Free tool
Free embroidery file viewer
Open an embroidery file to see what it will sew: a realistic thread preview, the real size in mm and inches, stitch count, colours, trims and the smallest hoop it fits. Free, no account, and nothing is stored.
- Realistic thread preview
- About 40 formats
- Files never stored
Your file is read in memory and discarded right away. We never store it.
What the viewer shows you
A realistic preview
Rendered stitch by stitch as thread, the way it will look sewn, not a flat line drawing.
The real size
Width and height in millimetres and inches, read from the stitches themselves.
The smallest hoop
Which standard hoop it fits, from 4×4″ to 8×12″, with a little room on every side.
Stitches and colours
Stitch count, colour changes, trims and jumps, the thread colours when the file stores them, and an estimated sewing time.
Why the colours can look wrong
Some formats don’t store thread colours at all. DST, EXP and U01 only record that the colour changes, so the viewer, like your machine, shows placeholder colours. JEF and PEC store numbers from a fixed brand palette, so you see that brand’s nearest threads. VP3, PES and XXX store real colour values. When the colours matter, follow the design’s colour sheet.
Opening embroidery files without software
You don’t need embroidery software to look inside a file: drop it here and you see the design, its size and its colours in seconds, on Windows, Mac, a tablet or a phone. Our guide to opening PES, DST and JEF files covers the programs that can edit them, and the converter turns the file into the format your machine reads.
Questions about the embroidery file viewer
Which files can I open?
About 40 machine formats, including PES, DST, JEF, EXP, VP3, XXX, U01, PEC, HUS, SEW and PCS. Design files from embroidery software, like EMB and ART, aren’t machine files and can’t be opened here.
Is my file uploaded and stored?
It’s sent to our server to be read and rendered, in memory only, and discarded right after. We never store it.
Why does the size differ from the file name?
Designers often name files by the hoop they’re made for. The viewer measures the stitches themselves, so its size is the real one.
What does the stitch count tell me?
How long the design takes and how dense it is. Our designs in the default 50 mm size have roughly 3,000 to 7,000 stitches, and the larger sizes more; at 700 stitches per minute, 5,000 stitches sew in about 7 minutes, plus colour changes.