Make bead art from any picture — free, online, no signup. Upload a photo, character, pet or logo and this maker turns it into a Perler / Hama / fuse bead pattern: a color-coded grid plus the exact number of beads of each color. Print it or follow it on your phone, place the beads, iron, done.
▶ Open the bead art maker — it's freeMaking bead art by eye is slow — a single piece can be thousands of beads across dozens of colors, and matching each one from a photo is painstaking. A bead art maker does that translation for you. It maps your image onto a bead grid, snaps every cell to a real bead color, and produces a chart you can follow bead by bead, complete with a shopping-ready count of each color.
This one runs entirely in your browser. There's nothing to install, no account, and your image is processed on your own device — it's never uploaded.
Once you have a pattern, the same skills make all kinds of pieces:
New to it? Start with our beginner's guide to what beads and boards to buy.
Standard 5 mm midi fuse beads from Perler, Hama, Artkal, Nabbi and other brands are all about the same size and fully interchangeable, so you can use whatever you have. The chart supports both MARD and Perler color code systems, so the codes on your pattern line up with the bags you actually own. Check exact shades on our bead color chart pages.
A bead art maker turns a picture into a bead pattern: it maps your image onto a grid, matches each cell to a real bead color, and tells you exactly how many beads of each color you need. You then place the beads on a pegboard and iron them together.
Yes — turning an image into a bead pattern and exporting the chart is free and unlimited. Only the optional AI photo-to-cartoon step is paid; ordinary image-to-pattern is always free.
Any standard 5 mm fuse beads — Perler, Hama, Artkal, Nabbi and similar, which are all interchangeable. The chart supports MARD and Perler color codes so they match the beads you own.
No — it runs in any browser on phone, tablet or computer with no signup and no install, and your image is processed locally so it's never uploaded.