Patternum vs Upscale Patterns
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.
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 rating: Patternum at 3.4 against Upscale Patterns's 2.3. Patternum also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Upscale Patterns's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Upscale Patterns sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Patternum asks for nothing beyond the download.
Patternum holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Patternum's written reviews are positive against 40% of Upscale Patterns's.
Patternum ships an update every 6 months, Upscale Patterns every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patternum | Upscale Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) — better | 2.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschrankt | House of Bernard |
Customer experience
Patternum
Upscale Patterns
In-app purchases
Patternum
No in-app purchases
Upscale Patterns
- Nu-Credits$1.49
- Nu-Credits$4.99
- Nu-Credits$9.99
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