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Your knitting and crochet projects over time.

Patterns in your size, your projects and your yarn: Rowtine never loses the thread.

Rowtine's home screen: the Resume tile takes you back to your last project, with projects in progress, the week's time and the money spent.

Rowtine's pattern library: the All, Clothing and Accessories filters, the Add pattern button, then Granny Bag, Cloud Scarf and Cable Beanie, the last one with its S, M, L sizes.

The yarn asleep in the cupboard, the PDF pattern filed away who knows where, the row counter scribbled on a stray piece of paper, and the notebook abandoned mid-sleeve: Rowtine puts it all in one place, on your phone.

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Rowtine, knitting and crochet

Your PDF becomes an interactive pattern tailored to you.

Import a pattern, pick your size, then knit or crochet without opening the PDF again. Rowtine shows only your numbers, remembers every row you've done and moves along the chart with you.

Same pattern. Finally readable.

The PDF

Ribbed brim · p. 3

Cast on 88 (96) 104 sts on 4 mm circular needles and join in the round.

Work 2x2 rib for 4 (5) 6 cm.

Change to 4.5 mm needles and knit 1 round, increasing 8 (8) 8 sts evenly. You now have 96 (104) 112 sts.

Place 7 more markers, every 12 (13) 14 sts.

Which column is mine? Where was I last night?

In Rowtine

Ribbed brimSize M

2 / 5

Cast on 96 sts on 4 mm circular needles and join in the round.
Work 2x2 rib for 5 cm.
Change to 4.5 mm needles and knit 1 round, increasing 8 sts evenly.
You now have 104 sts.
Place 7 more markers, every 13 sts.

Your numbers, your row, nothing else.

Import
Rowtine reads the PDF pattern for you
Sections, rows, sizes, abbreviations and charts are recognised, on your device. The PDF stays at hand, but you won't need it any more.
Start a project
Pick your size, just once
Every “88 (96) 104” in the pattern adapts to show only your own numbers. One pattern serves as many projects as you like: a green cardigan in L, a red one in M, each with its own size and progress.
Knit / crochetThe heart of Rowtine
Rowtine remembers for you
Tick off each step as you go and pick up exactly where you left off, even weeks later. On the chart, a band follows the current row. Tap an underlined term to see what the abbreviation means.

One imported pattern. As many projects as you like.

Pattern: Raglan cardiganS · M · L · XL

Cast on 88 (96) 104 (112) sts on 4 mm needles.

Green cardiganSize L
8 %
Back · step 1
Cast on 104 sts on 4 mm needles.
Red cardiganSize M
64 %
Back · step 1, done in March
Cast on 96 sts on 4 mm needles.

Each project keeps its own size, yarn, photos and progress. The pattern is imported only once, and its price is counted only once.

Beyond the pattern

Five projects on the go? Rowtine forgets none of them.

Get back into a project you set aside months ago: Rowtine takes you straight to the step where you stopped.
All your works at a glance, grouped by status.
Follow every project from cast-on to finished piece, with a timer that never forgets where you left off.
Break your piece down into sections (front, back, sleeve), each with its own progress and its status badge.
Keep your photos in the project's gallery, next to the pattern's own, and pick the one that becomes its cover.
Share a badge of your project, with its photo, its time and its progress.
Track your knitting and crochet time, week after week.

Rowtine's project page for the Winter Beanie, in the light theme: pale blue background, the To do badge, the Sections, Details, Gallery and Sessions tabs, progress at 0 of 12, the Follow the pattern button, then the four sections, from ribbed brim to finishing. — Every project, split into sections, with its progress.

Rowtine's Statistics screen: the Quarter tab selected among Month, Half-year and Year, the calendar grid from May to August, and the Total time 72:30:06 and Active days 68 of 87 days cards. — Time spent on your works, by month, quarter, half-year or year.

More yarn than projects? No judgement, we just count.

Manage your yarn stash: what is reserved for a project, what is free, with a warning when there isn't enough left to finish. Gradient, self-striping, speckled or hand-dyed yarns all have their place there.
Keep an eye on your budget: every yarn purchase is recorded, and gifts never count towards it.
Find the right needle or hook size from your yarn's ball band and the gauge your pattern asks for.

Find my needle size with the fields filled in: inches is the unit picked, Yarn label gauge holds 4 mm, 22 stitches and 30 rows per 4×4 in, Target gauge 20 and 28, and the answer Try a size up: 4.5 mm — The right needle size, from your ball band and your pattern.

Rowtine's yarn stash: totals in skeins, length, weight and value, then one card per yarn with its status, free or reserved. — Your stash, with the totals at the top and the status of every yarn.

For everything else:

Keep standalone tools at hand: an increase and decrease distribution calculator, and a free-standing counter.
On a tablet, keep the chart beside the text: you read the instructions and the grid in one glance.
Work in your units and your currency: metric or imperial, five currencies to choose from.
Use the app in English, French, German or Spanish.
Read a complete illustrated guide, right inside the app, in all four languages.

The two-pane reader on a tablet: on the left the Cable Beanie, its Ribbed brim section at 0/3 and Cast on 96 sts on 4mm circular needles; on the right Chart · 8 sts × 24 rows, sitting at row 7 / 24 — On a tablet, text and chart side by side.

Rowtine's stitch calculator: spreading increases or decreases over a number of rows, flat or in the round. — The stitch calculator, usable without opening a project.

On video

Here's how to follow a pattern in Rowtine.

How to align a chart.

How to fix a pattern.

What Rowtine stands for

Rowtine is free and will stay free: no essential feature is locked behind a paywall. It works offline and saves your data on your phone; your projects never pass through a server. Data backup is automatic and writes to the folder you chose.

We all slip up sometimes, in knitting as in crochet. Nothing is lost for good: every deletion can be undone, and turns up in Rowtine's bin anyway.

Rowtine is also free and open source software: the code is public, and everyone can read it or contribute to it.

You don't always knit in broad daylight: Rowtine comes in light and in dark. It follows your phone's setting, or the one you give it. You choose from a wide palette of colours for your theme, enough to suit every personal taste.

The same project page for the Winter Beanie in Rowtine, in the dark theme: night background, pink accent, the same To do badge, exactly the same tabs, the same progress at 0 of 12 and the same four sections. — Dark

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Rowtine Guide

The complete illustrated guide to the app, the same one you can read offline inside Rowtine.

Read the guide

The “Fix the pattern” screen in Rowtine: the category bar, with Reference, Counter and Section, then the Gauge, Yarn and Needles/Hook blocks inside one outline, and the Cancel and Save buttons. — You keep the last word on your pattern: the guide covers every category.

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