Knot Guide: Climbing app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Winkpass Creations, Inc.
First release : 18 Sep 2009
App size: 5.06 Mb
KNOT GUIDE:CLIMBING features colorful, clear photographs to step you through tying 19 of the most common climbing knots. Each knot includes a succint description and easy-to-follow visual steps.
Climbing Knots included:
LOOPS:
Bowline Knot
Double Figure Eight Loop
Figure Eight Follow Through
Yosemite Bowline
Figure Eight Loop
Adjustable Loop
Alpine Butterfly Knot on a Bight
STOPPERS:
Figure Eight Knot
Double Overhand Stopper Knot
Ashleys/Oystermans Stopper Knot
FRICTION HITCHES:
Cow/Girth Hitch,Larks Head
Prusik Hitch
Klemheist Hitch
Bachmann Hitch
Clove Hitch
Rolling Hitch
Blakes Hitch
BENDS:
Double Fishermans Knot
Rosendahl/Zeppelin Bend
Adjustable Bend
FEATURES:
* Clear, colorful photographs
* Browse or search by knot name
* Swipe the images to navigate through the visual steps
* Knot Lingo screen covers basic terms for knot tying
* Favorites screen allows you to save your favorite knots for easy access
KNOT GUIDE:CLIMBING is brought to you by the developers of KNOT GUIDE. For these climbing knots plus 56 additional knots (fishing, sailing, decorative, outdoor activities, household chores), please see KNOT GUIDE, also in the App Store.
What Knot Guide users have to say:
"Best of its kind!"
"Great app. Easily followed, simple illustrations. Super reference."
"This has the smoothest, most intuitive interface I have seen in any app thus far."
Latest reviews of Knot Guide: Climbing app for iPhone and iPad
Just like the bigger brother Knot Guide, Winkpass has done a beautiful job with this. I have the main Knot Guide (2 or 3 dollars more), and wanted a short list of safest knots for occasional solid connections. I do not climb, but I am what might be called a "knot nut" (more than 10 knot books in my library), and this is a really good, easy to access presentation of the knots appearance and how to tie it, with a short description of the uses and peculiarities of each knot youre looking at. Also, Winkpass keeps improving the main Knot Guide, adding more and different knots, with good pictures and diagrams, and I assume they will be equally good with this app, with the proviso that any knots will be appropriate for climbing. I have zero association with Winkpass-Im just impressed with the interface, photos, and clean layout, and I wrote this to tell other knot nuts and tiers about a really nice product. Both this and the big brother Knot Guide are well worth even a lot more. Well Done!
While I appreciate the ease of use and step by step pictures which seem more practical than other Knot guides which use a video format, I was disappointed that this guide did not provide a lesson on the munter hitch a very commonly used belay knot. Hopefully, it will appear in future program development...otherwise, a decent app