Your fiber arts inspiration, all in one place.

Follow what you love, without a social network.

LightWatch running on iPhone, showing a masonry gallery of quilting, embroidery, and textile art images from favorite sites

“Words? We don’t need those.”

A personal gallery of everything you follow

LightWatch is an app for following the stuff you like to look at. It ignores the words and shows just images and videos from the blogs, artists, and sites you care about. It’s as simple as that — cool stuff to look at, whenever you check the app.

Most websites already publish updates in a format LightWatch can follow. For sites that don’t, you can create your own feed for personal use, if you’re up for a DIY project.

  • No account required

    You don’t need an account — your data syncs with iCloud.

  • No algorithms

    Posts only appear in the order they were published.

  • No Doomscrolling

    You choose your sources. If you get caught up, go do something else.

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LightWatch running on iPhone, showing a full-screen quilt image
LightWatch running on iPhone, showing fiber arts feeds organized into Knitting, Clothing, and Weaving channels
  • Free: A rich, visual experience

    Browse in a Pinterest-style masonry grid or an Instagram-style vertical gallery.

  • Free: Channel your interests

    Organize by what you care about, not where it comes from.

  • Free: Bookmarks

    See something cool? Bookmark it to save it for later.

  • Free: Follow your favorite sites

    Paste a site’s address and LightWatch finds its feed for you.

  • Rad: Article content

    Pull in full-size images from linked articles when feeds only include thumbnails.

  • Rad: Filters

    Keep icons, buttons, and unwanted posts out of a feed’s gallery.

  • Free: Discover new feeds

    Curated discovery feeds introduce you to new sources of interesting things.

  • Free: Hidden content

    Keep feeds and channels behind Face ID, out of your everyday browsing.

  • Free: Feed sharing

    Send your favorite feeds to other people (so they’ll install the app too 😉).

  • Free: iCloud sync

    Your feeds and bookmarks sync across devices automatically.

  • Free: Parental controls

    Kid mode prevents adding or removing feeds and disables analytics.

  • Free and Rad: Data management

    Import and export feeds as OPML and bookmarks as JSON.

What’s Appening?

This is an app built by one guy, that occasionally wants to let you know when he adds cool stuff.

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