Bead Score: Score Your Weld

Photograph your weld bead. Find out how it would score. Bead Score is a practice tool for welders — trade school students, apprentices, and anyone grinding toward a certification test. Lay a bead, put a coin beside it for scale, take one photo. In seconds you get a scored inspection card: defects circled directly on your weld, a score out of 100, and exactly one thing to change on the next pass. HOW IT WORKS 1. Frame your bead with the on-screen guides and a coin for scale (US quarter, UK 10p, €1, and others - set yours in Settings). 2. The app blocks the shutter if there's glare, blur, or bad light — and tells you exactly how to fix it, so you don't waste a scan. 3. Watch the analysis run: scale reference, bead toes, reinforcement height, undercut, ripple consistency. 4. Get your card. WHAT YOU GET ON THE CARD • Your photo with each defect circled and labeled • A score out of 100 with a band: NEEDS WORK, ACCEPTABLE, or STRONG • Every finding with its location, severity, and how confident we are • A plain-language diagnosis: what your bead is telling us about your travel speed, arc length, and angle • One fix for the next bead. Not a list. One thing. • A share card sized for Stories and TikTok THE WELD LOG The scoring gets you in. The log is what keeps you improving. • Every bead saved with its photo, score, and machine settings • Amperage, voltage, wire feed, gas flow, stickout, rod and diameter, polarity, thickness, joint, position, travel direction • Search and filter — "my best 7018 flat beads," "everything above 80" • Score trend over time, by process and position • My Best Settings: the parameter combinations that historically score highest for you • First bead vs. latest, side by side • Practice streak and a countdown to your test date • Rod inventory and consumable cost tracking Built offline-first — shop floors have terrible signal, so everything saves instantly and syncs later. WHAT WE SUPPORT RIGHT NOW Stick (SMAW), flux-core (FCAW), MIG (GMAW) and TIG (GTAW), on plate, flat and horizontal (1F/1G, 2F/2G). Common consumables: 6010, 6011, 6013, 7018, 7024, E71T-11, ER70S-6, ER308L, ER4043. Pipe and out-of-position work (3G/4G, 5G/6G) are on the waitlist inside the app. We'd rather support a narrow set properly than guess at everything. BEING STRAIGHT WITH YOU Bead Score scores against D1.1-style visual acceptance criteria for practice purposes. It is not an inspection, and it is not a substitute for a Certified Welding Inspector. A photo shows the surface. It cannot show fusion, penetration, internal porosity, slag, or root defects — and those are what fail under load. Internal defects require RT/UT and a qualified inspector. We will not tell you whether a weld is safe to use on a hitch, a lift, a rack, or anything holding weight. Ask a CWI. If the light is bad or the scale reference is missing, we say "can't assess reliably" instead of guessing. A confident wrong call is worse than no call. SUBSCRIPTION Three scored welds a month, free, forever - including the shareable scorecard. One failed cert re-test costs more than a decade of this. Bead Score Pro - unlimited weld scoring: - Monthly: $7.99 per month - Annual: $39.99 per year, with a 7-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://beadscoreapp.com/privacy