Free tools
All free, no signup, and they run in your browser. They exist because these questions come up in every machine embroidery shop, and the usual answer is a spreadsheet somebody rebuilt from scratch.
Work out what to charge for a job from its stitch count, the blank cost, your hooping fee, and your digitizing fee. It shows a price per piece, an order total, and every line of the math behind them.
Open the calculator →
The real embroidery field for common machines and hoops from Brother, Baby Lock, Janome, Bernina, Husqvarna Viking, Ricoma, and Melco — in inches and millimeters, with a checker that tells you which hoops your design fits.
Open the chart →
Look up the Isacord 40 equivalent of a Madeira Classic Rayon color, or go the other way. Search 290 pairings from Amann's official chart by number or color name, with swatches.
Open the converter →
The polyester side: look up the Isacord 40 equivalent of a Madeira Polyneon color, or go the other way. Search 313 pairings from Amann's official chart by number or color name, with swatches.
Open the converter →
Your design lists a Madeira Polyneon color and your rack is Candle Thread, or the other way around. Search 413 pairings from Candle Thread's own chart, with their published color on every row.
Open the converter →
Your design lists a Madeira color and your rack is Simthread, or the other way around. Search 107 pairings from Simthread's own published chart by number or color name.
Open the converter →
All 360 current Floriani Polyester colors, searchable by number or color name, with a swatch for each one from the color values RNK Distributing sent for Floriani.
Open the chart →
One page per Madeira Polyneon and Classic Rayon number with its Isacord 40 equivalent, plus Candle Thread or Simthread where they publish one, from the makers' own charts. 701 numbers, each one a link you can send to whoever is pulling the thread.
Browse the numbers →
All 885 Candle Thread polyester colors and all 504 viscose colors, searchable by number, with a swatch for each one from the color values Candle Thread USA sent.
Open the chart →
Work out what to charge, or expect to pay, to digitize a design — from the design type, the stitch count, rush turnaround, and revision rounds, with 2026 market rates and the reasoning shown.
Open the calculator →
Drop a .PES, .DST, .EXP, or .JEF file and read its stitch count, thread colors, and size, with the stitching charge at $1.00, $1.25, and $1.50 per 1,000. It reads the file in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Open the estimator →
Check the garment, placement, wording, thread, and payment fields your shop asks for and print an order form with your shop name on it, plus a text version to paste into a message.
Build the form →
What it costs to open a machine embroidery shop, line by line, at 2026 prices linked to where they were read, with a break-even on your first 20 orders at standard rates.
Open the calculator →
If there's a tool you'd actually use that isn't here yet, email hello@broidry.com and tell me.