Privacy Policy

Krosstitch · Last updated November 2026

Krosstitch works on your iPhone and iPad. There is no Krosstitch account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind. We never receive your photos, your patterns, or your progress. Charts are made on your device, and the only place they go is your own iCloud, if you use it, or wherever you choose to send them.

Photos

When you make a pattern from a photo, you pick the photo in Apple’s photo picker, and Krosstitch receives only that one photo. It turns the photo into a chart on your device. The photo itself is not kept; Krosstitch saves the finished chart and a small picture of it.

Describe It (Image Playground)

On devices with Apple Intelligence, you can describe a picture and Apple’s Image Playground creates it. That is Apple’s feature, covered by Apple’s privacy policy. Krosstitch receives only the finished picture and turns it into a chart on your device.

Your patterns and progress

Your charts, the stitches you highlight, and your settings, such as the last fabric count you chose, are saved on your device.

iCloud sync (optional)

If you are signed in to iCloud, Krosstitch keeps your patterns and highlighting in step across your own devices using your private iCloud storage (Apple CloudKit). That data sits in your iCloud account, which we cannot see or read. You can turn sync off at any time from the iCloud menu in the app.

Sharing a pattern

• Share Pattern link. When you choose to share a pattern as a link, Krosstitch places a copy of that chart, its title and its small picture in your iCloud and creates a read-only iCloud link. Anyone who has the link can open that copy, so send it only to people you want to have it. Your highlighting is not included. Someone who opens the link gets their own copy in their own Krosstitch library.
• Send as File, and printed charts. A pattern file or chart PDF leaves your device only when you send, save or print it, and goes only where you send it.

Deleting your data

Delete a pattern in Krosstitch to remove it from your device and, with sync on, from your iCloud. Copies you shared as links stay in your iCloud, so their links keep working. Deleting the app removes everything Krosstitch kept on your device. To remove all Krosstitch data from iCloud, including shared copies, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Manage Account Storage. Because we never receive your data, there is nothing for us to delete on our side.

Children

Krosstitch is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page.

Contact

Questions? Email don@donstech.com.

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