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.

For iPhone, iPad and Android. No account needed.

The Stash screen in Purl, listing yarns by brand with their colourways, dye lots and totals in grams and metres

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. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Patterns and PDFs

Follow along, row by row

  • Import pattern PDFs and open them offline, even the big ones
  • 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
  • Totals in grams and meters, at a glance
The Stash screen in Purl, listing yarns by brand with their colourways, dye lots and totals in grams and metres

Handy tools, built in

The chart maker in Purl, a colourwork chart drawn on a grid of one square per stitch
Chart makerDraw colour charts and use them in patterns
The glossary in Purl, knitting abbreviations with a plain-language meaning under each, switchable between Norwegian and English
Terminology glossaryKnitting and crochet terms, Norwegian and English
The Timeline screen in Purl, every project as a bar on a month-by-month chart, coloured by status
Project timelineEverything you make, laid out over time
The calculator screen in Purl, working out gauge and stitch counts as you type
Craft calculatorGauge, resizing and stitch counts

On iPad

Made to feel right on iPad

A two-pane layout puts your library and your pattern side by side. Light and dark mode, Norwegian and English.

Purl on iPad in split view, the Stash list on the left and the detail pane on the right waiting for a yarn to be picked

Offline. Private. Yours.

No account. No ads.

Your projects and your yarn stay on your own device.

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