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Professional embroidery digitizing, made simple.

Qepe turns your customer’s logo into the file your embroidery machine reads, checks it against the artwork and shows you every stitch before the needle moves.

See availabilityThe licence €149 / year

Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year · Mac with Apple silicon and Windows

The FC Aurora sample crest freshly embroidered on a white football shirt, still in the hoop, lifted from a multi-needle embroidery machine
Stitches
11,360
Threads
3
Run time
14:12
Size
90.4 × 116.5 mm
File
DST
FC Aurora, a sample crest drawn for this page, pictured embroidered. The numbers are from the file Qepe made of it.

Watch Qepe do the whole job.

  1. The crest embroidered from Qepe’s file: 11,360 stitches, 90.4 × 116.5 mm

    Qepe digitizes it.

    Stitch type, underlay and stitching order for every part: 11,360 needle points, in the machine’s order.

  2. The crest embroidered from Qepe’s file, with the two places Quality marked circled in red
    12

    Quality checks it against the artwork.

    Scored out of 100, in plain words. This crest scored 78; the two notes that matter are circled.

    1. Counters inside A and R too small for thread at 90 mm: 1.5–2.8 mm²
    2. Star points narrow to 0.38 mm in satin

  3. DSTPESEXPJEFVP3U01XXXDSBTAPPEC

    Read back and compared

    • Every needle point, within 0.06 mm
    • Every thread change and needle
    • Every trim and stop
    • The header and the thread names

    The file is written for your machine.

    In one of ten formats, DST and PES among them, for twelve makers’ machines, read back and compared before it is saved.

  4. Qepe’s production worksheet for FC Aurora: its size, 11,360 stitches, 3 colours, 14 trims, the DST file, the hoop and the colour sequence by needle

    The worksheet comes with it.

    Needle order, run time, trims and hoop for your operator, and an approval sheet for your customer, under your shop’s name and logo.

Made for the machine on your floor.

A Tajima in the factory or a Singer at home: Qepe writes the file it reads, sized for its hoops, and reads every file back before it is saved.

Native on a Mac. And on Windows.

Wilcom EmbroideryStudio and Hatch run only on Windows: on a Mac they need Windows inside a virtual machine. Qepe runs on both, natively.

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MacWindows
QepeNative, Apple siliconWindows 10 and 11
Wilcom EmbroideryStudioNot compatible with macOSYes
Hatch Embroidery 4Only inside Windows, through ParallelsYes

As the makers’ and a reseller’s pages said on 21 October 2026. Names belong to their owners.

Six logos, no hand edits.

Sample brands, each digitized by Qepe at 90 mm with no hand edits. The photos picture them on the garment; the numbers and the close-ups come from Qepe’s own files.

  • Novra embroidered on its garment, held in two hands
    Novra, the artwork

    Novra

    Polo shirt

    Stitches
    11,346
    Run time
    14:11
    Quality
    100
  • Pine Ridge Outdoor embroidered on its garment, held in two hands
    Pine Ridge Outdoor, the artwork

    Pine Ridge Outdoor

    Hoodie

    Stitches
    12,022
    Run time
    15:02
    Quality
    92
  • Alto Coffee embroidered on its garment, held in two hands
    Alto Coffee, the artwork

    Alto Coffee

    Twill apron

    Stitches
    7,800
    Run time
    9:45
    Quality
    84
  • FC Aurora embroidered on its garment, held in two hands
    FC Aurora, the artwork

    FC Aurora

    Football shirt

    Stitches
    11,360
    Run time
    14:12
    Quality
    78
  • Bridge Bakery embroidered on its garment, held in two hands
    Bridge Bakery, the artwork

    Bridge Bakery

    T-shirt

    Stitches
    4,438
    Run time
    5:33
    Quality
    79
  • Lakeside Swim Club embroidered on its garment, held in two hands
    Lakeside Swim Club, the artwork

    Lakeside Swim Club

    Towel

    Stitches
    13,313
    Run time
    16:38
    Quality
    77

93 of 105 real logos came out acceptable for a branding shop in our test on 16 October 2026: graded from simulated stitches, not stitch-outs.

One licence. Every logo after it.

From the first logo of the morning to the last name on the order, everything Qepe does is yours for a year.

  • Auto Digitizer, Quality and Fix all
  • Every hand tool, 128 embroidery fonts
  • Files for twelve machine makers
  • Seven languages
  • A year of updates and support
  • 1,000 AI credits every year
Six folded garments on a workbench, each with one of the sample logos embroidered on it: Novra, FC Aurora, Alto Coffee, Pine Ridge, Bridge Bakery and Lakeside

QepeThe full version

€149/ year

Launch offer: €99 for the first year, for the first 100 shops.

Try it free for 7 days first: everything on, export included.

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The licence in detail

Your next logo, ready to embroider.

Turn the next logo your customer sends into a checked, machine-ready file, on your Mac or PC.

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Not released yet. From the first release: 7 days free, then €149 a year