What a free account does with your SVG
Upload: SVG on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android; DXF on Windows and Mac only; JPG, PNG and other pictures everywhere, as a single layer you clean up. An SVG keeps the size written in it and its separate layers.
Limit: an SVG with more than 5,000 paths stops with “File Too Large”, with or without Access.
Fonts: your computer’s own fonts are free to use; Cricut’s fonts beyond the free ones need Access or a one-off purchase.
What Cricut Access adds
Figures from Cricut’s apps page. Items in the library can also be bought one at a time and then stay yours to use in Design Space.
| Free account | Cricut Access | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload your own SVG, DXF and pictures | Yes | Yes |
| Your computer’s fonts | Yes | Yes |
| Cricut library images | 1,000+ | 1,000,000+ |
| Cricut library fonts | 15+ | 1,000+ |
| Ready-to-make projects | 250+ | 100,000+ |
On a Silhouette it is the other way round
Silhouette Studio has no subscription for its software, but its free Basic Edition does not open SVG. Designer Edition, a one-time upgrade, opens it; Business Edition also saves it. With Basic Edition, open the DXF from our design page instead.
From the maker’s documentation: Cricut: do I need a subscription to use Design Space?, Cricut: Design Space and Cricut Access, Cricut: image upload instructions, Silhouette Studio editions, Silhouette Studio: editions and upgrades.