A crochet row counter you can tap without putting down your hook
Rowpip shows the row you're on as one big number. When you finish a row, tap anywhere on the card, with a fingertip or a knuckle, and carry on crocheting. It keeps count of rounds just as well, for hats, granny squares and amigurumi.
- Free
- No ads
- Rows and rounds
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
How counting crochet rows works
Crochet patterns are written in rows, worked back and forth, or in rounds, worked in a circle. Rowpip keeps either count, one tap at a time.
Tap when you finish a row
Most of the screen is one big card, and all of it is the button. Finish a row, turn your work, tap, and the number goes up by one. A small buzz confirms it, so your eyes can go straight back to your stitches.
Choose rows or rounds
Working back and forth on a blanket or a scarf? Keep the project flat, and the label over the number says “Row”. Going round and round on a hat or a granny square? Set it to in the round, and the label says “Round”. Nothing else changes, and you can switch whenever you like from the menu.
Follow a row repeat
Plenty of crochet stitch patterns repeat every few rows. Tell Rowpip how many rows the repeat has and how many times you'll work it, and a line under the number shows which pattern row comes next and which repeat it belongs to. After the last repeat, it tells you they're all done.
On your phone, or on your wrist
Rowpip runs on iPhone and Android phones, and on Apple Watch and Wear OS watches. A phone can lie beside your yarn with its screen kept awake, showing the row. A watch puts the counter on your wrist: tap it, or turn the crown or bezel, and the phone it is paired with shows the same row.
What Rowpip does for your crochet
Nothing to pick up or click
A clicker or a pencil tally means letting go of your hook or your yarn. Rowpip's button is the whole card, so the side of your hand is enough, and with a watch there is nothing to reach for at all.
Frogged a few rows? Take them off the count
When you rip back, the counter can follow: −1 removes one row at a time, and the menu lets you type the row you're back on. Tapped once too often? Undo takes back your last change.
It remembers the row, so you don't have to
Every tap is saved as you make it. Leave your project in its bag for a week, close the app or restart your phone: the row, the project's name and your repeat are all still there. There's no account to create and no tracking.
Crochet questions
Rowpip is made for knitters. Does it work for crochet?
Yes. A row is a row: the counter adds one each time you tap, whichever craft made it. Rowpip was designed around knitting, and some of its wording shows it. A new project is called “My knitting” until you rename it, and the first question in setup is “What are you knitting?” Give the project a name of your own, such as “Baby blanket”, and count as usual.
Does it count rounds for amigurumi and granny squares?
Yes. Set the project to in the round and the label over the number reads “Round”. In a continuous spiral, as in most amigurumi, no join tells you a round is over, so keep a stitch marker in the first stitch of the round and tap each time you come back to it.
Can I see how far through a pattern I am?
Yes. Set a finish target from the menu, for example row 120 of a blanket, and the counter shows “of 120” with a progress line. Reaching it is a small, quiet celebration, and you can keep counting past it.
Can my watch keep count of my crochet rows for me?
No. Rowpip has an experimental feature called auto-count, in which a watch learns the wrist motion of your knitting and counts the stitches. It is built for knitting, and it is not meant for crochet.
For crochet, count by hand: a tap on the phone or the watch, a turn of the watch's crown or bezel, or a volume key on an Android phone. That always works.
When can I get Rowpip?
Soon. Rowpip is coming to the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch, and to Google Play for Android phones and Wear OS watches.
More ways to keep count
Rowpip is one counter with more than one use. Each of the others has a page of its own.
Counter for knitting in the round
Tap as you pass your marker, and let the counter remember which round you're on.
Hands-free row counter
Count a row without putting your needles down: a pinch, a turn or a key press.
Count increases and decreases
See which row of the repeat comes next, so every increase and decrease lands on the right row.
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Keep your hook moving
Rowpip is free, and no ads come between you and your row.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play