No more paper or losing your place, cross stitch made simple!

Paper & other apps

The HobbyTub way

Hard to keep track

Always know your place

You lose your place easily, especially on detailed patterns.

Mark stitches digitally with one tap and never lose track.

Messy highlights & marks

Neat & tidy progress

Pen scribbles, smudges and worn markings.

No smudges, scribbles or worn markings, everything stays clear and easy to read on screen.

Complex fixed patterns

View only the thread you are working on

Overcomplicated patterns make it hard to focus on your stitching.

Easily see the current thread colour you are working with, clear the clutter and stay focused.

No undo button

Fix mistakes instantly

Make a mistake? Too bad!

Marked a wrong stitch? Just remove it with a click.

Awkward to carry around

Stitch anywhere

Folded pages, crumpled print outs or bulky pattern books.

Forget folded pages and bulky books, take HobbyTub with you on your iPad, phone, tablet, laptop or desktop.

Easy to damage or lose

Always safe & saved

One spilled drink or misplaced page and your progress is gone.

We’ve got you covered with progress auto-saves. Reuse the same pattern over and over.

Slow & frustrating

More time stitching

Flipping back and forth, scanning rows with your finger, it slows you down!

No page flipping or scanning rows, with row and column markers, just smooth, focused stitching.

One time use

Do the same pattern again & again

Once you’ve marked your progress, the pattern is no longer usable.

Reuse your patterns as many times as you like, your progress is always saved separately.

Similar shades, tiny symbols

Never mix up your threads

Look-alike colours and hard-to-read printed symbols make it easy to grab the wrong thread.

Show a symbol or letter on every square, matched to your thread list, so you always pick the right colour.

Notes on scraps of paper

A dated journal on every project

The thread you ran out of, where you got to, who it is for, all on a note that goes missing before you come back to it.

Write an entry whenever something happens and it is kept with the project, with its own date, so picking a piece up months later starts with what you told yourself last time.

Finished work in the way

Finished work put away

Pieces you completed years ago sit in the same pile as the one that is on your hoop right now.

Mark a piece finished, or set one aside part done, and it moves to your Archive. Your dashboard shows what you are actually stitching, and anything can come back to it in one tap.

Stuck on one platform

Carry on where you left off

The markup apps that do sync only sync within one platform, so moving between an Android phone and an iPad still means exporting a backup and restoring it.

One project on your phone, tablet and laptop, already up to date when you open it, with nothing to export or import.

Only the whole squares

Every kind of stitch counted

The best known stitch marker counts full crosses and nothing else, so backstitch, knots and every split square on a curve go untracked.

Mark off backstitch, French knots, beads and fractional stitches in their own right, so a square shared by two colours is two marks and your percentage is the honest one.

Not on iPhone or iPad

Works on whatever you own

Some of the best known stitching apps are Android only, so the one everybody recommends is the one you cannot install.

iPhone, iPad, Android, Chromebook and desktop all get the same thing, and it adds to your home screen like an app.