I do leatherwork, and I just wanted an easy way to add evenly-spaced stitching holes to a .dxffile. But every tool I found was locked behind a subscription, buried in a CAD program with a three-week learning curve, or just… didn't exist. So I built a little thing for myself. Give it an offset and a spacing, and it laid the stitch holes down the edge of my pattern. That was it.

Then the friction crept in. I needed to round a corner — where's the free fillet tool? I wanted to drop in a rectangle, trace a logo from a photo, or pull a flat face off a 3D model. Every one was its own rabbit hole of clunky software and paywalls. None were free, intuitive, and fast all at once.

So I stopped building a hole-puncher and started building the tool I actually wished existed — and made it for everyone. The rule was simple: free and open-source, intuitive enough to use without a manual, and fast — the kind of fast where you forget you're using software at all.

And it grew.

Today, Pathstitch opens just about anything you throw at it — and gives you one clean, native Mac workspace to make real things in.