How to use Craftinery App

Open Craftinery and sign in to an account with active access. Your first sign-in requires an internet connection.

Choose the techniques you use. Search instead of scrolling through the whole list. You can also add your own technique.

Select the techniques you want available for your projects. The others remain in Settings. Skip leaves all available; you can change this choice later.

In Projects, start creating a project. Enter its name and choose a technique. A template is optional, not required.

If you have instructions, add the file. Save the project and add any stages or items you need.

Choose Work on an item or start a project session. Pause when you stop working and end the session when you finish.

For a blanket, start with a project and one row counter. For a toy, add parts such as the body and two legs. Each copy can have its own progress.

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Home shows projects selected for quick access, recently used projects and your current work.

Projects is where you manage work, choose folders and statuses, find a project and save inspiration.

Inventory has separate entries for owned materials and tools, Catalog, Shopping and the available personal libraries.

Session shows current work, breaks, counters, reminders and time controls.

Calendar combines planned entries with a history of actual work.

Add opens shortcuts for creating new data. Actions for a specific project are also available in that project.

The back arrow returns to the previous view. Plus adds an entry in your current area. The camera takes a quick photo, and the note icon opens a note. The three-dot menu contains less frequently used actions.

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Create a project from scratch, a template or saved inspiration. A separate compatible-PDF import is implemented but is still described as in preparation in the current Help; do not use it for important work before readiness is announced. Adding an ordinary PDF as instructions does not automatically create stages or items.

Save a name, description, techniques, status, folders, tags, cover photo and deadline. Complete only what helps you work. A project deadline can appear in Calendar without creating a second identical entry manually.

Use search, folders, filters and sorting to find projects. Completed projects may be hidden in the current view; enable the appropriate filter to find them. Hiding a project on Home does not delete it.

Duplicating a project lets you reuse its organisation for new work. Review the preview and available copying options. A duplicate does not continue the old session or automatically assign the same supplies.

Deleting a project requires confirmation. Supported data can be restored from Trash for 30 days. Do not delete a project just to hide it from your current list.

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A technique describes how you work, such as crochet, knitting, sewing, embroidery or gardening. A template suggests an organisation for a kind of project. You do not need every technique and template visible at once.

Open Settings and the area for projects and templates.

Select a technique you need. Expand it to see its associated templates.

Preview a template before using it. Check its stages, items and suggested fields.

Select the templates you want available for that technique.

A template associated with several techniques can be enabled separately for each. You can create, edit, copy and remove your own templates using the available actions. Changing or removing a template should not rewrite projects previously created from it.

Treat a built-in template as a starting point. Remove unnecessary stages from your own project, rename them or add items. Extra properties and structured observations are optional; ordinary project tracking does not require them.

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A stage is a kind of activity, such as making, assembly or finishing. An item is a specific part, such as a leg, bag panel or sleeve. A project can have stages, items or no division into parts.

Add an item in the project. Enter its name and number of copies.

If you need a counter, enter the kind of progress and target number of rows or another suitable value.

Assign instructions if the item should use a specific file.

When making a pair or more identical parts, select the correct copy. Completing one does not complete the others.

You can have two identical legs, six panels or forty modules. Separate left and right parts if their instructions or row counts differ. Edit the quantity and counter target if needed.

If you accidentally mark an item complete, show completed items, select the correct copy and reopen it. You do not need to recreate it. A completed item may leave the active-counter list, but its progress remains saved.

Stages can also be completed and reopened. The suggestion to complete the whole project relates to its work stages; having all parts made does not necessarily mean the project is finished.

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Counters can belong to a project, stage or item. Types include rows, rounds, repetitions, pieces and custom numeric counters. Rows are not stitches within a row or the number of parts being made.

Plus increases the value and minus decreases it. Set a specific value, target, name, step size and main counter. History records operations; undoing the latest change preserves the record of the earlier action. Reset requires confirmation.

A copy’s row counter stops increasing at its target. If the pattern requires more rows, edit the target. A general project counter or custom counter does not automatically decide to complete the project.

For a project without items, use the option to enable a project row counter. Do not create a fictional part just to count blanket rows.

The quick plus uses the clearly selected counter. If several projects or counters are in scope, choose the right one. Gentle vibration on a row change also depends on your device settings and capabilities.

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Return to work collects useful project information: the latest item or stage, current counter, next step and document. It shows information that is actually available.

Choose Save your place to record where you stop. Select an item, stage or counter and add a short description and Next step. Saving this point when ending a session is optional; Skip should not block finishing the session.

