Nine crafts,
each worked its own way.
A weaving app that hands you a pretty picture and no threading is a drawing app. The woven bands come off a real threading draft, Bargello follows a wave curve you drag, and the counted crafts share one chart editor — so the drawing tools behave the same way wherever a chart makes sense, and the bands get a draft instead.
A real draft, not a picture
A weaving app that gives you a pretty image and no threading is a drawing app. Fiber Bench gives the draft, the turning sequence and the pick order you actually work from.
Tablet weaving, properly
A four-hole threading draft with S or Z for every card, and a turning sequence of forward, back or held still for each card and pick. Double-face threads every card two dark, two light and works the turns out from a picture.
Counted crafts, square by square
Cross-stitch, filet crochet and latch hook charted on their own grids, with a palette of named colours rather than whatever was nearest on a colour wheel, and a tap to unpick a stitch.
Supplies that include the waste
Take-up and loom waste are the numbers that decide whether you run out three inches from the end. They are in the list, checked against the loom you said you have — and several projects can be totalled into one order.
Everything to buy, added up
Put several projects on the Shopping tab and the same yarn, floss or cord is totalled into one list, with the projects each colour belongs to, ticked off as you buy it. Browse every colour, or the ones that go with one, and add to a basket.
Rugs, cut to shape
Tufted rugs and cushions for a tufting gun or punch needle, cut to any outline, mirrored for the back of the cloth, with the tufted area, pile and yarn for each colour worked out.
How a project goes
Design
Draw on the craft's own grid, start from one of 165 worked examples, or from a photo.
Preview
The piece as it would lie on a table, turned over to see the back, with a 1:1 button for life size.
Supplies
Yarn, floss, cord, fabric or canvas per colour, with take-up and waste included.
Work it
One pick, row or column at a time, whichever unit the craft works in.
Nine crafts, one app
Each craft opens on its own grid with its own tools, and the drawing behaves the same way in all of them. Start from a blank chart, from a photo, or from one of the 165 worked examples.
From a photo
Turn a picture into a cross-stitch, latch-hook, tufted, alpha bracelet, filet or Cavandoli pattern. Pick how many stitches across and how many colours, each matched to a named yarn you can change later.
Free, with Pro
The app is free, sharing included. Pro is a one-time purchase, and each Pro feature works a few times free first. Google Play always shows the current price.
| Price | $7.99 one-time |
| Pro unlocks | Printing · hands-free mode · photo to pattern · the text tool · mirror drawing · sharing without the “Made with Fiber Bench” line |
| Free first | Three uses of each, twice for your own photos |
| Always free | All nine crafts, the 165 example patterns, the drafts, previews, supplies lists, the Shopping tab and working mode |
| Note | Typing a name into a double-face band uses the text tool, so it is one of the Pro features |
The details
| Crafts | Tablet weaving · inkle bands and Baltic pickup · Cavandoli macramé · friendship bracelets · bargello, both quilts and needlepoint · latch-hook rugs · rug tufting · counted cross-stitch · filet crochet |
| Cross-stitch | Aida in 11, 14, 16 and 18 count, with skeins per colour and the fabric to cut |
| Photo to pattern | Cross-stitch, latch hook, tufted rugs, alpha bracelets, filet crochet and Cavandoli — the crafts where a photograph still reads once it is reduced to a grid |
| Shopping | Several projects totalled into one list, ticked off as you buy, with a colour browser and a basket for loose supplies |
| Printing | Latch-hook, needlepoint and tufted rug charts at true size, rugs mirrored to trace, with a big chart split across sheets |
| Learning | A first-time tour, a beginner's guide for every craft, and 165 worked examples |
| Platform | Android · com.jdcap.fiberbench · works offline |
| Status | 0.5.4, in closed testing on Google Play |