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Your logo. Beautifully embroidered. Without the hard part.

Open your design, watch Motifab turn it into stitches, and see exactly how it will look before you embroider.

No complicated process. Just more time to create.

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The artwork of the Alto Coffee sample: a round brown badge with mountains, a sun and the words ALTO COFFEE

1 Your logo

The file Motifab made of it, every stitch drawn as a line in its thread’s colour

2 Motifab’s stitches

Motifab’s render of that file: the logo embroidered on beige twill

3 The result

Stitches
7,800
Threads
3
Run time
9:45
Size
90.4 × 90.4 mm
File
DST
The Alto Coffee sample, a brand drawn for this site: its artwork, the stitches of the file Motifab made of it, and Motifab’s render of that file.
  • Preview every stitch
  • Export for your machine
  • Mac (Apple silicon) & Windows

New DTF prints that look embroidered

From your logo to embroidery. Just like that.

No complicated tools. No hours of learning. Open your design and let Motifab do its thing.

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

    Now, watch the magic happen.

    Motifab turns your design into embroidery, figuring out the stitches, the details and everything in between.

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

    See it before you stitch it.

    Take a closer look at your design, see how it will stitch, and make changes until you’re happy.

    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

    Ready for your machine.

    Save your embroidery file in the format you need. No complicated steps. No guessing.

  4. Motifab’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

    And yes, there’s more.

    Get a handy production sheet with the details you need to get stitching. Less paperwork, more creating.

You bring the idea. Motifab brings it to life.

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Made for the machine on your floor.

A Tajima in the factory or a Singer at home: Motifab 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. Motifab runs on both, natively.

Compare prices and plans
MacWindows
MotifabNative, 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 say. Names belong to their owners.

Six logos, no hand edits.

Sample brands, each digitized by Motifab at 90 mm with no hand edits. The numbers and the close-ups come from Motifab’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.

5 embroidered hoodies pay for the year.

A year of Motifab costs €149. Embroider 5 hoodies at €30 each and the licence is paid for; every order after that is yours.

Five folded oatmeal hoodies in a row on a walnut shop counter, each embroidered with the round Alto Coffee badge, beside a MacBook showing the same logo in Motifab’s editor; thread cones and a multi-needle embroidery machine behind

5 hoodies at €30€150

Motifab, one year: €149Paid for

Or send the logos out: a digitizing service charges from US$7.50 a logo, and you wait for every one. A year of Motifab costs about what ten to twenty of them do. Source: EMBPUNCH

Take real orders in your 15 free days: embroider them with Motifab’s files and be paid before you pay anything.

Example prices. What you charge is up to you.

One licence. Every logo after it.

One price for the year, about €12 a month, however many logos you digitize. Sent out to a digitizer, ten to twenty logos cost as much.

  • Auto Digitizer, Quality and Fix all
  • Every hand tool, 151 embroidery fonts
  • Files for twelve machine makers
  • Eight languages
  • A year of updates and support
  • 1,000 AI credits every year

MotifabThe full version

€149/ year

Founding price: €99 your first year, then €149 a year for as long as you stay subscribed. Ends 31 January 2027.

Start with 15 days free, every tool on and export included: take real orders before you pay anything.

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  • The machine files you make are yours
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