Patternum vs Embroidery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Embroidery
Create and edit embroidery designs with lettering and built-in patterns. Send your creations wirelessly to a compatible embroidery machine. Offers comprehensive editing tools, design management, and simulation.
- Wireless design transfer
- Lettering and font tools
- Design array creation
- Full stitch editing
- Design browser and management
- Embroidery simulation
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Embroidery-Link is a free embroidery editing app with which you can create beautiful designs with lettering and send them directly to JANOME Continental M17 machine. It includes many editing and transformation tools, together with the ability to create design arrays and full stitch editing abilities. It is a very useful and easy-to-use embroidery app. What you can do: - Choose any of the built-in designs and send it wirelessly to the embroidery machine for stitching out (no need for cords or USB sticks to transfer designs) - Have access to the embroidery machine files that are stored internally or in a plugged USB memory stick - Combine embroidery designs with letters/words to create original designs - Add embroidery to other projects by either importing embroidery designs into the app or using the in-app sample designs - Create original lettering designs with the available fonts - Resize the designs and automatically adjust their density - Use the design browser to import and organize your designs Main features: - Contains various built-in free embroidery designs - 12 different English fonts plus one Japanese font (incl. Kanji) - Includes Design browser with all common file browser features such as: -- Copy, paste, move, delete, rename, search files and folders -- Create new folders -- Import designs -- Connect with the embroidery machine -- Customize the Design browser view by resizing the file and folder icons and changing the information shown - A variety of editing functions: -- Create new designs and edit existing ones -- Copy, paste, cut, delete parts of the design -- Import design from the Design browser -- Remove small stitches from the design -- Various selection tools that will make your editing easier -- Sequence manager with reordering -- Moving objects in steps to all directions -- Mirror objects horizontally or vertically -- Thread color selections -- Automatic or Manual density adjustment -- Stitch editing functions such as stitch addition and re-position -- Lettering tools that allow you to change font type, Text size, Text alignment, place text on a curve or on a line, add thread trims, break text into characters, and many more -- Create array of the entire design -- Change the hoop, rotate the hoop and automatically fit the design into the hoop -- Embroidery simulation before stitching out -- Resize, Rotate, Slant and change position to the objects of the design by using your finger -- Use the measure tool to measure the design System requirements: This application is for iOS 13 and newer operating systems. Compatible Embroidery machine model: - JANOME Continental M17 The supported screen size of phones & tablets: - 5 inches or larger Language: - The app is currently available only in English Connect your embroidery machine to your wireless network: A router is required to communicate with the sewing machine. Connect your embroidery machine to your Wireless network, to automatically become visible from the application. Use the instructions manual of your machine, on how to connect it with your wireless network.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Patternum at 55% against Embroidery's 0%. Patternum also leads on rating (3.4 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (25 vs 5). Embroidery's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Patternum holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Patternum has 25 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Patternum's written reviews are positive against 0% of Embroidery's.
Patternum ships an update every 6 months, Embroidery every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patternum | Embroidery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) — better | 1.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschrankt | DRAWstitch International Ltd. |
Customer experience
Patternum
Embroidery
In-app purchases
Patternum
No in-app purchases
Embroidery
No in-app purchases
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