Every Knitter’s Must Have!
Knitamus is a must-have for every knitter I know. It helps me keep track of where I’m at in my project, and the developer has thought of everything!
Charts? ✔️
Repeats? ✔️
Notes? ✔️
Repeating Notes? ✔️
Ravelry Syncing? ✔️
Photos? ✔️
Pattern Storage? ✔️
I’ve used Knitamus for years and the new version looks completely new and modern. If you are struggling to keep track of your repeats, row counts or notes, I can’t recommend Knitamus enough. It is a stable app too, and the developer support is very responsive.
Charts? ✔️
Repeats? ✔️
Notes? ✔️
Repeating Notes? ✔️
Ravelry Syncing? ✔️
Photos? ✔️
Pattern Storage? ✔️
I’ve used Knitamus for years and the new version looks completely new and modern. If you are struggling to keep track of your repeats, row counts or notes, I can’t recommend Knitamus enough. It is a stable app too, and the developer support is very responsive.
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Love Knitamus
I have been using this app for years. It’s great in every way. When Shannon did the update a few days ago I was so excited until I couldn’t figure anything out! I emailed her and she was fantastic in giving me all the support I needed. She even made a video, which helped me. She really cares about the functionality that her app has. Thanks so much 😊
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If you knit, you need this app
Knitamus is a great app which will connect to your Ravelry account and import your projects. You can sync all of your devices by using iCloud syncing which means no matter where you are, you can update your projects.
I create a new project and it appears in Ravelry. I added photos for my project and they appear in Ravelry as well. Keep up with your status and see it on Ravelry. Basically, Knitamus helps me keep up with my projects on Ravelry.
Do you use charts? If you do, Knitamus is the best app for charts. I imported my pattern from Ravelry (open PDF from Ravelry library and then Share to Knitamus), and added the charts to my project. Then I resized the page, so that the charts are the perfect size, and highlighted the row I’m on. The page will lock after a minute to keep you from accidentally moving your location. There is an unlock button that you tap to move to your next row. I love this app for charting.
Does your project have a lot of repeats? Knitamus can help you keep track of them.
I really like Knitamus and recommend it for all knitters. It’s really helped me keep track of my Ravelry projects. Whereas before Knitamus, I would just update Ravelry every few months. Knitamus makes it seamless.
I create a new project and it appears in Ravelry. I added photos for my project and they appear in Ravelry as well. Keep up with your status and see it on Ravelry. Basically, Knitamus helps me keep up with my projects on Ravelry.
Do you use charts? If you do, Knitamus is the best app for charts. I imported my pattern from Ravelry (open PDF from Ravelry library and then Share to Knitamus), and added the charts to my project. Then I resized the page, so that the charts are the perfect size, and highlighted the row I’m on. The page will lock after a minute to keep you from accidentally moving your location. There is an unlock button that you tap to move to your next row. I love this app for charting.
Does your project have a lot of repeats? Knitamus can help you keep track of them.
I really like Knitamus and recommend it for all knitters. It’s really helped me keep track of my Ravelry projects. Whereas before Knitamus, I would just update Ravelry every few months. Knitamus makes it seamless.
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Great in Theory!
This app is a godsend.... in theory! The chart view is such a great idea... if only I could actually highlight the row of the chart and view it at a glance. I can’t easily move the chart around or see the entire row I’m on. Right now I can only view part of the row and not the full width of it. I can’t for the life of me zoom out, and moving the chart around is very cumbersome- if not impossible. Moving the chart around seems to work 25% of the time and I haven’t figured out what makes it work that quarter of the time. It’s a great row counter but that is a pretty simple functionality and for the cost not really worth it. I do like that my phone won’t lock while using it. If it actually did what it promises to do with the chart view, I’d pay 3x as much for this app! Knitamus would have a gold mine here if it could actually get the app to work as intended. Knitters will pay to have their charts easily accessible and their position saved and highlighted rather than carrying around paper patterns but as it is I still can’t do that with this app. Please keep working to perfect it!!!!
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Response from developer
Thank you for the feedback. What you are describing sounds like the auto-lock feature. When you first change the counter to a new row, the pattern is movable and zoomable so that you can set up the highlight the way you want. After a few seconds of no action, or if you change the counter again, Knitamus assumes you are satisfied with the highlight location and locks it in. You'll still be able to move the pattern left and right, just not vertically. This is designed to make it easy to follow a long row as you're knitting if it won't fit fully on your screen without being too small to see it. To the top left of the pattern window you can see a control with a 4-way arrow and a 2-way arrow. When the 4-way arrow is selected, the pattern is unlocked and you can zoom and move it any way you want. When the 2-way arrow is selected, the pattern is locked so that only horizontal scrolling is possible. You can tap on the control to change the current behavior, just be aware that it will always lock again automatically after a bit of time with no changes. Thank you!
