Features
A pattern is created from an image or drawn from scratch; beads are shown in their real proportions. A word chart is prepared for every row, and the current row is followed while beading.
Key features
- Stitch types
- Loom / square stitch, peyote (even or odd count) and brick stitch; beads in their real proportions, cylinder 11/0 and 10/0, seed beads 15/0, 11/0, 8/0, 6/0.
- Patterns from images
- An image is opened from a file, the clipboard, by drag and drop or with the camera on phones; colours are matched to the Perlino palette with CIELAB / CIEDE2000; colour limit, dithering, leaving the background empty.
- Drawing from scratch
- Pencil, eraser, fill, line, replace colour, selection and flipping; left-right and top-bottom symmetric drawing, repeating a selection, shifting rows and columns.
- Word chart
- The beads to string in each row, in order ("3 × Colour 042, 1 × Colour 001"), following the direction of peyote and brick stitch. Saved and shared as text.
- Beading mode
- The current row is framed on the grid; "Row done" moves to the next one, and the progress percentage is shown.
- Colours and quantities
- Bead count and a gram estimate with waste allowance for each colour, symbol key; your own bead number can be entered for each colour.
- Size
- Finished size in mm / cm / inches; the rows needed for a desired length (e.g. a wrist) are set with one tap.
- PDF chart
- A chart split across A4 pages: a preview on the cover, a page map, a colour key and word chart pages; printing and PNG.
- Samples
- A peyote zigzag bracelet, a floral loom bracelet, brick stitch earrings and a heart motif come with the first launch; they return with "Add samples again".
Devices and browsers
- On phones beading mode shows the current row large; beads are marked with a finger.
- On tablets you draw bead by bead with a pen; zoom with two fingers.
- Saving a file in place is available in Chrome, Edge and Opera; in other browsers the saved file is downloaded.



Keyboard shortcuts
⌘ and ⌥ are used on macOS; Ctrl and Alt on Windows and Linux.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| P E G L R I S | Drawing tools |
| X · Y | Symmetric drawing |
| [ ] | Previous · next colour |
| M | Beading mode |
| , . | Previous · next row |
| Ctrl/⌘ P | PDF chart |
On touch screens the colour picker opens with a long press; beads are drawn and marked with a finger and zoomed with two fingers.
Get Perlino
Try it in the browser without installation; for continued use, purchase the version for macOS, Windows or Linux.