Sharing your diagrams

StitchPress lets you share your diagrams so other people can view your work without needing an account of their own. You can share with a link that anyone can open, or invite specific people by email. Sharing is available for crochet diagrams and knit charts; to send someone a pattern, export it as a PDF.

Opening the Share dialog

You can open the Share dialog from two places:

• In the editor — select the Share button at the right end of the header tray, next to Export range.
• From Your workspace — open the diagram’s actions menu (the ⋯ menu on its card) and choose Share.

Creating a share link

1. Open the Share dialog.
2. Under Link, select Create link.

Once the link is active, StitchPress shows the message “Anyone with the link can view” along with the link itself. Select Copy link to copy it, then paste it into a message, email, or anywhere else you like. Anyone who opens the link sees your diagram — they do not need a StitchPress account.

When you paste a share link into a chat app or social network that shows link previews, the preview shows your diagram’s name and a picture of the diagram.

Inviting specific people

If you would rather share with named people instead of anyone-with-the-link, use the People section of the same dialog. Type someone’s email address and select Invite. If they do not have a StitchPress account yet, they are marked Pending and get access as soon as they sign in with that email address.

Diagrams that other people have shared with you appear under Shared with me at the bottom of your Crochet and Knit galleries (open them from the ☰ menu).

What viewers can do

People you share with open the diagram in a read-only view. They can look at your chart and explore it — pan, zoom, and inspect the stitches — and open Stitches used and Generate text from the settings menu for a stitch legend and written instructions. They cannot change the diagram, and their view never affects your original.

By default, viewers can only look. If you turn on Viewers can save a copy in the Share dialog, viewers also get a Save a copy button — this drops their own editable copy into their workspace, leaving your original untouched. Viewers who are not signed in see Sign in to save a copy instead.

For more on the read-only view that people see, see Viewing and sharing in the Crochet editor manual.

Revoking access

You stay in control of a shared diagram from the same Share dialog:

• Turn off deactivates the link. Existing links stop working, and the diagram is no longer viewable through them.
• Reset link replaces the current link with a fresh one. The old link stops working immediately — useful if a link was shared more widely than you intended.
• To remove an individual person you invited, select the remove (✕) button next to their name in the People list.