Beta 0.9.0 is open
Meteor turns drawings, pictures and lettering into clean stitch files. Satin corners mitre, fills tuck under outlines, and a magic wand sews a whole color in one click.
Free during the beta. No account, and your designs never leave your device. Other devices
How it works
Draw with pen tools, sew a picture's colors with the magic wand, auto-digitize a whole image, or set lettering in any Google Font or font file.
Edit curve nodes, pick the stitch type, angle and density, and set the sewing order. Stitches update as you drag.
Watch it sew in the simulator, see thread build-up, and let the design check catch problems before the needle does.
Save PES or DST for your machine and print a worksheet with threads, size and sewing time.
Auto-digitize
Meteor reduces a picture to thread colors, traces every area into smooth shapes, and sews it. Dark line art becomes satin outlines, fills tuck under them, and each thread sews together so you change spools less often.
Sewn by the engine
Every pattern below is real output from Meteor's stitch generator, played back in the order your machine sews it.
Rows of even stitches that cover large areas flat. Needle drops shift row to row, so no seam lines up, and the needle travels under fabric it has not covered yet.
Built for the sew-out
Embroidery fails in small places: a corner that piles thread, a fill that leaves a gap, a stitch long enough to snag. Meteor handles them as you work.
Magic wand
Place a picture, pick the wand and click a patch of color. Meteor floods it, follows soft shading, and sews it as a fill or a satin column.
Satin corners
Where a satin column turns, its stitches would cross and stack on the inside of the bend. Meteor gives every corner its own stitches: they meet on a clean seam, or fan around gentle turns if you prefer.
Mitre: both legs stay square and meet on a seam from the inner corner to a sharp point.
Thread build-up
Every layer of thread stiffens the fabric. Past three layers it turns stiff, past five needles break. The build-up map shows each square millimetre's layers while you design.
Design check
Before export, Meteor checks the design against your hoop and machine: size, loose stitches over 7 mm, needle pile-ups, fills too small for tatami, and jumps your machine cannot trim. Most come with a one-click fix.
Lettering
Pick a Google Font or add a font file. Meteor traces each letter into satin strokes the way a pen would write it, then sews the word with the fewest jumps and trims, travelling under its own stitches. Eight hand-digitized fonts come built in.
Real output from Meteor's font digitizer.
The studio
Pen and node editing, layers and a sewing sequence, properties for every object, and thread that looks real on screen at its true size. The same studio runs on a computer or an Android tablet, with a finger or a pen.
On the inside of a curve every other stitch stops short at a varied depth, so needle holes never pile up and cut the fabric.
Fonts are traced into satin strokes, then each letter is sewn in the order with the fewest jumps and trims, travelling under its own strokes from one to the next.
Underlay and pull compensation follow the column width and the fabric, from stretchy knits to towels.
Play the design stitch by stitch in thread colors, with jumps and trims shown, to check the order before you hoop.
Print the threads in sewing order, the design size, stitch count and sewing time, with a preview, for each run.
Applique with your machine's own step codes, plus tension and density test sheets to dial in a new fabric.
Made for your machine
Pick your Brother machine in Meteor. Hoops, sizes and the design check follow it, so a file never asks for more than your machine can sew.
Launch art
The sky is bands of gradient tatami, the ridges are lit by satin rims, and the meteor's tail is tapered satin from deep violet to a white core. It is the screen you see while Meteor starts.
Download
Every feature is open during the beta. Version 0.9.0 beta, free, no account.
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Questions
Meteor saves Brother PES (version 6, and version 1 for older software) and Tajima DST. PES opens on Brother and Baby Lock home machines; DST opens on most commercial and multi-needle machines. Pick your Brother machine in Meteor and the hoops and the design check follow its limits, such as the field size, stitch count and color changes.
Yes. PES and DST files open from the gallery, so you can add to them and export them again.
Three ways. Auto-digitize turns a whole picture into stitches in one step, guided digitizing walks you through it piece by piece, and the magic wand sews one color patch at a time where you click. All of them give you shapes with editable curve nodes.
Yes. Pick any Google Font from the font browser, or add a TrueType (.ttf) or OpenType (.otf) file. Meteor traces each letter into satin strokes and sews them in the order with the fewest jumps and trims.
On your device. Meteor has no account and makes no network connections; projects save automatically to your computer or tablet.
Everything is free during the beta. Pricing for the full release has not been set.