Selecting an item selects its own counter and, where relevant, the correct copy. If it has no counter, a counter from another item is not substituted. When it has several suitable counters, choose the one you need.

Edit, clear, replace or mark the Next step done. A useful note is specific, such as “Work rows 18–24, then try the boot on.”

Continue takes you to the saved work. If a choice is needed, the app asks you to select the right place. This does not automatically take over a session from another device; check the timer and start work using the appropriate action if no session is running.

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Start a session from Home, Session, a project or an item. Use search and filters when choosing a project. Completed projects need not fill the current list.

Pause stops active work time. Resume starts another work segment in the same session. End saves its history; you do not need a separate session for every break.

Craftinery distinguishes active work, breaks and the full session span. Work summaries should exclude breaks. Older sessions may lack enough data to reconstruct every break; missing information does not prove zero minutes of breaks.

One session can cover several projects, stages or items. Total session time and time assigned to projects may have different sums, particularly with parallel work and manual corrections. Check the intervals assigned to each project in the details. Do not automatically add them together to calculate the full session duration.

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If you forget to start the timer or pause, correct the active session’s time or edit a saved session. Check its start, end and breaks before confirming. Do not start another session merely to compensate for missing time.

In history, choose Add a past session. Set the dates and times, choose the correct projects and items, then save. Edit individual projects’ intervals if needed. Planning future work belongs in Calendar; it is not recording time already worked.

The session’s clock interval and active work total describe different things. A session from 10:00 to 12:00 with a half-hour break records 1 hour 30 minutes of work and a 2-hour total span.

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In session and reminder Settings, choose the interval for work reminders. Subsequent notifications show accumulated active work for that session, not just one reminder interval.

The end-of-break reminder is a separate setting. Set a default break length and snooze a reminder when needed. Protection against a forgotten long session is also different from a break reminder.

In the active session or reader tools, choose Plan the end. Set a duration or specific time and, optionally, advance notice. For a duration, choose whether breaks count. The notification reminds you about the end; it does not end the session itself.

Preview sounds and assign them by notification type. Gentle and neutral options are available. Delivery and volume also depend on Android permissions, notification channels, silent mode and battery saving. The system may delay an alarm with the screen off.

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The running-session notification lets you control work. An Android home-screen widget shows the session state; quick increments are available when the correct counter is unambiguous.

To use an overlay over another app, such as while watching a video, enable it in the session or reader tools. Android asks for permission to display over other apps. Move, collapse or close the overlay. It lets you change a counter and pause or resume an existing session. Closing it does not end the work.

The same session on a phone and tablet has one controlling device. Use the available takeover action to work from the other device. Opening a widget, overlay or file should not create a second timer.

Keep the screen on applies while using the relevant active view. It is not permission to keep the screen awake after leaving the app.

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Attach PDF, TXT, DOC and DOCX files to a project. Craftinery offers an internal preview and an option to open in another app. Word previews may be simplified; PDF preserves a fixed layout better.

If a file is already in the project, select it from existing instructions when assigning it to a stage or item. You do not need to import another copy from storage. For an item without a document, use Assign PDF. Removing its link from an item need not delete the entire project’s document.

Preview instructions while creating a project or item, then return to the form. On a tablet, a preview may appear beside the form, for example to check the row count before saving an item.

The PDF reader remembers the page, supported zoom and vertical position. When reopening, continue or start from the beginning if the app offers that choice. The work panel includes a counter, pause, notes and item selection. On a tablet it sits at the side rather than the bottom corner.

When changing items during a session, check the assigned file. The app may ask whether to assign the current PDF or open the document belonging to the next item. Time should belong to the currently selected work.

Resuming a view is within the supported range. It does not promise the identical pixel position between a phone and tablet or arbitrary horizontal scrolling.

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Open the PDF annotation tools. Highlight a passage, draw with a finger or stylus and add a text comment at a selected place. Erase and undo to correct markings.

Markings belong to a particular document and page. The original file is not overwritten. Do not assume sending the original PDF to another app also transfers Craftinery’s annotation layer.

The reading ruler helps you follow the current line. Highlighting a PDF does not automatically complete an item or record work time.

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The current version includes a separate Project from PDF screen and compatible-pattern import logic. Current Help still describes structural import as in preparation and advises against using it for important work before readiness is announced. It is not a converter for arbitrary PDF, Word or scanned files.

Compatible import uses a document prepared and published in Craftinery’s supported format. Select one ready PDF, not an additional JSON file or technical bundle.

Choose Project from PDF and select a compatible document.

