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Do you need a Design Space subscription to cut SVG files?

No. Design Space is free, and uploading your own SVG is free on every Cricut, phones included. Cricut Access is the paid subscription for Cricut’s own library of images, fonts and projects; you do not need it to upload, size and cut a file of your own.

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.

Upload an SVG to Design Space →

What Design Space accepts →

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 accountCricut Access
Upload your own SVG, DXF and picturesYesYes
Your computer’s fontsYesYes
Cricut library images1,000+1,000,000+
Cricut library fonts15+1,000+
Ready-to-make projects250+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.

What each Studio edition opens →

Cricut or Silhouette? →

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.