Loomerly: Loom, peyote & brick

I do a lot of peyote pattern creations and this app has been wonderfully helpful in helping me create original designs. My only complaint is that some Miyuki Delica colors that I own are not in the app, so I have to find “work arounds” to add my colors.

I’ve used probably all the beading software programs and this is definitely the best and the most up-to-date. It’s also not run by a Russian company that pretends to have a US address. My big issues are that although you can exchange one color for another, you can’t switch two colors with each other. Also, they don’t have Toho Aiko, which is a pretty big problem for me because I send a number of clients the design for approval and create about 90% in Toho Aiko. Some of the Toho colors are pretty far off from the actual color. In addition to getting those Aiko colors, it would be nice to be able to just have a CMYK option to create your own color. There’s a few bugs when you export it, especially around the line breaks. I spend almost an hour in the time to export it in PDF, then do a find and replace in the word chart because I like changing it to my own shorthand for the colors as well as giving them an actual color in that chart. Plus, I like to add cell borders around each row. These are not insurmountable issues, and it really is a nice piece of software. I think the other programs had many of the same problems and were incredibly unstable, although the exporting process was better. I have no hesitancy recommending loomerly wholeheartedly to anyone looking.