Rowloft
your rows, kept by hand
a row counter & pattern tracker for crochet + knitting.
no account. no pattern upload. just you and your yarn.
↓ scroll down, like counting rows
never lose your row again
tap anywhere. feel the click. row 45 stays row 45.
counts the way you count
big button for yarn-busy hands · repeat trackers ("row 6 of the shell pattern") · a gentle buzz every 10 rows · undo, always.
what happens to row 45
after you put the hook down
Every counter on the shelf can add one. The difference shows up three days later, when you pick the blanket back up: where's your row, who's holding your pattern, and what did it cost you to find out.
↓ one row of the comparison per card
No names on those columns, on purpose. We don't do that. These are shapes of the shelf, not somebody's work. The fourth one is a real competitor too, and the one most of us are actually using.
made for one-thumb counting
Your pattern files stay on this phone. Export a backup before deleting the app.
A broad tap target for counting with one hand, while your eyes stay on the row.
The 1.0 app sends no usage events. Purchase checks are handled by the store and RevenueCat. Privacy policy
your pattern, following along
bring any PDF you bought. rowloft remembers where you stopped.
US or UK terms. your call
a "dc" means what you mean by it. highlight bar drags as you go; open the app tomorrow, it's still on row 45.
patterns live in your loft
on this phone, in the attic. no account, and no pattern upload.
keep a backup
Export your projects, counts and pattern files before changing phones. There is no automatic sync.
pay once.
count forever.
Two ways to use Rowloft. One is free for as long as you like, with no card and no trial clock. The other is $14.99, one time, and it's the last thing this app will ever ask you for.
Every 1.x update sits inside the first number. There's no tier above Pro, so there's nothing to be upsold into later.
- ✓Your first project, for as long as it takes
- ✓One pattern in the loft, highlight bar and all
- ✓Every counter: repeats, links, undo
- ✓Your count on the lock screen, without opening the app
- ✓Export everything, free, whenever
Right if there's one thing on the hooks. Finish it and it stays yours — open, editable, yours to pick back up — but the next project is where Pro comes in.
- ✓Any number of projects going at once
- ✓Any number of patterns, each keeping its own row
- ✓Everything in Free, unchanged
- ✓Every 1.x update, at no second ask
- ✓Restores on your other devices, same store account
Right the moment there's a second project: the cardigan on the couch and the baby blanket in the bag, or simply the next thing after this one.
you never type a card here. No checkout on this website. Apple's or Google's store keeps the card and runs the refunds. the long answer is down in the questions.
no monthly. no yearly. $14.99 once, in your own currency and tax, shown before you confirm. It doesn't repeat, and we don't raise it later on people who bought first.
iPhone and Android are two shops. A purchase in one doesn't cross to the other. Same store account, new phone: Restore. Switching platforms? Read this before you pay twice.
The paywall's whole job is the second project. It never reaches back for the first one.
the things people ask
before trusting an app with a pattern
Eight answers, none of them a maybe. The first one's open because the answers here are the whole argument. If any of them disappoints you, better now than after you've paid.
No account is needed. Your projects and pattern files stay on this device. The 1.0 app sends no usage analytics. Apple or Google processes the purchase; RevenueCat verifies the receipt. Privacy policy
That's the entire idea. Bring the PDF or a photo from Etsy, Ravelry, a designer's own shop, or a magazine you scanned, and Rowloft lays a highlight bar across the row you're on. Drag it as you go; close the app and it's still on row 45 tomorrow.
Rowloft ships with zero patterns of its own, and that's deliberate: patterns are the thing designers sell. We're not going to be in the middle of that.
Once. It unlocks unlimited projects and patterns and includes every 1.x update after it. There is no weekly plan, no yearly plan, and no tier above it to upsell you into later.
The free version isn't a trial, either. Your first project with the whole toolkit: every counter, repeat trackers, pattern import, your count on the lock screen, for as long as you want it.
Nothing. Anything you've already made stays open and editable forever. We don't put a lock on work you finished. The one thing the paywall stops is starting a second project. Finishing or archiving the first doesn't hand the free slot back — but that project, its counts and its pattern stay yours to reopen whenever you like.
You ask the store for a refund, not us. The purchase happens inside Apple's or Google's checkout, so they hold the money and they run the refund. Rowloft never sees a card number and has no way to charge you again.
Better still, try not to need it: the free version isn't a countdown. Count a whole project with it, import your pattern, use the lock screen. Pay when a second project turns up.
Then you'd be paying the second store too, and you should hear that from us rather than find it out at the till. Apple and Google keep their purchase records apart and neither honours the other's receipt. Most apps paper over this with an account that follows you around; we don't have one to offer.
Inside one store you're covered for good: a new iPhone, an iPad, a phone restored from backup. Same Apple ID, tap Restore purchase, no second charge, no receipt to dig up.
Your patterns come with you either way, because they're your files. Export is free and complete, and the PDFs land on the new phone the same way they landed on the old one. The counts themselves don't travel. v1 exports; it doesn't import. If you're mid-project when you switch, write down the row you're on.
Then you'd lose it. That's the cost of having no sync server: nobody else is holding a copy, including us.
So export is free, one tap, and complete: projects and counts as JSON and CSV, plus your original pattern files exactly as you imported them. Do it when you finish something big and put it wherever you already trust.
Your call, in Settings, on the first screen you see. A "dc" means what you mean by it, and the pattern view follows the standard you picked. Crochet and knitting both. You choose per project, and the terms and stitch names follow along.
A person reads that address. Usually within a day, sometimes two if the day went badly.
your first project is free.
Every counter, your pattern open beside the count, the lock screen, and export — no card and no clock on any of it. Pro comes later, when a second project turns up.
point your phone at this
iPhone on iOS 17 or later, and Android. The two stores keep purchases apart, so buy in the one you count on.