Pattern Translator: Knit & Sew

All your instructions in one place. Backed up. And in your language.

This app is a library for instructions as PDFs. Built for sewing, knitting and crochet, but it takes any instruction: the assembly guide for the shelf, the recipe, the user manual. You create folders, give every instruction an image and find it again.

And your collection does not live on the phone alone: with a subscription the app backs up your entire pattern database online, up to 1 GB. Folders, PDFs, images, traits and notes, all of it.

If one instruction is in a language you do not read, the app translates it. With the right craft terms and without distorting the pattern sheet.


YOUR LIBRARY

• Folders, nested as deep as you like. By craft, by person, by project.
• Every instruction gets a preview image: from the camera, from your photos or a page from the PDF. Folders get an image too.
• Four traits such as women, child, sweater or knitting. Filter by them with one tap.
• Notes on every instruction: yarn, size, what you changed. Search by name and notes.
• Cards with large images or a compact list, as you prefer.
• PDFs come from your files, from mail or from a finished translation.


YOUR LIBRARY BACKED UP ONLINE

With a subscription you back up your whole library online, up to 1 GB: folders, PDFs, preview images, traits and notes. Restoring takes one tap, complete and in the same order. The app never reports success while a file is missing.


TRANSLATE WITHOUT DISTORTING THE SHEET

Ordinary PDF translators rebuild the page and redraw it in the process. In sewing that is fatal: a pattern sheet scaled by two percent no longer fits.

This app works differently:

• No AI redraws your artwork. Pattern pieces, alignment marks, knitting charts and crochet charts come from the original untouched.
• The translated text sits where the old text sat, in the same box.
• Page size and scale stay. You print and tape the sheet exactly as before.


THE RIGHT CRAFT TERMS

A plain translator turns the German rechts into right. In a knitting pattern it means knit. It turns Maschenprobe into stitch sample instead of gauge.

This app translates with a craft dictionary for sewing, knitting and crochet. You get the terms and abbreviations your patterns actually use. Centimetres become inches, in size charts as well. For crochet you choose between US and UK terms.


HOW TO TRANSLATE

1. Pick your PDF from the library or from your files.
2. Pick the language you want to read. The app detects the source language itself.
3. Start the translation. It runs on the server, so you can close the app.
4. File the finished instruction in your library with one tap.


17 LANGUAGES

English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish. You translate between all of them and switch the app itself too.


YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY YOURS

A server does the translating; the source file and the result are deleted there after delivery. Patterns are protected by copyright, translated ones as well. That is why there is no way to publish one.


WHAT IT CANNOT DO

• Keep the original typeface. The translated text is set in its own, easy to read font. Measurements and layout stay.
• Translate instructions over 50 MB or over 60 pages.


TRY IT

Five translations are free. Take the pattern that is annoying you right now, print the sheet and measure it.

No trial that quietly turns into a subscription, and no charge without your consent.

Recent changes:
New in 1.2: a complete library for your instructions.

Create folders, sort your PDF instructions into them, give each one a preview image and traits such as women, child or knitting. Not just crafts: any instruction fits.

With a subscription you back up the whole library online, up to 1 GB — with folders, images, traits and notes.