Becky Hansmeyer

Becky Hansmeyer is an independent iOS developer in Nebraska who makes YarnBuddy, an app for tracking knitting and crochet projects, along with Snapthread, a video-merging app, and Scribblet. YarnBuddy lets crafters catalog projects with photos and notes, organize their yarn stash and use row counters, and it is free to download with a paid Pro tier.

Hansmeyer has written candidly on her blog about the economics of indie apps, describing her income as substantial by most standards but modest compared with the best-known developers. A knitter herself, she built YarnBuddy for a niche she knows well, and in 2023 she also opened a yarn store, Wool and Whimsy, in a renovated historic building in Crete, Nebraska.