PNG to TAP Converter Online: Free Preview, £5

Convert PNG to TAP

Turn a PNG logo into a machine-ready TAP. Auto-digitized, with a true sew-out preview before you download.

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Quick facts

Upload your PNG to Embify, check the free sew-out preview, pick Happy as your machine and download. You get a TAP, Happy's own format, and a DST, which current Happy machines read too. Both hold the same stitches.

Price

Upload and preview the sew-out free, with no card. A machine file costs £5 to download, and new sizes or formats of that design are free for 30 days. Monthly plans start at £29 for 20 files.

Machines

Happy (Happy Japan) commercial machines, which also read DST.

Colours in the file

TAP stores the stitches and colour stops, like DST, so you set the thread colours on your machine from the colour sheet.

Speed

Most logos are ready in under a minute (live site measurements, September 2026).

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PNG, JPG or SVG, up to 10 MB.

Best input

A PNG logo on a see-through background, at least 500 pixels wide (1000 is better).

Updated November 2026. By the Embify team.

TAP or DST: which to load

Current Happy machines, such as the HCH Journey and the HCS3 Voyager, read DST from a USB stick, so start with the .dst. The .tap is Happy's own format, for a machine or a dealer that asks for it. Embify writes both from the same stitches, so you can load whichever your machine wants.

A real PNG to TAP conversion

One of Embify's sample logos, before conversion — One of our sample logos, a star shield crest, converted by Embify at 72 mm wide: 7,887 stitches and 2 thread colours, counted from the real file.

Colours come on the colour sheet

Neither a TAP nor a DST can store a thread colour: the file only says where the machine stops for the next one. So with every design, Embify gives you a colour sheet listing the threads in sewing order, and a production sheet with the stitch count, the run time and the finished size. Set your needles from it before you press start.

TAP from a JPG or an SVG

Got the logo as a JPG? See JPG to TAP, which covers cleaning it up and getting the file onto your machine. Got an SVG from your designer? SVG to TAP is the cleanest start of all. For what a TAP holds, see the TAP file guide.

PNG to TAP. FAQs

Can I convert a PNG to TAP?

Yes, but not by renaming it. A TAP holds stitches, so the PNG has to be digitized first. Upload it to Embify, check the sew-out preview, pick Happy as your machine and download.

Do Happy machines read DST?

Current ones do, according to dealers' listings for models such as the HCH Journey, the HCS3 Voyager and the HCD3E. That's why the Happy download includes a DST as well as the TAP.

Is the PNG to TAP converter free?

The preview is free: digitizing your artwork and seeing the sew-out needs no card. Downloading the finished file is £5 as a one-off, or a monthly plan if you convert regularly.