Review the preview: name, technique, stages, items, quantities, counters, variants and materials.

Complete missing data and resolve choices the document does not specify clearly.

Confirm project creation only after checking the preview.

Import keeps one document and links to its sections. It creates independent progress for each copy. It does not start a session, reserve stock, record consumption or add products to Inventory.

An ordinary PDF, scan or other document can remain reading instructions, but full automatic recognition must not be assumed. A compatible-pattern author uses a separate authoring template and a checked publishing method.

Use project tools to introduce a new version of a compatible pattern. Review proposed changes before confirming. Preserving progress relies on matching part identities; a completely different document should not silently replace existing work. New items are not added automatically; unmatched items stay linked to the earlier PDF.

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Add a note in a project, session or while reading instructions. Link it to the work and photos. A pinned note remains easy to reach above project navigation.

Note history shows earlier revisions. Restore chosen text into the editor and save it after review. It cannot reconstruct unknown changes made before revision history existed.

The journal collects project events and your own entries. Work history shows sessions; process history covers drying or waiting for a result. A publication entry records where you showed a project and its link. It does not automatically post to Instagram or other services.

A background process is useful for glue drying, cooling or blocking. In the project, choose Start a process and enter its name and planned duration. Select a waiting stage if needed. Check the result when time passes: finish the process or extend it. Its duration is not automatically active work time.

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The camera icon takes a quick photo. You can also select an existing image, name it, set it as the cover and link it to the right project area. Touch a thumbnail for a larger preview.

The gallery lets you organise photos and narrow the view instead of searching an unsorted list. Renaming a photo should not create a new file. Catalog and Inventory photos can also be enlarged.

In Project → More, choose the photo-movie tool. Select photos, create the movie and review it. Save MP4 writes a persistent file to your chosen location; Share opens Android’s app chooser. They are separate actions.

The movie preview is a local working file that Android may remove. Save it if you want to keep it. The generator makes a simple movie from selected photos, not a full edit with music, captions and automatic publishing.

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Catalog describes a product, such as a manufacturer, yarn line, colour or tool size. It can include things you do not own. Inventory records what you actually have: quantity, location and project assignments. Shopping tracks what you intend to buy or are receiving.

Adding a Catalog product does not increase stock. Adding it to Inventory requires a quantity and location. One product can exist in several colours, lots or locations; each box does not need a separate product definition.

Use Catalog search, manufacturers, lines, categories and filters. Edit products and variants and add photos. Custom categories adapt organisation to your own workshop.

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In Inventory, open Materials or Tools and choose to add an entry.

Add a new thing or choose an existing product. Enter its name and actual quantity.

Check the unit. One piece, one 100 g ball and 1 g of material are different amounts.

Select a location or create one without leaving the add flow.

Optionally add a manufacturer, colour, specifications, tags, photo, lot and note. Save.

Choose a previously used manufacturer if appropriate. When adding something without a Catalog definition, the app may offer to save it there too; check whether a suitable product already exists.

Assign and return reusable tools such as crochet hooks. Do not mark them consumed merely because a project ended. Consumable materials are settled by recording actual usage.

Track measured materials in compatible mass, length or volume units. Converting a ball to grams requires its package contents. The app should not guess grams-to-metres conversion for arbitrary yarn.

For subsequent products, keep or change the selected location. Open entry details to edit its description, check colour and photos or review history.

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Locations can represent boxes, cupboards, shelves or your own arrangement. Categories organise kinds of things; locations say where actual stock is stored. These need not be the same arrangement. Materials and Tools first show locations, rather than category folders.

Move stock between locations. Material details show available and project-assigned quantities. You should not have to treat 15 available pieces and 5 assigned pieces as two different products.

A lot or dye lot describes particular purchased stock. It can distinguish batches of the same colour, but recording a lot does not imply automatic warnings for every mismatch.

Record opening stock, extra quantities, count corrections, damage, loss or withdrawal. History remains even when an item is no longer in current stock. If a hook breaks, decrease or remove stock with the appropriate reason rather than deleting its earlier project usage.

If a quantity is wrong, use a correction or stocktake and enter the counted amount. Do not fix a 1 g → 1 piece mistake by accidentally adding a second product. Review the unit, package contents and proposed summary before saving.

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A barcode identifies a product or variant. The scanner first finds known entries and their stock, locations and linked projects. Read a code from a photo, correct a reading or enter the number if the label is damaged.

If the product is not in your data, use online lookup. The app can obtain a match from an external code database or open an internet search for the number. Review a match before linking it or creating a product. The database does not include every yarn and tool and has query limits.

