# fossasia/kniteditor

Kniteditor

Repository: https://github.com/fossasia/kniteditor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kniteditor
Homepage: https://fossasia.github.io/kniteditor
Language: Inno Setup
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2022-08-06T05:32:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3716, "days_push": 1488, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1517, forks 27 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:57.325330+00:00)

## What it is
Kniteditor is a cross-platform desktop application for editing knitting patterns, built in Python as part of the All Yarns Are Beautiful (AYAB) ecosystem. It provides a graphical editor for creating and modifying knit patterns used with knitting machines.

## Use cases
- edit knitting patterns on my computer
- create patterns for my knitting machine
- open and modify knit pattern files
- design charts for machine knitting
- a GUI editor for AYAB knitting projects

## When to choose
- you machine-knit and need a graphical pattern editor
- you work with AYAB-compatible knitting workflows
- you want a free, cross-platform knitting chart editor

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent updates
- you need hand-knitting pattern formats not supported by AYAB
- you need a web-based or mobile knitting editor

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, editor, file-system
- domain: desktop-applications, cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, python, windows
- tags: knitting, knitting-patterns, ayab, craft-software, pyqt, desktop, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- fossasia/kniteditor (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.325330+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:04.276550+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fossasia/kniteditor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.325330+00:00, sha b75f1b712c79)
  - homepage: https://fossasia.github.io/kniteditor (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:20.921909+00:00, sha 0efdf6d45826)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.