The best arts & crafts apps

JOANN

JOANN was one of the largest fabric and craft retailers in the United States, selling fabric, yarn, sewing supplies, seasonal décor, and general craft materials through a national store network and online. The chain built its business around sewing and quilting in particular, pairing a deep fabric range with classes and project inspiration.

Michaels

Michaels is North America's largest arts and crafts retailer, selling art supplies, yarn, paper, canvas, clay, framing, and seasonal décor across more than 1,200 stores in the US and Canada. The brand positions itself around the makers who shop it rather than the materials themselves, and pairs its range with custom framing services and in-store classes.

Redbubble

Redbubble is a marketplace for independent artists, who upload designs that are printed on demand across T-shirts, stickers, posters, phone cases, wall art, and homeware. Artists set their own margin and Redbubble handles printing, fulfilment, and support, giving hundreds of thousands of creators a storefront without inventory or production risk.

Hobbii

Hobbii is a Danish online yarn shop selling yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks, and craft accessories at budget prices, alongside a large library of free knitting and crochet patterns, pattern books, and seasonal kits such as its advent calendars. The company sells direct to hobbyists in Europe and the US, with a range that spans cotton, wool, and blended yarns, and a stated goal of giving as many people as possible access to the joy of making. It holds a 4.7 Trustpilot rating across more than 36,000 reviews.

Hobbycraft

Hobbycraft is the UK's largest arts and crafts retailer, selling materials across knitting and crochet, papercraft, art supplies, baking, jewellery making, and seasonal crafting through around 120 stores and online. The company pairs its range with workshops and project guides, aimed at hobbyists from complete beginners upwards.

Diamond Art Club

Diamond Art Club makes diamond painting kits — mosaic craft sets where thousands of tiny resin facets are placed onto an adhesive canvas to build an image. The brand licenses artwork from named artists and supplies complete kits, positioning itself on canvas quality and colour accuracy in a category crowded with cheap imports.

MakerFlo

MakerFlo Crafts supplies the tumbler-making and crafting community, stocking one of the largest selections of stainless steel tumblers available at wholesale pricing, plus epoxy, glitter, vinyl, sublimation blanks, and the tools that go with them. The business is built around small crafters and side-hustle makers who buy in volume, offering free US shipping over a spend threshold and running an active Facebook crafting community where customers trade techniques and project ideas.

The Stainless Depot

The Stainless Depot supplies blank drinkware and apparel for customisation — stainless steel sublimation tumblers, powder-coated and glass cups, acrylic and ceramic blanks, shirts, and cases — to crafters and small businesses doing sublimation, epoxy, laser etching, and powder coating. The company grew out of a private Facebook group of ten members into a wholesale operation, and now also sells digital designs and physical prints alongside the blanks themselves.

CC Transfers

CC Transfers supplies ready-to-press screen print transfers and heat transfer materials for small apparel businesses. The American business sells designs that small makers press onto blank garments, letting them produce and sell custom apparel without owning screen printing equipment — the model that has put thousands of home-based clothing businesses into operation.

Altenew

Altenew is a paper crafting brand making stamps, dies, stencils, inks, watercolours, and cardstock for card makers, scrapbookers, and mixed-media artists, known for its layered floral stamp sets and its own artist-designed colour ranges. Beyond products, the brand publishes tutorials, classes, and project inspiration, building a community of crafters around regular new releases and collaborations with designers.

ABC Bead Supply

ABC Bead Supply sells bubblegum beads and beading supplies for jewellery makers and crafters, shipping from the United States. The business specialises in the chunky acrylic and silicone beads used for keychains, pens, and children's jewellery, alongside the cords, findings, and tools those projects need.

LoneStar Adhesive

LoneStar Adhesive is a family-owned American business supplying adhesive vinyl, transfer materials, and consumables to the custom branding and craft trade. The company set out to improve on how the custom branding industry serves small makers, selling the materials those businesses get through constantly and competing on consistency between batches rather than on headline price.

