Roadmap
What Purl does today, grouped by area, and what is coming. This mirrors the Roadmap screen inside the app. One promise shapes it all: your data stays on your device, so nothing here will ever need an account.
In the app
Projects
Project tracking
from planned to finished, with yarn, sizes, dates, notes and photos
Timeline and gallery
your makes over time, and every photo in one place
Pick up where you left off
the pattern you last worked from sits on top
Record the gauge you actually got
Yarn stash
Your yarn, organised
colours, dye lots, fibre and gauge, with totals and value
Scan a ball-band
the barcode fills in the details for you
Nordic yarn catalogue
autofills the main Nordic brands, over a thousand shades
Shopping list
flag yarn to buy more of, share the list, get a dye-lot heads-up
Needles and hooks
an equipment stash by size and material
Weigh-in
weigh a ball to update how much is left
Patterns
One pattern library
imported PDFs and your own written patterns together
Write your own
in sections, with abbreviations and photos
Import and share
patterns travel as files, no account needed
Match yarn and patterns
find a pattern for a yarn you own, or yarn for a pattern
Reading a PDF pattern
Works fully offline
big files welcome, pinch to zoom
Draw and highlight
pens, marker, eraser and lasso, with neat-shape help
Notes, bookmarks and pinned snippets
keep a chart key floating while you read
Row counters
several named counters, with targets and reminders
Chart stitch tracker
follow a colourwork or lace chart cell by cell
Find and navigate
page thumbnails, go to page, search the text
Night reading
Tools
Craft calculator
gauge, resizing, even shaping, skeins needed
Quick counters
for anything you count, with targets
Terminology glossary
knit and crochet terms in Norwegian and English; tap a term for a plain-language explanation with examples
Search everything
one box across projects, patterns, yarn and more
Your data
Everything stays on your device
no account, no server, nothing shared
Backup and restore
everything to a single file
Recently deleted
a 30-day bin and snapshots to undo mistakes
Look and platform
Norwegian and English
Light and dark mode
Made for iPad
a two-pane layout on big screens
User guide
a full written guide in Norwegian and English, opened in your browser
Support Purl
an optional tip; everything stays free
Up next
The next things being worked on.
More yarn colours
Hillesvåg back and Viking Garn added; more brands over time.
Chart tracker polish
Refinements from real iPad and phone use.
Apple Pencil polish
Precision and palm rejection on a real iPad, plus a pencil-only mode.
Better drawing on a wide screen
A side rail for the drawing tools on iPad.
Later
Further out, not yet scheduled.
App Store
Purl on iPhone and iPad
Purl v0.2.72, early development.