Bead Bench is the Android pattern app for eleven bead crafts, and version 1.0.9 is in closed testing on Google Play ahead of the public release. Here's the update written the way we'd want to read it — no changelog-ese.
Most pattern software draws every craft on one square grid. Bead Bench doesn't: peyote is drawn on offset columns, brick stitch and kumihimo on offset rows, herringbone as columns of leaning pairs, right-angle weave in units of four, and bead crochet as a half-bead spiral. The chart in your hand matches the work on the table — which is the whole difference between a pattern you can use and a pretty picture.
Loom · peyote (including kandi cuffs on pony beads) · brick stitch with fringe · square stitch · herringbone · right-angle weave · bezels around a rivoli · kumihimo beaded or plain · bead crochet ropes · bead cross-stitch on Aida · fuse beads on pegboards. Every craft is free, with 288 worked example patterns — the same on every device, with no account anywhere.
Put several projects on the Shopping tab and the beads they share add up into a single list, each color with its shop code and the grams to buy — counts against Miyuki Delica, Miyuki and Toho rounds, Hama numbers and Perler color names, with pegboard counts, thread and cord lengths and end-cap sizes. Tick things off as you buy.
Charts print at true bead size or double, on Letter or A4, with row numbers, a color key with counts, and 1 in / 5 cm check bars so you can verify the printer itself. Long charts continue across pages; a fuse-bead chart prints one pegboard to a page.
The app is free and your projects stay on the device. Pro is a one-time purchase ($7.99; $4.99 for the first sixty days after launch) that unlocks printing, hands-free, photo-to-pattern, the text tool, mirror drawing, no-attribution sharing and the 74-pattern Designer collection. Most Pro tools work free a few times first, so you can try them on a real project. No subscriptions, no ads, no tracking.
Closed testing runs while the public release is prepared — the waitlist is the way to hear the moment the doors open, and the full write-up (with every statement sourced) lives on the app page.