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For most logos it does the first pass, and often the whole job. Lettering under about 4 mm and photos still need a digitizer’s eye, and Quality tells you when.

In our October 2026 test of 105 real logos, the Auto Digitizer finished more than half of them in under 30 seconds, on one laptop busy with other work; a large, detailed crest can take several minutes. Add the time you take to answer its questions and look over the result.

No. The Auto Digitizer asks the questions a digitizer would: size, fabric, colours. Quality explains each problem in plain words and what to do about it. When you want full control, satin, fill, block, running stitch, knife and segment are there for every part.

Any machine that reads DST, PES, EXP, JEF, VP3, U01, XXX, DSB, TAP or PEC files: for example Tajima, Ricoma, SWF, Happy, Barudan, ZSK, Brother, Melco, Bernina, Janome, Husqvarna, Pfaff and Singer.

Logos in PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, PDF and AI; Qepe designs; and machine files from other programs, in about 40 formats.

Round hoops from 9 to 30 cm, square and rectangular frames up to 40 × 50 cm, cap frames and your own sizes. Each machine profile knows its needles and its hoops.

Yes. Open the JPG, PNG, WebP, SVG, PDF or AI file, set the size, fabric and colours, and the Auto Digitizer turns it into stitches. Export writes the DST (or PES, EXP, JEF, VP3, U01, XXX, DSB, TAP or PEC) and reads it back to check it. Clean artwork gives the best result; lettering under about 4 mm and photos still need a digitizer’s hand.

DST for Tajima, Ricoma, SWF, Happy and most commercial machines; PES for Brother PR; U01 for Barudan; EXP for Melco and Bernina; JEF for Janome; VP3 for Husqvarna and Pfaff; XXX for Singer; DSB for Barudan, Ricoma and ZSK; TAP for Happy; PEC for Brother home machines and cards. Pick your machine in Qepe and it uses the right format, needles and hoops.

Yes. Qepe opens machine files in about 40 formats, so a PES, EXP or other file a customer sends opens as a design you can check and export as DST, or in any of the ten formats Qepe writes.

Qepe comes with 128 Qepe Fonts, made for embroidery, each at the sizes it was digitized for. It can also embroider any font installed on your computer, but many commercial font licences don’t allow embroidery: check the licence before you sell a design made with one.

Yes. Names writes one machine file for each name in a list, with the text set again in its font, size and place.

Your unsaved work is kept as a draft moments after each change and comes back the next time Qepe opens. A save never leaves a half-written file.

Not by Qepe. Only Qepe AI sends anything, when you ask it to work on a design, and you can tell it to keep the original artwork on your computer.

Not for the work. Digitizing, checking and exporting all happen on your computer, without a connection. Signing in, the licence check and Qepe AI use the internet.

A licence is €149 a year for the full version, with updates and support. AI credits are optional and come in packs.

Yes: 7 days with everything on, export included, on your Qepe account. One trial per account and per computer.

Mac with Apple silicon and Windows. There is no version for iPhone, iPad or Android.

One at a time. Sign in on another computer and Qepe offers to move the licence there: up to 3 moves in 30 days, and our support helps after that.

English, Albanian, German, Spanish, French, Serbian and Turkish. Change it in Settings at any time.

Yes. Qepe runs natively on Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or later), and on Windows PCs. On a Mac it needs no Windows, no Parallels and no Boot Camp, which Wilcom EmbroideryStudio and Hatch, both Windows-only, need there.