Patternum vs Tangent
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.
Tangent
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Two million drawing prompts. Pick one and go make something. Tangent combines four spinning wheels — prompt, technique, material, intention — into over two million unique combinations. Blind contour your morning coffee in charcoal, just to see what it feels like. Draw the negative space of your hands in gestural marks with whatever's nearby. Combinations you'd never have chosen yourself. That's the point. Constraints breed curiosity. Unfamiliar pairings break habits and push you into genuine discovery. Every session is different. None of them are precious. What's inside: — 2,112,000+ unique drawing combinations — 88 prompts, 32 techniques, 30 intentions, 25 materials — A session timer with notes — Reference library from The Met Museum open collection — Methods and theory: Loomis, Bargue, Zorn, Gestalt, value, negative space and more — A grid tool for proportional drawing — Saved combinations and session history Start free. No account needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patternum at none against Tangent's 1. Patternum also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.1). Tangent's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months). On price, ads 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. Tangent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Patternum asks for nothing beyond the download.
Patternum ships an update every 6 months, Tangent every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patternum | Tangent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AnnapurnApp Technologies UG haftungsbeschrankt | CHARLOTTE MACMILLAN |
In-app purchases
Patternum
No in-app purchases
Tangent
- Tangent Pro$3.99