A Craftinery QR label opens your own storage location. Use the location’s QR preview button to generate a label, print it and attach it to a box. Scanning opens that location on the correct account, even after renaming it. QR does not replace the manufacturer’s code or make your Inventory public.

Reading a label photo helps transcribe text and suggest fields. Check the name, manufacturer, colour, quantities and units before saving. Recognition can be wrong; a photograph does not automatically confirm the full physical stock.

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A project’s material list describes its needs; assigning stock says what you allocate to the work. Adding a need does not consume material.

In the project, open Materials and tools.

Add a needed entry and quantity; use an existing product or scan when adding supplies.

Check available stock and select the correct location or lot.

Assign a quantity to the project. During project creation, review and confirm the proposed reservation summary.

After working, record actual material consumption and return unused leftovers. Return reusable tools without recording consumption.

From 20 pieces, for example, assign 5 to a project. The other 15 remain available. If you use 3 of the assigned pieces, record consumption of 3 and return 2. Completing the project should not guess that all 5 were used.

If something is missing, choose Add shortages to Shopping. Select or create a list. Review any proposed change to a waiting status before confirming. Recording a purchase does not mean a material has arrived or been reserved.

When ending a project, the app may remind you about unsettled materials and tools. Settle them or leave them for later; keep this up to date if you want reliable stock.

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In Shopping, add a list using plus beside the heading. Add a Catalog product or a manual entry without one. Optionally enter a project, seller, link, price, currency and expected date.

Planned means a purchasing need. Ordered means a quantity has been ordered. Received records delivery. With a partial delivery, the remainder is still outstanding; do not mark the whole entry received when only part arrived.

At receipt, the app asks whether to add the quantity to Inventory. If yes, review the product, variant, location, unit and lot. If not, the receipt can remain without increasing stock; add it later from receipt history. Do not add the same delivery again as a new receipt.

There can be further orders and receipts for the same need. Before adding the same product again, check existing open entries. Keep entries separate deliberately rather than creating unnecessary duplicates.

In Inventory Settings, choose when the app should ask about low-stock replenishment. Available quantity matters, not physical stock already assigned to a project. The prompt does not buy anything. Choose a list, change the quantity, postpone the reminder or turn it off.

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Calendar shows a month; Agenda lists entries by date. Add one-off work, reminders, shopping, Inventory tasks or a deadline. Choose a time, all-day status, linked project and reminder as needed.

A recurring entry can represent work on chosen weekdays. Check frequency and the end of recurrence. Edit, mark done and filter To do or Done. Completed entries need not fill the current list.

A date dot can indicate existing data for that day. Select the day to review earlier sessions and actual work hours too. A planned entry does not automatically add hours worked.

Project deadlines and expected deliveries can appear from linked data. From a project, open Calendar to add a related action. Notifications require Android permission; the saved entry remains even without that permission.

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The project’s Work tab shows its work time, session history and available stage or item breakdowns. Filter general statistics by projects and dates. Check the selected scope; filtered summaries and overall work rhythm may represent different data.

Active-work summaries should exclude breaks. Multi-project sessions use their time assignments. Correcting a saved session changes the relevant history, not just the timer’s label.

Project cost combines work time, your rate, known prices of materials actually consumed and extra expenses. Set a currency and markup if needed. A missing price or quantity is not zero cost; check completeness. This is calculation support, not accounting, an invoice or a guaranteed correct sale price.

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Inspiration is an idea that need not be a project yet. Save text, a link, photos or a file. Search, archive, restore and deliberately create a project from an idea.

On Android, share supported content into Craftinery from another app. Select an existing project or inspiration and confirm the import. This does not automatically download every page’s full content or grant republishing rights.

What can I start compares recorded project needs with available stock, accounting for stock already assigned elsewhere. If a material quantity is unknown, complete the data. It uses your Inventory records; it does not detect what is physically in a cupboard.

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My swatches keeps a photo, technique, stitch, material, tool and note. Enter measured stitch and row counts and dimensions before and after washing. Gauge comes from actual measurements, not a default assumption.

People’s measurements supports clothing projects. Save a person, measurement name, value and date and link the profile to a project. History keeps measurements from different dates. Record only data you are entitled to use; this is not medical documentation.

Measurements appear in clothing-project work with a suitable technique, such as crochet, knitting or sewing. Not every yarn project needs a person’s measurements.

My garden is available when Gardening is enabled. Create a plan, enter dimensions and place markers. Keep photos, notes and links to projects or Calendar. It is your organisational map, not automatic plant identification, a weather forecast or irrigation control.

