Patternum vs Pact
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.
Pact
Build positive habits with friends who provide accountability. Track daily progress, share photo proof, and earn badges for achievements. Stay motivated with leaderboards and group activity feeds.
- Customize habits with emojis and colors
- Track daily completions and streaks
- Attach photo proof of habit completion
- Join accountability groups with friends
- View group activity feed and leaderboards
- Earn badges for milestones
- Push notification reminders
- Dark mode support
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Build better habits with friends who hold you accountable. Accountability makes habit-tracking social. Create daily habits, track your streaks, and join groups where friends can see your progress. Snap photos as proof of completion and celebrate milestones with earned badges. Features: - Create and customize habits with emoji icons and colors - Track daily completions and build streaks - Attach photo proof to show you got it done - Join accountability groups with friends - Activity feed to see what your group is up to - Leaderboards to stay motivated - Earn badges for streaks and social milestones - Push notification reminders so you never miss a day - Dark mode design throughout Stay consistent. Stay accountable. Build habits that stick — together.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pact at 5.0 against Patternum's 3.4. Pact also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months). Patternum's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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.
Pact holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Patternum has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Patternum ships an update every 6 months, Pact every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patternum | Pact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschrankt | Hamza Khan |
Customer experience
Patternum
Pact
In-app purchases
Patternum
No in-app purchases
Pact
No in-app purchases









