Load a photo and turn it into a wood-burning pattern, tracing pattern, collage quilt, hooked-rug preview, stained glass design, or jigsaw template. Six crafts, one plainly laid-out app, and no drawing skills required.
Seven-day web trial · no credit card · Mac & Windows · one-time purchase
Looking for Rug Hook Studio? It's part of TraceWorks 2 now — rug hooking has its own tab, and your Rug Hook Studio key works here.
No design experience needed — TraceWorks does the redrawing for you.
Open any picture from your computer — a pet, a quilt block, a favourite view. Anything you'd like to make.
Walk up to the tab for the thing you're making — a traceable outline, an art quilt, a hooked rug, a stained glass design, a wood-burning pattern, or a jigsaw puzzle — and click Generate.
Change one thing without losing the rest, then save as a PNG or PDF at the exact size you need. That's it.
Each craft has its own tab. Load the photo, choose the options, generate, refine, and save — without learning a different program each time.
Clean outlines, transparent line art, or lines laid over the original photo.
A fabric-collage design plus a printable placement outline to guide fabric selection, arrangement, and construction.
Rug Hook Studio lives here now, with materials, cut sizes, colours, relief, and true-scale loops.
A realistic stained-glass design plus a clean pattern you can review, size, and print.
Pyrography-ready line art shown on your choice of board.
A jigsaw preview and an exact cutting template for scroll saw, laser, or CNC.
the photo 
the pattern to quilt Two minutes, start to finish: a photo goes in, the fabric-collage design comes out, and TraceWorks turns it into a printable placement outline to guide fabric selection, arrangement, and construction.
Craft tabs across the top, options down the side in the order you work, and a big shared preview that shows exactly what you'll get before you print a thing.
The tools are grouped around the work, not around a long list of features.
Adjust the source photo first, refine one part of a result without starting over, and guide every generation with your own saved colour palettes.
Every result stays in version history. Compare it with the original, blend two versions, or build up effects such as mandala, printmaking, and Celtic knotwork.
Mirror transfers, set exact dimensions, and save clean PNG or PDF files. Send oversized work to SuperSize Studio when it needs more than one page.
Finished pieces, patterns, and works in progress from the TraceWorks community.
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No subscription, no renewals. Buy it once and keep it.
Not sure yet? Try TraceWorks Web free for seven days — all six crafts in your browser, no credit card, no subscription, and your first patterns are free with no Google key to set up. Previews and downloads carry a trial watermark; the full version removes it and adds printing, PDF and production files.
Powered by Google's Gemini AI — a Gemini API key is required. Generating images typically costs 7–25 cents each, billed directly by Google, never by us — and the app shows the exact price before you click. The built-in user manual walks you through getting your key, step by step. It's easy.
No. If you can use email and a web browser, you can use TraceWorks. The screens are large, plainly labelled, and walk you through each step.
Yes — TraceWorks Web is included free with every license and runs right in the browser on iPad, iPhone, Android tablets, Chromebooks, and any computer: same license key, at traceworks.blazingconcepts.co/app. It covers all six crafts — Tracing, Quilt Collage, Rug Hooking, Stained Glass, Wood Burning and Puzzle. The Mac and Windows app adds Special Effects, the Symmetry Lab, version history with Blend, Refine the Result, and project files with autosave. iPad tip: in Safari, tap Share and choose "Add to Home Screen" to give it its own icon, just like a real app.
Yes — TraceWorks runs on both Mac and Windows. Mac: requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later, 2020 onward). Windows: Windows 10 or 11. You buy the version for your computer and install it like any other app.
Yes. TraceWorks uses Google's Gemini AI to redraw your photos, so it needs a connection and your own Gemini API key. The built-in user guide walks you through getting that key once — it takes about two minutes — and your photos are never stored by us.
Yes. An API key for Google's Gemini AI is required to generate your images. Each image typically costs 7 to 25 cents, depending on the quality you choose — the app shows you the exact price before you click — and that small charge is billed directly by Google, never by us. Google asks new API accounts to buy a starting credit up front (from US $5 depending on your country, good for 12 months); that credit is your image budget, not an extra fee. The built-in user manual gives you step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions for getting your key, and it only takes a few minutes. Prefer to watch instead?
Watch the video: getting your keyNo — TraceWorks 2.0 is a free upgrade. Your existing license key (TraceWorks or Rug Hook Studio) unlocks it, and if the old app is already activated on your computer, TraceWorks 2.0 simply uses that activation — you won't even be asked for the key. It installs alongside your current apps, so nothing is replaced.
Yes. Buy once and it's yours — no subscription. You get free bug fixes forever, plus 12 months of product updates from the date you buy.
Yes — TraceWorks Web Trial runs in your browser for seven days, free. No credit card and no subscription; you enter an email address, verify it, and the seven days start. Your first few generations are free and need no Google account or key, so you can see your own photo as a pattern in a couple of minutes. To keep generating after those, you add your own Gemini API key, the same as the full version, and Google's small per-image charge applies.
Start the free trialEverything creative: all six crafts with the same controls as the full version, on your iPad or any computer. What's different is the output — previews carry a TraceWorks Trial watermark, and the only download is a small watermarked PNG. Clean full-size PNG, PDF at true size, printing, the collage and rug image saves, and the SuperSize Studio hand-off are in the full version.
The app shows a Trial ended screen and stops generating. Your trial work stays on your device. Buy TraceWorks and open TraceWorks Web with the licence key from your purchase email, or install the desktop app from the link in your receipt — one key works in both. Clearing your browser doesn't restart the trial: the dates are kept on our server against your verified email.
Not automatically yet. TraceWorks Web starts fresh today — open your photo there again and use the same settings, which takes a minute. Carrying the trial session across is on the list; we won't promise it before it ships.
The same way as any other Mac app. TraceWorks is signed and checked by Apple, so your Mac opens it without any security warning. Three steps:
Seeing a warning that the app can't be checked for malware? You have a copy downloaded before September 19, 2026. Download it again from your order page (the link is in your receipt email) and the warning is gone.
Yes — that message is your browser being extra careful with software from smaller companies. The installer is digitally signed, but browsers hide new files until you confirm you want them. Three quick steps:
You only do this once — after installing, it opens like any other program. The warning fades on its own as more people download each new version.
It's almost certainly there — just not where you're looking. Two things to know:
One more thing: the installer is a Windows program, so it won't open on an iPad or phone. For those, use TraceWorks Web at traceworks.blazingconcepts.co/app — it's included with your license, nothing to download.
It's now part of TraceWorks 2.0 — the whole app lives on as the Rug Hooking tab, with every feature intact: materials, cut sizes, wool colours, relief, backing colour, true-scale loops. If you own Rug Hook Studio, TraceWorks 2.0 is free for you and your license just works.
A mode that rebuilds your subject from patterned-fabric squares — the fabric-collage art-quilt look — and then creates a printable placement outline to guide fabric selection, arrangement, and construction.
Still wondering about something? Ask us — we answer.
Start the web trial with your own photo. There is no credit card and nothing to install.
