Maschenwerk: Knit Row Counter

Maschenwerk counts your rows for knitting and crochet, with no ads and no account. It also plans socks and helps with patterns written in another language. With Pro you beat second sock syndrome: mark the round where the heel started on your first sock, and the counter reminds you on the second. Pro also converts patterns to your gauge. Counting and calculating work without an internet connection.

Row counter
One tap on the big "Add 1 row" button counts a row. There's also a −1 button and "Undo last action." The screen stays on while you count, and the volume buttons can count too. After a minute without a tap, or when the phone lies face down, counting locks so nothing gets added in your project bag. Each project shows the days you worked on it, with rows and minutes, and you can add a photo of each stage.

Sock calculator
Enter an EU shoe size or your foot circumference and length, plus your gauge. You get a numbered plan from cast-on through cuff, leg, heel flap, heel turn and gusset to the toe, with stitch counts for every stage. One tap turns it into a project. Measurements are metric: gauge per 10 cm, EU shoe sizes, foot size in cm. Toe-up socks with a short-row heel are part of Pro.

Second sock like the first
On the first sock, mark the round where the heel, gusset or toe begins. On the second sock the counter tells you how many rounds are left and lets you know when you've gone past. (Pro)

A pattern in your language
Paste a line from a German, French or Polish pattern, such as "2 M re zus, U, 1 M abh." Maschenwerk recognizes abbreviations from seven languages and shows them in English. You can add the line to your project notes. With Pro you scan the line with the camera, and text recognition runs on your phone.

The stitch dictionary has 188 knitting and crochet terms and abbreviations in seven languages. 28 basics such as k, p, k2tog, ssk and yo are explained in the free version.

Calculators in Pro
• Gauge: measure a swatch or convert a pattern to your gauge.
• Whole pattern: recalculate every stitch count at once, rounded to the stitch repeat.
• Increase & decrease: 80 stitches on the needle and you need 92? It spaces the increases evenly.
• Yarn: estimate how many meters of yarn socks take, or swap a yarn by length per skein.

Free and Pro
Free: one active project with one counter, the cuff-down sock calculator, translating pattern lines with explanations of the 28 basic terms, the needle and hook size tables and backup to a file. Finished projects in the archive don't count toward the limit.
Pro is a one-time purchase in the app, not a subscription. It adds unlimited projects, extra counters, linked repeats, reminders at a chosen row, a counter for every stage of your sock plan, the second sock, all calculators, the full dictionary and camera scanning.

Your projects
No account, no ads. Your projects stay on your phone, and you can save a backup file wherever you like. The app only goes online to buy or restore Pro. When you scan, Google ML Kit also sends Google technical diagnostics such as the device model, never the photo or the text.