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Open Stitch chart in a project. Prepare a PDF section with an aligned grid or use supported symbol-grid import. Check row and column counts and alignment with the image before working.

Mark completed cells to save your place. Chart progress is separate from session time and a normal row counter. Import has size limits; it does not automatically recognise every symbol in an arbitrary embroidery photo.

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Voice is optional. In Settings → Sessions and reminders → Voice, select Polish or English and download the model. Approximate downloads are 50 MB for Polish and 40 MB for English; the app shows download state and storage use. An unpacked model needs additional space.

Set a wake phrase, such as “hey crafty”, and check recognition with your pronunciation. Enable the microphone using the button in the work or file view. When enabled, it listens for the phrase, then accepts a supported command for about 6 seconds: next row, undo, pause or resume. Polish equivalents are also available.

Recognition runs on-device using Vosk / Alpha Cephei. This feature does not save or upload recordings or transcripts; it saves the resulting counter or session change. Downloading the model needs a network connection, but later recognition is not billed per cloud command. It can increase battery and memory use.

The model choice may sync between devices, but microphone permission and activation are local. Downloading defaults to Wi-Fi; mobile-data downloads require a separate choice. Leaving work, backgrounding the app, locking the screen or ending the session disables the microphone. This is not an all-day assistant listening over every app.

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In Settings, choose the Polish or English interface, light, dark or system theme and an available accent. Adjust interface size for readability. A widget can follow the app appearance or use its own settings.

Translate my content optionally translates PL ↔ EN on-device after a model download. It does not overwrite original names and notes. Translations may be inaccurate, especially pattern abbreviations. Do not assume it translates and rebuilds an entire arbitrary PDF.

Buttons and icons have accessibility labels and forms support the keyboard. Phone and tablet layouts may differ. If the keyboard obscures a field or a touch does not respond, report the particular view and device model; that is not expected behaviour.

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Export a project to PDF with selected sections and an available photo. Choose what to include before generating. Saving to a location and sharing to another app serve different purposes.

Catalog offers XLSX import and export and blank Polish or English templates. Review the spreadsheet preview before importing. Importing Catalog definitions does not automatically take stock of everything you own.

Export Inventory and selected history and statistics to spreadsheets. PDF, XLSX and MP4 exports let you use chosen data outside the app. A full backup restores Craftinery data; an ordinary project PDF does not replace it.

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After sign-in, the app keeps a working copy on-device and syncs supported data and files with your account when online. Sync Settings also offers Send and Download actions. Use the same account on your Android phone and tablet.

If two devices change the same value differently, the app may show a conflict. Review both versions and choose the correct one. Do not choose cloud or device randomly just to dismiss it.

Core work is available offline after successful access verification, for up to 24 hours since the last successful check and no longer than the access entitlement remains valid. Sign-in, sync, missing-file and model downloads and internet barcode lookup need a network connection.

In Settings → Data, save a backup and choose its location. Back up before an important update, large import or device change. When restoring, read whether the mode merges data or replaces the local set. Do not restore a newer backup into an older app.

Trash restores supported deleted entries for 30 days. Permanent deletion, clearing a device and deleting an account are separate operations. Do not clear data as the first attempt to fix sync. Uninstalling the app does not delete the cloud account.

Account options include signing out, changing your password and initiating account deletion. Possessing the installation file does not replace active access. Install a MAIN update over the existing MAIN without uninstalling; TEST has a separate local database.

Current built-in Help has 22 Polish and English topics. It is available inside the app and is separate from this full website guide.

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A missing photo or file: check account and connectivity, send data from the device with the original, then download on the other device. Check pending-file information. Do not delete the only local copy to force a download.

A missing new feature on a tablet: check the app version, MAIN or TEST variant and technique settings. Garden and measurement tools have the visibility conditions described above.

A missing notification: check Android permissions, channel and sound, Do Not Disturb and battery saving. Preview a sound or use a test notification in Settings. Saving a deadline does not guarantee a sound on a silenced phone.

A missing counter: check the selected item and copy, whether counting is enabled and whether the item is complete. Show completed items and reopen an accidentally completed copy instead of creating another part.

A “database is locked” message, grey screen or unresponsive action: keep the exact error text, note the view and last action. Do not delete data or repeatedly save when the outcome is unclear. Report it through Help.

Contact support@craftinery.com with the app version, device model and short reproduction steps. Do not send a password or an entire private backup without agreeing a secure transfer. For account and privacy matters, contact privacy@craftinery.com.

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