Stitch, knit and sew, in one place

Start with a photo or your own thread plan

Choose Hand embroidery when you open a photo, or start a project and pick DMC threads yourself. A photo gives you a source preview, a transfer outline and suggested thread colours. Choose which stitches to use and mark each thread done as you work.

Ten stitches, with diagrams

Choose running, back, stem or split stitch for lines; satin or long and short stitch for fills; or chain, lazy daisy, French knot and fishbone for other shapes and textures. Each has a diagram and guidance on when to use it. Needle directions are available to screen readers too.

Plan your hoop, cloth and thread

Pick a hoop from 3 to 12 inches, with centimetres shown alongside. Record the fabric, whether it is dark, and the thread type, strand count or thickness. Tondo uses these choices for cloth-size and needle guidance.

Estimate thread for the work you plan

Assign a stitch to a thread and enter the fill area, line length or number of decorative stitches for an estimate. Photo plans suggest colour coverage. Estimates use your setup; they are shopping guides, and some thread types do not have a skein estimate.

Print an outline at hoop size

Turn a picture into line art with Simple, Balanced or Fine detail. Export a PDF transfer sheet on one page sized for your hoop. Print at actual size and check its scale before transferring the design. Larger hoops need suitable paper or tiling in your print software.

Choose a transfer method for your fabric

Tondo suggests suitable methods from window tracing, carbon paper, water-soluble stabiliser, an iron-on transfer pen, tissue paper and prick and pounce. Choose iron-on and the sheet is mirrored for ink-down transfer. Fabric and transfer-material guidance still matter, especially for dark, stretchy or delicate cloth.

Try the botanical wreath

The included example has six thread colours, assigned stitches, artwork, instructions and a printable outline. Use it free to explore the whole hand-embroidery project. A plan made from your own photo suggests colours; you choose its stitches.

Read the hand embroidery guide

Preview PDF charts and scans

Open a designer PDF, scan or photograph of a printed chart. Tondo looks for the grid, symbols and thread key. Review uncertain colours and adjust the grid when calibration is offered. A difficult scan may still need manual correction or may not be readable.

Choose pages and individual motifs

Join tiled pages of one pattern into a continuous canvas, select separate charts from a book, or import individual motifs when Tondo detects a collection. An interrupted book import can be resumed from the library.

Open files from chart software

Import supported OXS, PCStitch, Pattern Maker, FlossCross, KXStitch and other chart files, including charts inside ZIP files. The import report names unsupported details. Check the formats guide before relying on a particular export.

Turn a photo into a counted pattern

Choose the width in stitches, number of DMC colours, fabric shade, dithering and confetti reduction. Compare the live preview, adjust the framing, lock or replace colours and merge threads. Processing happens on your device, without uploads or per-pattern fees.

Draw on a blank grid

Choose a grid size and DMC colours, then draw with a brush, fill, eyedropper and undo. Add colours as you work. You can also use an unreadable chart page as a reference under the grid and place the stitches yourself.

Edit and revisit a design

Reopen a generated pattern to adjust its settings, or edit a drawn pattern on the grid. Correct a misread cell, replace a thread or merge two entries on a saved chart. If a generated pattern already has progress, adjusted work saves as a copy to preserve it. Design changes require Pro; tracking existing projects remains accessible.

Mark stitches and count down each colour

Tap a cell or swipe a row or diagonal. Fill a connected area or a 10×10 block, undo the last ten marking actions, redo an undone action, and clear a colour's marks. Highlight one colour to restrict marking to it and find its next unmarked stitch.

Park threads and flag work to unpick

Park a thread in any corner of a cell, see the parked count for a colour and jump back to it. Flag a stitch to unpick later without changing the number already stitched.

Track the details beyond full crosses

Track backstitch and fractional work. When a supported import includes separate lines, knots or beads, mark those elements individually too. Their completion contributes to the overall progress, so finishing the crosses does not hide the remaining detail.

Make the chart comfortable to read

Zoom and pan, use the magnifier, jump to the centre, and adjust grid lines, centre marks, colour strength and mark style. Choose a symbols-only view or high-contrast marks. Keep the screen awake while stitching. On iPhone and iPad, VoiceOver can read and mark visible cells when zoomed in; supported phones give haptic marking feedback.

See your progress over time

View today's count, your streak, activity history and progress by colour. A finish estimate appears once there is enough stitching history. Check a chart's confetti assessment or highlight isolated stitches. Statistics stay on each device.

Keep your projects organised

Resume from Continue stitching, rename projects, sort and search by name or thread code, and add tags. Archive finished work, duplicate a chart for a fresh start or re-import its kept original. Re-importing the same file also offers the existing project.

Keep the reference beside the work

Open the original chart, keep reference photos and project notes, and record the designer and source. Track stitch-along parts and use a finishing checklist for washing, blocking, framing or gifting your work. Share an image of a completed counted chart from its finish screen.

