Comparison

Electrical Formulator vs Sketch Simply

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

Head to head
About

Electrical Formulator

This app provides a comprehensive suite of electrical calculation tools for design and engineering challenges. It offers hundreds of conversion and calculation options, with features to save, print, and email results. Easily access frequently used and recently accessed formulas, with all calculations automatically stored.

Highlights
  • Over 100 electrical formulas
  • Save and organize results
  • Share results via email or print
  • Access most-used and recent formulas
  • Supports US/Imperial and metric units
  • Formula categories for batteries, motors, transformers, and more
Features
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Electrical Formulator: Your Complete Electrical Calculation Tool Solve virtually any electrical design or engineering challenge with this powerful and intuitive electrical formulator. Packed with hundreds of conversion and calculation tools, it’s the most versatile utility in your toolkit. Save, print, or email your results. Easily access your most-used and recently used formulas. Every calculation is automatically saved for future reference. Key Features: • Instant access to over 100 professional-grade electrical formulas • Save and organize your results for later reference • Share results via email or print • Highlights your most-used and recent formulas • Designed for engineers, electricians, and energy professionals Formula Categories: Batteries • Starting motor amperage • Number of cells required • Estimated operating time Cost Calculations • Appliance and lighting energy usage • Estimated usage hours for new bulbs • Insulation payback period BTU Conversions • BTU to joules, horsepower-hr, watt-hr, calories, foot-pounds, and more Generator Calculations • DC generator output • Generator amperage and efficiency Impedance & Reactance • Resistance & reactance combinations • Inductive and capacitive reactance • Total impedance and parallel circuits Kilowatts & Joules • Convert kilowatts to BTU/hr, joules/sec, lumens, horsepower, megajoules/hr, and more Motors • Single- and three-phase motor calculations • Locked rotor current • Motor kVA (including multiple input scenarios) • Motor speed analysis Ohm’s Law • Calculate for power, voltage, resistance, or current Transformers • Primary and secondary amperage • Full-load transformer sizing (208V, 240V, 480V for single and three-phase) • Impedance and amperage capacity calculations Voltage Drop • Copper and aluminum wire voltage drop (1-phase and 3-phase) • US/Imperial and metric units supported Wiring & Conduits • Wire size and resistance (copper and aluminum) • Wire length calculations • Conduit sizing Whether you’re working in the field, the lab, or the classroom, this electrical formulator helps you work faster, smarter, and with confidence. Users are able to calculate twelve formulas for FREE. Purchase a subscription to calculate additional formulas. All subscriptions come with a 1-WEEK FREE TRIAL and SUPPORT Family Sharing.

About

Sketch Simply

This app serves as a digital sketchbook for brainstorming, rough designs, and idea recording. It offers Apple Pencil support to prevent accidental touch drawings and automatically backs up and synchronizes sketches across devices via iCloud. Archived books can be shared as PDFs or used for collaboration.

Highlights
  • Digital sketchbook for ideas and designs
  • Apple Pencil support for precise drawing
  • Automatic iCloud backup and synchronization
  • Share sketches as images or PDF archives
  • Collaborative whiteboard feature via AirPlay
  • Draw in color with an in-app purchase
Features
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Use SkBk for brainstorming, rough design sketches and making a record of your ideas. Indicate if you're using an Apple Pencil in order to avoid inadvertent hand, wrist, knuckle and finger touch drawings. With an iCloud account, your sketches and archives will be backed up automatically. You'll never lose your sketches. Archived books can be shared to other PDF reading apps. What's more, with an iCloud enabled account, your sketches and archives will be synchronized across all your iCloud enabled devices. Use Air Play on your iPad or iPhone to an Apple TV and use it as a white board for collaboration. Then share the images or pages with the collaborators and others. Features: Draw on a single page in portrait, or on two pages at once in landscape orientation. Undo prior strokes. Defaults automatically to use iCloud to back up and synchronize your sketch book across devices. This preference can be turned off in the Settings app. Indicate the use of the Apple Pencil for improved drawing, eliminating unintended strokes between hand touches and the Apple Pencil touches. Share your drawings as images, your pages¹ with other SkBk users, and your archives¹ with other people or PDF capable apps. Draw in color¹. Menu of options: - Share an image. - Share a page. - Enable Undo. - Draw in color.¹ - Archive a book of sketches as a PDF document. Books can have up to 122 pages. - View and manage book archives. Books can be individually shared¹ and removed from the archives. Footnotes: 1) Selecting color drawing requires a one time in app purchase.

Screenshots

Electrical Formulator4 screens
Sketch Simply4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Electrical Formulator at Free against Sketch Simply's $0.99. Electrical Formulator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Sketch Simply's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 15%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Electrical Formulator is free to download; Sketch Simply costs $0.99 up front. Electrical Formulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sketch Simply sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Electrical Formulator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sketch Simply has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Electrical Formulator's written reviews are positive against 50% of Sketch Simply's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Electrical Formulator ships an update every 2 months, Sketch Simply every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Electrical Formulator versus Sketch Simply: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElectrical FormulatorSketch Simply
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews15.2% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.414.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHistorycentral.comMontiel Mobile, LLC

Customer experience

Electrical Formulator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive15.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative75.8%

Sketch Simply

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Electrical Formulator

One-time1
  • Pro Features For Electrcial$1.99
1 purchases

Sketch Simply

One-time1
  • Draw in Color$2.99

Questions

Is Electrical Formulator free?
Electrical Formulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sketch Simply free?
Sketch Simply costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Electrical Formulator or Sketch Simply?
Electrical Formulator is rated higher. Electrical Formulator averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Sketch Simply averages 3.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Electrical Formulator or Sketch Simply have ads?
Neither Electrical Formulator nor Sketch Simply shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Electrical Formulator or Sketch Simply?
Electrical Formulator ships an update every 2 months, and Sketch Simply every 11 days. Most recently, Electrical Formulator was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sketch Simply on November 2, 2026.

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