Loomwork: Nonogram Puzzles

New: Patches and Buttons, two more crafts with 192 hand-made pictures. Thanksgiving runs through November, and a Christmas advent calendar opens 1 December.

Nonograms the way they should feel: calm, fair and beautiful. Now with two more crafts, Patches and Buttons.

EVERY PUZZLE CAN BE SOLVED BY LOGIC Fill the grid from the number clues to reveal a hidden picture. Each Loomwork puzzle has exactly one solution, and a solver checks that it can be reached by logic alone. No guessing, no 50/50s.

NO ADS. NO LIVES. NO NAGS. No banners, no videos, no energy to wait out. A wrong mark never costs you anything. Choose Gentle (a wrong mark shows in soft red at once) or Classic (no checking until the grid is complete, as on paper).

PICTURES THAT WEAVE INTO CLOTH Tapestry holds over 280 original pixel pictures, from 5×5 up to 40×40 showpieces, among them a Floating World of Japan. Finish a picture and it weaves into its full-colour textile and joins your Loom gallery.

TWO MORE CRAFTS: PATCHES AND BUTTONS

• Patches, a Shikaku puzzle: cut the board into rectangles. Each holds one number, and that number is its area. Finish, and they piece a quilt picture.
• Buttons, a Star Battle puzzle: sew one button in each row, column and patch. No two buttons touch, not even at a corner. Finish, and they make an appliqué picture. Each has a lesson, Endless from Easy to Expert, hints that explain and a place in your Loom: 20 packs and 192 hand-made pictures in all.

SEASONAL PACKS Seasonal packs arrive through the year, each free to everyone in its season, with a new picture each day. Weave a whole pack in its season and it becomes a keepsake quilt in your Loom.

PUZZLES WITH COLOURED CLUES In the colour packs, each clue number is coloured like its run. Runs of different colours can touch, and runs of the same colour need a gap, so colour becomes part of the logic. The free First Colours pack teaches the rules.

BIG PUZZLES THAT FEEL GOOD ON A PHONE

• Pinch to zoom, or zoom one-handed: double-tap beside the grid and drag down or up
• Pan with two fingers, or with one finger on the clues when zoomed in
• Drag to fill a run, locked to its row or column
• A magnifying lens shows the cells under your finger on big grids
• Clue numbers cross themselves out, and finished lines cross off their empty cells
• Lock finished lines so a stray tap can't change them
• Soft, woven sounds and gentle haptics, each with its own switch

ON IPAD TOO Play in any orientation, in Split View, Slide Over or Stage Manager.

HELP THAT TEACHES Stuck? A hint finds the next deduction and explains it in plain words. Hints and undo are unlimited (puzzles solved with hints are marked as assisted).

ENDLESS AND DAILY

• Endless: generated puzzles from 10×10 to 50×50, graded Easy to Expert, each a named textile pattern such as Herringbone, Tartan or Fair Isle, in one colour or in colour
• The Sampler: a swatch book with a place for every Endless look at every grade
• A daily puzzle, the same for everyone, with a streak, a calendar of the pictures you've woven and a card to share
• A daily reminder at a time you choose (off until you turn it on)
• A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with today's puzzle and your streak
• iCloud sync keeps your pictures, bests and streak in step across your devices
• Times, bests and your solve history in Stats

LOOKS THE PART Linen light theme and Indigo Night dark theme, both free, following your phone. Text scales with your system text size.

LOOMWORK PLUS (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) Every picture pack and colour pack, every Patches and Buttons pack, every seasonal pack after its season, bigger Endless puzzles in every craft, the Rosewater, Saffron and Graphite themes, your full solve history and the daily archive. The free game includes First Threads, Garden, Kitchen and First Colours, the first two packs of Patches and of Buttons, each seasonal pack in its season, the daily, Endless up to 15×15 (Patches up to 10×10, Buttons up to 8×8), and every control and assist.

Loomwork collects no data and works fully offline. iCloud sync uses your own iCloud account, not ours, and you can turn it off in Settings.