Tejas Beads

Tejas Beads is a long-established American supplier of natural gemstone beads, freshwater pearls, and jewellery-making materials, selling both wholesale and retail. The business specialises in genuine stone rather than dyed or synthetic substitutes, and serves jewellery makers who need consistent colour and quality across repeat orders — the thing that matters most when finishing a matched set.

Peachy Olive Glitters

Peachy Olive Glitters is an American crafting supplier selling glitter, rhinestones, beads, clay sprinkles, and decorative embellishments for resin, tumbler, and mixed-media projects. The business serves the same small-maker community as the tumbler and sublimation blank suppliers, stocking the decorative materials those projects consume in volume and releasing seasonal colourways in limited runs.

Needlepoint.Com

Needlepoint.Com sells hand-painted needlepoint canvases, kits, threads, accessories, and self-finishing items, carrying designer lines including Kirk & Bradley, Two Sisters Needlepoint, Associated Talents, and Elizabeth Bradley, with products graded across four skill levels. Operating from Raleigh, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina, the company has served stitchers since 1999 and pairs its shop with stitch guides, online classes, and professional finishing services.

Wild and Gorgeous Transfers

Wild and Gorgeous Transfers supplies screen print transfers and sublimation blanks to small apparel and craft businesses. The business sells trend-led designs at wholesale pricing, aimed at makers producing custom apparel for resale rather than at individual crafters, with new designs released continuously to keep pace with what sells.

Lowland Kids

Lowland Kids sells PDF sewing patterns for children's clothing, designed for home sewists to download, print at home, and make. The American business sells digital patterns rather than finished garments or fabric, covering baby through older children with layered sizing, and writes its instructions for confident beginners rather than experienced dressmakers.

Barrel of Beads

Barrel of Beads is an American bead and jewellery-making supplier, stocking seed beads, crystals, findings, and the specialist tools beadwork requires. The shop is run as a small independent business with a curated selection aimed at beaders working on detailed, fine-gauge pieces rather than at bulk crafters buying by the kilo.

Arkansas Yarn Co

Arkansas Yarn Co is a family-owned yarn shop in the historic district of downtown Arkansas, selling yarn, needles, hooks, notions, and patterns. It operates as a full-service destination rather than a pure online seller, combining its storefront with classes and community knitting alongside its online shop.

Honey Bee Stamps

Honey Bee Stamps has made clear stamps, dies, stencils, and paper crafting supplies since 2015. The American business designs its own coordinated sets — stamps with dies cut to match them exactly — and releases them in themed collections for card makers and scrapbookers, retiring older sets as new ones arrive.

Vlisco

Vlisco is a Dutch textile house that has produced distinctive wax-print fabrics since 1846, best known for designs worn across West and Central Africa. The company sells luxury fashion fabrics by the yard, with exclusive designs and regular new releases, and its prints carry cultural meaning and names given by the communities that wear them.

Eye Candy Pigments

Eye Candy Pigments makes mica powders and pigments for epoxy resin, coatings, soap making, and craft work, with more than 300 colours across its range. The American business supplies makers working in resin art, river tables, and custom automotive finishes, where colour consistency between batches is the difference between a saleable piece and a ruined one.

Craftelier

Craftelier is a Spanish online craft supplies store specialising in scrapbooking, stocking patterned papers, albums, journaling and stationery supplies, dies, punches, tools, paints, and adhesives. The shop positions itself as a home for creative people who like working with their hands, covering a spread of techniques and styles and releasing new collections regularly.

Gloria Horn Sewing Studio

Gloria Horn Sewing Studio sells fabric, sewing supplies, and quilting materials, run as a small American studio business alongside classes and community sewing. The shop sells heavily through live video sales, where new fabric arrivals are shown and claimed in real time — a format that suits fabric, where drape and colour are hard to judge from a flat photo.

Sewing Street

Sewing Street is a British sewing retailer and television channel, selling sewing kits, fabrics, tools, and patterns alongside live broadcast programming. The business sells through live shows where products are demonstrated on air and bought during the broadcast, a format that suits fabric and equipment demonstration well.