Perfect knitting companion
I absolutely love this app! In the beginning I found it a little tricky to get the hang of but this was probably because I was so used to the functionality of another older knitting app I was using. Once I got a good feel for what to do and where to find everything it has become my best friend! If you do a lot of knitting this app is a must in my opinion. It keeps track of everything you are working on and exactly where you’ve left off. So you fall out of love with a project and don’t bother with it for a few months suddenly you pick it up and have no idea where the heck you are in the pattern, well no worries because this app will remember for you! I also really love the option to link directly to your Ravelry.
Probably an underrated feature is that you can make Ravelry notes and private notes that stay just in the app. Sometimes I want to make a note for instance if I’m making socks and want them to both match but my note can’t be left on Ravelry because it’s a paid for pattern and my note would likely give too much away, this option is perfect for that. Even just for nonsensical notes that only make sense to you.
Anyway my point is you need this app if you are a knitter or crocheter!
Probably an underrated feature is that you can make Ravelry notes and private notes that stay just in the app. Sometimes I want to make a note for instance if I’m making socks and want them to both match but my note can’t be left on Ravelry because it’s a paid for pattern and my note would likely give too much away, this option is perfect for that. Even just for nonsensical notes that only make sense to you.
Anyway my point is you need this app if you are a knitter or crocheter!
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Knitamus has made learning to knit easier
As a relatively new knitter tackling a complex multi piece pattern as my third project ever, Knitamus has been fantastic! I love the integration with Ravely.
Useless app
Expensive but of no value . Just a giant counter.
Latest update completely broke it
I used to love this app, and constantly recommended it to knitting friends. It used to work beautifully. Now, since the last "update" it's buggy, laggy, and constantly crashes. I was 10 rows into a complex cable pattern, and when I hit the counter to move to row 11 it instead wiped my project clean and reset my counter to zero. I set the whole project up again, reset the first 10 rows of the repeat, and once again I advanced to row 11 and the project was wiped. Pretty upset that I paid for an app that's now almost entirely useless. It works sometimes, but it's like playing knitting roulette.
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Waste if money
Doesn't work like advertising. Not sure how it works at all.
I used to love this app
While it is nice to view multiple pages of a pattern at one time, I wish I could still decrease the row counter and display the corresponding page. I know it seems like a small thing, but if I frog a project I don't want to have to set up the pattern all over again.
Notification about the change in subscription options would have been nice, I'm now halfway through a $20 annual subscription to an app that now costs $10. I know there's upcoming features, but I may not be interested in any of these features and I don't have any idea if these new features for those with subscriptions will even be available after the subscription expires. I want to love this app because I thought it was really amazing when I purchased, and now it's lost a lot of its glitter and has left frustration in its wake.
Notification about the change in subscription options would have been nice, I'm now halfway through a $20 annual subscription to an app that now costs $10. I know there's upcoming features, but I may not be interested in any of these features and I don't have any idea if these new features for those with subscriptions will even be available after the subscription expires. I want to love this app because I thought it was really amazing when I purchased, and now it's lost a lot of its glitter and has left frustration in its wake.
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Knitamus HELPS
I just started my new project with this program on my phone. The sweater has different side patterns and a major cable section in the middle, plus there are different row repeats, as well as increases, to account for. This is SO EASY in this app, and so HELPFUL. Has already saved me a few times!
You do need to figure out how to use the app, but once you have, it is totally worth it!
You do need to figure out how to use the app, but once you have, it is totally worth it!
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Really Shines with complex projects
This app is an amazing tool in a subtle package. It really begins to show off it's usefulness when you use it to knit a multi-piece project like a sweater, where there are often multiple things going on, like neck and arm shaping at the same time, or color-changes and bust-shaping. The repeating notes make it simple to turn "repeat increase row every 5th row, 8 times" into a note that will remind you at the appropriate time. The chart-tracking will notice when you go back to the beginning of a repeated chart and will adjust it's position automatically on subsequent repeats.
I highly suggest that you check out the intro videos on the developers site to see all the neat little features included. :)
Updated to add: The latest version adds the ability to track 2 charts at once, helping with that complex lace, or just giving access to your symbol key. So handy!
I highly suggest that you check out the intro videos on the developers site to see all the neat little features included. :)
Updated to add: The latest version adds the ability to track 2 charts at once, helping with that complex lace, or just giving access to your symbol key. So handy!
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Great for my beginner project
I'm keeping track of my progress as I learn to knit. I've imported a pattern for the future but for now I'm using the excellent photos tracking. Have had no usage problems. Very easy to use.
