About

A bead pattern generator built right

Bitbead is an indie tool — no VC, no signup, no upload. Just a free chart-maker that does the bead-counting maths so you can spend your time actually making things.

Why Bitbead exists

Every other perler bead pattern site I tried did one of three things: locked the good features behind a login, ran the algorithm on a server (uploading my photos to who-knows-where), or generated a beautiful preview without telling me how many beads I'd actually need to buy. Bitbead flips that. The whole tool runs in your browser using image-q's CIEDE2000 colour matching — the same algorithm professional colour-management software uses. Your photos never touch a server. Total bead count, real-world dimensions, and a per-colour shopping list show up the moment quantization finishes. And it's free, multilingual, with the major bead palettes plus COCO 291 for Chinese small-bead workflows.

What we believe

Four principles

Free, forever

No paid tier, no daily limit, no watermark.

Photos stay on your device

Quantization, dithering, PDF export — all client-side. The image you upload never leaves your browser.

Real beads, real codes

Every output references actual bead colours you can buy: Perler, Hama, Artkal, MARD and COCO with their colour codes.

Built for craft, not content

Bitbead outputs print-ready PDFs and exact materials lists. It's a tool for finished projects, not Instagram screenshots.