Comparison

BarChip vs Design Pine Span App

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

Head to head
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.

About

Design Pine Span App

Features
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Design Pine is the original pre primed H3 LOSP treated pine timber for exterior use. We now bring you a Span App for the timber carpenters and builders love to use. The Design Pine Span App will help you specify/select the correct timber size and strength grade for Rafters, Roof Beams, Ridge Beams, Bearers, Joists or Posts for your next project. Design Pine F7, GL8 and GL10 is manufactured to AS 5068-2006: Timber – Finger Joints in Structural Products and AS/NZS 1328-1996: Glued Laminated structural timber. Design loads and deflection criteria have been determined from AS/NZS 1170.0:2002, AS/NZS 1170.1:2002 Structural Design Actions and AS4055-2021 Wind loads for housing. And the following Australian Standards for design: AS 1720.1-2010 Timber Structures - Design Methods and AS 1720.3-2016 Timber Structures – Design criteria for timber framed residential buildings.

Screenshots

BarChip4 screens
Design Pine Span App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Design Pine Span App at 11.0 against BarChip's 14.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarChip ships an update every 5 weeks, Design Pine Span App every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 21, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BarChip versus Design Pine Span App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarChipDesign Pine Span App
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBarchip Australia Pty LtdSilvertrees Web Development Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

None

BarChip

No in-app purchases

None

Design Pine Span App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarChip free?
BarChip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Design Pine Span App free?
Design Pine Span App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BarChip or Design Pine Span App have ads?
Neither BarChip nor Design Pine Span App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BarChip or Design Pine Span App?
BarChip ships an update every 5 weeks, and Design Pine Span App every 2 months. Most recently, BarChip was updated on June 21, 2026 and Design Pine Span App on September 18, 2026.

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