What Aida does
Aida turns the PDF charts you already own into a living workbench: mark stitches as you go, watch every colour count down to zero, and pick up on your iPad or Mac exactly where your iPhone left off. Here’s the tour.
Import any designer’s PDF
Pick a chart from Files and Aida reads it: the grid, every symbol, the thread key with its floss colours. Multi-page charts are stitched into one continuous canvas: no more flipping between page 3 and the key on page 7.
Turn a photo into a pattern
Any picture becomes a counted cross-stitch chart, entirely on your device: take a photo or pick one, and Aida quantises it to real DMC threads with a live preview. Choose the stitch count, the number of colours, the fabric shade; swap or merge threads, repaint single stitches, or let the automatic subject framing do the work. No upload, no account, no per-pattern fee.
A workbench, not a PDF viewer
Tap a square to mark it stitched; marks stay translucent so the symbol underneath stays readable. Pinch to zoom from whole-chart overview down to comfortable one-square-at-a-time, on a warm paper-like canvas that’s easy on the eyes.
Follow one colour at a time
Tap a colour in the thread key and the whole chart highlights just those stitches, the “cross-country” way of working. Every colour shows a live count that falls to zero as you stitch, next to your overall progress.
Synced through your iCloud
Progress moves across iPhone, iPad and Mac by itself, through your personal iCloud. Offline first: stitch anywhere, it syncs when it can, and a quiet status icon always tells you where you stand. No account, no server of ours.
A library built for unfinished projects
Stitchers run many works-in-progress at once. Aida’s library shows each chart with its own progress, remembers exactly where you stopped on every one, and keeps the original PDF one tap away for reference. Sort and search them; mark each one as still going, on hold or finished.
The right colour, every brand
A chart keyed in DMC, Anchor, Madeira, COSMO or Olympus all resolves to the true thread colour, never a guess. Re-assign a thread yourself if you’re substituting, and the change follows you to your other device.
Marking that keeps up
Swipe whole rows, flood a 10×10 block, and undo the last ten in a tap. Lock marking to one colour so a stray touch can’t go astray, and let Aida walk you to the last few stitches of a shade. Backstitch and fractional stitches get tracked on their own, and the screen stays awake while you work.
Your projects, your data
Track a stitch-along in dated parts and keep a note per project. Export your progress to a file any time; it’s yours to keep, in your own iCloud, wherever you stitch.
Yours, properly
€15.99 once. Family Sharing included. Free updates. A Settings page with a human behind it, a privacy policy that says “we collect nothing” and means it, and charts that never leave your devices.
Try yours before you pay
The free tier opens your first two charts with the full workbench: import, zoom, mark, highlight. If your PDFs parse (they almost certainly will), you’ll know before spending a cent. If one doesn’t, send it to us; unparseable charts are bugs to fix.