# Alpaca: Your Ravelry Companion — Knit and crochet on the go

> Mobile companion for Ravelry users to manage patterns, projects, and yarn stash. (iPhone/iPad app by Atmosphere Interactive LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alpaca-your-ravelry-companion/id1242116318 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Atmosphere Interactive LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/479621871)
- Category: Lifestyle, Shopping
- Price: $1.99
- Rating: 4.10/5 from 120 App Store ratings · 59 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 12 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2018-02-12
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alpaca-your-ravelry-companion/id1242116318/reviews.md

## What is Alpaca?

Take the best of Ravelry everywhere you go with Alpaca!

• View Ravelry patterns, projects, yarn, shops, and friends
• View pattern pdfs in the app, or open in your favorite viewer
• Create new projects and update your progress with photos
• Search for patterns, projects, yarn, and local yarn shops
• Keep your stash up to date; add and remove yarn, and update project allocations
• See what your friends have been working on with the home feed


Have a suggestion for how we can improve? Send a Ravelry message to @alpacatheapp

Please note a free Ravelry account is required to use this app.

## Key features

- View Ravelry patterns, projects, and yarn
- Download and view pattern PDFs
- Create and update projects with photos
- Search for patterns, projects, and shops
- Manage your yarn stash
- View friends' activities in a home feed

## Chart rankings

- #140 in Top Paid · Lifestyle (US App Store)

## What do users think of Alpaca?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- ✨ Attractive interface compared to desktop
- 🚀 Fast and efficient for browsing
- 📱 Great for mobile Ravelry access
- 🖼️ Pleasing display of pictures
- 💡 Useful for managing stash and projects
- ✅ Seamless integration with Ravelry
- 🌟 Best Ravelry app available
- 👍 Easier to use than Ravelry website
- 🖼️ Great for uploading project photos
- ✅ Works well for browsing and searching patterns
- 👍 Good for keeping track of patterns
- ✨ Streamlined for functionality
- 👍 Makes Ravelry easier on mobile
- ✅ Excellent for managing yarn and projects
- 👍 Makes knitting on the go enjoyable

**Cons**

- 🐛 Glitchy updates
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Photos take a long time to load or don't load
- 🐛 PDF patterns cannot be opened
- 🐛 Issues saving PDF patterns
- 🐛 Markup feature has no exit buttons
- 🐛 Pattern search filters don't work well
- 🐛 Stash totals only in yards
- 🐛 Inappropriate pictures displayed
- 🐛 Cannot favorite projects
- 🐛 Recording yarn info can be weird
- 🐛 Cannot view groups or respond to discussions
- 🐛 Cannot modify friends
- 🐛 Cannot sign in due to keyboard issue
- 🐛 Cannot view saved patterns
- 🐛 Attachment disappears when adding pattern to library
- 🐛 Cannot remove items from library
- 🐛 Inaccurate yarn store information
- 🐛 Search doesn't work with filters
- 🐛 App freezes or mixes up pages
- 🐛 Saved search parameters reset
- 🐛 Cannot favorite projects from the app
- 🐛 Cannot view library by category
- 🐛 Cannot search pattern database by needle/hook size or length
- 🐛 Cannot download patterns on data
- 🐛 Purchased patterns don't show in app
- 🐛 Queue entries not linked to patterns don't display
- 🐛 Free patterns sometimes cost money
- 🐛 Unavailable patterns still show up
- 🐛 Links within patterns lead to unrelated patterns
- 🐛 Cannot add new projects directly from the app
- 🐛 Cannot filter projects within the notebook section

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App closes down when choosing link to stash
- Favourites aren't usable due to lack of bundle support
- Shocking inappropriate pictures all over the place
- Cannot find own completed projects
- Cannot see current WIP
- No forum access
- Photos don't load or take 3+ minutes
- Cannot open any PDF
- Website doesn't load, not active on social media
- Cannot save PDF pattern file on phone (no save/cancel button)
- Markup feature has no exit buttons
- Pattern search filter selects wrong garment types
- App crashes on iPads
- App always jumps back to the start screen when switching apps
- Must delete all languages individually for multilingual patterns
- Filters don't work, even after applying
- Cannot select any filters now
- No checkmark appears when clicking filters
- Unable to select any filters on iPadOS and iOS
- Search does not work in new update
- New bugs with update, cannot select filters
- New update makes app unusable, filters don't work
- Filters stopped working
- Filters not working in current version
- Most recent update doesn't let you set any filters
- Filter buttons don't work, checkboxes unresponsive
- Latest update broke filters, cannot select any
- Filtering stopped working, checkboxes do nothing
- Won't let me filter out patterns that aren't crochet
- Clicking a link within a pattern leads to an unrelated pattern
- Spelling of 'favorited' is incorrect
- Cannot view groups or respond to discussions
- Cannot modify friends (search, add, remove)
- Missing forum features
- Cannot sign in, only a portion of the keyboard is visible
- Cannot view saved patterns
- Attachment disappears when adding a pattern to library
- Cannot remove something from library
- Closed stores listed in yarn store search
- App freezing or mixing up pages
- Saved search parameters don't stay saved
- Cannot view library by category
- Cannot search pattern database by needle/hook size or length
- Cannot download patterns on data
- Purchased pattern doesn't show in app
- Queue entries that aren’t linked to a pattern don’t display
- Free patterns sometimes cost money
- Unavailable patterns still show up in lists
- Links within patterns lead to unrelated patterns

