# KnitBuddy: Knitting & Yarn — Row counter, patterns, needles

> Row counter, patterns, needles (iPhone/iPad app by EU Studio.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/knitbuddy-knitting-and-yarn/id6816652688 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [EU Studio](https://appshunter.io/developer/6814894165)
- Category: Lifestyle, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 26 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek and 22 more
- Released: 2026-10-03
- Data updated: 2026-10-22

## What is KnitBuddy?

KnitBuddy is your knitting buddy. Your projects, knitting patterns, yarn and needles are in one place, so you can always see what is on your needles, where you are, and what you have at home. That leaves your mind free for the knitting, and for enjoying it.

WHAT YOU GET
• All your projects in one place, with pattern, yarn and needles
• Your knitting patterns at hand, with the counter on the same screen
• An overview of the yarn and needles you have, before you buy more
• You always know where you are
• The maths done for you

YOUR PROJECTS IN ONE PLACE
Each piece of knitting gets its own project with pattern, counters, yarn, needles, notes and photos, so everything belongs together. Tap Continue, and the pattern opens on the page where you left off, with the counter ready at the bottom. All a project needs to get started is a name.

YOUR KNITTING PATTERNS AT HAND
Keep all your patterns in one place, so you do not have to search through emails, folders and piles of paper. Add a PDF from Files or Mail, take photos of a printed pattern, or scan the pages so the edges are found and the page is straightened. Sort your patterns into categories, and find them again with search.

AN OVERVIEW OF YARN AND NEEDLES
See at a glance what you have at home before you buy more or cast on. Take a photo of the ball band, and the brand, grams, meters and needle size are filled in for you. Your needles are in the stash, and you can see which are in use and which a project is still missing. Yarn you have entered before is suggested, and a finished project takes its yarn out of the stash by itself.

THE COUNTER THAT KEEPS TRACK
Give the body, the sleeves and the repeats a counter each with a goal, and feel a small buzz when you reach it. Count on iPhone and iPad at the same time, and both count. The screen stays on while you knit.

THE MATHS DONE FOR YOU
• Even increases and decreases, in the round and back and forth
• Buttonholes evenly spaced along the band
• The pattern converted to your own gauge
• Gauge swatches written down and compared with the pattern
Tick off each line as you knit, and save the calculation in the project.

A BUDDY YOU CAN TRUST
No account, no ads, and it works offline. Your projects are kept in your own iCloud, which we cannot see, and nothing is sent to us. KnitBuddy comes in 35 languages with each language's own knitting abbreviations, in a light or dark design, in ten yarn colors, and works with large text and VoiceOver.

SEE THE APP FIRST
Look around the whole app with an example before you decide. When you are ready, choose a yearly subscription with a free trial for new subscribers, or unlock the app for good with a single purchase. The subscription renews automatically every year until you cancel it, and you can cancel it at any time in your App Store settings.

Privacy Policy: https://www.eustudio.org/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| KnitBuddy Yearly | $4.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is KnitBuddy safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess KnitBuddy.

## Is KnitBuddy legit?

KnitBuddy: Knitting & Yarn appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for KnitBuddy is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.1 — 2026-10-18

New in 1.5.1:
• Your progress is kept. Ticked-off lines in Increase/Decrease and Buttonholes stay ticked when the app is closed. They go with a calculation saved in a project, also to your iPad.
• Recently deleted: bring back a deleted project, pattern or yarn for 30 days, under Settings.
• Notes and numbers are saved as you type, and the app asks before it deletes or resets anything.
• Undo start over stays in the counter's menu and keeps the rows counted since. Rows counted on another device before it heard of the start-over are kept too.
• The pattern reader uses the whole screen, and the counter's reminder sits in the counter bar.

