Alpaca User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.0% of reviews
Neutral20.3% of reviews
Negative experience18.6% of reviews

~ Based on 59 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Alpaca Safe?

Alpaca: Your Ravelry Companion appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Alpaca is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 120 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

78.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 120 App Store ratings for Alpaca.

Is Alpaca Legit?

Alpaca: Your Ravelry Companion appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Alpaca is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great app

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.

Nice app, please add support for bundles

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.

Inappropriate! Parents beware.

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
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Useful but still glitchy

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.
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Yards

Stash totals only in yards. 🙁

Photos don’t load

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

Disappointed

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

Useful but glitchy

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!
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Love it, but scrawling a lot on iPad recently

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.
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Tolle App

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.
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Filters a trash

Don’t expect to try and filter search results because even after applying filters they don’t work. I’m tired of seeing all paid patterns when I’m trying to find something for free.

Love

I love ralvery, I love this app. it’s so easy to use.
The save the PDF file to my phone won’t let me close it and return to my pattern so I must close the app and open and find my pattern again.

Awful

It takes forever to upload photos, and it’s hard to get a new project to link to yarn in my stash. I’ve had this app for 30 minutes and I’m frustrated.

I’m in love

I couldn’t use the new ravelry without having headaches, this app saved me , so intuitive and user friendly I love it so much and use it daily. I never bothered to even upload or filled the projects things on the computer but on this app I use it all the time ! I highly suggest it.

Great Ravelry App

I love this app. I haven’t tried other apps that work with Ravelry, since this one does almost everything I want for free. I use this app far more often than the website. It’s super easy to use, and it has a more attractive interface than the website. The only thing I’ve wanted to do that I’m not able to is to favorite projects. Sometimes I want to flag a user’s adaptations to a pattern. I can do that on the site, but the app doesn’t allow that. Also, recording yarn info for projects can be a little weird, but I don’t have enough experience with that on the site to compare the two. For browsing, searching, and keeping track of patterns, this app is awesome. I use it every day. Even though I think the app could be improved, I can’t hold back on giving it five stars. And I’m so grateful that it’s free!
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Love, but update glitchy

Love this app.
However, The new update caused a lot of glitches. I can’t select any filters now.
I would also love if the next update included a way to self arrange patterns, projects, and stashes so that I could organize them in a way that is more functional for me.

Glitchy updates

Love the app, but ever since the last update when I click filters for a search, no checkmark appears. They are being selected, as they appear with the search results, but it’s quite frustrating not knowing if I’ve clicked something until I back out.

Filters not working in current version

I love this app and it has worked for me until now. I am unable to select any filters on both iPadOS 13/14.1 and iOS 13.7. I use the crochet and picture filters often and not having these making browsing painful.

Search does not work in new update

I updated my app and am unable to choose search option filters. Please fix.

New bugs with update

Love this app but for some reason after update I can’t select filters. Makes search pretty useless