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Real Knots app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: 超 张
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 18 Apr 2014
App size: 62.21 Mb

The app will be your personal assistant in the complex craft of knot tying. You don’t have to worry if you can keep all the necessary knots in your mind. We have collected over 90 essential knots in one app to help you learn new knots or to refresh your memory of the ones you already know. Once you have downloaded the app they will be at hand in your mobile device wherever you are – fishing at a lake, climbing a mountain or just staying home with your everyday household chores. Animated step-by-step instructions,rotate it 360 degrees from any angle, won’t let you get confused, and a straight-forward classification system will help you find the required knot quickly and effortlessly. Save your nerves and good mood, you will need them for something else!

Product Features and Functions:
- 3D kont display and rotate 360 degrees;
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (Universal App)
- High resolution graphics for retina displays
- Learn to tie 94 unique knots
- Watch knots tie themselves and pause or adjust the speed of the animation at any time
- Rotate knots in 360 degree, 3D views to study them from any angle
- pinch to Zoom in and Zoom out on a knot to see it in greater detail
- Interact with the knot on screen via multi-touch gestures such as pinch-to-zoom and pan to tie/untie.
- Browse knots by category or search by name
- Completely self contained -- No internet required!
- 100% localized for a dozen languages: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish!

Each 3D knot has detailed reference information including tying pointers, strength and reliability, structural info, and Ashley reference numbers (ABoK) and occasionally the history behind the knot.

The knots are arranged by both Category (Boating, Climbing, Fishing, Scouting, etc) and Type (Bend, Loop, Stopper, etc). If you find a knot you like or want to come back to later, add it to your Favorites list for quick reference.

The Knots are:Adjustable Grip Hitch,Albright Special,Alpine Butterfly,Anchor Hitch,Arbor Knot,Ashley Stopper Knot,Ashleys Bend,Back Splice,Blakes Hitch,Blood Knot,Bow Knot,Bowline,Bowline on a Bight,Buntline Hitch,Carrick Bend,Cats Paw,Cleat Hitch,Clinch Knot (Improved),Clove Hitch,Constrictor Knot,Cow Hitch,Cowboy Bowline,Crown Knot,Diagonal Lashing,Double Bight Figure Eight,Double Bowline,Double Coin Knot,Double Figure Eight,Double Fishermans Knot,Double Overhand Knot,Double Sheet Bend,Figure 8 Follow Thru,Figure Eight,Figure Eight Bend,Figure Eight Loop,Firemans Chair,Fishermans Eye,Fishermans Knot,Granny Knot,Grief Knot,Half Hitch,Handcuff Knot,Highwaymans Hitch,Icicle Hitch,In-Line Figure 8 Loop,Jar Sling Knot,Jury Mast Knot,Lanyard Hitch,Lariat Loop,Loop Knot,Monkeys Fist,Mooring Hitch,Munter Hitch,Overhand Knot,Palomar Knot,Perfection Loop,Prusik,Rapala Knot,Rolling Hitch,Round Lashing,Round Turn & 2 Half Hitches,Running (Slip) Knot,Running Bowline,Sailors Cross,San Diego Jam,Shear Lashing,Sheepshank,Sheet Bend,Single Rope Braid,Square (Reef) Knot,Square Lashing,Stevedores Knot,Surgeons Knot,Surgeons Loop,Taut Line Hitch,Tensionless Hitch,Thief Knot,Tillers Hitch,Timber Hitch,Transom Knot,Trefoil Knot,Trilene Knot,Truckers Hitch,True Lovers Knot,Turks Head (Mat),Turks Head (Woggle),Two Half Hitches,Uni Knot,Uni-to-Uni Knot,Water Bowline,Water Knot,Yosemite Bowline,Yucatan Knot,Zeppelin Bend