Jam Designs and Supplies

Jam Designs and Supplies sells handcrafted designs alongside art and craft materials, covering custom gifts, home décor, greenery, and DIY kits. The American business sits between a maker selling finished pieces and a supplier selling the materials to make them, serving customers who do both.

Artemiranda

Artemiranda is a Spanish fine art materials retailer with a hundred years of trading history, stocking more than 40,000 references across paints, brushes, papers, and studio equipment. The business ships to over 130 countries with free worldwide delivery and discounts reaching 70%, serving professional artists and students across Europe and beyond.

Pretty Little Quilt Shop

Pretty Little Quilt Shop is an American quilting retailer selling fabric, precuts, patterns, and notions for quilters. The business sells online with stock arriving in small batches, and much of its range — particularly designer fabric collections — sells through quickly once listed and is rarely reprinted, which makes timing a real part of shopping there.

Sam's Bead Shop

Sam's Bead Shop is an American bead retailer selling beads, findings, stringing materials, and jewellery-making supplies. The shop sells online with stock arriving continuously in small batches, and much of its range consists of one-off strands and limited lots rather than repeatable catalogue lines — so what is listed today may not exist again.

Echo Park Paper

Echo Park Paper is an American paper crafting company making patterned papers, card kits, stickers, and embellishments for scrapbooking and card making. The brand designs its own collections around themes and seasons, releasing coordinated ranges that let crafters build a whole project from one line rather than mixing suppliers.

Rainbow Fabrics

Rainbow Fabrics is a British fabric shop born in Kilburn, north London, in 1994, selling dress fabrics, haberdashery, and sewing supplies. The business was championing sustainable sewing long before it became fashionable, and grew a new generation of makers during lockdown alongside the seasoned sewists it had served for decades.

Cotton Patch Quilt Shop

Cotton Patch Quilt Shop sells quilting fabric, precuts, patterns, notions, and tools to quilters. The shop stocks designer fabric collections that arrive in limited quantities and are rarely reprinted, alongside the wadding, threads, rulers, and cutting mats quilters restock continuously — so its catalogue mixes one-off collections with dependable staples.

The Bead Butler

The Bead Butler sells beads, findings, and jewellery-making supplies to hobbyist and small-scale makers. Stock arrives in small batches and much of the range consists of limited lots rather than repeatable catalogue lines, so what is available changes continuously — a pattern common to independent bead sellers, who buy what they find rather than from a fixed supplier list.

My Little Scrapbook Store

My Little Scrapbook Store sells scrapbooking papers, embellishments, albums, and card making supplies. The shop stocks designer paper collections in limited quantities, and much of its range is seasonal or themed, arriving and selling through rather than sitting as standing stock — which means crafters who want a particular collection need to catch it while it is listed.

Millcreek Sewing & Fabric

Millcreek Sewing & Fabric is an American sewing retailer selling fabric, sewing machines, notions, and quilting supplies, alongside machine servicing. The business combines a fabric shop with a sewing machine dealership, serving customers who buy both the equipment and the materials from the same place.

Grabie

Grabie sells premium art supplies — paints, brushes, sketching and mixed-media materials — curated for artists and hobbyists, with gift finders that filter by skill level, hobby, and budget. The brand blends its shop with a social platform where customers share work, and channels a share of every purchase into the Grabie Art Fund, which distributes free art kits and therapy resources to schools and shelters.

Down Memory Lane Scrapbooking

Down Memory Lane Scrapbooking sells scrapbooking papers, albums, embellishments, and memory-keeping supplies. The shop stocks themed and seasonal collections in limited runs, serving crafters building photo albums and memory books for family occasions rather than general paper crafters working on cards and mixed media.

Yarn Marketplace

Yarn is Australia's marketplace for Indigenous-themed products, selling apparel, homewares, art, and accessories designed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. The business exists to cultivate appreciation of Indigenous art and culture, working directly with artists and community organisations so that sales support the people whose designs they carry.