Comparison

Mechanical Engineering Toolkit vs Ampacity Utilities

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

Head to head
About

Mechanical Engineering Toolkit

This utility app provides a comprehensive collection of engineering equations and formulas for students and professionals. Easily perform calculations by selecting a formula and inputting variables, with detailed instructions and reference material included.

Highlights
  • Engineering equations and formulas
  • Mechanics of Material calculations
  • Theory of Elasticity formulas
  • Composite Material properties
  • Reference material
  • Variable input for calculations
Features
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Mechanical Engineering Toolkit is a professional engineering calculator for students, researchers, and practicing engineers. Choose a formula, enter your variables, and get instant results — with calculation steps, formulas, diagrams, and unit conversions shown along the way. Switch between SI and Imperial units anytime, save favorites, and find the right tool fast with recommendations by major. Save your inputs as named projects, and export any result as text, image, CSV or PDF. Categories and tools: Mechanics of Material • Moments of inertia of plane areas • Force-displacement relation of a bar • Torsion formula and angle of twist • Flexure formula of a beam • Transverse shear stress • Deflections and slopes of cantilever and simple beams • Plane stress transformation and Mohr's circle • Principal stresses and planes • Spherical shell and thin-walled pressure vessel stresses • Buckling load of a column • Thermal deformation and stress • Combined loading • Bolted / riveted joints • Fatigue safety factor • Shaft power and torque Statics • Centroid of an area • Resultant of a force system • Beam reactions • 2D truss analysis Machine Design • Helical compression springs • Spur gear geometry and stresses • Shaft fatigue design (DE-Goodman) • Bearing L10 life • Belt and chain drives • Bolt preload / torque-tension • Fillet weld strength • Press / shrink-fit interference • Shaft critical speed (Dunkerley) • Beam natural frequency (five end conditions) • Torsional natural frequency (one or two rotors) Fluids & Thermal • Reynolds number and flow regime • Pipe pressure drop (Darcy-Weisbach with Colebrook) • Pump and fan power • Composite wall conduction • Fin efficiency • Heat exchanger sizing by LMTD Theory of Elasticity • Constitutive relation of linear elastic material • Stress/strain of linear elastic material Composite Material • Lamina and laminate stress/strain • Lamina engineering constants • Laminate plane and 3D properties • Rule of mixtures • Failure criteria (Tsai-Hill, Tsai-Wu) Reference Tables • Drill & tap chart (metric and imperial thread series) • ISO 286 fits & tolerances • Standard sections (AISC W, IPE, HEB) • Unit converter No account required. Works offline. Available in English, Chinese, German, French, and Japanese.

About

Ampacity Utilities

Features
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Ampacity Utilities provides innovative metering and utility management solutions for electricity, water and gas. Through Ampacity Utilities app, users can monitor more than one household and can provide a friendly alias for the various houses being monitored. The prepaid purchases function allows users to buy tokens online as well pay for their resources from anywhere is the world. History of previous purchases is stored, giving the user insight into their purchasing patterns which is depicted on a graph.

Screenshots

Mechanical Engineering Toolkit4 screens
Ampacity Utilities4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ampacity Utilities at none against Mechanical Engineering Toolkit's 1. Ampacity Utilities also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mechanical Engineering Toolkit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ampacity Utilities asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mechanical Engineering Toolkit versus Ampacity Utilities: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMechanical Engineering ToolkitAmpacity Utilities
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB1 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAPPS BAY LIMITEDOntec Systems (PTY) Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mechanical Engineering Toolkit

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

Ampacity Utilities

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mechanical Engineering Toolkit free?
Mechanical Engineering Toolkit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ampacity Utilities free?
Ampacity Utilities is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mechanical Engineering Toolkit or Ampacity Utilities have ads?
Mechanical Engineering Toolkit shows ads; Ampacity Utilities does not.

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