Comparison

Bead Loom vs Loom Weaving Drafts

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bead Loom

Design intricate bead loom patterns with a comprehensive editor. Utilize a vast library of colors, stamps, inserts, and borders. Convert your own photos into bead patterns or trace existing images.

Highlights
  • Bead loom pattern editor
  • Extensive color palette
  • Over 400 stamps, inserts, and borders
  • Photo to pattern conversion
  • Image tracing functionality
  • Save, email, and print patterns
Features
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Bead Loom Pattern Creator for your mobile device. Comes with 4 free bead loom patterns. Download is free. To activate creation is $2.99 To create Bead Loom patterns, select Create a Bead Loom pattern button. The Bead Loom pattern editor will appear. Fill in the squares with beads of any color. To get started - Use the pencil to add beads to your bead loom pattern. Use the Eraser to remove beads from your pattern. You also can select from over 400 stamps, inserts and borders to apply to your bead loom pattern. Icons from left to right in the icon bar are: Color icon - use to add new beads with different colors to your bead list. Save icon - use to save your bead loom pattern. Pencil icon - use to add beads to your bead loom pattern. Eraser icon - use to remove beads from your bead loom pattern. Stamps icon - selectable little stamps (little bead designs) to add to your bead loom pattern. Patterns icon - selectable patterns to insert into your bead loom pattern. Inserts icon - selectable list of bead patterns to add to your pattern (like roses). Dropper icon - lets you extract a bead color from your pattern and add more of that bead to your bead loom pattern. Bucket icon - use to fill selected area with beads of the current color. Trim icon - remove squares from your bead loom pattern. Undo icon - undo each last change you made to the bead loom pattern. Redo icon - redo each change you undid. Cut icon - remove some beads from the pattern. Copy icon - copy some beads from the pattern. Paste icon - paste copied beads to the pattern. Zoom in icon - magnify the bead loom pattern. Zoom out icon - minify the bead loom pattern. Symbols icon - display a unique symbol on the bead to indicate it's color value. Picture icon - select a picture from your device and convert to a bead loom pattern. Social media icon - email etc. your pattern. Print icon - print your pattern. Trace icon - select a picture from your device and it displays over your bead loom pattern. Now you can trace it. Resize bars - resize bars are display at the bottom right corner of your bead loom pattern. Drag them to resize your bead loom pattern.

About

Loom Weaving Drafts

Features
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Loom is a focused draft editor for handweavers, students, and fiber-art designers. Threading, tie-up, treadling and drawdown โ€” all on a single canvas. Pinch-free, popup-free, ad-free. KEY FEATURES โ€ข Full four-block draft canvas (threading, tie-up, treadling, drawdown) updated live as you tap โ€ข 2 to 16 shafts and 2 to 16 treadles, sized per project โ€ข Warp and weft color pickers with persistent hex values โ€ข Built-in Library of starter structures: Plain Weave, Twill 2/2, Basket Weave, Log Cabin, Herringbone, and M's and O's โ€ข Save drafts locally โ€” your work persists across launches with no account required โ€ข Tap any cell to advance threading or treadling, tap a tie-up cell to toggle a peg โ€ข Clean linen-and-indigo palette designed for long studio sessions DESIGNED FOR THE STUDIO Whether you're sketching a structure on the bus or working out a final tie-up before warping the loom, Loom keeps the draft in front of you and the noise out of the way. PRIVACY No tracking. No accounts. Your drafts live on your device.

Screenshots

Bead Loom4 screens
Loom Weaving Drafts3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loom Weaving Drafts at none against Bead Loom's 1. Bead Loom's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Bead Loom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Loom Weaving Drafts asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Bead Loom versus Loom Weaving Drafts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBead LoomLoom Weaving Drafts
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews33.3% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSand Castle Designs, IncLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bead Loom

One-time1
  • Bead Loom Activation$2.99
None

Loom Weaving Drafts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bead Loom free?
Bead Loom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loom Weaving Drafts free?
Loom Weaving Drafts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bead Loom or Loom Weaving Drafts have ads?
Neither Bead Loom nor Loom Weaving Drafts shows ads.

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