Originally, one of our embroiderer friends someone shared with us  like to use in their embroidery software. And then we heard the same thing from someone else. And it occurred to us that there are some things which are, “Essential to every embroiderer.” Yet many software programs have everything and the kitchen sink too, and they charge you for it. So we put just those things in one simple, inexpensive program, and called it, “Essentials.”

What are these “Essentials?”

Using your Mac or Windows PC you can:

• Merge embroidery designs in almost any format, even while they are in .ZIP files.
• Resize embroidery designs with stitch recalculation.
• Colorize embroidery designs.
• Convert between thread brands on your embroidery designs.
• Add lettering to your embroidery designs in Multi-Line, Monogram and Circle modes. You can even spiral text or make really LARGE embroidered letters.
• Save in your embroidery machine’s format.
• Save appliques for cutting machines such as ScanNCut and Silhouette.
• Split embroidery designs for some of the common Multi-Position hoops.
• Get Project Advice for many difficult embroidery tasks.
• Save ‘working’ embroidery files so that you can edit and replace text later.
• Print real-size embroidery design templates, with options to support scanning /cutting systems.
• Overlap embroidery designs and have significant understitching removed.
• Run an embroidery simulator to show how your designs will sew out before you put them on your machine.
• Import popular .BX font design collection files distributed by many digitizers and stock design companies.
• Group and Ungroup embroidery objects and imported designs
• Change or remove individual colors in an embroidery design.
• Undo changes as you work, with many levels of ‘Undo’
• Fit designs to your Hoop with stitch recalculation.
• Align and Distribute elements in your embroidery design.
• Add basting stitches to embroidery  designs.
• Use our special self-modifying designs, and try out a few that come with the program! These designs calculate their stitches as you play with them for super results!
• Manage your embroidery thread collection, including marking ones you own.
• Create Designer 1 floppy disks and USB sticks

Runs natively on your preferred platform!

• Mac OSX 10.9 - MacOS 13.
• Windows (32 ,64):XP , Vista 7,8,10,11
• Embrilliance is the only brand in the World that offers embroidery software running  native on MacOS and Windows 32 and Windows 64 (so it’s faster)!

Install on any number of machines!

Like all our products running in the Embrilliance Platform, you get both OSX and Windows versions with your purchase. Your license lets you run  Embrilliance Essentials  on as many computers as you own — even mix and match Mac and Windows.

Essentials includes 12 scalable embroidery fonts:
See included fonts tab. 

Want more fonts? Check out 

Size matters too!

Some companies charge more than this for a program that only does resizing of embroidery designs. With  Essentials sizing with stitch recalculation is included! You can re-size embroidery down to half and up to 250%!

We Live in a Colorful World

Essentials has applique features that make it unique in the embroidery world. You can use an existing applique design and select position and material colors allowing the removal of hidden top-stitches in overlapping appliques, while leaving the position and material runs unmodified. You can also use the position color to create a cutting file using our patent-pending technology. Brother ScanNCut, Silhouette Cameo, and other cutters can use the files Essentials creates.

Wondering if it works with files for your machine? Yes it does!

Essentials can read:

.ART, .ART42, .ART50, .ART60, .CND,

.CSD, .DST, .DSZ, .EMB, .EMD,

.EXP, .EXP+, .HUS, .JAN, .JEF,

.JEF+, .PCS, .PCM, .PES, .PHB,

.PHC, .PHD, .SEW, .SHV, .TAP,

.VIP, .VP3, .XXX

Essentials can write:

.CSD, .DST, .DSZ, .EXP, .EXP+,

.HUS, .JEF, .PCS, .PCM, .PES,

.SEW, .SHV, .TAP, .VIP, .VP3,

.XXX

And it also includes special features to enable Mac users to write USB devices and floppy disks for use with embroidery machines, including Designer 1.

Applique files can be saved as .SVG, .PLT, .FCM (ScanNCut) and .studio (Silhouette).