I love this app! It’s a great way to design my own patterns and use up excess dots, and as far as I know there is no other app for dotters, certainly none with all the features this one has:
◦ Create a new pattern by converting a photo, importing an image file, or creating a new pattern from scratch
◦ You have a choice of grids: square (like cross stitch) or offset (like Peyote beading patterns), and grid sizes
◦ You have a choice of drill types (square or round)
◦ You can crop and remove background from images
◦ You have a choice of palettes (DMC, Diamond Dotz, Artdots, generic, and you can create your own palettes from any of the standard ones
◦ There’s a wizard that walks you through the settings and shows what the effect on the pattern will be
◦ You can choose how many colors the pattern will use
◦ You can exchange all instances of one color for another
◦ You can reduce the number of colors by filtering out smaller numbers of color groups
◦ You can paint in (and erase) colors
◦ You can cut, copy and paste, and reflect selections, and also add text
◦ You can choose color numbers or symbol types (or no symbols) in your printouts
◦ The app tells you how many of each drill you need, and there is a feature where you can view all instances of any selected color and even the distances between them, to help in placing the dots
I haven’t used all these features yet but it’s great to know they are there. The developer has included so many features I never thought I’d need, but probably will sometime soon.