A grid chart with its own color key
Your photo comes back as a grid chart with its stitch count, its color palette and its yarn weight noted beside it, ready to read row by row.
How it works
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Pick the photo
Choose a photo on your phone and confirm it is yours to use. Good light and one clear subject keep the detail that survives being squared onto a grid.
The subject comes forward
Background clutter is set aside so your dog, or your grandmother's face, sits on a plain ground instead of competing with a sofa and a lamp.
Read the chart
The grid arrives with its stitch count, color key and yarn weight, each color shown as a small swatch beside its name and row number.
Change what you want
Set a higher stitch count if the eyes need more room, swap the colors for yarn already in your stash, and edit single stitches by hand.
Export and start hooking
Save a PDF to print for craft night, or download the chart file and upload it to your own Ravelry library.
What it does
Hookprint is made for crocheters charting a pet blanket or a family tapestry: a phone photo becomes an editable stitch-by-stitch chart, for less than one…
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Change stitch count, colors, single stitches
The editor holds the whole chart. Raise the stitch count for more detail, swap the palette, set a different yarn weight, or fix one stitch on its own.
Upload from your phone, rights checked
The upload screen is built for a phone, with one checkbox where you confirm the photo is yours to use before anything is charted from it.
A PDF you can print for craft night
Export the finished chart as a PDF, so it sits on your lap or on the table next to your hook instead of on a screen that keeps sleeping.
A chart file for your Ravelry library
Download the chart as a file and upload it to Ravelry yourself, so the project lives where the rest of your patterns already do.
Three charts a month, free
The free tier gives you three conversions a month, enough to chart one photo of your dog before you trust a whole blanket to it.
Buy one chart without a subscription
A single pattern is a one-off purchase at $1.99 with nothing to renew, for the one blanket you came here to make.
Questions
Answers before you ask
What does Hookprint cost?
The free tier is $0 and charts three conversions a month. A single pattern is a one-off $1.99, and Unlimited is $4.99, with an annual plan that saves 30 percent. Most patterns on Ravelry or Etsy run about $3 to $8, so one chart costs less than one pattern.
Will my photo keep its detail in a chart?
Honestly, some of it goes. A busy photo with the subject far away loses the small things first, like an eye highlight or a thin whisker. A close crop and a higher stitch count keep more, and the editor lets you raise that count and see what comes back.
Can I use any photo I find online?
No. The upload screen asks you to confirm you own the photo or have the rights to use it, and third-party copyrighted images are not allowed without a licence. The terms include a takedown process for anything uploaded against that.
Will my chart come out squashed in single crochet?
No. Choose the stitch type you are working, single crochet, C2C block or square cell, and each cell is drawn at that stitch's real width and height in the editor and in the PDF. The finished size in stitches is shown with it.
Does Hookprint push the pattern into Ravelry for me?
No. You download the chart file and upload it to your Ravelry library yourself, which keeps your account yours and nothing connected that you did not connect.
Do I get written row-by-row instructions?
No, the output is the chart itself. You get the grid with its stitch count, color key and yarn weight, as a PDF or a downloadable file, and you read it row by row the way you would any graphghan chart.
Is there an app to download?
No. Hookprint works in the browser on your phone, so there is nothing to install from an app store. There are no native apps.
Can I change the chart after it appears?
Yes, that is the point of it. You can change the stitch count, the color palette and the yarn weight, and edit individual stitches, before you export anything.
Chart your first photo
Sign up, upload a photo, and the grid comes back with its stitch count, color key and yarn weight. Three charts a month are free.