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Stitch Sprint is a yearly subscription. The app checks it when you sign in and now and then after that. Two other ways in are below: the free alpha and the Founders Edition.

#Signing in

1. Open Stitch Sprint. It opens on the sign-in page.
2. Type the email you subscribed with (in the free alpha: any email of yours).
3. Type the six-digit code emailed to you.

Once you're signed in, the line at the top right of the window shows your email and Sign out.

#The free alpha

Until 11:59 pm on November 26, 2026 (US Eastern time) Stitch Sprint is free to try: sign in with any email, with no card and nothing to pay.

• The sign-in page says so, and the top right of the window shows Alpha, free until November 26 with the time it ends on your computer's clock (8:59 PM in California, for example). On the last day it turns amber and reads Alpha ends.
• Everything works as it does for a subscriber, on up to 2 computers.
• What we ask in return: sew what you make, and tell us how it went on the Feedback tab, with photos. See Feedback.
• At 11:59 pm on November 26 the alpha ends, for everyone at the same moment, with or without internet. If Stitch Sprint is open, the window goes to The free alpha has ended; save your work before then.
• That page gives the two ways to keep going:
  • Early adopter: $49.99 a year. The price stays $49.99 for as long as you stay subscribed, and subscribing by December 25, 2026 comes with the Christmas Collection (25 designs).
  • Founders Edition: $499, once (below).

  Use the same email at checkout as you signed in with, then click I've bought one, check again.

• Your saved designs stay on your computer and open again once you have bought either.
• A gift for signing up: the Thanksgiving Collection 2026, five Thanksgiving designs. It downloads by itself after you sign in, into the Library, and is yours to keep (see Bonus designs). The Christmas Collection comes with a subscription, not with the alpha.

#Founders Edition

The Founders Edition is one payment in place of the yearly subscription.

• Sign in with the email you bought it with. The top right of the window shows Founders Edition.
• There is nothing to renew, and every update is included.
• Every design pack we release is included. Each one downloads by itself after you sign in, as bonus designs do (below).
• It works on 2 computers, and 7 days without internet, like a subscription.

#Bonus designs

Some offers come with designs:

• The Thanksgiving Collection 2026: 5 Thanksgiving designs for everyone who signed up during the free alpha.
• The Christmas Collection 2026: 25 Christmas designs for everyone who subscribed by the end of December 25, 2026.
• With the Founders Edition, every pack is yours as it comes out.

How they arrive:

• After you sign in, Stitch Sprint downloads them by itself. A note at the bottom right of the window shows how far it has got, then says they're in the Library. Show it opens them there.
• They go in the saved designs folder (Documents/Stitch Sprint), in a folder of their own: each design in its sizes, in DST, PES, JEF, EXP, XXX and U01, with a PDF that shows them all. The Library draws each one's picture.
• They're yours to keep. Nothing is removed if your subscription or the alpha ends, and you can sell what you stitch from them.
• If the download doesn't work, Stitch Sprint tries again the next time it opens.
• They're downloaded once on each computer. If you delete their folder, they don't come back by themselves: contact support to get them again.

#Working without internet

• After signing in, Stitch Sprint works for 7 days without internet.
• When it is opened online, it renews that quietly, about every 6 hours.
• If it has been offline for more than 7 days, connect to the internet and open it again.

#Two computers

• One subscription works on 2 computers at a time.
• Signing in on a third shows the two in use, and you can remove one.
• You can remove computers at most 3 times in 30 days.
• Sign out (at the top right of the window) frees this computer.

#If your subscription ends

• A cancelled subscription, the end of the free alpha, or a computer that was removed, locks the app at its next check, with a link to subscribe.
• Your saved designs stay on your computer in the saved designs folder, and open again once you're subscribed. So do bonus designs.

#Things the app refuses

To keep subscriptions fair, the app refuses a pass copied from another computer, and a computer clock set back by more than a day. If you see a sign-in message you don't expect, check that the computer's date and time are set automatically (on a Mac: System Settings > General > Date & Time).

See also Troubleshooting: signing in.