Your pattern,
always in view.

Patternism is a focused row counter and PDF pattern viewer for iPad and iPhone. Track your rows, mark your place, and pick up right where you left off.

iPad pattern view with counters and highlights
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Your PDFs, front and center

Open any knitting pattern PDF. Pinch to zoom, pan to scroll, and the screen stays on so you never lose your place.

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Four counters, one tap

Row, repeat, and two customizable auxiliary counters. Tap to count. Auto-repeat resets your row counter when a section is done.

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Highlight where you are

Drop colored highlights on your pattern. Move them, resize them, change their color. Each row remembers its own highlights.

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Pick up where you left off

Zoom level, scroll position, and highlights are saved for every row. Switch rows and everything restores automatically.

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Sync with iCloud

Point your data directory at iCloud Drive and your progress syncs across all your devices. No account needed.

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iPad and iPhone

Full-featured on iPad with all orientations. Streamlined on iPhone in portrait mode. Built for the way you actually knit.

Highlights that follow your progress

Place a highlight bar across the row you're working on. When you advance to the next row, your highlights carry forward. Go back a row and they're right where you left them.

Long-press a highlight to change its color or delete it. Yellow, red, and blue help you mark different sections at a glance.

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Counters built for knitting

The row counter is your main driver — tap to advance. Set auto-repeat and it'll reset your row and bump your repeat counter when you finish a section.

The two aux counters can count up or down, with custom labels like "Increase" or "Decrease" — perfect for tracking shaping alongside your rows.

Counters close-up

Settings that stay out of the way

Each pattern has its own settings — counter values, auto-repeat threshold, aux counter labels and direction. Change them mid-project whenever you need to.

App-level settings let you choose where your data lives. Pick an iCloud Drive folder and your progress follows you everywhere.

Pattern settings pane

Ready to start tracking?

Patternism is free on the App Store for iPad and iPhone.

Download on the App Store