New in 1.5:
• Count without touching your phone. Your counter sits on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in a widget on the Home Screen, with a + for one more row. The Action button, Control Center and Siri ("One more row in KnitBuddy") count too, and so does the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra.
• A row marker in your pattern: a band in your yarn color lies over the line you are knitting. Drag it along, or let it move down a line each time you count. Pin notes to the page where you need them.
• Repeats and reminders on a counter: "every 8th row, 10 times", and "Row 24: change to color B".
• Increase up a sleeve, decrease down a body: a new tool spreads the stitches evenly over the rows, for example every 9th row 8 times, then every 8th row 4 times, and makes a counter that reminds you when to increase or decrease. The increase/decrease calculator now also takes many stitches over a few rows, such as from 100 to 50 stitches over 7 rows.
• Enough yarn? A new calculator tells you how many skeins to buy and checks what you already have in your stash. It also suggests yarn from your stash that is about as thick as the pattern's.
• See how long each project takes: the time is counted while you count rows, also from Apple Watch and the Lock Screen. A break of more than 10 minutes ends a session, and you can add time you knitted without the counter.
• Statistics on projects, yarn and needles: projects added and finished, where the time and the yarn went, how much yarn you have used this month, this year and in all, and which needles are in use and used most.
• Bring your knitting along: share photos or a web page to KnitBuddy to keep it as a pattern, import your yarn and needles from a spreadsheet, and find projects, patterns and yarn in Spotlight.
• Your knitting stays yours: export a project as a PDF, or everything at once. The iCloud page shows when it last synced, or what is stopping it. If your trial or subscription ends, you can still see and export everything you have made.
• On Apple Watch, a tip shows how to keep the counter in front instead of going back to the clock face.

New in 1.4:
• Apple Watch: count rows on your wrist. A big "One more row" button, a small minus to undo, and a double tap with your fingers counts a row when your hands are full of knitting. Turn the Digital Crown to switch counters.
• On the watch face and in the Smart Stack: see how far you are, one tap from the counter.
• Your count stays in step on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The watch counts on its own and sends its rows when your iPhone is near.
• A clearer buzz when you reach your goal.
• Calmer tiles with new drawings on the Tools tab, and the counter's name stands clear of the count in the pattern.

New in 1.3.2: “Look around first” now shows an example that looks like a real knitter’s: photos of every yarn with color number and dye lot, the needles in the stash, socks on the needles and a project journal with photos. The App Store page also has a short video of the app.

New in 1.3.1: new App Store pictures that show the whole app. The app itself is the same as 1.3.

### 1.5 — 2026-10-17

New in 1.5:
• Count without touching your phone. Your counter sits on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in a widget on the Home Screen, with a + for one more row. The Action button, Control Center and Siri ("One more row in KnitBuddy") count too, and so does the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra.
• A row marker in your pattern: a band in your yarn color lies over the line you are knitting. Drag it along, or let it move down a line each time you count. Pin notes to the page where you need them.
• Repeats and reminders on a counter: "every 8th row, 10 times", and "Row 24: change to color B".
• Increase up a sleeve, decrease down a body: a new tool spreads the stitches evenly over the rows, for example every 9th row 8 times, then every 8th row 4 times, and makes a counter that reminds you when to increase or decrease. The increase/decrease calculator now also takes many stitches over a few rows, such as from 100 to 50 stitches over 7 rows.
• Enough yarn? A new calculator tells you how many skeins to buy and checks what you already have in your stash. It also suggests yarn from your stash that is about as thick as the pattern's.
• See how long each project takes: the time is counted while you count rows, also from Apple Watch and the Lock Screen. A break of more than 10 minutes ends a session, and you can add time you knitted without the counter.
• Statistics on projects, yarn and needles: projects added and finished, where the time and the yarn went, how much yarn you have used this month, this year and in all, and which needles are in use and used most.
• Bring your knitting along: share photos or a web page to KnitBuddy to keep it as a pattern, import your yarn and needles from a spreadsheet, and find projects, patterns and yarn in Spotlight.
• Your knitting stays yours: export a project as a PDF, or everything at once. The iCloud page shows when it last synced, or what is stopping it. If your trial or subscription ends, you can still see and export everything you have made.
• On Apple Watch, a tip shows how to keep the counter in front instead of going back to the clock face.

