Hatch Embroidery Digitizer
Hatch Embroidery Composer
Hatch Embroidery Personalizer
Hatch Embroidery Organizer
Four levels,
one engine.
Not sure which level of Hatch Embroidery is right for you? These FAQs explain exactly what each level includes, who it's for, and how they compare.
Back to all FAQ categoriesOrganizer is the entry-level product, designed for embroiderers who want to work with existing designs rather than create new ones from scratch.
- Find, manage, and browse your embroidery design library
- Resize, recolor, and customise existing designs
- Simulate sewing with Stitch Player
- Auto-Fabrics — adjusts stitch settings and recommends stabilizers for different fabrics
- Hoop management including multi-position hoops
- Output designs to your machine in all major file formats
New in Hatch 4: AI Answers, Enhanced Design Explorer, Enhanced Grids & Guides, Wireless Brother Transfer.
Personalizer includes everything in Organizer, plus a full suite of lettering and monogramming tools. It's the most popular choice for home embroiderers who want to personalise items with names, initials, and monograms.
- 66 professionally digitized embroidery fonts
- 90+ professional monogram templates with 400 ornaments
- Lettering baselines and alignment options
- Edit and reshape individual letter forms
- Convert TrueType fonts to embroidery
- Laydown Stitch for textured fabrics like terry toweling
Composer includes everything in Personalizer, plus auto-digitizing, vector file support, and advanced editing tools. It's ideal for small business owners and enthusiasts who want to turn their own artwork into embroidery.
- 78 professionally digitized embroidery fonts
- Auto-digitize photos and artwork into embroidery in one click
- Layout, reshape, and Knife tools for editing design objects
- Multi-hooping for large designs
- Vector file support (with CorelDRAW® integration)
- DXF file import — new in Hatch 4, no CorelDRAW needed
Digitizer is the professional flagship — it includes everything in Composer plus world-class manual digitizing, advanced appliqué, PhotoStitch, and the complete creative toolkit.
- 130 professionally digitized embroidery fonts — the most of any level
- Full manual digitizing with 8 precision tools
- Multi Blend, Advanced Appliqué, Continue Digitizing (new in Hatch 4)
- Color PhotoStitch, Reef PhotoStitch, and PhotoFlash
- Motif fills, Color Blending, Carving Stamps, Hand Stitch
- 3D raised embroidery effects, Trapunto, Ambience Quilting
- Keyboard Design Collection creator
Both levels include auto-digitizing, vector support, and the full editing toolkit. The key difference is manual digitizing.
With Composer, the software digitizes automatically from your artwork — you guide the result. With Digitizer, you also have the option to manually draw every stitch yourself, with complete control over stitch type, direction, angle, density, and structure.
Digitizer also adds exclusive features not available in Composer: Multi Blend, Advanced Appliqué, Continue Digitizing, PhotoStitch (color and grayscale), Hand Stitch, 3D effects, and 130 fonts (vs 78 in Composer).
Yes — at any time. Upgrading levels is simple: you sign in to your Hatch account, your personalized level upgrade price is shown automatically, and you purchase the difference.
There is no risk: all your existing designs, fonts, and custom assets carry over to the new level. You never lose your work by upgrading.
Start simple,
grow from there.
Every level of Hatch Embroidery shares the same professional Wilcom engine. You're never buying a lesser product — just a different scope. When you're ready for more, you upgrade and pick up exactly where you left off.
- Organizer: manage and stitch existing designs
- Personalizer: add lettering and monograms
- Composer: auto-digitize from photos and artwork
- Digitizer: complete professional creative control
Try all four levels
free for 30 days.
- 30-day free trial
- No credit card required
- All levels included