Comparison

TempoWeave Mobile vs Loom Weaving Drafts

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

Head to head
About

TempoWeave Mobile

Design professional weaving drafts on your mobile device. Explore a vast library of patterns, utilize powerful design tools, and visualize your fabric in 3D. Enhance your weaving experience at the loom with helpful assistants.

Highlights
  • Open and view WIF and TWA drafts
  • Browse public cloud pattern library
  • Drawing and design tools
  • Yarn Catalog with suggestions
  • Fabric view and 3D interlacement
  • Weave Assistant for loom use
  • Thread Assistant for loom setup
Features
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TempoWeave brings professional weaving draft design to your iPad and iPhone — from the makers of TempoWeave Studio for desktop. Open it and start exploring immediately: four sample drafts are included, and the free public cloud pattern library puts hundreds more a tap away. No account needed. FREE Version • Open and view WIF and TWA drafts from any weaving software • Browse, search, and filter the free public cloud pattern library • Try every drawing and design tool • Yarn Catalog with real yarn lines, colors, photos, and sett suggestions • Fabric view and 3D interlacement — see the cloth, not just the grid • Common Weaves library: classic structures ready to explore • Drafts up to 128 shafts and 128 treadles, tie-up or liftplan AT THE LOOM • Weave Assistant: follow your treadling pick by pick, with live cloth view, pick counters, chimes, and color-change alerts • Pair with TempoTreadle 3 via our WIFI connect and weave through distractions error-free. • Thread Assistant: thread your loom in groups with heddle counts and progress tracking WITH APP STORE PURCHASE OR WITH YOUR TEMPOWEAVE ACCOUNT Weavers with a TempoWeave Studio license (Lite, Core, or Pro) sign in to unlock the full feature set on mobile: save and export drafts, upload and share to your personal cloud library, named version snapshots, section markers, and more. One license covers desktop and mobile. Whether you're checking a draft at the yarn shop, designing on the couch, or weaving at the loom with your tablet beside you — TempoWeave goes where your weaving goes.

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 — all on a single canvas. Pinch-free, popup-free, ad-free. KEY FEATURES • Full four-block draft canvas (threading, tie-up, treadling, drawdown) updated live as you tap • 2 to 16 shafts and 2 to 16 treadles, sized per project • Warp and weft color pickers with persistent hex values • Built-in Library of starter structures: Plain Weave, Twill 2/2, Basket Weave, Log Cabin, Herringbone, and M's and O's • Save drafts locally — your work persists across launches with no account required • Tap any cell to advance threading or treadling, tap a tie-up cell to toggle a peg • 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

TempoWeave Mobile4 screens
Loom Weaving Drafts3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loom Weaving Drafts at none against TempoWeave Mobile's 1. TempoWeave Mobile's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. TempoWeave Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Loom Weaving Drafts asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TempoWeave Mobile versus Loom Weaving Drafts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempoWeave MobileLoom Weaving Drafts
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLoftyFiberLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TempoWeave Mobile

One-time1
  • TempoWeave Mobile — Full Version$39.00
None

Loom Weaving Drafts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TempoWeave Mobile free?
TempoWeave Mobile 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 TempoWeave Mobile or Loom Weaving Drafts have ads?
Neither TempoWeave Mobile nor Loom Weaving Drafts shows ads.

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