Roadmap

from planned to finished, with yarn, sizes, dates, notes and photos

a hat and its mittens together, each keeping its own notes and marks

when a colour chart is the make, track it straight from the project, cell by cell

a YouTube pattern plays inside Purl beside your counters and notes, and remembers where you stopped

your makes over time, and every photo in one place

facts about your pace, yarn use and habits, next to the timeline

the pattern you last worked from sits on top

count without opening the pattern, even when it is only a link

hold a counter's name under a video or a chart to rename or delete it

gather similar projects in a folder of their own, and the same for patterns

hold a project or a pattern, tap more, then file, delete, start or pause them all at once

colours, dye lots, fibre and gauge, with totals and value

a ball band you have scanned before fills in the details for you, colour and all

scan a ball band to open the yarn you have, then add a skein in one tap

a ball band whose code differs from a yarn you know only in its last few digits is offered as that yarn in a new colour

a yarn colour you have used keeps its shade, so every later skein of it matches

autofills the main Nordic brands, over a thousand shades

flag yarn or tools to buy, open the cart to see and clear them, share the list

an equipment stash by size and material

weigh a ball to update how much is left

type "110m" or "50g" in the stash search to find the yarns that run about that per skein

imported PDFs and your own written patterns together

tap Your patterns or PDF patterns to fold it away, remembered on the device

in sections, with abbreviations, photos, and a picture on any row

the text and every chart on A4 pages, from the print button in the reader

a small mark at the foot of every printed pattern and exported chart

export any chart in greyscale, inverted or large print

paint your own colourwork grid, see it as knitted or crocheted fabric, then follow it stitch by stitch

while you follow a chart, its colours and symbols stay in view below it or beside it

turn the phone sideways and the tracker buttons move to the side, leaving the chart the screen

undo after closing, copy and paste between charts, and Recently deleted

save part of a chart and place it in any other chart with a tap

each colour's swatch, number and yarn or typed name, under the chart in every export and in the tracker

the rounds you always start with and your own fans, placed with a tap; a Stitches tab and starters

draw a loop of any shape round the stitches you want, or keep the box

choose how much room a stitch leaves above the one below it, chart by chart

choose how far apart neighbouring crochet stitches sit, chart by chart

a drawn crochet line, chains included, spaces its stitches by your setting however long you draw it

a crochet selection turns in 15 degree steps with Snap on and freely with it off; text and numbers resize

a drawn crochet line's first stitch stays on the pen-down point, and rows snap onto widely spaced chains

a stitch you draw is listed under Made by you in every chart, and new charts start with its button

browse every stitch Purl knows, with its US and UK names and the charts it is on

place a stitch, zoom and pan at once on charts of thousands of stitches

colour, crochet and knit charts and blueprints, a changed one coming back as a dated copy

file your charts in folders, hold one to select it, and send it as a Purl file another Purl user opens and edits

colour, knit and crochet charts share their folders, so one folder holds every chart for a design

draw crochet symbols by hand with Snap, or build rows and rounds from written steps, copy, paste, merge and unmerge rows, set exact stitch counts, and export the chart with a key

keep a crochet chart inside a pattern, mark its rounds with their stitch counts, and track it round by round from the pattern or a project

drag a box round stitches to select them all at once

drag the stitches in a chart's legend into the order you want; the exports and the tracker follow it

give a stitch's symbol its own colour in the legend, so a marker you draw in red is red in the key

draw single crochet, slip stitch, chain, puff and popcorn in either of their two common styles, per chart

draw a rough stroke along a chain line or a row and every stitch lands on it; Flip mirrors the row to the other side

knit, purl, decreases and crosses on a grid, with a repeat box, row notes and a legend, followed row by row from a pattern; copy and paste between charts, mirror and share them, and make your own stitches in any shape, drawn or labelled, with a colour per square

a web address in a step of your own pattern opens with a tap

the same pattern again, in another size or another yarn, with its own pictures, charts and row counting

the second sleeve from the first, one tap in the pattern editor

photograph the pages, straighten and clean them up, and they become one PDF pattern

coloured squares with a grid, on the swatch, so you can count stitches anywhere

mark the squares where the knitting works no stitch, so a yoke or any chart that narrows as it climbs can be drawn

patterns travel as files, no account needed

from Books, Files, Mail or any share sheet, straight into your library

find a pattern for a yarn you own, or yarn for a pattern

big files welcome, pinch to zoom

pens, marker, eraser and lasso, with neat-shape help

keep a chart key floating while you read

several named counters, with targets and reminders

follow a colourwork or lace chart cell by cell

page thumbnails, go to page, search the text

gauge, resizing, even shaping, skeins needed, with lengths from your stash

for anything you count, with targets

knit and crochet terms in Norwegian and English; tap a term for a plain-language explanation with examples

one box across projects, patterns, yarn and more

no account, no server, nothing shared

everything to a single file

every kind of thing has its own ticks, on the way out and on the way in

a 30-day bin and snapshots to undo mistakes

an optional purchase that sets the app to any colour

a witch hat in October and a knitted hat at Christmas, or the plain logo if you prefer

a two-pane layout on big screens

Purl on Android phones and tablets

a full written guide in Norwegian and English, opened in your browser

small hints the first time you meet a hidden feature; bring them back from Settings

an optional tip

a tile that takes you to the store page to leave a review

after a finished project, Purl may now and then ask for a rating inside the app