Cross Stitch game changer
I have been cross stitching for 30 years, always using paper charts and marking them up directly with pencil and then with highlighter. I spent a long time researching cross stitching apps in the last year wondering why there would be any point paying for something that I have been doing for free for so long. I finally took the plunge and wow am I so glad I did. Markup R-XP has completely changed my relationship with my craft. It makes the process of stitching - finding stitches, keeping track of where I am, - easy and enjoyable and I honestly can’t quite believe that I spent so many years without it. The added bonus of support and advice from the developer and the absolute care and attention to detail that they provide is outstanding.
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Getting there
I’m finding it much easier to fix problems when charts won’t load properly and keys can’t be read. I really like the way a chart will show in black and white until stitches are marked, then marked stitches are in colour so the chart develops along with the cross stitch. Much prettier than my old method of greying out stitches. I’m finding it very difficult to use for blackwork and backstitch, so I’m not using it for that. It crashes a lot when patterns are being uploaded and updated, hope that the latest update fixes that.
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Update is terrible
Losing the ability to have the pattern broken down into pages was such a blow. My giant pattern is now chaos. Bring back individual pages. Bring back buttons for zoom, moving the page, and mark up. Just a heartbreaking update. Went from highly functional to awkward and time consuming.
The perfect tool for tapestry and crossstitch
I have it on my tablet and it works perfectly. PDF patterns are uploaded clearly and marking progress is very easy. The most recent updates have made it even better, with the whole pattern on one page, and can be magnified clearly.
Some bugs
I enjoy this app and it does make my cross stitching easier. However, I am struggling to change the color of the markup and it is making it an opaque color that can be hard to see what I marked up. It is clearly a low budget app, but other than that it works.
