Harbour pullover
Body finished, starting the yoke
68% · touched yesterday
For knitters, crocheters, stitchers & sewists
In hand
Hibernating
Finished
Everything you've started, somewhere kind.
Half a jumper in one bag. A sleeve still waiting on its twin. A hoop you put away for later and a skirt that needs a zip you've been dodging. Skeinverse holds the whole pile without a word of judgement — and shows you, plainly, what is still alive in it.
Linen skirt
Waiting on an invisible zip
81% · asleep 214 days
Wildflower sampler
Framed and on the wall
100% · done in April
The weekly question
One project. Three easy answers.
Once a week Skeinverse brings up whichever piece has been asleep the longest and asks about that one only. Nothing else on the pile gets mentioned, so the whole thing shrinks to a single choice you can make in ten seconds. Try it below.
Linen skirt
Waiting on an invisible zip · asleep 214 days
However you answer, the pile gets one item lighter — and nothing you choose here is ever wrong.
Back in your stash
Nothing reclaimed yet. Let something go and watch its materials come home.
That last button is the one people worry about, so it works gently: releasing a piece hands its yarn and fabric straight back to your stash, counted and ready. Four leftover balls of merino and a metre of linen stop being a failed project and turn back into the start of the next one.
Privacy policy
Your making is nobody else's business
In force from 26 July 2026. Applies to Skeinverse on iPhone and iPad.
Skeinverse gathers nothing. There is no account to make, no server behind it, and no company waiting to learn what you knit. The projects, the photographs, the stash counts and the answers you give on a Sunday afternoon are held on your own phone and go nowhere else.
Nothing is requested
You are never asked to register, and there is no field for a name, an address, a birthday or a phone number. The app does not check where you are and does not touch device or advertising identifiers.
Where it is all kept
Project cards, photographs, progress marks, dates, notes, stash quantities and the record of what you finished or released are written into the app's storage on your device.
Because none of it is copied elsewhere, nobody at this end can see your pile — not to help, not to study, not by accident.
The weekly nudge
That reminder is a notification your phone schedules for itself with iOS's built-in timer. No push service sits behind it and no token is handed to anyone, which is why it turns up just as reliably with the phone offline.
Your photographs
Adding a picture goes through the standard iOS picker, so Skeinverse only ever receives the single image you hand it and cannot browse the rest of your library. That copy sits with the project and travels no further.
No links to anywhere else
The app does not connect to pattern sites, craft communities or social accounts, and it cannot post, publish or import on your behalf. Nothing you record here appears anywhere but here.
No borrowed code
There is no analytics kit, no advertising library, no crash reporter and no tracking beacon in the build. Nothing counts your taps and nothing is passed along, because none of it is written down to begin with.
Younger makers
Since nothing travels from any device to us, nothing travels from a child's device either. No record exists for COPPA or its counterparts in other countries to reach.
Clearing it out
Any project, photo or stash entry can be changed or removed inside the app whenever you like. Deleting Skeinverse takes the whole collection with it and nothing is held elsewhere to bring back.
One caveat worth knowing: if your phone backs up to iCloud or to a computer, your projects may sit inside that encrypted backup, which belongs to you and to Apple under Apple's terms.
If any of this changes
Should a later release do something this page does not describe, the page is corrected before that release ships and the date at the top is moved.
Anything unclear
Questions about this policy are welcome at narcyzove@gmail.com.
Say hello
There is one person behind this
Bugs, a craft the app does not describe well, a unit it measures oddly, or a photograph of something you finally finished — all of it is read and answered.
Made and looked after by
Whitney Chandler
Replies usually land within a day or two.