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10 Sewing Apps to Keep You in Stitches

Get a sewing pattern organization app or plan your next project with one of these programs.

These mobile apps make it SEW easy to stay organized and creative with your sewing projects. From pattern design to pattern and notion organization, these downloads will keep you on track with ease.

10 Sewing Apps to Keep You in Stitches has some of the most unique apps available, either on Android, Apple, or both. Some are free whereas others cost a small amount. We will provide you with an overview, price, and where to get it.

These are some of the best sewing apps around according to many sewists. Find the best sewing apps for you by checking out our roundup.

From general sewing apps to more specific apps, such as for embroidery, cross stitch, and quilting, there is something for every type of sewist. And these are only some of the apps available to us crafters, which means it is only getting easier to sew and make other crafts.

Sure, sewists in times before didn't have apps to help but why not use technology to our advantage? These sewing apps may change the way you work, design, and buy.

Give these apps a try and see what they can do to improve your sewing life, from the very get-go with planning to creating patterns, to organizing, and storing your thread, fabric, patterns, and more.

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Sewing Apps to Keep You in Stitches

Below, find sewing pattern apps for Android and Apple (availability shown for each app) that range from free to a few dollars. With these stitching apps, you'll be better prepared when you're at the store buying new supplies and materials or when you're about to get started at home.

We added variety so that no matter the app you need to help with your sewing and quilting, you'll find something helpful to download.
 

Stash Star Fabric App

Overview: Stash Star Fabric app from Stash Star LLC is a fabric organization app to help you keep your stash in check. Log all of your fabrics by names, images, and more in this app.

Using this app means you will always know what you have and need. No more worrying about how many yards you will need at the fabric counter or wondering if it's is the same fabric you bought two years ago.

Available for: iPhone and iPad.

Cost: FREE
 

Stitch Fiddle App

Overview: While not technically an app, the Stitch Fiddle program is a great one to include here. With this site, you can become a designer of your own pictures used for cross-stitch. It's also a great place to design "graphghans" for crochet and knitting or other crafting mediums.

Just check a few boxes and start designing! It's easy and fun to create your own image to then turn into a fabric and thread masterpiece.

Available for: Desktop or Mobile.

Cost: FREE
 

Thread Tracker 117 App

Overview: Never run out of embroidery thread again! With Thread Tracker 117 from Touch Screen Craft, you can have a virtual inventory and plan. It is a simple application designed to help you keep track of your DMC Art 117 Threads, it features all 488 colors in the Article 117 range + 36 417 variegated options.

With this app, you will always know what you need while at the store, are able to save new thread/floss you find on the internet and compile a book library to keep researching and planning easy peasy.

Available for: iPhone and iPad.

Cost: $.99
 

Quilting Tutorials by MSQC App

Overview: If you quilt, then you probably know the Missouri Star Quilting Company. Not only are they quite popular online but they have an awesome app!

The Quilting Tutorials by MSQC app is full of helpful tutorials and projects from Jenny Doan and Man Sewing’s Rob Appell. It's updated weekly and has some fun features that you'll appreciate as you continue your sewing and quilting adventures.

Available for: Android, iPhone, and iPad.

Cost: FREE

XStitcher App

Overview: Organize your embroidery floss with XStitcher. Available from Coffee Shop Works for iPhone and iPad and Ironware Development for Android, this sewing app is perfect for cross stitchers or embroiderers who want to know what floss they have and what they need with colors and names.

You can match colors and make a shopping list of what to get for your next project. A useful help to any sewist for sure.

Available for: Android, iPhone, and iPad.

Cost: $.99 for Android and $1.99 for iPhone/iPad
 

Cora App

Overview: Meet Cora, a fabric-lovers app from Algona Studios LLC. This free app not only helps you organize the fabric you have but lets you search for more fabric to find just the pattern or style you've been looking for.

The designers say that this sewing app is "designed to be the fastest and easiest way to sew your stash." You can't beat that!

Available for: iPhone and iPad.

Cost: FREE

All About Fabrics App

Overview: With this app by developer Denis Lvovich, you can quickly calculate the right amount of material for any DIY garment, locate the nearest fabric store, and find useful and interesting information about fabrics at your fingertips.

The All About Fabrics app features four main sections: Calculation, Measurements, Directory, Stores. With this pocket organizer for all of your sewing needs, you'll be all set for your next project.

Available for: iPhone and iPad.

Cost: $2.99
 

StitchSketch App

Overview: Are you a cross-stitcher who would like to sketch out and plan their own designs? StitchSketch from Mozusystems, LLC is just what you have been looking for.

This sewing app is ideal for creative types who want to draw their own patterns. It comes with so many features that you will be creating masterpieces to bring to life in no time.

Available for: iPhone and iPad.

Cost: $7.99
 

Sew Awesome 2 App

Overview: Sew Awesome 2 from Colorwork Apps is a program that helps keep tracking of everything related to sewing. This app has three main categories, sewing stuff, sewing tools, and sewing resources.

Within each of these categories contains ways to store your stash, converting calculators, rulers, sewing term glossary, diagrams, and more.

Available for: AndroidiPhone, and iPad.

Cost: FREE
 

Pinterest App

Overview: You are probably familiar with Pinterest, the website that turned "pinning" into a new verb for crafters. Their free app for both Android and Apple allows you to collect and create boards on the go.

It has extra features that are missing from the site as well, so, if you use Pinterest for your sewing projects (or anything, really), get this app and make it even more efficient.

Available for: AndroidiPhone, and iPad.

Cost: FREE

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