We analyzed 60 negative reviews from the top 5 Crochet apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
28% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"the app has been freezing on me and I have to shut it down and restart it multiple times every time I use it"
"As soon as I click add or edit the app automatically shuts down"
23% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Unbelievable. Had two projects in there. Timing and counts, yarn. Everything! Sat down to start working today and opened the app and its welcoming me like I am a newbie user. EVERYTHING is gone."
"all of a sudden they are gone and I can't get them back"
20% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The watch app is so buggy it's useless. The phone and ipad don't sync like they're supposed to"
"I find that the syncing between watch and phone app is unreliable. The watch app shuts down between rows"
12% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"the barcode scanning only worked 25% of the time. Didn't matter what brand (Redheart, Caron, Lion"
"Please expand the database and/or fix barcode scanning. Nothing seems to pull up."
15% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Edits sometimes save and sometimes don't"
"when I'm adding yarn to my stash, often the app will crash or make my phone crash when I hit save"
13% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"App support is non-existent and support requests go unanswered"
"I reached out to the developer and haven't heard anything. Pretty disappointed"
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users experience sync failures between iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch despite iCloud being enabled, leading to data inconsistencies
"It says iCloud is synced, I've restarted my phone, made sure iCloud is working and backed up and synced, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and nothing"
Remove function appears but doesn't actually delete items, leaving users with incorrect stash inventory
"I love this app, but I find I cannot delete yarn from my stash which is frustrating. There is an option to remove an item from my stash, but after clicking it I am taken back to my stash list, and the item is still there"
Project completion dates are set incorrectly and users have no way to change them
"The completion date on the projects I've done cannot be changed and is often set to the wrong date. No matter what I do"
PDF patterns upload successfully but crash or fail to open when accessed later
"Now it simply crashes any time I try to open the pattern I've imported into my project"
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