Crochet symbol charts, drawn the way you actually design
The chart editor designers have been asking for for a decade: in-the-round layouts where symbols follow the circle, group / rotate / mirror whole stitch runs, and radial repeat — chart one wedge of your doily and repeat it 8× around the center. Clean SVG & PDF export for your pattern PDFs. No install, no crashes, nothing uploaded.
Why designers switch to Stitch Chart Studio
Made for in-the-round
Mandala, doily and granny-square designers have long been stuck assembling charts by hand in design software. Here, rounds are first-class: stitches distribute evenly around each round and symbols automatically rotate to point outward from the center.
Group, rotate, mirror, repeat
The features every forum thread asks for. Select a stitch run, group it so it moves as one, rotate or mirror it — or chart a single wedge and radial-repeat it 8× around the circle. Your motif stays perfectly symmetric.
Publication-quality export
Standard Craft Yarn Council symbols with uniform stroke weight, exported as clean SVG or vector PDF at real physical size — ready to drop straight into the pattern PDFs you sell. No screenshots, no redrawing in Illustrator.
Crash-proof by design
Your chart autosaves to your browser after every change, and 100 levels of undo mean no experiment is risky. Save projects as small .json files and reopen them anywhere.
Nothing uploaded, ever
The whole editor runs in your browser. Your designs never leave your computer — no account, no cloud, no one else's server between you and your patterns.
Free to design, fair to buy
Every tool is free while you design, and charts up to 60 stitches export free too (with a tiny corner note). Pro is $39 once, not a subscription, for unlimited chart size and watermark-free exports. It never renews.
FAQ
Is this really free?
The full editor is free: every symbol, rounds and rows, grouping, rotation, mirroring, unlimited undo, autosave, project files, share links and radial repeat. Free exports cover charts up to 60 stitches and carry a small corner note. Pro ($39, one time) unlocks unlimited chart size and clean, watermark-free SVG and PDF exports.
Why $39 once instead of a few dollars a month?
Charting tools in this niche are usually subscriptions, at around $2.75 a month when billed for a year, or about $5.50 for a single month. $39 once works out at roughly fourteen months of that, and then it stops: no renewal, no price rise, and nothing that expires and takes your access with it. If you publish one pattern a year, the arithmetic is in your favour by year two and stays there.
It is honest to say who that suits. If you are charting one scarf for yourself, a single month of a subscription is cheaper and we would rather you knew that. If you publish patterns, $39 is less than one pattern sale and it buys the specific thing this editor is built for: stitch symbol charts worked in the round, where the symbols follow the circle and rotate to point outward, drawn cleanly enough to sell.
Which stitch symbols are included?
The standard Craft Yarn Council set that covers most patterns: chain, slip stitch, single / half-double / double / treble crochet, dc2tog and dc3tog clusters, shell, picot and magic ring. More symbols are added over time and Pro includes all future ones.
Can I use the exported charts in patterns I sell?
Yes. Everything you draw is yours, including exports — free or Pro. The SVG imports into Illustrator, Affinity, Inkscape and Canva; the PDF drops straight into your pattern document at true physical size.
Do my designs get uploaded anywhere?
No. The editor is a static page that runs entirely in your browser. Charts autosave to your browser's local storage and project files save to your own disk. Nothing you draw ever reaches a server — share links included: they carry the chart inside the part of the URL after the #, which browsers never send anywhere.
Can I send someone my chart?
Yes — click Share link and a link to the chart is copied to your clipboard. Paste it in a message, a forum post or an email and whoever opens it sees your chart in the editor, ready to edit or export. Sharing is free for everyone, there is no sign-up, and the chart rides inside the link itself rather than being stored on a server. Very large charts outgrow what a link can carry; for those, use Save and send the .chart.json file.
How is this different from other crochet chart tools?
Most tools in this space are grid-based colorwork editors — they fill squares with colors rather than placing stitch symbols, so they can't group, rotate or mirror runs of symbols or lay out a true in-the-round chart. The purpose-built symbol programs are desktop apps that stopped being maintained years ago. The remaining option is assembling charts by hand in Illustrator with a symbol font. That gap is what this editor fills.
Does it work on my machine?
Any modern browser on Windows, Mac, Linux or ChromeOS — nothing to install, nothing to keep updated, and it can't be abandoned into uselessness: it's a web page.
Every chart symbol, explained
One page per symbol: what it looks like on a chart, its US and UK names, how it is used, and a button that opens the editor with that symbol selected. The full symbol key has them all on one page, with a free printable.