Meet Skein — Yarn stash & row counter

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Skein

Yarn stash & row counter

Free. All features included.

No subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this post works the moment you install it.

What Skein does

Skein is the pocket companion for knitters and crocheters who want to know what's in their stash and where they are in their pattern — without an account, a subscription, or a network connection.

Snap a photo of a yarn ball in a shop and Skein instantly surfaces the closest color matches from your own stash, all matched on-device. Build out your library with brand, weight, yardage, fiber blend, dye lot, and the bin you stored it in. Link a yarn to a project and Skein tracks how much you have left as you log finished rows.

Counting rows? Skein gives you giant tap targets, haptic feedback, and multiple named counters per project — body, sleeve A, sleeve B, and the 8-row lace repeat all visible at once. Mistap? One tap undoes it. Phone goes to sleep mid-row? Your counters are exactly where you left them.

No login. No cloud. No subscription. Buy once, count forever.

99 one-time): unlimited projects, unlimited counters per project, photo color match, project photo log, CSV export.

Made for the knit-along, the long flight, the yarn-shop crawl. Pick up Skein and let your stash work for you.

A look inside

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What's in it

Yarn stash library — Add yarn balls with photo, brand, weight class, yardage, fiber blend, dye lot, storage bin, and notes. Sort by color, brand, weight, or location.
Multi-counter project — Each project holds multiple named counters with giant tap targets, undo, and haptic feedback. All counters visible at once on a single screen.
Photo color match — Point the camera at any yarn ball, capture a frame, and Skein computes Lab-color distance against every stash entry on-device to surface the closest matches in under a second.
Linked yarn consumption — Link a yarn from your stash to a project, enter rows-per-yard for the gauge, and Skein subtracts estimated yardage from the linked yarn as you tap rows.
Project photo log — Snap progress photos tied to the current row count. Skein builds a chronological timeline of the project for sharing or admiration.
Onboarding — Four-screen welcome flow explaining stash, counters, color match, and pricing — sets the tone with warm cream-and-clay visuals.

Why we built it

Knitters and crocheters can't remember what yarn they own, can't tell from a phone photo whether a yarn in a shop will match the partial skein at home, and lose their place in multi-section patterns when a single-counter app forces them to track sleeves and body separately on paper.

What makes it different

No major knitting app pairs an on-device camera color-match against your personal stash with a multi-counter project tracker — KnitCompanion is a pattern viewer at $25, Ravelry's app is a community catalog that needs an account, and free counters like Knit Counter offer a single number with ads. Skein's wedge is: poin…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their stash, and their offline life.

In one line: Yarn stash & row counter

Try it

Head to the Skein app page for the full feature list, info table, and support links.

Found a bug, have a feature request, or want to share how you use Skein? Comments are open below — anonymous is fine.