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 transform your doodles and sketches into machine embroidery designs without needing complex digitization skills. Import images to trace or draw directly on your iPad, then export to compatible desktop software for final adjustments and machine use.
- Doodle and sketch custom embroidery designs
- Trace imported images
- Draw running stitches, satin stitches, fills, and appliqués
- Companion app for desktop software
- Save and share designs from iPad
- Create with finger or Apple Pencil
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Design Doodler – Machine Embroidery Fun for Everyone Turn your doodles into stitches! Design Doodler by Embroidery Legacy lets you doodle, sketch, or trace your own custom machine embroidery designs, without learning to digitize. Whether you’re drawing something new, tracing a favorite photo, or turning a child’s artwork into a keepsake, Design Doodler makes creating your own embroidery designs fun and approachable CREATE YOUR WAY • Draw running stitches, satin stitches, fills, and appliqués. • Import images to trace into embroidery designs. • Create on your iPad using your finger or an Apple Pencil. • Create from anywhere, including your couch! • Connect multiple objects with easy-to-use pathing. • Reduce unnecessary trims with intelligent Automatic Branching. FROM IPAD TO EMBROIDERY MACHINE This is the companion iPad app for Embroidery Legacy’s Design Doodler desktop software. Save and share your designs from your iPad, then open them in Design Doodler on your Windows computer to make final adjustments and export them in a compatible format for your embroidery machine. PLEASE NOTE You need Design Doodler desktop software to export machine embroidery files. Learn more: https://embroiderylegacy.com/embroidery-software/ Your ideas. Your stitches. 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 4.1 against Embroidery Design Doodler's 2.8. Ditto Patterns also leads on ratings volume (250 vs 41) 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, 4.1 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ditto Patterns has 250 ratings behind it against 41, 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 November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Embroidery Design Doodler | Ditto Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (41 ratings) | 4.1 (250 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.0% of reviews — better | 19.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 41 | 250 — 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 Co. Ltd. | NEWCO JODITO LLC |
Customer experience
Embroidery Design Doodler
Ditto Patterns
User reviews
Embroidery Design Doodler
From 41 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and easy to use
- 💡 Great for creating simple designs
- 🎨 Good for drawing and tracing
- 🌟 Potential for great tool
- 👨👩👧👦 Easy for grandkids to use
Room to improve
- 💸 Overpriced, especially for iPad app
- 🐛 Unstable, crashes frequently
- 🚫 App won't launch or open
- 🎛️ Controls don't make sense
- 📏 Resizing is difficult and imprecise
Ditto Patterns
From 250 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Cuts pattern making time
- 💡 Customizable patterns to measurements
- 💡 Potential for amazing tool
- 💡 Good tutorials in app
- 💡 Solid hardware build quality
Room to improve
- 😞 Very rare to find readable patterns
- 😞 App and website do not work
- 😞 Hard to navigate app
- 😞 Waste of money and time
- 😞 Pattern did not adjust to measurements
Bugs and requests
Embroidery Design Doodler
Reported bugs
13 issues- App won't launch or open
- Crashes frequently, especially at the end of projects
- Background images erase or don't save
- Cannot zoom out past 1x1
- License key issues
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- Constant freeze-ups and shut downs
- Reshaping and tapering tools cause crashes
- App uninstalls and reinstalls make it worse
- App force closes when loading content
- Cannot save files without a license number
- Application does not open
- Recognizes hand resting on iPad as drawing input
- Color palettes not working or registering changes
Requested features
19 requests- Pinch and zoom functionality
- Palm rejection for Apple Pencil
- Stitch settings pop up on double click
- Color picker for thread
- Different hoop options
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- Export to embroidery format directly from iPad
- Auto-save feature
- Smaller icon option on iPad
- Improved iPad-specific design and gestures
- Support for Apple Pencil Pro squeeze gesture
- Better integration with iPad gestures like three-finger undo
- Ability to zoom out past 1x1
- Saving background images with projects
- More intuitive controls and resizing
- More precise measurements for resizing
- Clearer explanation of licensing and costs
- More frequent updates for the iPad app
- Improved color palette functionality
- Ability to type text directly
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
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