Beam Go vs Beavermake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beam Go
Transform your photos and drawings into laser-ready designs. Features smart tracing for cutting paths and a live preview to ensure precise engraving placement. You can also create original designs directly within the app.
- Convert photos to laser paths
- Smart edge tracing
- Live camera preview
- In-app drawing canvas
- Generate cutting paths
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Beam Go allows you to easily convert drawings and photo into laser engraving / cutting crafts. Highlights: ・Smart Cutting - Automatically trace the edge of image to generate cutting paths ・Live preview - Use built-in camera to get the precise engraving position. ・Drawing Canvas - Draw and engrave your own design directly with stylus.
Beavermake
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Beavermake is a laser control and processing software that supports controlling laser cutting machines and enabling picture processing. Beavermake can be paired with laser equipment; connect the equipment via Wifi. Beavermake can control the movement of laser equipment in XYZ direction, and can realize reset, auto focus, preview go border, set processing origin and other functions; Beavermake supports obtaining images from camera taking pictures, photo albums, and material libraries; processing the pictures to realize Gcode code generation; Support for pre-processing of image materials, including image brightness, contrast, noise adjustment; support for image zoom in and out, cropping, mirroring; Support selecting image processing mode, line interval, adjusting the speed and power of the product; thus generating Gcode codes with different effects; After generating the processing code, support to send the file transfer to the machine and start executing the processing; support the display of processing preview during the processing;
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Beam Go at 9.0 against Beavermake's 12.0. 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beam Go | Beavermake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Ko | Beaver technology (Shenzhen) Co. , Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Beam Go
No in-app purchases
Beavermake
No in-app purchases







