StitchSketch vs BeadsDesign
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StitchSketch
Create custom charts for various craft projects like cross-stitch, bead weaving, and knitting patterns. Convert photos into charts, draw with symbols, and utilize a real-time simulation view. Save, email, or print your designs in various formats.
- Design charts for cross-stitch, bead weaving, knitting, and pixel art
- Convert photos into custom charts
- Draw with symbols and various drawing tools
- Simulate finished image with real view
- Save, email, and print charts in PNG or PDF
- Supports multiple color palettes and knitting symbols
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Design your own chart for your craft project! StitchSketch was developed by a creator of the popular software program "KG-Chart for Cross Stitch". This mobile version utilizes intuitive "touch" user interface of mobile devices. Features includes: - Design your own chart for craft works such as: Cross Stitch (Crossstitch), Bead Weaving, Iron Beads (Perler(R) Beads), Knitting pattern, Color Knitting, Pixel Art, and more! - This is also suited for drawing "dotted" pictures (Pixel Art), such as icons in low resolution - Convert your photo into a chart - Draw chart with a symbol in a cell - Maximum chart size is 250 x 250 - Pixel & Vector Drawing (Backstitch, Fractional Stitch, Hardanger) - Pinch to zoom - Generic color palette and Color Charts (palette) for: DMC(R), DFT, COSMO, Delica, Toho Best, Perler(R) Beads - Knitting Symbols (Amizu Kigou (JIS)) for designing knitting pattern - Rectangular cell size - Real view to simulate finished image - Undo / Redo - Drawing tools: Pencil, Rectangle, Ellipse, Flood Fill, Text - Selecting Tool: Selection and Cut/Copy/Paste/Rotate/Flip/Stamp - Edit colors and symbols - Save or Email a chart as native format or PNG image - Generate a chart in PDF for emailing or printing. - Organize charts with thumbnails - Support Dropbox - Notes: The chart file is not compatible with KG-Chart (win) right now. *** User's Manual / Tutorials are here: http://www.iktsoft.net/kgchart-en/StitchSketch/manual
BeadsDesign
Create pixel art designs for iron beads and bead weaving. Import photos, scan them into a canvas, and use various tools to edit and export your creations. Supports multiple panel shapes and color manipulation.
- Photo import and editing
- Photo scanning onto canvas
- Multiple panel shapes
- Zoom, pan, and color selection tools
- Flood fill and undo/redo functionality
- Color replacement and grayscale conversion
- Export designs to photo library
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BeadsDesign is an application to create pixel art for iron-on beads, beads stitching. You can load photo and scan it into the pixel art canvas which size is from 8x8 to 128x128. You can use circle, hexagon, brick shape panel for iron-on beads or beads stithing. [main facilities] - import and edit photos with 128x128 and less - scan photos on the canvas of the favorite size - stick a photo to the rough sketch view as a model. - output the photo image into the photo library. - zoom in, zoom out - move the canvas with 2 fingers swipe - long press to pick color - flood fill - undo,redo - color selection by RGB slider - selected color history - replace all pixels of specified color to other color - decrease color - convert canvas to grayscale - Display the canvas with numbers expressing colors
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BeadsDesign at Free against StitchSketch's $9.99. BeadsDesign also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1). StitchSketch's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (73% vs 55%). On update cadence, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
BeadsDesign is free to download; StitchSketch costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BeadsDesign holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StitchSketch has 404 ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of StitchSketch's written reviews are positive against 55% of BeadsDesign's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
StitchSketch ships an update every 2 weeks, BeadsDesign every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | StitchSketch | BeadsDesign |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (404 ratings) | 4.7 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 55.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 404 — better | 65 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #52 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mozusystems, LLC | HIDEHIKO NAGANO |
Customer experience
StitchSketch
BeadsDesign
Bugs and requests
StitchSketch
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezes when using certain characters in file names
- Color selection issues after deleting colors
- Inconsistent behavior when pasting designs
- Printing issues (e.g. designs not fitting on page)
Requested features
6 requests- Add support for half stitches
- Improve backstitch functionality
- Increase canvas size limit
- Implement auto-save feature
- Add more stitch types (e.g. peyote, brick)
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- Improve color management (e.g. custom palettes, color replacement)
BeadsDesign
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StitchSketch
No in-app purchases
BeadsDesign
No in-app purchases
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