QuiltRBuddy
A friendly cross-platform quilting companion.
QuiltRBuddy is built for older quilters with tired eyes and beginners who love sewing but get frustrated by complicated tech. Big buttons, plain English, and a calm baby-blue palette — no hamburger menus, no icons-only mystery boxes, no surprise online sync.
What it does
- Block Builder — design a single block with any rows × cols, paint cells with fabric swatches, slice cells diagonally for half-square triangles, merge cells when seams disappear, and save it to a personal library.
- Quilt Layout — arrange your blocks into rows, duplicate or reverse rows, slide blocks around, see the whole quilt at a glance.
- 3D View — preview the finished quilt as a draped 3D rendering. Pinch, drag, and roll with the mouse.
- Cut List & Yardage — turns a finished design into a printable cut list with fraction-of-a-yard yardage estimates, contingency margin, and a combined-quilt preview suitable for the fabric store.
- Bed Math — bidirectional bed-size ↔ block-count math (tell it your bed and how many blocks you have, it tells you the finished dimensions; or tell it the dimensions and it tells you how many blocks).
- Color Palette — curated default palette (Kona-equivalent solids), per-project custom palettes, fabric-catalog import (ZIP) with manufacturer / collection / fabric hierarchy.
Designed for people, not platforms
- Offline-first. Every core feature works without a network connection.
- Plain-English microcopy — like a friendly quilting buddy, not a technical app.
- Touch targets ≥ 60dp so older fingers and trembly hands are forgiven.
- 20pt body text baseline, high contrast against soft backgrounds.
- Standard Windows keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+=/−/0 for zoom) so it doesn’t feel foreign.
Community (opt-in)
Off by default. When turned on, it adds:
- A personal profile (avatar, display name, optional bio).
- Milestone badges that earn themselves as you work.
- A challenge picker with curated quilting goals (Block Sprint, Palette Pioneer, Quilt Layout Challenge…).
- A friendly Compose Post flow with automatic content moderation.
- A moderation queue for the team.
Nothing leaves your machine unless you explicitly publish it. Project files stay where you saved them in your own folders.
Built by
Sierra Digital Forge LLC, a Nevada studio. QuiltRBuddy is the first product from the studio. See the legal documents for what the app does and doesn’t do with your data.
Legal & privacy
The legal pages below describe what QuiltRBuddy does and doesn't do with your data. They are the public, hosted versions linked from the Play Store listing and from inside the app.