Your PDF becomes steps
Add the PDF. The app reads it and finds the sizes, yarn amounts, needles and the steps. Anything it is unsure about is marked yellow, and you decide what stays.
Maskerade
Where every stitch counts.
Load your pattern as a PDF. The app reads it and splits it into steps you can knit from. Yarn, needles and counters are kept in one place.
The screens are drawn after the app's interface, with sample data. The app is in Norwegian today.
Everything you need, from pattern to finished garment
What each feature does for you, in short.
Update from a new PDF
Did the designer correct the pattern? Load the new PDF into the same project. You see what has changed, and nothing is replaced until you approve it.
Send a PDF from the share sheet
Open a PDF in Mail, Files or your browser, tap Share and choose Maskerade. The pattern lands in your library. If you have it on paper, take a photo of it.
Knitting sessions with counters
One step at a time. A counter for repeats, your own counters for decreases and pattern repeats, and a timer for knitting time. The app remembers where you were.
Reminders on steps
Put a reminder on a step or at a counter value, for example “change to 3.5 mm needles”. It stays at the top until you tap Done.
Yarn and needle stash
Record your yarn with colour, lot and number of skeins, and the needles you own. When you pick yarn for a project, you see what is free and what is reserved.
Scan the yarn label
Take a photo of the label. The app reads brand, name, colour, lot, weight and length and fills in the fields. The label wraps around the skein, so you can add the back: up to two photos.
PDF with annotations
See the pattern as it was published. Highlight, write and draw right on the page, and lay the ruler over it to measure against your gauge.
Knit Crew
Knit together with friends. You see what each other are knitting and send hearts. You share patterns when you choose to.
Sync across devices
Projects, counters, yarn and needles follow you between iPhone and iPad when you are signed in.
Widget and Live Activity
See your project and where you are in the pattern from the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, without opening the app.
On iPad too
The app adapts to the larger screen. On iPad the steps sit next to the PDF page, so you see both at once.
From PDF to steps
The app reads the pattern. You have the final say.
After import you see the pattern split into sections and steps, with size, yarn and needles. If a step is unclear, a yellow warning shows the pattern's own words right below it. Then you can check against the source.
- Pick the PDF from your library, or send it in from the share sheet.
- Uncertain steps are marked yellow, with the original text beside them.
- A new edition of the pattern? Load the PDF again and see what has changed.
Knitting sessions
You keep count. The app keeps your place.
You see one step at a time, with a counter for the repeats. Put your work down, and the app opens at the same step next time. Further down the session you find progress per section, your own counters, a timer and the yarn you are using.
- Your own counters for decreases, pattern repeats or anything you want to count.
- Reminders on steps and counter values. They stay until you tap Done.
- A timer for knitting time, if you want one.
- Look up knitting terms: an explanation and a video.
Live Activity and widget are simplified.
Yarn and needles
Know what is in your cupboard
Yarn is grouped by brand and name, with a colour swatch for each colour. You see the lot, how many skeins and how many metres are left. If you have reserved yarn for a project, it shows there.
- Search brand, name, colour and lot. Filter by fibre, yarn weight or leftovers.
- Show the amount in skeins, grams or metres.
- The needle stash holds type, size and cable length, and shows which are in use.
- A yarn calculator and a ruler are one tap away.
The label is read. You confirm.
Tap Scan label and take a photo. The app reads brand, name, colour, lot, weight and length, and fills in the fields. It never overwrites what you have already typed, and uncertain fields are left empty.
The label wraps around the skein, so the lot and colour numbers are often on the back. Add a second photo and both are read together. If you add the same yarn twice, the app asks whether the skeins should go on the row you already have.
Draw right in the pattern
Open the PDF and mark what you need to remember. With the pen, the highlighter and the eraser you write directly on the page, and you lay the ruler over it to measure against your gauge swatch.
Knit Crew
Knit together, each on your own
Create a knit crew and share the code with the people you want to knit with. On the Home screen you see each other's projects, both what is on the needles now and what was just finished, and you send each other hearts.
You share your patterns with the crew when you choose to. The others can open them and start their own project with their own copy. If you are knitting a Christmas present for someone in the crew, you hide the project with one tap.
On iPad too
Steps and PDF side by side
On iPad the screen is split. The steps sit on the left, and the PDF page stays open on the right and follows the step you are on. You do not have to flip between two views.
Everything else works as on iPhone, and your projects follow you between devices when you are signed in.
Getting started
Add a pattern
A PDF, the share sheet or a photo of the paper.
Check what the app suggested
Correct what is marked uncertain, and choose your size.
Start the session
Follow the steps, tap the counter, put it down whenever you like.
Want to test it before everyone else?
Maskerade is heading to TestFlight. You need an iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or later, and the TestFlight app from the App Store.
Open in TestFlight
The link arrives when the test round opens. A subscription is coming later.