Turn your photos or other images into cross stitch charts you can actually stitch, ticking off stitches as you go. Your pet, your garden, your family: take a photo or choose any image, pick your cloth and size, and Cross Count charts it in the 489 real DMC shades, with the skeins to buy. Or draw your own, square by square, on a blank chart, or trace a picture behind the grid. Then stitch from your phone: tick off squares row by row, and keep every finished piece in your Portfolio.

Free to try. One payment, less than the price of one pattern, unlocks stitching and printing as many as you like. No subscription, no ads.

It saves itself, and nothing is ever sent to us.

Your DMC shopping list
Each shade’s DMC number and real name, its symbol, its stitches, and how many skeins to buy. Copy this list puts it all on your clipboard, and Replace swaps a thread everywhere in the chart.

Tick off squares, row by row
• One thread at a time: say which thread is in your needle and the chart highlights only that color.
• Tick squares off: drag a rectangle from any corner, and finished squares go green. Every gesture can be undone.
• Row done ticks off the row in the thread you are stitching and moves the band down one.
• Find next stitch rings the next square of your thread.
• Photos & notes: an album for each piece, every photo stamped with the date and how far along it was.

Your finished pieces
When the last stitch is done, the piece goes to your Portfolio. It opens on your photo of the finished work, the whole piece behind it.

Made for photos
Cross Count knows a photo when it sees one and charts it for smooth fur, skin and sky, in blended colors. Artwork and cartoons get solid colors and clean edges instead. Compare shows both side by side, and you can switch any time.

Draw your own
• Start a blank chart and draw square by square, or draw by hand over any chart.
• Put your photo behind the grid and trace it.
• Pencil shapes (freehand, line, box and oval, open or solid), Fill, Pick color, Erase, Clean up and Undo.
• Select a part to flip, turn, copy, move, center or delete.
• Mirror drawing: draw one side and the other draws itself.
• Text in a stitch alphabet: letters, numbers and punctuation.
• Backstitch at any angle, and Outline it for me: black backstitch around the subject or around every color.

A chart you can follow at arm’s length
Thread colors, symbols and grid lines each switch on or off with one tap. Charts up to 320 by 400 stitches, with 4 to 60 threads and 67 distinct symbols, on 17 cloth counts from 6 to 40, over one thread or two.

Off the phone, onto the table
Preview every page, then print it straight from your phone, or save a PDF, images, a Pattern Keeper PDF, or an OXS file for other cross stitch apps. Sheets repeat three squares on every join, so a taped-together chart lines up. Open a pattern file opens OXS charts from other apps. Back up all projects writes your whole library to one file that restores onto a new phone.

Free to try
Make as many charts as you like from photos, artwork or a blank chart, each with its DMC thread list. Ten patterns come with the app. Take the two-minute tour on the free heart, then stitch it for real. To stitch or print your own charts, one payment unlocks everything for good: $2.99, a one-time price.

Before you ask
• Android 7.0 and up: phones in portrait, tablets either way.
• DMC colors on screen are approximations, so check a real shade card before you buy thread.
• DMC and Pattern Keeper are trademarks of their owners; Cross Count is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
• Full cross stitches and backstitch. No fractional stitches.