Sew Help Me vs Upscale Patterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sew Help Me
This app helps sewers organize their fabric stash, patterns, and projects. Develop ideas by linking patterns to fabrics, create shopping lists, and document your creations with photos. Find items easily with a detailed search and store notes and links to useful resources.
- Fabric stash organization
- Pattern management
- Project development
- Shopping list creation
- Photo documentation of creations
- Detailed search functionality
- Links to blogs, websites, and shops
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The complete sewing and dressmaking organiser. Organises your fabric stash, patterns and more. Develop your ideas into projects, linking patterns to fabrics. Make shopping lists for your projects. Take and keep photos of all your creations. Detailed search facility to help you find your fabrics, patterns and projects. Record links to your favourite blogs, websites and shops. Store your threads & notions and keep notepads. iCloud enabled to sync across all your devices. No adverts. No subscriptions. No logins. No data-mining. Just a small one-off lifetime purchase. Free "Lite" version also available to "try before you buy", limited to 5 items.
Upscale Patterns
This app helps home sewists and DIY designers create half-scale sewing patterns, saving time and money. It facilitates the conversion from half scale to full scale, streamlining the pattern-making process for modern enthusiasts.
- Draft half-scale sewing patterns
- Convert half-scale to full-scale
- Reduce pattern drafting time
- Minimize pattern drafting costs
- Optimized ink usage for output
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The mobile app designed for home sewists and DIY designers. Self-drafting full-size patterns by hand can be expensive and time-consuming, and that's where Upscale Patterns steps in. Our app allows you to draft half-scale patterns, significantly reducing the time and cost involved. The real magic happens during the conversion process from half scale to full scale, where upscale Patterns becomes an indispensable tool for the modern sewing enthusiast. The app takes into consideration the usage of ink and has minimal quality output setting. Therefore it is advised to use a fine width marker for interior notations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Upscale Patterns at Free against Sew Help Me's $3.99. Upscale Patterns also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). Sew Help Me's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 2.3) and review sentiment (82% vs 40%). On 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
Upscale Patterns is free to download; Sew Help Me costs $3.99 up front. Upscale Patterns sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Sew Help Me asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sew Help Me holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Sew Help Me's written reviews are positive against 40% of Upscale Patterns's.
Sew Help Me ships an update every 2 months, Upscale Patterns every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sew Help Me | Upscale Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (18 ratings) — better | 2.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David Saunders | House of Bernard |
Customer experience
Sew Help Me
Upscale Patterns
In-app purchases
Sew Help Me
No in-app purchases
Upscale Patterns
- Nu-Credits$1.49
- Nu-Credits$4.99
- Nu-Credits$9.99
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