Countess Aida is a digital pattern-marking platform for counted embroidery enthusiasts and designers, enabling progress tracking for cross stitch, blackwork, and canvaswork across iOS, Android, and laptops. Users upload PDF and OXS charts, work offline, and sync progress via cloud. The platform also offers copyright protection for designers through app-only pattern access and printable QR codes for physical kits.
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- Creator / Creative Economy
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Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Counted embroidery enthusiasts often struggle to track their progress accurately across complex charts, especially when patterns include backstitch, fractional stitches, and specialty elements. Designers face challenges in protecting their digital patterns from unauthorized sharing and printing, limiting their ability to sell digital versions securely.
Solution
Countess Aida provides an advanced digital marking platform for counted embroidery that works across all devices, allowing stitchers to upload PDF and OXS charts and track their progress in real time. The app supports layers to hide beads and backstitch while working on background stitches, then reveal them to mark exactly what remains. Progress syncs seamlessly across iOS, Android, and laptops without manual file transfers, and offline functionality ensures stitching continues anywhere. For designers, the platform offers copyright protection by restricting pattern access to the app only, preventing downloads, printing, or sharing, while also providing free printable QR codes for bundling with physical kits.
Target Audience
Primary users are counted embroidery enthusiasts (cross stitch, blackwork, canvaswork) and pattern designers who sell digital or printed charts and seek secure distribution and progress-tracking tools.
Features
- Supports PDF and OXS pattern uploads with full backstitch, fractional, and specialty stitch compatibility, including rich PDFs like Châtelaine charts
- Layer-based marking system to hide and show beads and backstitch for focused stitching
- Cross-device synchronization across iOS, Android, and laptops with a single subscription
- Offline stitching capability with automatic cloud sync when reconnected
- Copyright-protected pattern distribution that prevents downloading, printing, or sharing outside the app
- Free printable unique QR codes for designers to bundle digital access with printed patterns or kits