Your stash, your patterns and your row count, in your pocket
Stash2Go is an app for knitters and crocheters. Look up your stash in the yarn shop, find your row again when you pick your work back up, and see what your friends are making.
It works with Ravelry, the website where many makers keep their patterns, yarn and projects, and talk to each other. Free with adverts on iPhone, Android and the web, and you can start before you have a Ravelry account.
An independent app since 2013
Quiet or Colourful, as You Like
Knitting and crochet are a pleasure to look at, and the app should be too. It comes in forty colour themes, and every theme has a scene drawn behind the page: yarn balls, falling snow, the sea, a night sky. You switch the scene on in Settings, on the colour theme screen.
The yarn and the projects in these pictures are from Luxx Yarns, the hand-dyed yarn label in the developer’s own family.
Ten of the forty themes, laid out like a shade card, from the quietest to the loudest:
Three ways to lay it out. If you get stuck, there is a guide for every part of the app.
Basic shows the essentials, Advanced shows everything, and Classic gives each area one page. You can switch whenever you like.
Small Pleasures
Start From the Yarn
Pick a skein you own and see the knitting and crochet patterns that suit it. Guide
A Day to Finish By
Give a project the day it has to be done, a birthday perhaps, and see how many days are left. Guide
See It in Your Colours
See a pattern’s photographs in the colours of your own yarn before you cast on. Guide
A Little Film of Your Project
Turn a project’s photos into a short video with music. Guide
The last two are new and still being tried out. You switch them on yourself.
In the Yarn Shop
Your stash is on your phone, skein by skein, with what is left of each yarn, so you know what you already have before you buy. And when you are somewhere new, the map shows the yarn shops around you, with opening hours where they are known, and the way there.
Wherever You Knit or Crochet
Phone, Tablet and Browser
The same app on your iPhone, iPad or Android, and in the browser at app.stash2go.com. Start a row on one and carry on with another.
Apple Watch
Count a row from your wrist while your hands stay on the needles or the hook.
Apple TV & Google TV
Put your projects, or the pattern you are working from, on the big screen at home.
No Signal, and Your Own Language
Take your projects, patterns and PDFs along where there is no signal. The app speaks 26 languages, with the knitting and crochet words checked by hand.
“So far I am more than happy! It’s come a long way in lines of crafting tool. It’s beautiful to be on the design is calming and I just love using it.”
- AnonymousMsD
“I love being able to look up my stash and tools when I’m in a store to better manage my buying.”
- Pgjewel
“I love seeing patterns I wouldn’t necessarily be searching for but because I’m checking in here I get new ideas.”
- carriem8
“Promising and exciting! I’ve used Ravelry since 2008, always on desktop. Stash2Go II changed that – I now manage my project photos directly from my iPhone. You can tell the app keeps improving. Even on an older iPhone, zero technical issues.”
- silke2world
“The developer is quick to fix bugs. Love the project timeline display. UI can be as simple or complex as you’d like.”
- 100alien
“The creator is very responsive and open to hearing suggestions.”
- V
“It has a good interface and I’ve found it great to use.”
- phoebej7890
“100% better, so smooth, and love the themes.”
- Rachel
“The new app is very clean looking. I’m excited about the new version.”
- Analisa
“Love this app. One of my most frequently used.”
- StetsonKnits
“This works for me in a pinch when I’m on the go and don’t have access to my home computer.”
- Clare
“This app helps me track my WIPs.”
- Crystal
“Very nice app – matches the website.”
- Melanie
“Very handy way to access stash and projects on the go. Latest version is faster and more reliable.”
- Aislinn
“Perfect. Makes it easy to get at everything on Ravelry.”
- thearrow
“Great app. I really like the fact that I can so easily have access to my Ravelry. The interface is great.”
- Rissa
“Great way to organize yarn stash.”
- Kristin
Free to Use, With Optional Premium
All core features are free, row counters and offline downloads included. Premium takes the adverts away. It adds two more ways of following a pattern row by row. You also get Bobbin, a craft assistant you can ask, and helpers such as pattern translation. You can subscribe or pay once, and the price is shown in the app before you buy.