Keep all your embroidery files organised
For those starting their embroidery journey, Organizer Version 4 is the ultimate entry-point experience. Easily manage your entire design collection using the new, intuitive Design Explorer, which works just like Windows File Explorer to make finding files a breeze. Once you select your fabric, the software’s Auto-fabric assistant automatically recommends the perfect stabilizer and optimizes stitch settings for professional results every time. With the brand-new Answers Docker, you’ll have expert AI-driven guidance right at your fingertips, making you feel fully supported as you learn.


With a suite of powerful features, you can now enjoy machine embroidery with more confidence than ever. Search and manage designs effortlessly, convert to all popular file formats, and utilize the new Exports Docker to process machine files as a background task while you keep working. Version 4 also introduces enhanced stitch quality, smarter automatic connectors, and a new wireless connection for Brother machines, alongside classic favorites like simulation sewing and multi-position hooping.
NEW Answers Docker
Hatch Embroidery 4 introduces Answers Docker, a built-in AI-powered assistant designed to provide instant embroidery guidance directly inside the software. Whether you need help understanding tools, troubleshooting a feature or learning a new technique, Answers Docker gives users fast access to helpful information without leaving their workspace. This makes learning easier for beginners while also helping experienced users work more efficiently with quicker access to support and guidance.
NEW Wireless Connection for Brother Machines
Hatch Embroidery 4 now supports wireless design transfer for compatible Brother embroidery machines, allowing users to send designs via Wi-Fi without needing a USB drive. This creates a faster and more convenient workflow by simplifying the connection between software and machine. Designs can be transferred directly from the computer to the embroidery machine, helping reduce interruptions and making the embroidery process smoother and more efficient.
NEW Background Exporting
Exporting designs to machine formats is now a background task, allowing users to continue working while files are processed.

IMPROVED Grids, Guides & Snap
The enhanced Grids, Guides & Snap tools make aligning and positioning embroidery designs faster and more precise than ever. Improved snapping behaviour and clearer visual guides help users accurately place objects, lettering and design elements with less manual adjustment. Whether creating logos, monograms, quilting layouts or multi-piece embroidery designs, these upgraded alignment tools help improve workflow speed and design accuracy.
IMPROVED Revert to Factory Settings
The improved Revert to Factory Settings feature makes it easier to quickly reset the Hatch Embroidery 4 workspace back to its default configuration. Whether troubleshooting unexpected behaviour, cleaning up customised settings or starting fresh after experimenting with layouts and tool configurations, users can restore the software to a clean working environment with minimal effort.
NEW Warning Controls
Warning Controls allow users to stay informed about potential design issues without unnecessary interruptions to their workflow. Hatch Embroidery 4 gives users more flexibility over how warnings and notifications are displayed, helping reduce distractions while still providing important information when needed. This creates a smoother and more customisable digitizing experience, especially during larger or more detailed projects.

Enhanced Connector & Trim Display
The Enhanced Connector & Trim Display gives users a clearer visual preview of stitch paths, travel runs, and trims before sending a design to the embroidery machine. By making connector stitches easier to identify during the digitizing process, Hatch Embroidery 4 helps users better optimise stitch order, reduce unnecessary trims and create cleaner overall embroidery results. This improved visibility makes design planning faster and helps minimise surprises during stitch-out.
Appliqué Pattern Printing
The improved Appliqué Pattern Printing feature provides greater flexibility when preparing appliqué projects by allowing placement templates to be printed either mirrored or exactly as digitized. This makes fabric preparation and placement easier, especially for more detailed or layered appliqué designs. The enhanced printing options help improve accuracy during cutting and positioning while giving embroiderers more control over their appliqué workflow.


IMPROVED Display Colours
Hatch Embroidery 4 features improved display colours for better visibility and easier design editing across all embroidery elements. Enhanced colour contrast and clearer object differentiation help users more easily identify fills, outlines, stitch directions and overlapping elements while working on complex designs. This creates a more comfortable and efficient editing environment, especially during detailed digitizing sessions.
Sample & Alphabet Designs
Hatch V4 includes sample and alphabet designs that were created to be used with other features. Choose from a wonderful library of designs that were created for features like laydown stitch, hand stitch, reef photostitch, colour photostitch and more. This includes standard designs, emoji designs with a variety of characters, objects & symbols, 25 vintage border designs, cross-stitch designs and others.


Multi-position Hoops
You can set multiple hoops, split the design into sewing fields and output the design to multiple files, each with just 1 click. Hoopings can be viewed before you finish to save time and get the perfect result. Digital placement markers can be added for perfect hoop positioning.
Hatch 4 supports all known Brother and Babylock multi-position hoops, as well as the ability to split files into separate hoopings. Hoops include:
- 100mm x 172mm
- 130mm x 300mm
- 360mm x 360mm
This feature is limited in Organizer. When using a multi-positional hoop in the software, objects must fit wholly into one of the sections of the hoop. Large designs that fit across the entirety of the hoop cannot be split. This can be done in Composer and Digitizer.
Center All Feature
Hatch Embroidery automatically centres your design in the hoop by default. With the manual option, you can lock the hoop position which means it won't automatically centre while you are digitizing.

Machine Support
With more support and enhancements for domestic machines, Hatch V4 can accommodate for many popular single-needle and multi-needle machines of all types and models.
Machine file improvements have also been made to support many popular machine file formats.
Hoop Management
You'll enjoy the hooping options in Hatch V4 which provide better hoop management for use with your designs. With a hoop list tailored to your machine and model, you can easily find and select hoops compatible with your machine. Plus, you can also create and add custom hoops that are suitable for your machine.
Organise your Designs
Search, sort and browse embroidery designs throughout your PC. Design Explorer organizes all your designs and you can view them without needing to open them up!


Convert File Formats
Batch-conversion saves you time. Easily convert your designs to the most popular file formats, so they’re ready to be used on almost all embroidery machines.
Recolour Designs
Recolour your design by choosing any colour or selecting from hundreds of thread charts. You have the ability to change the colour of a single object, or multiple at once.


Resize Your Designs
Resize true object-based designs in Hatch V4. It will recalculate the stitches required for perfect results.
Combine Designs
Create unique, personalised designs with the ability to combine both text and objects.


Customise Designs
Customise designs to your liking with features like rotation, stitch spacing adjustment (density), recognising stitches to convert to objects and more.
Stitch Simulator
Save time, money and supplies by testing your designs on-screen before going to your machine. The TrueView stitch simulator will show how your design will stitch out.


Auto Fabric
Hatch will automatically adjust the underlay, pull compensation and density for your chosen fabric for best stitch results.
Stabilizer Recommendation
With the Auto-Fabric feature, Hatch will recommend the appropriate stabilizer so can achieve the best stitch results every time.


Match Your Thread Brand
Hatch includes a number of thread charts so your colour matching is perfect. Edit the existing or create your own custom charts.
Plus enjoy:
- Improved auto start and end layout
- New design inclusions
- New hoops
- New stop function
- New snap options
Experience the Hatch Embroidery Digitizer for yourself.
Experience the incredible capabilities of Hatch embroidery software and download the free full 30 day trial below. Should you decide to purchase Hatch in the future, you'll also receive an exclusive Silver Pass to the Hatch Academy worth $199USD.