New in 1.4:
• Apple Watch: count rows on your wrist. A big "One more row" button, a small minus to undo, and a double tap with your fingers counts a row when your hands are full of knitting. Turn the Digital Crown to switch counters.
• On the watch face and in the Smart Stack: see how far you are, one tap from the counter.
• Your count stays in step on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The watch counts on its own and sends its rows when your iPhone is near.
• A clearer buzz when you reach your goal.
• Calmer tiles with new drawings on the Tools tab, and the counter's name stands clear of the count in the pattern.

New in 1.3.2: “Look around first” now shows an example that looks like a real knitter’s: photos of every yarn with color number and dye lot, the needles in the stash, socks on the needles and a project journal with photos. The App Store page also has a short video of the app.

New in 1.3.1: new App Store pictures that show the whole app. The app itself is the same as 1.3.

New in 1.3:
• A new menu with four tabs: Tools, Projects, Yarn stash and Settings. Tools opens with the counter you used last at the top.
• Needles in the stash: keep your needles in the app, choose a project's needles from there, and see which are in use and which a project still needs.
• Less typing: brand, yarn name and fiber suggest what you have written before. Choosing a yarn fills in only the empty fields.
• Read the ball band on a project's yarn too. Put the yarn in the stash, and the photo, grams and meters go with it.
• Everything stays in your own iCloud. Nothing is sent to us.

### 1.4 — 2026-10-16

New in 1.4:
• Apple Watch: count rows on your wrist. A big "One more row" button, a small minus to undo, and a double tap with your fingers counts a row when your hands are full of knitting. Turn the Digital Crown to switch counters.
• On the watch face and in the Smart Stack: see how far you are, one tap from the counter.
• Your count stays in step on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The watch counts on its own and sends its rows when your iPhone is near.
• A clearer buzz when you reach your goal.
• Calmer tiles with new drawings on the Tools tab, and the counter's name stands clear of the count in the pattern.

New in 1.3.2: “Look around first” now shows an example that looks like a real knitter’s: photos of every yarn with color number and dye lot, the needles in the stash, socks on the needles and a project journal with photos. The App Store page also has a short video of the app.

New in 1.3.1: new App Store pictures that show the whole app. The app itself is the same as 1.3.

New in 1.3:
• A new menu with four tabs: Tools, Projects, Yarn stash and Settings. Tools opens with the counter you used last at the top.
• Needles in the stash: keep your needles in the app, choose a project's needles from there, and see which are in use and which a project still needs.
• Less typing: brand, yarn name and fiber suggest what you have written before. Choosing a yarn fills in only the empty fields.
• Read the ball band on a project's yarn too. Put the yarn in the stash, and the photo, grams and meters go with it.
• Everything stays in your own iCloud. Nothing is sent to us.

### 1.3.2 — 2026-10-15

New in 1.3.2: “Look around first” now shows an example that looks like a real knitter’s: photos of every yarn with color number and dye lot, the needles in the stash, socks on the needles and a project journal with photos. The App Store page also has a short video of the app.

New in 1.3.1: new App Store pictures that show the whole app. The app itself is the same as 1.3.

New in 1.3:
• A new menu with four tabs: Tools, Projects, Yarn stash and Settings. Tools opens with the counter you used last at the top.
• Needles in the stash: keep your needles in the app, choose a project's needles from there, and see which are in use and which a project still needs.
• Less typing: brand, yarn name and fiber suggest what you have written before. Choosing a yarn fills in only the empty fields.
• Read the ball band on a project's yarn too. Put the yarn in the stash, and the photo, grams and meters go with it.
• Everything stays in your own iCloud. Nothing is sent to us.

### 1.3.1 — 2026-10-13

New in 1.3.1: new App Store pictures that show the whole app. The app itself is the same as 1.3.

New in 1.3:
• A new menu with four tabs: Tools, Projects, Yarn stash and Settings. Tools opens with the counter you used last at the top.
• Needles in the stash: keep your needles in the app, choose a project's needles from there, and see which are in use and which a project still needs.
• Less typing: brand, yarn name and fiber suggest what you have written before. Choosing a yarn fills in only the empty fields.
• Read the ball band on a project's yarn too. Put the yarn in the stash, and the photo, grams and meters go with it.
• Everything stays in your own iCloud. Nothing is sent to us.

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