Everything you need, nothing you don't

Import your own patterns

Open a chart straight from a PDF — the same files designers already sell — or from an OXS file. The grid, the symbols and the colour key all come across.

Charts you can actually see

Pinch to zoom right in on a single square, or pull back to see the whole design. Big charts with hundreds of thousands of stitches stay smooth.

Tap off each stitch

Mark squares as you finish them and watch the picture fill in — each one takes its real thread colour. Made a mistake? Switch to the eraser and tap it out again — the square goes back to plain, just like your fabric does. Long-press to mark a whole block, park a thread in a corner, or ask what's left inside an area.

One colour at a time

Working through the 310s? Show that thread on its own and the rest of the chart steps out of the way, so you can stitch a whole colour cleanly.

See how far you've come

Your percentage complete, the total stitches done, how many you've put in today, your average and a projected finish. Set a target date and it tells you what today needs. The History page then adds up every project together — a running total, month by month, day by day. A stitching day ends at 3 am, not midnight, so a late night counts for the evening before.

Your work is safe

Every stitch saves to your device the instant you tap. Subscribe and it backs up quietly in the background — your stitching, your charts, your settings and stash, the lot. Break your phone and it is all still there.

Phone and tablet together

Stitch on your tablet in the evening and check the chart on your phone the next day. They never have to be online at the same time — each one catches up whenever it next has internet.

All your projects, tidy

Folders, tags and favourites for as many projects as you have. Search by name, filter down to what's finished and what's still on the go, or sort by what you worked on last. Give any chart your own photo as its thumbnail.

The decisions wheel

Too many WIPs and can't choose? Add some or all of your projects to the wheel, spin it, and let the universe decide which one you should work on next. Take each winner off as it's picked and you can work through the lot with no repeats — the wheel remembers where you're up to.

Your thread and fabric stash

Keep a list of the threads, fabrics and kits you already own — threads picked from the DMC list, so there are no numbers to type by hand. Snap a photo of each fabric, and keep your own lists of charting companies and designers.

Plan your finish date

Give a project a date you'd like it done by and the chart tells you what today needs — how many stitches, and whether you're ahead. Miss a day and tomorrow's number simply nudges up. No guilt, just a plan.

Park a thread, size up an area

Stitch in the parking style? Mark the corner where each needle is waiting. Or draw a box round the next patch and see every thread inside it, with how many stitches of each are still to do.

Bring your progress with you

Already part-way through a chart in another stitching app? Import the progress file it gives you and every stitch you have done is marked on the chart in WipCount, so you carry on from where you were. You can also save your own progress as a file to keep somewhere safe or send to another device.

Find the next stitch

Working one colour? A small counter at the top of the chart shows how many of that thread are still to do. Tap it and the chart jumps to the next unstitched square, left to right, top to bottom, and rings it for a moment so your eye lands straight on it.

See it finished

One tap fills every square with its real thread colour and hides the symbols, so you can see what the finished piece will look like before you have stitched it. Nothing is marked. Tap again and the chart is back as it was.

Backstitch on its own layer

Cross-stitch and backstitch are kept apart. Lines still to stitch show bold in blue, and you mark them off just like squares — a single stroke or a whole block at once. Pick a thread and only its lines light up.

Centre markers and guide lines

Start from the middle? Arrows on the four edges point to the centre, with an optional crosshair through it. Add a grid line every 5 or 10 squares and diagonal helper lines slanting either way, in colours you choose. Or work a quarter of the chart at a time.

Nothing counts until you say so

Tap or drag across squares and they show as a see-through shade, with a bar saying how many will mark. Nothing is recorded until you tap the tick, and the whole batch undoes in one go if you slip.

Every thread brand in the key

If a chart lists the same colour in DMC, Anchor, Madeira and others, all of them come across. The app shows the DMC number by default and you can switch to the brand you stitch with.

One PDF, several designs

Some PDFs hold more than one chart. WipCount shows each design with its size, colours and stitch count, and you pick the one you want or add them all as separate patterns.