Comparison

Canvas Tracker vs Patchwork

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

Head to head
About

Canvas Tracker

This app helps artists monitor their creative process by automatically tracking time spent on projects and sessions. It offers goal setting, habit visualization, and organization tools to understand your art journey.

Highlights
  • Real-time art making habit tracking
  • Automatic session time tracking
  • Project creation/completion dates
  • Goal setting for art habits
  • Calendar visualization of habits
  • Artwork organization with tags
  • Cumulative practice statistics
Features
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Canvas Tracker lets you easily track your art making habits in real time. Metrics like time spent and creation/completion dates for each session are tracked automatically so that you can focus on creating. In addition to tracking project and session times, Canvas Tracker also lets you: - Set goals around your art habits - Visualize your daily / monthly art habits with the calendar tool - Organize your artwork with tags and filters - Quantify your art practice with cumulative statistics If you want an app that helps you understand your art journey, then give Canvas Tracker a try.

About

Patchwork

Create detailed charts for various crafts like cross stitch, knitting, and crochet. Transform photos into stitchable patterns, generate designs with AI, and match real-world thread colors. Export your work and track progress stitch by stitch.

Highlights
  • Design on a live pixel grid
  • Convert photos to patterns
  • AI-generated design starting points
  • Match real thread colors (DMC, Anchor, Madeira)
  • Export charts, PDFs, and shopping lists
  • Crafting mode for progress tracking
  • Private and ad-free
Features
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If it lives on a grid of color, you can make it in Patchwork. Cross stitch, knitting, crochet, needlepoint, and more. Built natively for iPhone, so it feels fast and at home on your device. Here is what you can do. Design on a live pixel grid. Place stitches one at a time or fill whole areas at once. Draw lines and shapes, copy and paste sections, work in layers, and step back through your history whenever you need to. Turn a photo into a pattern. Bring in any picture and Patchwork maps it to threads you can actually buy. No tracing, no guesswork. You get a chart you can start stitching instead of a screenshot you have to squint at. Generate with AI. Describe what you want and get a starting point in a tap, then refine it however you like. It is a head start, not a black box, and your work stays yours. Match real thread colors. The full DMC, Anchor, and Madeira libraries are built in, over 900 colors, so what you see on screen matches the floss in your hands. Export anything. Save your chart, your symbol key, or a print-ready PDF, plus a shopping list with stitch counts so you know exactly what to buy. Crafting Mode. Track your progress stitch by stitch. Patchwork remembers exactly where you left off. Make it yours with color themes that follow your style. Now the part that matters as much as the features. Your patterns are private. There is no account to make and no server of ours collecting your work. Everything stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud, which only you can see. No advertising, no tracking, no analytics watching what you make. Patchwork is free to download so you can try it. When you are ready for everything, Patchwork Pro unlocks the full toolkit with one purchase. No subscription. iPad and Mac support are on the way, and your purchase and your patterns will come right along with you. If you stitch, knit, crochet, or design on a grid, Patchwork was made for you. Come make something. Questions or ideas? Write to support@withpatchwork.com. A real person reads every message. From pixels to stitches.

Screenshots

Canvas Tracker4 screens
Patchwork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Canvas Tracker at free against Patchwork's free with in-app purchases. Canvas Tracker also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Canvas Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Patchwork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Canvas Tracker against 5.0 for Patchwork. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Canvas Tracker versus Patchwork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanvas TrackerPatchwork
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUgochukwu MadaguTroy Thomas

Customer experience

Canvas Tracker

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Patchwork

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Canvas Tracker

One-time1
  • Unlimited Sessions$2.99
1 purchases

Patchwork

One-time1
  • Patchwork Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Canvas Tracker free?
Canvas Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patchwork free?
Patchwork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Canvas Tracker or Patchwork?
Canvas Tracker and Patchwork are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Canvas Tracker or Patchwork have ads?
Neither Canvas Tracker nor Patchwork shows ads.

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