Pixel vs StitchDuck

Your photo, turned into a pattern you can actually make. Pixela turns any picture into a crisp pixel grid with a tidy color palette and a printable chart — so you can recreate it however you like: • Perler / Hama beads — get the bead-by-bead layout for your next fuse-bead art. • Cross-stitch & embroidery — symbols per color and a printable chart to stitch from. • Knitting & crochet — color-work charts (intarsia, tapestry, C2C, jacquard): one square per stitch/block. • Quilting & patchwork — each pixel becomes a fabric square. • Pixel art, sprites & icons — turn a photo or your own drawing/sketch into true pixels with a controlled palette; export a clean PNG. • Event & stadium mosaics — plan "pixel performances" and card stunts, seat by seat, sized in meters. • Wall decor & murals — set the centimeters per tile and get the real wall size to paint or tile. • LEGO & brick mosaics — each pixel is one brick on the baseplate. • LED matrices & low-res screens — a pixel map to wire or program each LED. • Gifts & keepsakes — turn a pet, a portrait, or a logo into a handmade piece. • Drawings, coloring pages & templates — a ready-made grid to trace, color, or hand off. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Pick a photo — Pixela builds the pattern in seconds. • Control the look — set the number of columns and palette colors with live sliders. • Color symbols — every color gets a letter so it's easy to follow (great for color-vision needs). • Printable PDF — a clean legend plus the full symbol chart, ready to print or share. • Export a clean PNG — the pure pixel art with no grid or symbols, ready to use as a sprite, sticker, or poster. • Real thread colors — see the nearest DMC floss for every color, and swap any color for the one you prefer. • Real finished size at any scale — stitches (Aida), beads, or big tiles; shown in cm or meters, so you can size a wall mural or a whole stadium mosaic. • Track your progress — mark finished cells and watch your % climb. • Pinch to zoom, tap "1:1" to see the whole thing — built for big, detailed pieces. • Works offline — everything is processed on your device. Your photos never leave it. FAIR PRICING Unlock everything with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, ever. Private by design: your photos are processed on-device and are never uploaded.

Turn a photo into a chart you can stitch in seconds. Or skip the photo and start from a blank grid, one stitch at a time. Fully offline, no account, no data collected. Designing is free; try exports free for 7 days, then subscribe yearly or buy once. PHOTO TO CHART • Any photo from your library becomes a chart in seconds • Crop and straighten first — built-in perspective correction fixes photos shot at an angle • Set stitch count and colour count (up to 100) with a live preview • Every colour lands on a real DMC or Anchor thread number, so you can shop straight from the list SPOT AND CLEAN UP CONFETTI Photo conversions leave stray stitches. The confetti map marks them in red, orange and yellow; paint the area to tidy, pick a level, and they're swapped for the surrounding colour in one go — fully undoable. EVERY STITCH TYPE Full, half, 3/4, 1/4, petite, backstitch, French knots and beads — fractional stitches and knots can all be drawn, undone and exported, not just full crosses. BIG FULL-COVERAGE CHARTS STAY SMOOTH Charts up to 1000×1000 stitches pan, zoom and draw without lag, with full undo and redo behind you. DESIGN IN LAYERS Up to 10 layers — tap a thumbnail to stitch on that one, and the others stay untouched. Rename, reorder, merge, hide. Any project can take a trace image underneath: move, rotate, scale and fade it as you like. A FULL EDITOR • Pencil, paint bucket, eraser, eyedropper, shapes, text, Declutter, Trace image • The paint bucket takes any stitch — fill or erase whole areas of fractional stitches too • Five brush and eraser sizes, so large areas go down in one pass • Backstitch can trace the outline of a colour block automatically, instead of segment by segment • Select any area to move, copy, mirror it — or rotate it to any angle and scale it proportionally • Resize the canvas whenever you like; you don't have to commit to a size up front COLOURS BY THREAD NUMBER • Built-in DMC and Anchor charts, plus your own custom colours • Blend up to 4 threads, with strand count set per colour • Stitch thickness follows the strand count — what you see is what you export • Every colour gets its own symbol, swap it whenever you like • Save favourite palettes as presets and reuse them THREE WAYS TO VIEW Flat blocks for the whole picture, realistic crosses for the look, black-and-white symbols to stitch from. IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open patterns you already have: OXS, Pattern Maker (.xsd), PCStitch (.pat) • Export a print-ready PDF: cover, symbol chart, floss list with how much thread to buy • PDF options: language, stitches per page, a 2-stitch overlap between pages, bold lines every 10 • Preview part of the PDF before you unlock • Also exports OXS, PNG and .sduck project files EIGHT INTERFACE LANGUAGES English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Russian — follows your system language and can be switched in Settings. HOW FREE IS FREE Converting, designing and editing are free, with room for 3 saved patterns; Declutter's confetti map is free too. Exporting, saving more patterns and applying Declutter need an unlock. Two ways, exactly the same features: • Yearly subscription: first-time subscribers get a 7-day free trial, then it renews yearly; cancel anytime • Lifetime: pay once, unlocked for good, never renews Works across iPhone, iPad and Mac. If a subscription ends, only those features lock again — your saved patterns are never deleted and stay editable. Subscription terms: charged to your Apple Account (with a free trial, when the trial ends). Renews yearly unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel under Subscriptions in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stitchduckapp.com/privacy/