Bend Designer vs Quot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bend Designer
Design custom tubes by adding bends and adjusting dimensions. The app's output is used with a specific bending machine to fabricate the designed tube. It is intended for use with H55 ACR Type-L bendable copper tubing.
- Dynamic tube design
- Add bends and change dimensions
- Generate output for bending machine
- Designed for specific hardware
- Supports H55 ACR Type-L copper tubing
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Dynamically design tubes by adding bends and changing dimensions to create exactly what you need. Then use the apps output along with the Reftekk Digi-Bender to create the tube you designed. This app is designed to be used with the Reftekk Digi-Bender. Do not use it with any other bender. This app is designed to be used with H55 ACR Type-L bendable copper tubing. Do not use any other tubing.
Quot
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Quot makes the electroplating quote for you. Built for plating workshops, Quot calculates the cost of a treatment in seconds from your shop's real data: daily metal prices, part surface area, thickness in microns and the efficiency of your baths. No more manual maths or spreadsheets. What you can do with Quot: - Live metal prices (gold, silver, rhodium, platinum, palladium, nickel and more) with the day's change. - Build multi-layer quotes (for example nickel underneath and gold on top) and generate a professional PDF with your logo. - Send the quote to your customer with a link: they open it, accept or reject it, and you get a notification. - Manage customers and history, duplicate a quote and recalculate it at today's prices. - Bath simulator: time, amperes and current density for your batch. - Dashboard with quotes to follow up and your workload at a glance. Available in Italian, English, German, French and Spanish. Quot is a professional tool for electroplating workshops: an account is required to sign in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Quot at daily against Bend Designer's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Bend Designer ships an update every 2 months, Quot daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bend Designer | Quot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reftekk, Inc. | Thomas Donzella |
In-app purchases
Bend Designer
No in-app purchases
Quot
No in-app purchases
