Paste in a pattern, tell Pearl your swatch, and she works out every stitch and row so it comes out your size — at your tension, in your yarn. No frogging. No notebook full of sums.
Knit a small swatch and pop in the stitches and rows you get over 10 cm. That's all she needs to start — metric or imperial, your call.
Paste the pattern in and Pearl reads it for you, filling in the numbers herself. You just glance over and check she's got them right.
She re-knits every count to your tension — cast-on, rows, shaping and all — and shows you exactly what changed. Then the needles are yours.
Watched Pearl work? She's ready when you are — free to regauge, no account needed.
Regauging is the heart of Slowspun, and it stays free for good.
Pro opens the rest of Pearl's workshop.
Paste a knitting pattern or open a PDF, add your swatch, and Pearl re-knits every count to your gauge —
cast-on, rows, shaping and all.
As many as you like, for nothing.
Everything past your gauge lives here — one unlock opens the whole bench.
The in-between sums, done for you.
Save your measurements and Pearl sizes a pattern to your body, with your ease worked in.
Keep your go-to gauges, needles and yarns, and pour a saved setup straight into a new project.
A row reader that holds your place and your counts, and a tidy home for every pattern you save.
No subscription, ever. Pro is a one-time unlock — pay once, it's yours.
Not out yet — Slowspun is in closed testing. Android first.
Prices in USD — your local price is set by the store.
Slowspun needs a handful of testers before it can launch — two weeks on your phone, Android only.
Join the testSlowspun is a knitting companion app for iOS and Android. Its main job is regauging — recalculating a knitting pattern's stitch and row counts so the finished piece matches your own gauge — along with tools to organize your gauges, needles, yarns, measurements, and patterns.
Regauging is adjusting a knitting pattern to your personal gauge — how many stitches and rows you knit per inch or centimeter. Because every knitter's tension is a little different, working a pattern at your own gauge is what keeps the finished garment the intended size. Slowspun does that recalculation for you.
Yes. Slowspun works fully offline and needs no internet connection to use. The only time it reaches the network is a quick check with the app store to confirm your purchase status — it uses no server of its own and sends no personal information.
No. There are no accounts and no sign-up. Everything you enter — gauges, measurements, setups, yarns, any photos you add, and saved patterns — stays on your device. Slowspun has no analytics, no tracking, and no advertising.
Slowspun is free to download and use, with an optional one-time purchase to unlock the full version. It is a single one-time unlock, not a subscription. Payments and refunds are handled by the App Store or Google Play.
Slowspun is a mobile app for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android. It is not available as a website or a desktop program.
Slowspun is built for knitting — it works with knitting gauge, needles, and patterns.
Yes. You can import and read PDF knitting patterns in the app, and you can also paste in pattern text.
Yes. Your unlock is tied to your app-store account, so after a reinstall or on a new device Slowspun restores it automatically once you're online, and there is a “Restore purchase” option if you ever need it.
Refunds are handled by the app store you bought from — the Apple App Store or Google Play — following their refund policies. If your purchase is refunded, the full version turns back off.
Nothing opened? Email slowspun.app [at] gmail.com directly —
Slowspun is a small, unhurried app made by a solo designer and a very relaxed sloth named Pearl. It began with a frustration every maker knows: the math. Every pattern is written for someone else's gauge, and fixing that by hand means a notebook full of arithmetic and the occasional ruined sweater.
So Pearl took over the sums. You bring the yarn and the patience; she'll keep the numbers straight, at her own gentle pace.
"Hand me a pattern and your swatch, and I'll quietly redo the arithmetic — so a column of numbers is never the reason a project goes back in the basket. Come knit at your own pace. I'll keep the counts."— Pearl
