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Krazy Stitcher Studio

The Complete Bead Design Suite

$59.95 one-time purchase — no subscription

Version 1.0

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About Krazy Stitcher Studio

Krazy Stitcher Studio is the complete bead design environment for power users, pattern sellers, and professional designers. It includes every feature in Pro — all 25 stitch types, brand remapping, inventory tracking, difficulty scoring, SVG/CSV export, a rotatable 3D preview, Color Reduction, 300 DPI hi-res export, Enhanced Backup (Version History), and the full toolkit — plus a suite of advanced capabilities that no other bead software offers at any price. The color harmony engine analyzes your palette and suggests complementary, analogous, and triadic alternatives. The templates library gives you 66 starter designs across geometric, nature, holiday, and alphabet categories, so you never start from a blank canvas unless you want to.

Studio's advanced layer system lets you build complex multi-layer patterns with independent visibility, opacity, and lock controls — essential for designs that overlay text on backgrounds or combine multiple motifs. The pattern scale tool resizes your work while preserving color relationships, and the multi-pattern workspace lets you have several designs open simultaneously for side-by-side comparison. Import patterns from BeadTool (.bead), CSV grid, or plain-text hex-grid formats so you can bring your existing library into Krazy Stitcher without starting over. The stitch-along autoplay walks you through your pattern bead by bead in the correct stitching order — a built-in teacher for learning new stitch types. Batch Export bundles PDF/PNG output for multiple saved patterns into a single .zip download, exclusive to Studio. Batch Photo Import runs the other direction — convert a whole folder of photos into separate patterns in one pass, using the same conversion settings as a single import. Working on something oversized? Split & Recompose divides a large pattern into a grid of tiles you can work on one at a time, then recombines them into the finished whole — included in Pro as well, but especially handy here for Studio's oversized, professional-scale projects. All of this runs in your browser, works offline, and costs less than a single tube of Miyuki Delicas.

How Krazy Stitcher Studio Compares

Studio’s feature list at a one-time price, compared with other bead pattern tools we reviewed.

Feature KS Studio BeadTool 4† BeadCrafter‡ Stitchmate Beadographer Loomerly
Price $59.95 $49.95† Free (Store listing)‡ Free to design; $5.99/PDF, or $99/$149 pass Free tier; $14.99/yr membership Free download; $75.00 Full Version
Price Model One-time One-time† Free (Store listing)‡ Pay per PDF or one-time pass Free tier + annual membership One-time (no subscription)
Stitch Types 25 Not stated 4‡ 5 crafts incl. fuse beads 17 3
Layer System ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Color Harmony Engine ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Templates Library ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Pattern Scale Tool ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Multi-Pattern Workspace ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Import External Formats ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Stitch-Along Autoplay ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Brand Remapping ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
SVG & CSV Export ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Rotatable 3D Preview ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Inventory Tracking ✓ Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated Not stated
Works Offline ✓ Not stated Not stated Desktop app only Not stated On-device processing (developer statement)
One-Time Price, No Subscription ✓ ✓† Free (Store listing)‡ Pay per PDF, or one-time pass Free core app; $14.99/yr membership ✓ (no subscription)

Competitor information is taken from each product’s own public pages, checked October 8, 2026. “Not stated” means that product’s own page did not mention the feature; it does not mean the feature is missing, so check their site. † BeadTool: beadtool.net could not be read, so the price, platforms, photo import and PDF come from the SourceForge listing (sourceforge.net/software/product/BeadTool/); confirm on their site. ‡ BeadCrafter: from a Microsoft Store listing (apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZPJF7WD7M5) titled “BeadCrafter: Beading Pattern Maker [Free]”; we could not confirm it is the same product we listed before. Stitchmate: stitchmate.app/pricing (PDF unlocks $5.99 each, or $99 Personal Pass / $149 Plus Pass; desktop app works offline). Beadographer: beadographer.com (free version; membership adds saving, custom palettes, inventory and extra PDF content). Loomerly: Apple App Store listing (apps.apple.com/app/id1631555997). Prices and features change.

Choose Your Edition

Every edition includes the full 60-day free trial.

Feature Base ($24.95)Now $19.95 intro, ending soon Pro ($34.95) Studio ($59.95) (This Edition)
Stitch Types 22 25 25
Bead Crochet Rope ✗ ✓ ✓
Thread & Bead Estimator ✓ ✓ ✓
Row/Round Progress Counter ✓ ✓ ✓
Photo Import ✓ ✓ ✓
PDF Export (Branding & Saved Presets) ✓ ✓ ✓
PNG Export ✓ ✓ ✓
300 DPI / Hi-Res Export ✗ ✓ ✓
Backup All / Restore (whole library) ✓ ✓ ✓
Password-Protected Sharing (encrypt exported patterns) ✓ ✓ ✓
Enhanced Backup (Version History + Chromium Folder Auto-Export) ✗ ✓ ✓
Dark Mode ✓ ✓ ✓
Pattern Templates ✓ ✓ ✓
Mirror / Flip / Rotate Tools ✓ ✓ ✓
Live Symmetric Drawing (mirror as you draw) ✗ ✓ ✓
Works Offline ✓ ✓ ✓
Multi-Layer Patterns ✗ ✓ ✓
Custom Bead Libraries ✗ ✓ ✓
SVG/CSV Export ✗ ✓ ✓
Rotatable 3D Preview ✗ ✓ ✓
Advanced Color Reduction (5 dithering algorithms + blending) ✓ ✓ ✓
Cloud Backup* ✗ ✗ ✓
Multi-Layer System (Visibility/Opacity) ✗ ✗ ✓
Color Harmony Engine ✗ ✗ ✓
Templates Library (66 Starter Designs) ✗ ✓ ✓
Multi-Pattern Workspace ✗ ✗ ✓
Stitch-Along Autoplay ✗ ✗ ✓
Import from BeadTool (.bead) / CSV / Hex-Grid Text ✗ ✗ ✓
Batch Export (multi-pattern PDF/PNG to .zip) ✗ ✗ ✓
Batch Photo Import (convert multiple photos into patterns in one pass) ✗ ✗ ✓
Split & Recompose (tile a large pattern to work on separately, then recombine) ✗ ✓ ✓
Commercial-Use License (sell finished crafts & patterns) ✓ ✓ ✓
Bulk/Wholesale Distribution & Pattern Books ✗ ✗ ✓
Shopping List / Supply CSV Export ✗ ✓ ✓

*Cloud Backup is manual: use Backup All to export a .ksbackup file, then save it into a cloud-synced folder (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) for automatic off-device backup and cross-device access. Krazy Stitcher itself never uploads anything — all patterns stay stored locally in your browser.

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