Could be better, esp for the price
I have used a couple of different knitting apps including knit companion, and I do like this one, especially the way it syncs to Ravelry. I do not like the subscription model, which is why I only gave this four stars.
I appreciate the work that goes into developing an app like this, and the knitter-specific thought that went into things like highlighting lines on patterns, but for the same $20 I just spent for the year, I also have purchased notability where I can do nearly everything that this app does (except for syncing to Rav).
Other users have reported this to be non--intuitive, but I didn't find that to be the case. It worked fine for me and it was really helpful for the projects I've used it for
I appreciate the work that goes into developing an app like this, and the knitter-specific thought that went into things like highlighting lines on patterns, but for the same $20 I just spent for the year, I also have purchased notability where I can do nearly everything that this app does (except for syncing to Rav).
Other users have reported this to be non--intuitive, but I didn't find that to be the case. It worked fine for me and it was really helpful for the projects I've used it for
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Least user-friendly app EVER MADE. INFURIATING!!
This app has SO much potential and it fails SPECTACULARLY. I can't believe the "developer" dares ask money for a subscription because the app 'takes so much time and work'. Well, if you're spending all of this time, maybe you could make the app WORK? I'm a tech-savvy person and I could not makes sense of this disaster of an interface. Why not make it a step-by-step process?
For example:
1- import pattern
2- open set-up for that pattern
3- select '0' and enter # of cast on and select line on pattern to highlight
4- select 'Save', app automatically returns to page to select the next row to detail
5- select 'Row X' through 'Row X'
6- select line on pattern to highlight
...repeat for all desired rows/rounds.
None of this "sounds good" nonsense.
As it stands, I select the row/round, and my previously save image with pinned highlight doesn't appear. Then maybe I tap to increase the row and it will show the right image/highlight but the row/round doesn't match. There are WAY too many 'moving parts' that don't sync correctly.
I can't say enough bad things about this app simply because I am SO disappointed that a great idea was a COMPLETE and UTTER design FAIL.
Please take the money you're stealing for subscriptions and hire an actual designer.
For example:
1- import pattern
2- open set-up for that pattern
3- select '0' and enter # of cast on and select line on pattern to highlight
4- select 'Save', app automatically returns to page to select the next row to detail
5- select 'Row X' through 'Row X'
6- select line on pattern to highlight
...repeat for all desired rows/rounds.
None of this "sounds good" nonsense.
As it stands, I select the row/round, and my previously save image with pinned highlight doesn't appear. Then maybe I tap to increase the row and it will show the right image/highlight but the row/round doesn't match. There are WAY too many 'moving parts' that don't sync correctly.
I can't say enough bad things about this app simply because I am SO disappointed that a great idea was a COMPLETE and UTTER design FAIL.
Please take the money you're stealing for subscriptions and hire an actual designer.
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Response from developer
Hi! Knitamus has not required a subscription for quite some time. And the newest release has completely reworked the user interface for chart repeats so that it is much more intuitive and quick to use. Thanks for your feedback!
It learns!
Love this app! Really helpful for keeping track of my rows. It syncs with my Dropbox and Ravelry so I can use it on whatever device is handy and it learns how much to advance a row so when I add a row to my counter the PDF bar moves for me (in my repeat section). It also keeps track of how many repeats I've done and calculates how many rows that ends up being. Super smart and helpful!
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Very frustrating app
I feel that it's rather stupid to have to purchase a subscription to be able to delete a project. Before I knew that, I allowed it to link with my Ravelry and put a badge on my profile (very dumb move of me), it loaded a couple of my WIPs on the app, but I didn't want all of them, so I tried to delete one and learned the hard way that they want money before you can remove unwanted projects. So I deleted the app from my iPod, but now I'm stuck with a badge of an app I'm not going to use on my Ravelry profile. Very disappointed.
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Response from developer
Hi! Knitamus has not required a subscription for quite some time. It is also now easy to turn the Ravelry badge on and off from within the app. Thank you for your feedback.
Seems too hard
Struggled to get a pdf imported and then couldn't even see it. I guess the gianormous counter button on my iPad is useful.
Intuitive charting tool
Easy to use with an intuitive setup. Great for managing large and small charts, keeping track of extra row notes, and keeping Ravelry up to date. I love the big row counter button!
Love it!
I love this program! I used to used post it notes to keep track of my rows and they would fall off and I would have to study my knit tows to figure out where I was. Knitamus keeps track of my rows, highlights them to make it easier to read, and I can type in notes! Love being able to import my Ravelry and Dropbox patterns and to take a picture of a chart and upload it. It's a wonderful knitters program! And if I forget my ipad, I can check pattern on my iPhone!!
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