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What is Hatch Embroidery Software?
Hatch is an easy-to-use machine embroidery & digitizing software program that’ll quickly transform your creative ideas into reality with professional results. Whether you want to create beautiful designs from scratch, edit designs you purchased, personalize a project with professional lettering and monograms, or simply organize and convert your design files, Hatch is the perfect embroidery software for you.
Want Exclusive Hatch Bonuses?
Any software program is only as good as the education & support that comes with it. As an official Hatch reseller, when you purchase or download the free trial of Hatch through us, we provide you with every tool necessary to turn your embroidery dreams into a reality quickly & easily.
Purchase Hatch Through Embroidery Legacy & Receive
- Up to $251 of Exclusive Bonuses: Including additional ESA fonts and monograms (which you choose yourself from the world’s largest database of almost 1000 ESA fonts), the five beautiful embroidery designs shown on this page, access to our Digitizer’s Dream Course, and more! See which bonuses come with which levels of Hatch by clicking here.
- Professional Hatch Education: Taught by John Deer, the world’s most awarded embroidery digitizer for over two decades.
- Access to our “Hatch Facts” Online Community: With over 11,400 members, we run the world’s largest interactive Hatch Facebook group on the internet. Share your projects, ask questions, and connect with other like-minded embroiderers.
- Superior Customer Support: We’ll hold your hand every step of the way.
“The bonuses were instrumental. I am a very satisfied customer of the Hatch Software purchased through Embroidery Legacy. The purchase and installation process was very easy. The support and educational products are excellent. I feel that I can continue to progress as I learn more about digitizing.“
– Anita Jennings
You’re Even Covered by a Full 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
You can relax knowing that after your trial, if you purchase Hatch, you’re covered by a full 30-day money-back guarantee. You’ll have confidence in knowing that if Hatch doesn’t provide you with everything you need to take your embroidery to the next level, we’ll gladly refund your money. That’s how confident we are that this will be the best investment you ever make in your embroidery.
Hatch Embroidery Software Levels
There are four levels of Hatch to meet your embroidery needs. You can purchase the software all at once with the Digitizer level, or in chunks with the option to easily upgrade as your embroidery skills grow.
Added Bonus: Embroidery Digitizing Made Easy Challenge
Download your 30-day free Hatch through us and get access to our Digitizing Made Easy Challenge! Whether you’ve never used embroidery software or currently own another brand and want to see the latest and greatest technology available, our 30-day Challenge will take you by the hand and show you how easy it is to create and edit your own designs using Hatch. Within this Challenge, you’ll follow along 7 short video lessons with John Deer, the world’s most awarded digitizer, and create 6 designs yourself from start to finish!
- Part 1: Introduction – This lesson will introduce you to the challenge and cover the main Hatch tools you’ll be using.
- Part 2: Basic Digitizing – Here you’ll create 2 embroidery designs yourself! You’ll learn how to create design outlines, redwork, and learn to properly add basic fills and colors into your designs.
- Part 3: Creative Digitizing – Next, you’ll learn how to digitize more artistic designs using florentine fill effects. You’ll also create another design combining multiple stitch types and learn how to blend fills.
- Part 4: ESA Technology & Quilting Made Easy – Finally, you’ll learn how to easily create custom quilt blocks in minutes! Whether it’s fonts, monograms, quilt blocks, or simple designs, ESA technology really is a software game-changer.
Free Fashion Tiger Embroidery Design
Download this beautiful embroidery design as an extra bonus for downloading your 30-day Hatch trial through us!
Hatch Embroidery Software Reviews
Here’s what our satisfied Hatch customers have to say…
“Hatch is so easy to use
Then add on top all the support from other users and Embroidery Legacy’s video lessons the possibilities of creativity are endless… Once you go Hatch, your embroidery will never be the same! I encourage you to be a risk-taker and go for it!”
– Cynthia Steiner
“I’ve been amazed by the Hatch software and it’s affordable
I have had so many different digitizing programs since I started using an embroidery machine… I have been amazed by the Hatch software… You have the chance to go as far as you want to learn the program and classes and support are at your finger tips!“
– Jan Temple
“Hatch has transformed me from a useless digitizer to a competent one
Hatch is simply the best value on the market in a package that is easy to learn… Without Hatch I would not be able to make all those personalised gifts for my friends and family.“
– Meryl Robinson
Frequently Asked Hatch Questions:
Hatch works with virtually every embroidery machine. Please see the machine formats that Hatch can read and write below. If your format is there, than yes Hatch will work with your machine.
