Cube Calc vs Scratch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cube Calc
This app helps builders and site owners calculate material volume, weight, and cost for projects. It generates shopping lists, tracks expenses, and identifies overspending. Supports various materials like wood and metal, with options for multiple project lists.
- Calculate cubic capacity
- Estimate material weight
- Track material costs
- Generate shopping lists
- Manage multiple project lists
- Identify overspending
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Are you a builder, foreman, or just a good owner of the site and you need a convenient tool for calculating the material, and further accounting for its purchases? Tired of sheets and pencils that are forgotten or lost at the most inopportune moment? Cube Calc is a just for you! Cube Calc can count cubes, weight, and their cost in materials such as wood (bar, board, round) of different species and metal (rectangular pipe). It will help you create a shopping list, with the final weight and amount, so that you don’t forget a single item in the store or at the base, while immediately understanding what type of transport will be needed for delivery. If you are a professional builder or foreman, you will appreciate the opportunity to create several lists to take into account the purchase of material for several objects. Each list, which can have its own name, will allow you to maintain the planned volume, weight and cost of the material, and after purchase, you will allow you to see the final amount spent on the object. The actual estimate higher than planned? Items for which the overexpense won’t go unnoticed, the program will select them in the list and show the amount of overexpendit. Features of the free version: ⋅ Convenient calculator for calculating the cubic capacity of timber and board made of pine, and its cost. ⋅ Ability to count both in millimeters and centimeters Additional features in the full version: ⋅ Ability to count not only the cubic capacity of the board and timber, but also the cubic capacity of the round log, as well as the round pipe, rectangular pipe, and armature. ⋅ Calculation of the weight of each item and the entire order as a whole ⋅ Choice of wood type ⋅ Calculation based on the price per unit, cube, linear meter and ton ⋅ Ability to add a calculation to the shopping list with the possibility of individual naming ⋅ Infinite number of lists ⋅ Search through lists and calculations in a list ⋅ Each list/calculation can be have its own name ⋅ Total amount, cubature and weight for each list ⋅ Lists of already purchased material automatically formed for each purchase list with overexpenditure, in case of an increase in the cost of a product at the time of purchase
Scratch
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Scratch turns your iPad and Apple Pencil into the fastest notebook you own. Open the app, put Pencil to page, and start writing. No menus, no setup, no friction. HANDWRITTEN NOTES • Buttery-smooth Apple Pencil inking built on Apple's native PencilKit, for the low-latency feel you expect from paper. • Clean, distraction-free A4 dotted pages that scroll vertically and add themselves as you go, so there's always fresh space ahead. • A premium set of tools that stay out of your way: pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso select, custom colors, and adjustable widths. • Pencil writes, finger scrolls and zooms, exactly the way it should work. PDF MARKUP • Import any PDF from Files and annotate right on top with your Pencil. • Select text and highlight it in five colors, Google-Books style. • Your original PDF is always preserved. Annotations live on their own layer. STAY ORGANIZED • A clean sidebar library of folders that hold both notes and PDFs together. • Rename, move, and organize with a tap. • A thumbnail grid so you can see everything at a glance. BUILD THE HABIT • A Home dashboard with your writing streak, an orange contribution grid, and quick stats. • Jump straight back into your recent work. YOURS, EVERYWHERE • Sign in with Apple or Google and your notes and PDFs sync securely to the cloud. • Pick up on your iPhone with the Scratch companion to read and review on the go. • Full control of your data. Delete any note, or your entire account, right from the app. CONNECTORS, COMING SOON • We're building connectors so Scratch plugs into the tools you already use. Handwrite and mark up today, connect your workflow soon. Beautiful dark interface. Built entirely with native Apple frameworks for speed and smoothness. No clutter, no distractions. Just you and the page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scratch at none against Cube Calc's 1. Cube Calc's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Cube Calc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scratch asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Cube Calc | Scratch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aleksey Moryakov | Manav Shah |
In-app purchases
Cube Calc
- Full version$1.99
Scratch
No in-app purchases









