SewWhat-Pro is a powerful, comprehensive and easy to use software for processing (viewing, editing and converting) embroidery files that are produced by various different sewing manufacturers (such as Brother, Bernina, Janome and Singer). It provides a wide range of practical and effective functions and tools for users to efficiently complete the entire plate-making process of embroidery.

As a high-quality and full-fledged embroidery software specially made for people who embroider at home, Sewwhat-Pro's editing capabilities enable you to rotate and resize patterns (at a constant stitch density), merge multiple patterns, and save changes to a variety of file formats that suit your embroidery needs. In addition, it also includes a variety of Integrated Project Management features, provides cutting tools for splitting patterns into individual sections, supports for converting from one embroidery format to another, and allows batch conversion between different formats of a large number of embroidered files.

SewWhat-Pro has all the necessary functions and provides a wide range of practical and efficient tools for you to open and edit a lot of different embroidery file formats. For example, change the color of a single thread and the fabric of background, view or hide jumps, grid lines and labels, order the threads, delete or join them, filter stitches and split patterns, plan how certain stitches will be performed, specify the name of your work, sizes, number of stitches, sequence of colors, and more.

Moreover, SewWhat-Pro allows user to convert clipart or other forms of raster and vector images into an embroidery file, view the layers that make up the design, customize the colors and the name in which they are shown, even insert plugins for various tasks. Plus, it also comes with a stitch distribution graph that lets you see the concentration of the design in a length per number ratio.

Key Features

  • View embroidery files, even if they are included in zip or rar archives
  • View thumbnails (in Album View) of files in your working directory
  • Write Designer-1 floppy disks and USB drives
  • Use TrueType fonts [TTF] to create monogram lettering (with varying degrees of quality)
  • Resize, reposition, delete, rotate, and merge sewing patterns
  • Convert from, and save to, various file formats (see chart below) either individually or in batchmode
  • Simulate the real-time stitch out of a pattern
  • Change individual thread colors and background fabrics
  • Print out the design and design summary
  • View (or hide) a stitch histogram of the thread length distribution for each pattern
  • Hide or view (as thickened or dashed lines) jump stitches
  • ICON toolbar button to toggle between thread pane information and alphabet mode for easy entering of pre-digitized lettering
  • Applique cutter tool for creating SVG and JPG files for outline of applique, used to cut applique fabric in Cameo and Cricut software
  • Cutting toolbar allows graphical separation of patterns at specific stitches
  • Density adjustment dialog to resize a pattern at constant density
  • Graphical or text-based reordering of thread color stops is available
  • Capability to write Smart Media or Compact Flash cards for Singer, Brother, Janome, and new Bernina machines
  • Converts Cross Stitch patterns to embroidery files using a "plugin" from myriaCross (MC). You may download the DEMO, or purchase the MC plugin for SewWhat-Pro, here. Once the plugin is installed, it becomes seamlessly integrated into the SewWhat-Pro workspace and can be used to preview and convert a variety of different Cross-stitch formats. if the plugin stops working after updating to a newer version of Windows,  simply uninstall and reinstall it.
  • Supports a command-line interface for file conversion which has the form:
    • SewWhat-Pro.exe file1.ext1 file2.ext2 /c
Integrated Project Management Features of SewWhat-Pro:
  • Includes an editable table for entering project information
  • Easily editable list of thread colors and manufacturer brands
  • Capability to read/write thread color "txt" files for single/multiple projects
  • Thread palettes from a large number of manufacturers are available
  • Customizable user-defined thread palettes can be easily added

Supported File Types

Official Demo Videos

Universal License Keys

For UserName Registration
v4.x AppNee Freeware Group. 713866515N4310K

Edition Statement

AppNee provides the SewWhat-Pro multilingual full installers and unlocked files, as well as license keys for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

Installation Notes

for v4.4.8 on Windows:
  1. Download and install SewWhat-Pro
  2. Run program and register with the universal license key
  3. Done
*** You may need to block this program with your firewall.

for v4.4.5 on Windows:

  1. Download and install SewWhat-Pro
  2. Copy the unlocked file to installation folder and overwrite
  3. Done

Related Links

Download URLs

Version Download Size
for Windows
v4.5.8 32-bit + 64-bit 20.5 MB
(Homepage)