure with players worldwide!

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