Comparison

Mapei App vs BarChip

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mapei App

Access product catalogs, technical documents, and videos to learn about construction materials. Features calculators for estimating grout and sealant quantities for projects. Stay informed with the latest industry news and updates.

Highlights
  • Product catalogs
  • Technical documentation
  • Instructional videos
  • Grout and sealant calculators
  • Project quantity estimation
  • Industry news magazine
Features
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Learn more about MAPEI from our product catalogs, technical documentation and videos. The grout and sealant calculators allow you to estimate the correct amount of product needed for your project. Stay up to date with Realtà MAPEI magazine, our communication tool with the world of construction and with anyone appreciating and using our products.

About

BarChip

This app simplifies planning for fiber-reinforced concrete structures. It uses custom calculators based on industry design methodologies to determine feasibility, optimal fiber dosages, and thicknesses for various scenarios. It's designed for engineers and construction professionals.

Highlights
  • Fibre reinforced concrete planning
  • Custom calculators based on ACI 544 and TR34 v4
  • Determine optimal fiber dose rates
  • Calculate structural thicknesses
  • Optimised Flooring tool
  • Bending Moment and Shrinkage control scenarios
Features
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BarChip Fibre Concrete The BarChip Fibre Concrete Dashboard makes planning for a fibre reinforced concrete structure easier than it’s ever been. Using custom calculators based on ACI 544 and TR34 v4 design methodologies, you can easily determine the feasibility of BarChip fibre concrete on your project. The BarChip Fibre Concrete Dashboard can help you determine optimal fibre dose rates and thicknesses for Bending Moment and Shrinkage control scenarios and the Optimised Flooring tool will help you determine dosages and thicknesses as well as different loading scenarios for your selected inputs. About BarChip For over 100 years the technology behind concrete reinforcement has barely changed. It’s expensive, labour intensive and suffers from corrosion. We set out to create the next generation of concrete reinforcement, a reinforcement for the 21st century. We created BarChip synthetic fiber concrete reinforcement. Our innovative spirit was critical to the development of our first synthetic fiber. Yes, it prevented concrete cancer, but the overall performance of the fiber reinforced concrete was still not enough to revolutionize the world. We embraced that spirit of innovation and launched the Future Fiber Research and Development Program. Through the Future Fiber Program we conducted thousands of trials and pioneered nearly every development in synthetic fiber concrete reinforcement technology. We improved product performance to levels previously not thought possible and established our synthetic fiber concrete reinforcement as the most reliable and highest performing fiber reinforcement in the world. We believe that long term business relationships can only be sustained by a commitment to provide the highest quality products and services and by adding long term value to our customer’s business. The achievement of these objectives is directly linked to our ability to deliver creative and cost effective solutions to our customers, designed to assist them in meeting their business goals safely. Today our synthetic fiber concrete reinforcement is used across every major construction sector in over 20 countries. Thousands of companies around the world have made the switch to the synthetic fiber reinforcement system.

Screenshots

Mapei App4 screens
BarChip4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mapei App and BarChip are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mapei App against 5.0 for BarChip. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mapei App ships an update every 6 weeks, BarChip every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and June 21, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mapei App versus BarChip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapei AppBarChip
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMapei SpABarchip Australia Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Mapei App

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

BarChip

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mapei App

No in-app purchases

None

BarChip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mapei App free?
Mapei App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BarChip free?
BarChip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mapei App or BarChip?
Mapei App and BarChip are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mapei App or BarChip have ads?
Neither Mapei App nor BarChip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mapei App or BarChip?
Mapei App ships an update every 6 weeks, and BarChip every 5 weeks. Most recently, Mapei App was updated on July 18, 2026 and BarChip on June 21, 2026.

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