BIG UPDATE – Cricut Listened to YOU & Will Not Be Limiting Uploads!
Important news for crafters and Cricut users everywhere! ⚠
UPDATE 🚨 –
We have great news for those of you who own a Cricut machine! After receiving feedback on their proposed Design Space changes, Cricut has made an update to the way they’ll manage image uploads.
They have reversed ALL plans to ever limit additional uploads regardless of when you purchase your machine.
Ashish Arora, the Cricut CEO, says…
On Friday, March 12, we announced an intention to limit the number of personal images and patterns that members can upload to Design Space without a Cricut Access subscription. We updated this plan on March 16 and shared that we intended to study the matter further. My team has spent the week listening, learning, and taking in a lot of feedback. Not every decision we make is perfect, but we take every opportunity to learn and get better.
So, we’ve made the decision to reverse our previously shared plans. Right now, every member can upload an unlimited number of images and patterns to Design Space for free, and we have no intention to change this policy. This is true whether you’re a current Cricut member or are thinking about joining the Cricut family before or after December 31, 2021.
We are impressed with Cricut’s quick response to their onlinemunity! What are your thoughts?
FYI, this info we wrote about earlier today below is now expired.
If you own a Cricut machine, you know that preparing a project requires using premade patterns or uploading original designs to the onlinepany’s Design Space application. Soon, the capabilities of your device may be limited by an impending update to Cricut’s Design Space software.
In the past, Cricut users have been able to upload an unlimited number of designs to the Design Space application for free. The uponlineing software update (which is set to occur on an unspecified date) will limit Cricut users to just 20 free Design Space uploads per calendar month.
Since projects can often require multiple uploads to onlineplete, even casual crafters will probably reach this limit rather quickly each month. Unused uploads will not roll over to the next month, and deleting an upload you changed your mind about will not free up more uploads for you to use.
If Cricut users find that they need more than 20 free uploads per month, they will have to subscribe to Cricut’s Access Standard plan for $9.99 per month (or $95.88 per year), or the Access Premium plan for $118.88 per year. Cricut users will still be able to access any of their designs that were previously uploaded to Design Space, but if you want to create anything new, there’s no getting around the use of the Design Space software.
Obviously, Cricut users are not happy about these changes. When they spent anywhere from $179 to $399 for their cutting machine (not to mention all of the additional tools and materials needed for different projects), it was with the understanding that they would have unlimited uploads to use with the Design Studio software. Now the onlinepany is planning to limit the capabilities of its machines after the fact, requiring users to pay a monthly or annual fee to restore the full functionality of a product they already own.
Cricut says that it will start prompting users to subscribe in Design Space between now and the time that the upload limit goes into effect. Although they haven’t revealed exactly when this change will take place, it’s expected to happen in the next few weeks. If you’d like to join your fellow Cricut users in protesting the onlinepany’s decision, you add your name to a Change.org petition here.