Hatch will read most domestic embroidery file types. It can read the following formats:
- Wilcom: .EMB & .EMX
- Melco: .EXP
- Tajima: .DST
- Janome: .JAN .JEF .JEF+ .JPX .SEW .EMX .EMD
- Bernina: .ART .EXP .ARX .ART70 .ART60 .ART50 .ART42 .ART (V1/2/3/4)
- Brother/Babylock/Deco: .PES .PEC
- Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff: .VP3 .VIP .SHV .HUS .PCS .PCD .PCQ .PCM
- Singer: .XXX .CSD
- Melco Condensed .CND
- Great Notions .GNC
Hatch can write the following formats:
- Save as: .EMB (.EMB is your “working file”. Although not necessary, it is recommended to save all designs to .EMB before you export to your machine format. This is the best format to edit your designs in the future)
Export designs to:
- .EXP
- .DST
- Janome/Elna: JEF .JPX .SEW .EMD
- Bernina: .EXP
- Brother/Babylock/Deco: .PES . PEC
- Husqvarna/Viking/Pfaff: .VP3 .VIP .SHV .HUS .PCS .PCD .PCQ .PCM
- Singer: .XXX .CSD
- Melco: .EXP
- Tajima: .DST
Unlike some of the other embroidery software trials out there, there are NO limitations to the free 30 day Hatch trial. The trial version of Hatch DOES allow you to save and stitch out your designs. In our opinion, the only way to truly see the quality of any embroidery software is to test stitch outs.
There are 4 levels of the Hatch software. The level of Hatch you’ll need really depends on what you’d like the software for. For example: If you only want to add custom lettering around designs or do monogramming you’ll only need Hatch Personalizer. Or if you’d like to create your own embroidery designs, you’ll need Hatch Digitizer. To view a chart explaining which features are included with each level of Hatch Click Here.
Although Hatch is not a native Mac program, as with other PC programs, you can use Hatch with a Mac provided you use Bootcamp (built into Mac) or purchase a program to run Windows in Mac called Parallels. You will need both a copy of Windows as well as a copy of Parallels. Please visit Apple’s website or the Parallels website to get any further information and support for running Windows on a Mac.
Hatch does not require a dongle to run. It’s a downloadable product which can be used on multiple computers. This is an advantage over other programs which require dongles as you do not need to repurchase the program if a dongle is lost.
Yes. You can be signed into a maximum of 2 devices but can use Hatch software on 1 device at a time only.
You can install Hatch on as many computers as you like, but only have an active license on 2 computers and only run Hatch on one computer at a time. Hatch is a single-user license. You may run the software offline but must be connected at least one time every 30 days. If not, the software will ask you to sign in while online to check for updates, etc.
If you are using Hatch on one computer and want to use it on a different computer, you have these options:
Option 1:
- If you are running on computer 1 and want to run on computer 2:
- On computer 1 > click File Menu > sign out and release license while online.
- Then sign into computer 2, while online.
Option 2:
- If you are running on computer 1 and want to run on computer 2.
- Sign in to computer 2 and it will automatically disable the license on computer 1 for you.
- Don’t worry if you had any designs open and working on them on computer 1, the software will allow you to save them.
1. Checkout by clicking one of the “Buy Now” buttons here on our website.” From there you’ll be directed to a form to input your information so we have proof your purchase started on our website.
2. After you submit the form, you will be redirected to one of our reseller pages on Hatch’s official website to login and complete your purchase. Visiting Hatch’s site through one of our reseller pages will drop a tracking cookie in your browser to ensure Hatch knows you came from our website and want to purchase through us to receive our bonuses.
3. After arriving on the page shown above through our website, login to your account on Hatch’s website. If you do not yet have an account, create one on the spot.
4. From here, complete your purchase on Hatch’s website. As long as our reseller tracking cookie is the last one dropped in your browser before purchase, we will receive credit for that sale and you will receive our bonuses.
5. Next, sit back and relax, knowing you got the best possible deal on Hatch with our exclusive bonuses! Once Hatch sends us confirmation that you purchased Hatch through us, we’ll send you an email with your amazing gifts. Please note that this can take up to a week.
Please keep in mind that we don’t take putting our name behind any product lightly. We couldn’t have made it over 60 years in the embroidery industry without putting our customers first and looking out for your best interests.
What Are You Waiting For? Try Hatch Free
Take your embroidery to the next level by downloading your free 30 day Hatch trial today! You’ll get unlimited use of all of Hatch’s amazing features plus our exclusive bonuses from downloading the trial here on our site.
Your Hatch trial is 100% risk-free with no credit card required
