Creativate Essential, Extra or Elite – which version do you really need?

Important information beforehand: Mac & Windows, subscription & one-time purchase

Creativate runs on macOS (including Apple Silicon/M processors) and Windows. The license can be activated on two computers simultaneously. You can get Creativate as a subscription (12 months in advance) or as a one-time purchase (via activation code).

Do you want to create embroidery designs entirely yourself? Then I recommend Creativate Elite .

Who is each version intended for?

Creativate Essential – for everyone who uses, combines and neatly prepares embroidery files

Essential is ideal if you want to organize, combine, and cleanly export existing embroidery designs for your machine. Perfect if you want to work professionally with ready-made files without digitizing them.

Creativate Essential can:

• Prepare the embroidery frame for embroidery
• Combine existing embroidery designs, group colors
• Working with 240+ fonts (including scaling)
• More quilting features: Customize borders & edging
• Essential Embroidery Design Wizards
• 650+ frames, borders & flourishes for embroidery designs
• 2 GB Vault storage
• Export to many formats: .PES, .DST, .JEF, .VP3, .EXP, .XXX and many more.

Want to create embroidery files for any embroidery machine? Export to .PES, .DST, .VP3, .JEF, .EXP, .XXX, etc.

Creativate Extra – for “photo to embroidery file” and quick conversions (without fine-tuning)

Extra is the right choice if you want to do something with images/photos – but without deep manual editing. You get automatic tools like PhotoStitch and automatic digitizing, plus creative text functions.

Creativate Extra (everything Essential can do, plus):

• Automatic digitization of logos/graphics (without real editing/optimization tools like in Elite)
• PhotoStitch (create embroidery files from photos)
• Import fonts from PC
• Express Monogram (1–3 letters)
• Word Sculpt (words in shapes, e.g. heart)
• Filled or bordered quilt blocks in many shapes
• Application functions for applications

Key point: Extra is "Transform & get creative quickly".

Creativate Elite – for “creating embroidery files completely yourself” and true professional control

Elite is the version for those who truly want to digitize their designs: creating their own embroidery files from scratch, optimizing them cleanly, and selectively editing existing designs. When customers say, "I want to do this properly myself"—that's Elite.

Creativate Elite (everything that can do extra, plus):

• Digitizing: designing, creating and optimizing your own embroidery files
• Stitch Editor: Selectively edit/optimize stitches of existing embroidery files
• Cross Stitch (Cross Stitch Features)

Key principle: Elite is "self-created & perfected".

Quick decision: Which version suits which need?

1. "I just want to use/compile embroidery files and write names on them."
   → Creative Essential
2. "I want to quickly create an embroidery file from photos/graphics (automatic is sufficient for me)."
   → Creative Extra
3. "I want to create embroidery files entirely myself and professionally improve existing files."
   → Creative Elite

Comparison table: Essential vs. Extra vs. Elite

Embroidery software creativate™ Elite (formerly mySewnet Platinum) for  Mac & Windows

899.00 EUR

1799.00 EUR

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Embroidery software creativate™ Extra (formerly mySewnet Gold) for  Mac & Windows

149.00 EUR

279.00 EUR

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Embroidery software creativate™ Essential (formerly mySewnet Silver) for  Mac & Windows

79.00 EUR

199.00 EUR

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