**Most requested features**

- Support for bundles in favorites
- Display yarn in grams or yardages
- Add ability to add physical patterns
- Way to keep track of rows on a pattern
- Standardized way to store patterns for instructions on the go
- Display inventory of knitting needles and crochet hooks
- Mail function to access Ravelry mail
- Barcode scanner for stashing yarns
- Ability to favorite projects from the app
- Library folder sorting by category
- Add new projects directly from the app
- Filter projects within the notebook section
- Search pattern database by needle/hook size or length
- Ability to download patterns on data
- Fix purchased patterns not showing in app
- Fix queue entries not linked to patterns not displaying
- Fix free patterns sometimes costing money
- Fix unavailable patterns still showing up
- Fix links within patterns leading to unrelated patterns
- Allow users to flag closed stores
- Self-arrange patterns, projects, and stashes
- Dark mode option
- Add comments on photos uploaded via the app
- Fix spelling of 'favorited'

## Recent user reviews (10 of 59)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alpaca-your-ravelry-companion/id1242116318/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Great app

*2025-02-08*

Have been using this app for years and love it, but lately having an issue with adding yarn to project from stash. It just closes down when you choose link to stash. Hope they get this issue fixed because it was a featured I really liked about the app.

### 5/5 — Nice app, please add support for bundles

*2025-01-27*

This app is functional and easy to use, and I like the way the notebook displays and search functions. My favourites aren’t usable though, because I organise them in bundles, and there doesn’t appear to be support for that. If you add that, this will be my new rav app.

### 1/5 — Inappropriate! Parents beware.

*2025-01-19, version 1.13.0*

I’ve had this app on my phone for a bit and recently opened it to find a new pattern and was shocked to find incredibly inappropriate pictures all over the place.  Men basically naked lots of dark demon like patterns.  I don’t know what happened but this app is terrible and completely unsuitable for any kids at all

### 3/5 — Useful but still glitchy

*2024-02-03*

I use both Alpaca and another app to access Ravelry on my phone. More and more I am preferring the other. Often I cannot find my own completed projects. Searching for a new pattern works well enough but searching for items in my library or queue, not so much. Recently I could not even see a current WIP.  And no forum access in Alpaca.

### 3/5 — Yards

*2023-11-07, version 1.10.2*

Stash totals only in yards. 🙁

### 3/5 — Photos don’t load

*2022-09-08*

Photos either don’t load, or take 3+ minutes to appear, making the app almost unusable at times. Still better than desktop Ravelry, however.

### 2/5 — Disappointed

*2022-05-29, version 1.10.2*

I love this app, but recently it has become unusable. You can’t open any PDF. I tried to contact support, but their website doesn’t load, and they aren’t active on their social media pages. I hope this app wasn’t abandoned

### 3/5 — Useful but glitchy

*2022-01-27*

I love this app, I use it all the time. But some of the features seem like they haven’t been fully built out. If you want to save a PDF pattern file on your phone, you get stuck on the file browser view that doesn’t have either a “save” or “cancel” button, so you have to shut down the program to get out of that page. The same thing happens if you try to use the “markup” feature, there are no exit buttons so you can’t leave that setting without shutting down the program. Also the pattern search filter doesn’t work very well, the list of garment types often selects the wrong thing - i.e. if I select “sweaters” and then search, it shows me “tank tops” instead. Still, glad to have this Ravelry-connected app on my phone!

### 4/5 — Love it, but scrawling a lot on iPad recently

*2022-01-01*

I love this app and use it frequently, but am also having a TON of crashes on the iPads…both of them. I add a skein of yarn and it’ll crash, I open a pattern and it’ll crash, I click ON a pattern it will crash.
I really hope they fix it soon because this is definitely the best ravelry companion app out there and I WANT to use it.

### 4/5 — Tolle App

*2021-09-27, version 1.10.2*

Super um die Übersicht in Ravelry zu behalten. 
Man kann sehr gut z.B. Favoriten, Bibliothek usw. verwalten. 
Besser, als die Apps, die ich bisher getestet habe. 
4 Sterne weil die App immer wieder auf dem Startbildschirm zurück springt, sobald man mal (auch wenn nur kurz) zu einer anderen App gewechselt hat, oder die App eben nur kurz verlässt. Das nervt, vor allem wenn man auf der Suche nach Anleitungen ist und dann wieder von vorne anfangen muss.  
Wenn man mehrsprachige Anleitungen aus der Bibliothek löschen möchte, muss man immer alle Sprachen einzeln löschen. Das ist sehr müßig, bei Anleitungen die im Download mehr als eine Sprache zur Verfügung stellen.

## Frequently asked questions about Alpaca

### What does Alpaca do?

Alpaca is a mobile companion app for Ravelry users. It allows you to access Ravelry's features on the go, including viewing patterns, managing your projects, tracking your yarn stash, and discovering new yarn shops and friends' activities.

### What are the key features of Alpaca?

Key features include viewing Ravelry patterns, projects, and yarn details, downloading and viewing pattern PDFs within the app, creating new projects and updating progress with photos, searching for patterns, projects, and local yarn shops, managing your yarn stash, and viewing a home feed of your friends' activities.

### Is Alpaca free to use?

Yes, the app is free to use. However, a free Ravelry account is required to access all of its features and content. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned.

### What do I need to use Alpaca?

To use Alpaca, you need a free Ravelry account. The app is designed to complement your Ravelry experience by providing mobile access to its extensive features and community content.

### Can I use Alpaca to find local yarn shops?

Yes, Alpaca allows you to search for local yarn shops directly within the app. This feature helps you discover nearby stores where you can purchase yarn and other crafting supplies.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.15.1 — 2025-02-16

• Fixed an issue preventing linking stashed yarn to a project

### 1.15.0 — 2025-02-10

• Minor bug fixes and improvements
• Fix for comments not displaying on Yarn

### 1.14.1 — 2025-02-04

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

### 1.14.0 — 2025-02-03

• Assorted minor bug fixes and improvements

### 1.13.1 — 2025-01-26

• Minor big fixes and improvements

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