Knit vs Patternum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Knit
Track your knitting progress with this simple counter app. It helps you keep count of rows, decreases, increases, and pattern repeats, with a companion app for Apple Watch.
- Row counter
- Decrease row counter
- Increase row counter
- Pattern repeat counter
- Apple Watch companion app
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A simple knitting counter app for iPhone, including a companion Apple Watch app. - Counters for rows, decrease rows, increase rows and pattern repeats
Patternum
Easily create interactive and responsive knitting and crochet patterns. Add detailed information, manage sizes, and generate charts with custom symbols. Share your creations as PDFs or within the app.
- Interactive pattern creation
- PDF pattern export
- Gauge, glossary, yarn, and needle details generator
- Size management system
- Customizable chart generator
- Add text, images, and videos to patterns
- Private and public pattern sharing
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Patternum is the first Knitting and Crochet Pattern creation tool, fully optimized to let you create easily and quickly interactive and responsive patterns. The patterns created with Patternum can be used by knitters and Crocheters in the app for a perfect crafting experience, or they can be downloaded as PDF. Among the numerous features of Patternum: PATTERN DETAILS: Gauge, glossary, yarn, needles, technics details generator to let you enter all needed additional information about your pattern easily and very fast SIZE DETAILS: Size management system that helps you give all related size-specific instruction in a clear and easy way. No more () or , , , needed! CHARTS GENERATOR: Create your own charts in a few clicks using our predefined symbols or creating your own symbols, preview your colors charts directly in the app. PATTERN CONTENT: Add text, images, videos PATTERN PUBLICATION: You can decide to keep your pattern private (share it only with your friends, sell it… ) or make it public to the users of the App. You can very easily share your pattern with a dedicated link, and your friends will be able to import the pattern in the App, as well as to download the pattern as a PDF.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Patternum at 55% against Knit's 0%. Patternum also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (3.4 vs 1.3). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Patternum is free to download; Knit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Patternum holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Knit's written reviews are positive against 55% of Patternum's.
Knit ships an update every 17 months, Patternum every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Knit | Patternum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.3 (6 ratings) | 3.4 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | de Florinier Apps | AnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschrankt |
Customer experience
Knit
Patternum
In-app purchases
Knit
No in-app purchases
Patternum
No in-app purchases
