Tamboro – Cross Stitch

Turn the PDF of a cross stitch pattern into a chart you can tap, and mark every stitch as you make it.

Tamboro reads the pattern on your iPhone or iPad. It finds the grid, the symbols and the key, and gives you a zoomable chart of symbols you can stitch from. There is no account, no server and no subscription.

IMPORT YOUR PDF
- Pick a pattern's PDF in Files. Tamboro reads charts made of text, of drawn symbols, or of a picture of the page.
- If Tamboro is not sure of a grid, you confirm it by dragging its corners over the chart.
- A chart printed over several sheets is put together for you. If Tamboro cannot place the sheets, you arrange them yourself.
- Cells split on the diagonal between two threads are asked about one by one, so you decide how to stitch them.

STITCH FROM THE CHART
- Tap a cell to mark it done, or drag across cells of the same thread.
- Undo takes back your last mark.
- Leave a needle on a cell to remember where that thread goes next.
- Each thread shows how many stitches it has left, and the pattern shows how much is done in percent.
- When you finish a block, the chart plays a short, calm animation. You can turn it off from the chart's menu.
- On iPad, the threads sit in a column beside the chart.

YOUR THREADS
- The thread list comes from the pattern's key, with DMC and Anchor codes.
- Mark each thread as owned or needed. Your stash is shared by all your patterns.
- Add every missing thread to your shopping list at once, then tick them off as you buy them.

YOUR EVENINGS
- Close a pattern after stitching, and the evening is logged with its stitch count.
- This week shows as seven squares, one cross for each evening you stitched. A night off is just a night off: no zeros, nothing missed. You can hide the week in Settings.
- When you come back, Tamboro shows the pattern you were on and the threads you left parked, so you can pick up where you stopped.

ON ALL YOUR DEVICES
- Sign in to iCloud, and your patterns, progress, thread stash and evenings sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud.
- Without iCloud, everything stays on the device.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- No account and no sign-in.
- No analytics, no ads and no tracking.
- Your PDFs are read on the device and are never uploaded.

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