Comparison

knit still vs RowKeeper

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

Head to head
About

knit still

This app helps you document the personal stories and emotions woven into your knitting projects. It offers daily check-ins, personal insights, and resilience tools inspired by the rhythm of your craft. Track your progress and discover the deeper meaning behind your knitting.

Highlights
  • Knitting Memoir for project stories
  • Daily emotional check-ins
  • Personalized monthly insights
  • Detailed project tracking
  • Resilience tools for well-being
  • Technique learning tracker
  • Stillness mindfulness timer
Features
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Every stitch holds a story. knit still helps you find yours. Your knitting has always been more than a hobby. It has been there through the hard seasons and the quiet ones, the projects you started when you needed hope and the ones you finished when you finally felt like yourself again. knit still is the app that honors that. Your Knitting Memoir This is the heart of knit still. Capture the stories woven into your projects, not just what you made, but who you were when you made it, what you were carrying, and what your hands helped you survive. No other app does this. Daily Check-ins A gentle moment each day to notice how you are feeling and whether you picked up your needles. Simple, honest, no pressure. Personal Insights Your small daily moments add up to something bigger. Monthly insights surface your patterns, name what is shifting, and reflect your knitting life back to you in ways that might surprise you. Project Tracking Record your projects with intention, including the colors you chose, the feeling that drove you to cast on, and the story of why it mattered. Resilience Tools Neuroscience-informed practices built around the rhythm of your craft, for hard seasons and good ones alike. The Learning Thread Track the techniques you are growing into, not as a to-do list, but as a record of how far you have come. Stillness Timer A short mindfulness practice built around the rhythm of your needles. knit still is not about finishing more projects. It is about finally understanding what your knitting has been telling you all along. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

RowKeeper

This app helps knitters track their progress on PDF patterns by allowing them to mark off rows and repeat sections. It offers customizable counters, annotation tools for charts, and a yarn stash manager. All your knitting data is stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Track rows and progress on PDF charts
  • Mark and highlight pattern repeats
  • Directional indicators for flat knitting
  • Customizable and linkable counters
  • Annotate charts with markers and notes
  • Import patterns from PDF, images, or camera
  • Yarn stash and gauge calculator
Features
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RowKeeper turns your PDF knitting charts into something you can actually work from — tap each row as you knit it, and the app remembers exactly where you stopped. TRACK YOUR ROWS Open a chart and let RowKeeper find the rows for you. Tap a row to check it off, and your progress is saved automatically. Come back tomorrow, next week, or after a phone upgrade — you'll still be on row 47. REPEAT SECTIONS Most patterns repeat. Tap the first and last row of a repeat to mark it, and those rows stay highlighted in a colour you choose. When you finish a round, one tap sends you back to the start and counts the repeat for you. WHICH WAY AM I GOING? For flat knitting, RowKeeper shows whether the next row runs right-to-left or left-to-right, alternating as you go. No more counting back to figure out which side you're on. COUNTERS THAT KEEP UP Add as many counters as a pattern needs — rows, repeats, decreases. Link them so one advances the others. Put the counter you care about on your home or lock screen and tap it without opening the app. MARK UP YOUR CHART Drop markers on rows and columns, draw directly on the pattern, and leave sticky notes where you need a reminder. Everything stays pinned to the right spot when you zoom or rotate. BRING PATTERNS IN Add a PDF, pick an image from your gallery, or photograph a paper chart with the camera. Sort patterns into folders, favourite the ones you're working on, and search by name. THE REST OF YOUR KNITTING • Yarn stash with photos, weight, gauge and needle notes • Gauge calculator that converts a pattern's stitch counts to your own tension • Time tracking, row speed, and a heatmap of your knitting year • Hide pages you don't need and bookmark the ones you do YOUR WORK IS YOURS Everything lives on your device. Back up whenever you like and restore the whole thing — patterns, markers, counters, notes and all — on a new phone. Available in English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

Screenshots

knit still4 screens
RowKeeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RowKeeper at none against knit still's 2. knit still's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. knit still sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. RowKeeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for knit still against 5.0 for RowKeeper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

knit still ships an update weekly, RowKeeper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
knit still versus RowKeeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterknit stillRowKeeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMelissa Williamsjunho lee

Customer experience

knit still

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RowKeeper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

knit still

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$39.001 Year
None

RowKeeper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is knit still free?
knit still is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RowKeeper free?
RowKeeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, knit still or RowKeeper?
knit still and RowKeeper are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do knit still or RowKeeper have ads?
Neither knit still nor RowKeeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, knit still or RowKeeper?
knit still ships an update weekly, and RowKeeper every 2 weeks. Most recently, knit still was updated on October 20, 2026 and RowKeeper on October 5, 2026.

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