Does what I want with minimal setup – JKnit Lite - Knitting Pattern Reader Review

For reference, I knit flat lace (shawls, scarves) from charts in PDF format, mostly purchased on Ravelry. A person who knits fitted items would have different needs. The reviewer who says it only works with patterns from the site is only partially correct. You can import PDFs from anywhere but not create your own patterns in the app's format. I haven't tried using this with any of the patterns from its partner site - this is strictly a review of the capability to use it with your own PDF charts, which is plenty of functionality for my needs. I'm not using it to design my own patterns. I wanted a PDF reader that would display a knitting chart at a readable size and allow me to rotate the page correctly to view the knitting pattern if it was sideways on the page. I wanted a little bar that would show me the row I was on. Simple enough but it took me a while to find an app that would do it. I downloaded the app, emailed myself the PDF of the chart (I had it in iBooks, which is not great for knitting patterns), chose "Open in..." and there is JKnit Lite. Selected it, turned to the page with the pattern, rotated it to the right rotation, pressed Bar Show. There's the highlight bar but it's too big. Press Bar Edit and make it smaller, move it to my current row, press the button again. A double tap above advances one row. A double tap below brings it back. This is just what I wanted and it was so quick to set up. I'm quite pleased.
Review by Oakandsage on JKnit Lite - Knitting Pattern Reader.

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