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Beadographer 3

The original Beadographer app.
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Beadographer 5

Beadographer 5 offers more features and flexibility.
Beadographer 5 is currently in development, so features are still being added, and some errors may occur while using the app.
Beadographer 5: more flexible, more customizable
Beadographer 5 is the new generation of Beadographer, designed to give you much more flexibility in how you create patterns, work with beads, and manage your supplies.
Better for small screens. Beadographer 5 has a mobile-friendly interface, with layouts designed to work on smaller screens as well as desktop computers.
More languages. Available in English, French, Spanish, German, Romanian, Danish, Italian, Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, and Dutch.
Custom beads. Instead of being limited to the bead libraries supplied with the app, you can create complete custom bead libraries with your own products, dimensions and specifications. You can even design your own bead shapes, allowing you to work with beads beyond the standard round and cylinder shapes.
Flexible layouts Beadographer 5 introduces a powerful layout editor. You can combine grids, circles, arcs, individual beads and reusable components to create custom layouts, mix different bead shapes in the same design, and even define a custom thread path. This opens up many designs that are difficult or impossible to represent using a fixed grid.
Inventory management. The expanded inventory system tracks actual quantities, packages, storage locations and recent changes. You can add or subtract beads as you use them, subtract the beads required for an entire project, and generate purchase lists showing what you already have and what you still need to buy.
Improved PDF exports. Beadographer 5 also gives you much greater control over exported patterns. Build your PDF from customizable content blocks, choose page sizes and orientation, adjust charts and images, add your own text and branding, and save export templates to reuse for future patterns.
If you mainly want Beadographer’s familiar pattern-design tools, Beadographer 3 remains a simpler option. Choose Beadographer 5 when you want more freedom to customize your beads, layouts, inventory and finished pattern PDFs.
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Beadographer

A simple, powerful beading app

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Beadographer lets you create your own bead patterns inside your web browser (no download needed).

It comes in both a fully featured free version and a membership version for just $14.99 / year.

115k
projects created
12k
monthly users
6
years in operation

What can I make?

17 different layouts are included, with more in development...

  • Bead loom and tapestry
  • Peyote stitch
  • Brick stitch
  • Herringbone, Right-angle weave, Fringe earrings
  • Peyote triangle, warped square, and star patterns
  • Plastic fuse bead designs
  • Medallion and huichol patterns

Check out this video to get a taste of what is possible...

The app also comes with powerful tools such as photo conversion, bead libraries (including Miyuki, TOHO, and plastic fuse beads), inventory management, and transform tools.

The app is developed for Windows, Mac OS X and iPad. You may encounter errors when trying to use it with other devices. We recommend using Chrome with Beadographer.

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Free v. Membership — which is right for me?

Free version

The free version is a fully functioning app with no ads, and no upgrade messages. You can use the free version without registering or logging in.

You can use the free version to design projects from scratch, then bead them with the beading tool. You can save the output using screenshots of your work.

We recommend the free version for:

  • Smaller projects
  • Personal projects
  • One-off projects
  • Exploring and learning Beadographer

Membership version

Membership makes sense if you:

  • Design larger projects (that need multiple sessions to design)
  • Share or sell your patterns
  • Need word charts and bead lists (included in the PDF exports)
  • Want to save your patterns for future editing
  • Want to load custom palettes and track inventory
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