Comparison

CrochetGenie vs Crochet Lab

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

Head to head
About

CrochetGenie

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CrochetGenie turns your ideas into crochet patterns โ€” and teaches you the stitches to make them real. Point your camera at an amigurumi you love, or just describe what you want ("a small sleepy fox, chunky yarn"), and CrochetGenie writes a full round-by-round pattern: stitch counts, colour changes, assembly notes, and a yardage estimate. No more squinting at a blurry photo trying to reverse-engineer someone else's plushie. LEARN TO CROCHET, PROPERLY Twelve structured lessons take you from slip knot to finished object. Magic ring, single crochet, increases and decreases, invisible decrease, colour changes, and finishing. Each lesson has a slow-motion demo, a practice swatch, and a check-in before you move on. Left-handed instructions throughout โ€” not mirrored video, actual left-handed guidance. TRACK EVERY PROJECT Your work lives in a proper project list with the states makers actually use: - In Progress โ€” with a live row counter and stitch counter - Hibernating โ€” set aside, not abandoned - Frogged โ€” ripped back, no judgement - Finished โ€” your FO shelf, with photos The counter keeps your place across rounds, remembers where you stopped mid-row, and works offline on the sofa with no signal. 100 PATTERNS YOU CAN TRUST Every one of the 100 patterns in the library is either commissioned original work, properly licensed from its designer, or a faithful transcription of a public-domain historical pattern with the source credited. We do not scrape. We do not ingest designers' free patterns without permission. Where a pattern lives on a designer's own site, we link you there and send them the traffic. BRING YOUR OWN PATTERNS You already own patterns. Get them all in one place: - PDF โ€” the ones sitting in your downloads folder - Photo โ€” snap a page from a book or a magazine you own - Link โ€” paste the URL of a pattern page and we'll pull the written instructions into a clean, readable format Imported patterns are parsed on your device. They're yours, they stay private, they're never shared with other users, never added to our library, and never used to train anything. Row counters, US/UK conversion, and project tracking all work on your imports exactly as they do on ours. BUILT FOR REAL YARN CRAFT - US and UK terminology โ€” switch anytime, every pattern converts - Yarn weight and hook size guidance on every pattern - Gauge helper that tells you what to change when your swatch is off - Dark-on-light high-contrast typography that stays readable under a lamp at 11pm

About

Crochet Lab

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Ever wanted to crochet something that doesn't exist in any pattern book? Crochet Lab turns your idea into a real, written amigurumi pattern you can make. Just describe what you want โ€” "a chubby orange fox," "a smiling avocado," "a baby dragon" โ€” and watch it come to life. Crochet Lab sketches your creation as an image first, so you can see it and refine it BEFORE you pick up a hook. Once it looks right, the app writes out the full pattern: round-by-round stitch counts, color changes, and assembly instructions. FREE TO START Browse our library of curated starter patterns and make them for free โ€” no account, no cost. See exactly the kind of clean, complete patterns the app produces before you design your own. DESIGN ANYTHING โ€ข Describe your idea in plain words, or start from a photo โ€ข Get a preview image you can tweak until it's right โ€ข Turn it into a complete written pattern with stitch counts and assembly steps โ€ข Works for animals, food, characters, ornaments โ€” whatever you dream up MADE FOR REAL CROCHETERS โ€ข Resize any pattern instantly โ€” set the finished height in centimeters โ€ข Switch yarn weight and the whole pattern recalculates for free โ€ข Standard amigurumi notation (magic ring, sc, inc, dec, rounds) โ€ข Clear color sections and safety-eye placement โ€ข A "higher accuracy" option double-checks proportions against your preview KEEP AND SHARE YOUR PATTERNS โ€ข Save your creations to a personal library โ€ข Recompile any saved pattern at a new size or yarn weight anytime โ€ข Export polished PDF patterns to print or share with friends โ€ข Optional cloud backup so your patterns follow you to a new phone HONEST, PAY-AS-YOU-GO PRICING No confusing tokens or credits. You pre-load a dollar balance and see the exact cost before every design โ€” the app tells you "this costs $0.XX, continue?" and you decide. Browsing starters, resizing, changing yarn, saving, and sharing are always free. You only pay when you create a brand-new design. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT Pattern books limit you to what someone else designed. Crochet Lab lets you make the exact thing in your head โ€” sized for your yarn, ready to hook, with instructions written the way crocheters actually read them. Grab a hook and make something that's truly yours.

Screenshots

CrochetGenie4 screens
Crochet Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CrochetGenie at none against Crochet Lab's 2. Crochet Lab'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 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. Crochet Lab sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. CrochetGenie asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
CrochetGenie versus Crochet Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrochetGenieCrochet Lab
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB31 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMockey Private LimitedBak Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

CrochetGenie

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Crochet Lab

One-time2
  • Small Top-Up$1.99
  • Medium Top-Up$4.99

Questions

Is CrochetGenie free?
CrochetGenie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crochet Lab free?
Crochet Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CrochetGenie or Crochet Lab have ads?
Neither CrochetGenie nor Crochet Lab shows ads.

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