For knitters and crocheters

Never forget what you have.

Purl keeps your whole yarn stash in your pocket, with your patterns and projects right next to it.
Offline, private, and yours. Now in step across your devices.

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For iPhone, iPad and Android. No account needed.

The Stash screen in Purl: totals in grams and metres, then each yarn with its maker, a row of its shade colours and its skeins, and one yarn opened to show its two shades by number and name, with a dye lot

Knitting and crochet as equals

Every feature works for both crafts. Neither is an afterthought.

Made for iPad and phone

Built to feel right on a big iPad screen as well as a phone, in English and Norwegian.

Offline and private

Everything lives on your device, and also in your own iCloud or Google Drive if you turn on sync. No Purl account, no ads, no tracking.

Patterns and PDFs

Follow along, row by row

Import pattern PDFs and open them offline, even the big ones
Pick your size once, and Purl marks it all through the pattern
Draw, highlight and add sticky notes right on the page
Counters and a chart tracker follow you while you work

The Patterns screen in Purl, with patterns you wrote yourself above a list of imported PDF patterns

Projects

From cast-on to finished

A visual timeline of everything you are making
Progress photos and the gauge you actually got
Pick yarn for a project straight from your stash

The Projects screen in Purl, projects grouped by status with a card at the top to pick up where you left off

Yarn stash

Every skein, accounted for

Colour, dye lot and fibre on every yarn
Scan the ball-band barcode and the details fill themselves in
The Yarn library knows yarns from Nordic makers and more, every shade by number, name and colour
Find yarn by colour, or a yarn that knits like the one your pattern asks for
Totals in grams and meters, at a glance

PDF tools

Keep your place in any PDF

The tools sit on the pattern itself, so the row you are on stays found.

A colourwork chart open in Purl with a Rows counter at 14 pinned beside the title, and the counter list below holding Rows, Sleeve rounds and Decreases

A PDF pattern zoomed in on its body rows in Purl, the row tracker on Row 13 with the rows before it shaded, and 13 of 60 rows counted at the bottom

A PDF pattern in Purl with the marker tools open: size M in yellow with its chest boxed, the gauge in green, the yarn in pink, the needle size underlined, ticks beside the rows knitted and Row 13 in blue

Row countersAs many as the pattern needs
Row trackerA bar on the row you knit
MarkersHighlight and draw on the page

Chart makers

Draw your own charts

Colourwork square by square, knit and purl symbols, or crochet stitches drawn with a pen.
Paste a pattern's written rows, and Purl draws the chart.

The knit chart maker in Purl, a grid of knit and purl symbols

The colour chart maker in Purl, a colourwork chart drawn on a grid of one square per stitch

The crochet chart maker in Purl, crochet stitch symbols drawn in rounds

Knit chartsKnit and purl symbols, in beta
Colour chartsSquare by square, seen round a yoke or a crown
Crochet chartsStitch symbols and starters, in beta

Handy tools, built in

The Stats screen in Purl, with project counts by status, the fastest and longest projects, the yarn used and knitting habits — **Stats**Your pace, yarn and knitting habits

**Stats**Your pace, yarn and knitting habits

The Timeline screen in Purl, every project as a bar on a month-by-month chart, coloured by status — **Project timeline**Everything you make, laid out over time

**Project timeline**Everything you make, laid out over time

The glossary in Purl, knitting abbreviations with a plain-language meaning under each, switchable between Norwegian and English — **Terminology glossary**Knitting and crochet terms, Norwegian and English

**Terminology glossary**Knitting and crochet terms, Norwegian and English

The craft calculator in Purl with three answers: cast on 110 stitches at your gauge, increase 8 stitches evenly with the repeat written out, and buy 6 skeins — **Craft calculator**Gauge, even shaping and a true-size ruler

**Craft calculator**Gauge, even shaping and a true-size ruler

Sync

Your library, on all your devices

Turn on sync, and your yarn, patterns, projects, charts, PDFs and photos stay the same on each device.
iPhone, iPad and Mac use your own iCloud. Android uses your own Google Drive.
Nothing is sent to us.