Embroidery Design Doodler vs Ditto Patterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Embroidery Design Doodler
Easily create custom machine embroidery designs by doodling, sketching, or tracing. This app offers drawing tools for various stitch types and intelligent pathing for seamless stitching. Output designs compatible with all embroidery machine brands.
- Doodle, sketch, or trace designs
- Create running, satin, and fill stitches
- Applique creation
- Easy-to-use pathing for uninterrupted stitches
- Automatic branching for cleaner results
- Machine-friendly embroidery output
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Design Doodler- Machine Embroidery Fun for Everyone Looking for an easy way to create your own custom embroidery designs – without digitizing? The “Design Doodler” will allow you to doodle, sketch, or trace your own machine-friendly embroidery designs! This fun, feature-packed program incorporates a drawing tool allowing you to create running, satin, fill stitches, appliques, and more. This is a companion iPad app for The Deer’s Embroidery Legacy “Design Doodler” software. Visit us to find out more about it at https://www.digitizingmadeeasy.com/embroidery-software-design-doodler/ Creating embroidery designs has never been easier by implementing our “easy-to-use pathing” for connecting multiple objects as one uninterrupted stitch. We’ve also incorporated an intelligent “Automatic Branching” feature to help reduce unnecessary trims and produce cleaner, faster results on your embroidery machine. The Deer’s Embroidery Legacy “Design Doodler” will allow you to Doodle any artwork into machine-friendly embroidery designs. This fun, feature-packed program incorporates a drawing tool allowing you to create running, satin, fill stitches, appliques, and more. Creating embroidery designs has never been easier by implementing our “easy-to-use pathing” for connecting multiple objects as one uninterrupted stitch. We’ve also incorporated an intelligent “Automatic Branching” feature to help reduce unnecessary trims and produce cleaner, faster results on your machine. Then with Design Doodler desktop software you can output your designs in embroidery formats that will run on all brands of home and commercial embroidery machines making this software “Embroidery Fun for Everyone.”
Ditto Patterns
This app is part of a digital pattern projection system for home sewists. It allows users to customize patterns with their body measurements in real time, making sewing more adaptable and efficient. The system aims to revolutionize pattern making by offering paperless, personalized garment creation.
- Paperless pattern projection
- Customizable patterns
- Real-time body measurement adaptation
- Algorithmic pattern intelligence
- Pattern customization on website
- App connects to projector
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Ditto is the first-ever digital pattern projection system for home sewists. Ditto combines digital projection with algorithmic intelligence to make patterns paperless, customizable and adaptable to any body measurements in real time. The system compresses hours into minutes and marks the first evolution in patterns in 160 years. Ditto is the future of sewing, enabling the freedom of expression, the freedom of fit and the joy of clothes reflecting who you are. Ditto gets to the fun part faster. Ditto is an ecosystem that includes: • The website where you customize and purchase your pattern • The hardware, including the projector and cutting mat • The app that connects with and sends your pattern to the projector How Ditto works: 1. Customize your pattern on the dittopatterns.com website. Your selected style with your measurements updated instantly. 2. Launch the Ditto app and calibrate with the Ditto mat 3. Project and cut your pattern Ditto comes with hundreds of customizable, original patterns that can be modified in thousands of ways to create truly individualized garments. Ditto’s expansive library of customizable patterns creates countless possibilities. Changing a neckline or sleeve, or flaring out a skirt or pant leg are just a few examples of what is possible in a few clicks within dittopatterns.com. As changes are made, the technical illustration will reflect the choices in real time, allowing the sewist to approve the design or keep editing until each garment is exactly what they envision.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ditto Patterns at 4.0 against Embroidery Design Doodler's 2.9. Ditto Patterns also leads on ratings volume (203 vs 36) and device support (3 vs 1). Embroidery Design Doodler's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (35% vs 19%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ditto Patterns holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ditto Patterns has 203 ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Embroidery Design Doodler's written reviews are positive against 19% of Ditto Patterns's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Embroidery Design Doodler | Ditto Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (36 ratings) | 4.0 (203 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.0% of reviews — better | 19.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 36 | 203 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dress Crest Embroidery Company Limited | NEWCO JODITO LLC |
Customer experience
Embroidery Design Doodler
Ditto Patterns
Bugs and requests
Embroidery Design Doodler
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ditto Patterns
Reported bugs
17 issues- App and website do not work
- Projector light goes out when sending patterns
- Cannot calibrate patterns
- Yellow 'uploads' box not appearing
- Pattern did not adjust to measurements
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- Instructions for neckline incorrect
- App won't close with swipe
- Projector won't connect to WiFi
- Projector stopped pairing
- App won't connect to projector
- Projector doesn't find projector after password
- App crashes frequently
- Calibration verification shapes consistently off
- App won't connect iPhone/iPad to projector
- Internal server error when accessing patterns
- Cannot import PDF patterns
- Customizable patterns are buggy
Requested features
22 requests- Improve pattern readability
- Fix app and website functionality
- Improve app navigation
- Enable local storage for patterns
- Allow users to store patterns on device for free
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- Improve pattern instructions
- Fix BYOP functionality
- Fix app not closing with swipe
- Add more attractive pattern selections
- Improve customer service response time
- Allow phone app to work in portrait mode
- Improve mobile UI/UX
- Allow purchasing and stitching patterns in app
- Add advanced calibration mode
- Improve website filtering and speed
- Allow importing existing PDF patterns
- Expand pattern library
- Include all patterns in subscription
- Fix internal server errors
- Allow users to use PDFs from other designers
- Add more stylish patterns
- Allow users more control over patterns
In-app purchases
Embroidery Design Doodler
No in-app purchases
Ditto Patterns
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Embroidery Design Doodler free?
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