Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox vs PanelVue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox
This app provides essential calculations for electricians, inspectors, contractors, and engineers. It helps determine conductor sizing, circuit protection, race sizing, and grounding conductor sizes for various electrical equipment and services.
- Conductor sizing
- Voltage drop limitations
- Circuit protection sizing
- Race sizing
- Equipment grounding conductor sizing
- Dwelling-unit service calculations
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Mike Holt, the industry leader in the electrical industry (MikeHolt.com) has created an amazing, practical and useful app for the electrician, inspector, instructor, contractor and engineer. The app contains conductor sizing (including voltage drop limitations), circuit protection sizing, race sizing, equipment grounding conductor sizing for electric heating equipment (commercial and Residential), air-conditioning equipment (commercial and Residential), motors (commercial and Residential), Transformers (commercial) , and dwelling-unit service calculations and sizing.
PanelVue
Create, manage, and maintain electrical equipment with this intuitive builder. Generate shareable and printable schedules, and access a centralized dashboard for all your panel schedules. Streamline your workflow and save valuable time.
- Intuitive panel builder
- Schedule creation
- Printable schedules
- Shareable schedules
- Centralized dashboard
- Equipment management
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PanelVue is the most powerful tool on the market to build, manage, and maintain electrical equipment. Save unnecessary time building panels, and use our intuitive builder to create schedules that can be shared and printed to any printer. PanelVue provides a dashboard to manage all your panel schedules in one convenient location. Try it out today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PanelVue at 5.0 against Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox's 4.6. PanelVue also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox's advantage is ratings volume (197 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PanelVue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox has 197 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox ships an update every 3 months, PanelVue every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox | PanelVue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (197 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 197 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Holt Enterprises | PanelVue |
Customer experience
Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox
PanelVue
Bugs and requests
Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox
Reported bugs
4 issues- Cannot email results
- Video player widescreen exit bug
- Previous calculation data not erased
- App content is outdated
Requested features
6 requests- Increase transformer capacity to 225kva
- Add option to print load calc
- Update to NEC 2020
- Add completion system for video series
- Refine user interface for better usability
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- Add more features, willing to pay extra
PanelVue
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mike Holt's Electrical Toolbox
No in-app purchases
PanelVue
No in-app purchases
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