The embroidery app you've been waiting for.
No more juggling desktop software and texting screenshots back and forth. Bobbin puts your whole embroidery workflow on the iPad in your hands — design, get feedback, and export machine-ready files without ever sitting down at a computer.
Free tier available · No credit card required
Design together, from anywhere.
Share a live canvas with friends, clients, or your team. They see every change in real time — no screen-sharing, no back-and-forth photo texting. Send an invite and they join you right in the Bobbin app.
Turn any image into a stitch-ready design.
No manual digitizing. No expensive outsourcing. Pick a photo of a drawing or a logo — Bobbin converts it into an embroidery file with stitch types and thread colors assigned for you. Auto digitizing runs on our servers, so it needs an internet connection.
Your craft goes where you go.
Whether you're stitching for yourself or for clients, Bobbin is built iPad-first — not ported from desktop. Every interaction is designed for touch, pencil, and the way you actually live.
Apple Pencil
Draw freehand with Apple Pencil — pressure is saved with each stroke, so a stroke you turn into satin gets wider where you pressed harder. Trace, edit stitch paths, hand-letter — the Pencil feels like a natural extension of your craft.
Bobbin Cloud Sync
Start a design on your iPad at home and pick it up on your iPhone later. Your projects and designs sync through Bobbin Cloud — and so do your machines, saved hoops and settings.
Take your craft anywhere.
Bobbin fits into your life, not the other way around.
Two finicky things, made simple.
Built-in tools that used to require workarounds, expensive add-ons, or a lot of fussy clicking.
Groundwork — a knockdown underlay for textured fabric
Embroider on towels, fleece, and knits with less of the nap poking through. Groundwork automatically lays down a knockdown underlay that flattens the surface before your design goes down. One tap, no manual underlay setup.
Your fonts, ready to stitch
Just type and stitch. Import the fonts you already own — embroidery font folders or packs, Bobbin .bbf files, or a TrueType or OpenType font you're licensed to use, which Bobbin turns into stitches right on your device. Type any word from your keyboard and it's rendered as stitch-ready lettering. Just beautiful type.
Experiment freely. You can always go back.
Your design saves as you work, and Bobbin checkpoints your recent changes. Try a wild color swap, resize everything, rearrange the whole layout — if it doesn't work, step back to where you were. Name the versions you want to keep. No more saving "FINAL_v3_actual.pes" every time you want to try something.
See your design on the actual item before you stitch.
Point your iPad camera at the onesie, the tote, the jacket — and see your design projected right on it. Move it, resize it, check the placement before you hoop.
Be among the first to stitch with Bobbin.
Bobbin for iPad and iPhone is ready when you are. Create a free account and start designing in minutes — upgrade only when you want more.
Pick the plan that fits your craft.
Start free, upgrade when you're ready. No contracts, cancel anytime.
- 3D stitch preview on every design
- Every stitch type, export format and editing tool — Groundwork included
- Version history — name a version to keep it; recent changes checkpointed on your device
- Real-time collaboration — start a shared session or join one with its share code
- Up to 5 fonts & 25 designs in your library
- 50 fonts and 100 designs in your library
- AR Preview on iPhone and iPad — see your design on the garment before you hoop
- Everything in Lite
- Unlimited cloud storage for your designs, synced across your devices. Fair-use policy applies: ordinary use — even thousands of designs — is never limited; for reselling, sharing or automated use we contact you first and may pause new designs or limit automated downloads; nothing is ever deleted. Read the policy
- AI auto-digitizing (Pro only) — drop in any logo or photo, get a stitch-ready design
- Everything in Premium
Your machine is ready. Are you?
Create your free account and start designing in minutes — no credit card, upgrade only when you want more.