Plan threads and your shopping list

Look up DMC threads and nearest-shade conversions for Anchor, Madeira, COSMO and Olympus. Check the match quality, change a thread or view a supported imported blend. Sort and search the thread list, record what you own and its dye lot, and see which threads you still need.

Estimate fabric and floss for a counted chart

Set the fabric count, stitching over one or two threads, strand count and mounting margin. Check the finished dimensions, cloth to cut and estimated skeins per colour. Estimates depend on those choices and your stitching, so compare them with the designer's guidance.

Bring your own patterns

Open a PDF, photo, EPUB or DOCX file or a saved web page, or scan paper pages into one PDF with the camera. The original file is never changed, and Tondo remembers your place in each pattern. Knit one pattern twice, each time with its own counters and materials.

Count rows without losing your place

Use a main counter and counters for each part, with repeats, linked counters and row actions such as decreases or colour changes that each need their own tick. Undo and redo, lock the controls and keep the screen awake. A project timer records how long you knit.

Read the pattern where you are

A reading line and bookmarks stay on the page as you zoom. Choose your size once and Tondo marks your numbers. Switch between abbreviations and full stitch names, and change the text size and units.

Write on the PDF

Highlight, draw with Apple Pencil, a stylus or your finger, and add notes and knitting symbols. Export a separate annotated PDF; the original stays as it was.

Design knitting charts

Draw stitch and colour charts with cables, brioche, lace, mosaic and intarsia. Turn a chart into written instructions, or written rows into a chart, with the stitch counts checked. Try your own yarn colours on a chart, then export it as a PDF or image.

Start from a sized template

Socks, a hat, a sweater and a scarf in several sizes, worked out from body measurements and ease and recalculated for your gauge.

Keep your yarn, needles and swatches

Record yarn per dye lot with the amount left, reserve it for a project and keep needles and swatches together. Read a yarn label with the camera or pick a yarn from the built-in catalogue; you confirm every value before it is saved.

Connect your Ravelry library

Sign in to Ravelry from Settings to open your library, the pattern files you bought and your queue, and to search patterns. Tondo sends Ravelry only what you choose, such as a linked project’s progress or a photo. Pattern files you downloaded yourself always import through Files. Tondo is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ravelry.

Widgets and your watch

Follow progress in widgets on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and in a widget, notification or tile on Android. On Apple Watch and Wear OS you count rows, see row actions and run the project timer, also without your phone nearby.

Keep a small stash of fabric pieces

Give each piece a photo or colour, its size in centimetres or inches, the material and a count. Mark the usable area of an irregular piece. Filter by colour, size and material, and see which pieces fit a project and why others do not.

Three sewing projects, step by step

Choose an envelope cushion cover, a lined drawstring project bag or a quilted table runner. Tondo assigns every cut piece to a real scrap with seam allowance and a safety margin. Print an A4 or Letter PDF with full-size templates and a check square to measure before you cut.

Learn stitches and techniques

Look up stitches in the stitch dictionary, with your pattern's own key first. Follow illustrated knitting lessons for left- or right-handed knitters and animated hand-embroidery lessons. With Reduce Motion on, lessons show still steps.

Start with Tondo's own patterns

Sixteen knitting patterns in four collections, filtered by size, yarn, technique and level. Save one offline and start it as a project.

Share progress and knit along

Follow other makers, like and comment, and join groups and knit-alongs. Share a milestone, work photos and materials through a preview that shows exactly what is sent. Publish patterns you designed in Tondo yourself.

Private sources stay private

Imported PDFs, scans, notes and a project's recipient are not shared when you post, and photos lose their location data. Posts are visible to signed-in members only. Report or block anyone, and reports reach a moderator by email. About the community

Sync knitting and sewing across Apple and Android

With Pro and a Tondo account, knitting and fabric projects and your whole stash sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android. Work offline; changes sync when you are back online. When two devices changed the same project, you choose which version to keep and the other is saved as a copy. How sync works

Sync cross stitch across your Apple devices

Pro includes iCloud sync for cross-stitch and hand-embroidery projects across iPhone, iPad and Mac, using your own iCloud account. Project notes, tags, reference photos and supported specialty overlays travel with your charts. Android does not use iCloud; move those projects with a Tondo file.

Move projects with a Tondo file

Share a project from its library menu or export your library as a .tondo file and open it on another device, including across Apple and Android. It carries project data and merges existing progress; it is a manual transfer. Counted charts also export per-thread progress as CSV. Use Delete my data in Settings to erase Tondo's stored data.

Use a phone, tablet or Mac

Tondo supports iOS and iPadOS 17 or later, Android 8 or later, and macOS 14.4 or later on compatible Intel and Apple silicon Macs. Apple devices share one purchase, with Family Sharing on the App Store. Google Play has its own Pro purchase. On supported Apple devices, a Shortcut can resume your current chart.