Made for studios that sew for a living.
Helio Stitch is a professional digitizing editor for small studios and commercial shops. Lettering that sews clean, the DST files you already have, artwork turned into stitches, every design checked before it reaches your machine.
Everything you need to digitize, nothing to install.
Watch it sew before your machine does.
Play the design in sew order, stitch by stitch. Scrub to any point to check underlay, jumps and colour stops, then fix the order by dragging objects in the sew order panel.
A second pair of eyes on every design.
Bad files cost garments. So every design is checked when it comes in and again before it goes out. It catches the things a preview can't show you, like too many needle holes in one spot or a resized file whose rows have closed up.
It knows what you're sewing on. Nylon and leather keep every hole, so they get a lower limit than workwear drill. The baseline comes from measuring 248 professionally digitised designs, so a good file passes and a bad one doesn't.
You get a plain answer, with what was measured and where to look. It's on every plan, free included, and it never stops you exporting. It's your file.
Export to the machines you already run.
Single-needle home machines and multi-head commercial lines. Open a file in any of seven formats to edit it, then export to any of them with colour stops and trims written the way each machine cuts, plus a printable run sheet for the operator.
The same stitch tools, without the install.
Start free. Upgrade when you sell.
Prices in US dollars, plus sales tax or VAT where it applies. Compare every feature, plan by plan · two months free when you pay yearly
Questions
No. Helio Stitch runs in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on Mac, Windows and Chromebook. Projects save to your account so you can pick up on another computer.
Any machine that reads one of the seven formats: DST, PES, EXP, JEF, VP3, XXX and U01. That covers Tajima-compatible multi-heads, Brother, Melco, Janome, Husqvarna Viking, Pfaff, Singer and Barudan. Every file carries its colour stops and trims.
Yes. DST, PES, PEC, JEF, EXP, VP3, XXX and U01 files open stitch for stitch, to view, resize, recolour, re-order and edit. On Maker and above you can rebuild them as editable shapes. Vector artwork comes in from SVG, PDF and Illustrator files at its real size.
Yes. The free plan has no time limit and no card is needed. Every stitch type, lettering and all seven export formats are included. Upgrade when you need more designs, your own fonts, Auto digitize or team seats.
On Studio, up to five people share one library: designs and folders, machines and their thread setups, uploaded fonts and the image library. Invite them from your account page.
Nothing is deleted. Every design stays in your account to open, edit and export as stitch files. On the free plan you just can't start new ones while you have more than 10.
It checks every design when you import it and before you export it. It looks at how many needle holes land in one spot for the fabric you chose, whether any stitches are too short to hold, whether the design fits the hoop, and whether an imported file has been resized until its rows close up. It's on every plan and it never blocks an export.
Your next design starts in a browser tab.
Free plan, no card, no install.