Patternum vs Cameras Ultra
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.
Cameras Ultra
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Cameras Ultra is the fastest way to see every HomeKit camera you own, on every Apple device you use. NEW IN VERSION 2: ALL YOUR HOMES, ON ONE SCREEN Before, you had to switch between homes. Now you can view cameras from several HomeKit homes at the same time. Pick as many homes as you like and watch your house, holiday home, office and family's place side by side. Each tile shows its home name so you always know what you're looking at. If two homes both have a "Living Room", Cameras Ultra keeps them apart. YOUR CAMERA WALL • A grid of 1 to 4 columns that adapts to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV • Live video on tiles, or snapshots that refresh automatically • Live, Online and Offline badges, plus "updated X ago" times • A borderless fullscreen grid that turns any screen into a monitoring wall • Room conditions on each tile: temperature, humidity and air quality from your HomeKit sensors ORGANISE IT YOUR WAY • Group cameras by home, by room, by home and room, or not at all • Reorder homes, rooms and cameras separately • Your order also sets live-stream priority, so the cameras at the top go live first • Star your most important cameras and find them in the Favourites tab • Search by camera name, room or home POWERFUL CAMERA DETAIL • A live stream that shows the latest snapshot while it connects • Fullscreen viewing with pinch to zoom up to 5x, drag to pan, and double-tap to zoom • Listen to camera audio, with volume control • Night Vision, Digital Zoom, Optical Zoom and Pan/Tilt on cameras that support them • Manufacturer, model and capability info at a glance • Room conditions in fullscreen, in whichever corner you choose BUILT FOR EVERY APPLE DEVICE • iPhone: portrait and landscape layouts, plus Light, Dark or Automatic appearance • iPad: an optional sidebar layout with support for every orientation • Mac: a native app that remembers its window size and position, with quick toolbar access to the fullscreen grid and home selection • Apple TV: a living-room camera wall. Press Play/Pause for the fullscreen grid, and keep the screen saver from interrupting your view SYNCED WITH ICLOUD Your favourites, home order, room order and camera order sync across your devices through iCloud. Set things up once on your iPhone and your iPad, Mac and Apple TV match automatically. SMART STREAMING Optimised HomeKit hub streaming. Cameras Ultra starts streams one at a time, in priority order, and switches to snapshots if a stream doesn't connect. Advanced settings let you: • Set how many live streams can play on tiles and in fullscreen • Control how many streams start at once • Prefer snapshots to live streams, with refresh intervals from 5 to 120 seconds PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts and no sign-in • No ads, no analytics and no tracking • Your video goes straight from your cameras through Apple's HomeKit. It never passes through our servers. Cameras Ultra works with any HomeKit-compatible camera already set up in Apple's Home app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Patternum at Free against Cameras Ultra's $2.99. Patternum also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.5). Cameras Ultra's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and chart position (#200 vs unranked). 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; Cameras Ultra costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Patternum ships an update every 6 months, Cameras Ultra every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patternum | Cameras Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #200 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschrankt | Jonathan Clarke |
In-app purchases
Patternum
No in-app purchases
Cameras Ultra
No in-app purchases









