Varicon vs Beam statics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Varicon
This platform provides construction contractors with real-time project cost visibility by connecting field and office teams. It's designed to address major cost management issues for site and office staff, based on industry best practices to minimize process changes.
- Cloud-based cost management
- Real-time project cost visibility
- Connects field and office
- Industry best practices
- Minimizes process changes
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Varicon is a cloud-based construction cost management platform connecting the field with the office to provide construction contractor real-time visibility into their project cost. Varicon was co-developed with the construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for site and office based staff. The Varicon platform is based on industry best practices, so change from your existing processes is minimised.
Beam statics
Explore shear forces and bending moments on beams with various loads and support types. Instantly visualize diagrams and analyze beam flexure.
- Interactive beam loading and support setup
- Instant shear force and bending moment diagrams
- User-friendly value reading at any point
- Calculation and display of beam flexed shape
- Identification of maximum flexing points
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The application offers a friendly and simple interactive environment for exploring the distribution of shear forces and bending moments on a beam beam with different externals loadings as well as support types (all combinations of clamped, free & pinned edge). It allows to introduce point loads, distributed loads and moments with magnitudes that can be edited by the user and produces instantly Shear Force (SF) and Bending Moments (BM) diagrams while allowing a user friendly interaction for reading shear and bending values values at any point along the beam. Finally it calculates and displays the beam flexed shape as well as the maximum flexing points.
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Verdict
Varicon and Beam statics both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Varicon's written reviews are positive against 0% of Beam statics's. Varicon also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Varicon is free to download; Beam statics costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Varicon against 5.0 for Beam statics. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Varicon's written reviews are positive against 0% of Beam statics's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Varicon | Beam statics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Varicon Pty Ltd | Konstantinos Ladiellis |
Customer experience
Varicon
Beam statics
In-app purchases
Varicon
No in-app purchases
Beam statics
No in-app purchases
