Comparison

Chemical Engineering Formulate vs DWSIM Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Chemical Engineering Formulate

This comprehensive reference tool provides over 1,500 formulas, calculators, and conversion charts for chemical engineering professionals and students. It covers a wide range of topics including heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and reaction kinetics, with support for both US and Metric units.

Highlights
  • 1,500+ formulas and calculators
  • 700+ engineering calculators
  • US/Metric unit toggle
  • Dual-unit display
  • Searchable reference tables
  • Offline functionality
  • Save and share calculations
Features
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CHEMICAL ENGINEER is the essential tool for Chemical Engineers, Process Engineers, and engineering students. With over 1,500 formulas and calculators, this is the most comprehensive chemical engineering reference app available. The app features 700+ engineering calculators across 50 categories, 750 conversion formulas, 8 temperature scales, and 14 reference tables. All formulas support US and Metric (SI) units with one-tap toggle and dual-unit display. CORE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING - Heat Transfer -- LMTD, overall heat transfer, fin efficiency, radiation, Fourier's law - Fluid Mechanics -- Reynolds number, Bernoulli, Darcy-Weisbach, Hagen-Poiseuille - Thermodynamics -- Ideal gas, Clausius-Clapeyron, Antoine equation, compressibility - Reaction Kinetics -- Arrhenius equation, rate laws, CSTR/PFR design, Levenspiel - Mass Transfer -- Fick's law, mass transfer coefficients, wetted wall columns - Distillation -- McCabe-Thiele, Fenske, Underwood, relative volatility - Dimensionless Numbers -- Reynolds, Nusselt, Prandtl, Schmidt, Sherwood, Grashof UNIT OPERATIONS Filtration, Packed/Fluidized Beds, Compressor Sizing, Mixing, Cooling Towers, Membrane Separation, Crystallization, Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Adsorption PROCESS & SAFETY Process Economics, Process Control, Safety Engineering, Corrosion and Electrochemistry ENVIRONMENTAL Air Quality, River/Lake/Soil Pollution, Infiltration and Recharge, Evaporation, Waste ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES Piping (70), Pressure Stress (109), Material Weight (101), Area Formulas (60), Flat Plates, Pumps, Pump Laws, Steam, Crusher, Vapor Separators, Equilibrium, Cogeneration, and more CONVERSIONS BTU, Cubic, Flows, Ft-Lbs, Horsepower, HVAC, Hydraulic, Linear, Liquid, Metric (460), Power, Pressures, Square Measures, Watts, Weights TEMPERATURE SCALES Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, Rankine, Reaumur, Newton, Delisle, Romer 14 REFERENCE TABLES Chemical Properties, Steam Tables, Pipe Schedules, Material Densities, pH Scale, Engineering Constants, Chemical Resistance, Water Quality, Critical Properties, Antoine Constants, Heat Transfer Coefficients, Dimensionless Numbers, Gas Properties, Flammability Limits FEATURES - US/Metric toggle with dual-unit display - Save calculations and favorites - Share and export results - Searchable reference tables - Dark mode interface - Works offline Don't see a formula you need? Email us and we'll include it in the next update.

About

DWSIM Simulator

This app provides a powerful offline chemical process simulation tool. It allows engineers to build complex process models, perform thermodynamic calculations, and analyze various unit operations. Features include a touch-enabled PFD interface, extensive compound databases, and advanced calculation engines.

Highlights
  • Offline chemical process simulation
  • Touch-enabled PFD drawing interface
  • Extensive thermodynamic models
  • Compound database for 1500+ compounds
  • Unit operation models
  • Chemical reaction and reactor support
  • Flowsheet parametric studies
Features
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DWSIM Simulator is a Steady-State Chemical Process Simulator, featuring: - Offline functionality: no need to connect to online databases or servers, DWSIM runs completely offline on your device, wherever you are! - Touch-enabled Process Flowsheet Diagram (PFD) Drawing Interface: A hardware-accelerated PFD interface with touch support allows Chemical Engineers to build complex process models in a few minutes - VLE/VLLE/SVLE/SVLLE calculations using Equation of State and Activity Coefficient models: calculate fluid properties and phase distribution with advanced thermodynamic models - Compound database with extensive data for more than 1500 compounds - Rigorous Thermodynamic Models*: PC-SAFT EOS, GERG-2008 EOS, Peng-Robinson EOS, Soave-Redlich-Kwong EOS, Lee-Kesler-Plöcker, Chao-Seader, Modified UNIFAC (Dortmund), UNIQUAC, NRTL, Wilson, Raoult's Law and IAPWS-IF97 Steam Tables - Thermophysical state (phase) properties: Enthalpy, Entropy, Internal Energy, Gibbs and Helmholtz Free Energies, Compressibility Factor, Isothermal Compressibility, Bulk Modulus, Speed of Sound, Joule-Thomson Expansion Coefficient, Density, Molecular Weight, Heat Capacity, Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity - Single-compound properties: Critical Parameters, Acentric Factor, Chemical formula, Structure formula, CAS Registry Number, Boiling Point Temperature, Vapor Pressure, Heat of Vaporization, Ideal gas Enthalpy, Ideal gas Enthalpy of Formation at 25 C, Ideal Gas Gibbs Free Energy of Formation at 25 C, Ideal Gas Entropy, Heat Capacity Cp, Ideal Gas Heat Capacity, Liquid Heat Capacity, Solid Heat Capacity, Heat Capacity Cv, Liquid Viscosity, Vapor Viscosity, Liquid Thermal Conductivity, Vapor Thermal Conductivity, Solid Density, Liquid Density and Molecular Weight - Comprehensive Unit Operation Model set*, including Mixer, Splitter, Separator, Pump, Compressor, Expander, Heater, Cooler, Valve, Shortcut Column, Heat Exchanger, Component Separator, Pipe Segment, Rigorous Distillation and Absorption Columns, Wind Turbine, Hydroelectric Turbine, Water Electrolyzer and Solar Panel - Support for Chemical Reactions and Reactors*: DWSIM features support for Conversion, Equilibrium and Kinetic reactions, together with their respective Reactor models - Flowsheet Parametric Studies: Use the Sensitivity Analysis Tool to run automated parametric studies on your process model; The Flowsheet Optimizer tool can bring the simulation to an optimum state according to user-defined criteria; The Calculator tool can read flowsheet variables, perform math operations on them and write the results back to the flowsheet - Petroleum Characterization: Bulk C7+ and TBP Distillation Curve characterization tools enable creation of pseudocompounds to simulate petroleum processing facilities - Parallel multicore CPU calculation engine: a fast and reliable flowsheet solver that takes advantage of the multicore CPUs on modern mobile devices - Save/Load XML simulation files on the device or in the cloud - Export simulation results to PDF and Text documents * Some items are available through in-app purchases ABOUT CHEMICAL PROCESS SIMULATION Chemical Process Simulation is a model-based representation of chemical, physical, biological, and other technical processes and unit operations in software. Basic prerequisites are a thorough knowledge of chemical and physical properties of pure components and mixtures, of reactions, and of mathematical models which, in combination, allow the calculation of a process in a computing device. Process simulation software describes processes in flow diagrams where unit operations are positioned and connected by product or educt streams. The software has to solve the mass and energy balance to find a stable operating point. The goal of a process simulation is to find optimal conditions for a process.

Screenshots

Chemical Engineering Formulate4 screens
DWSIM Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: DWSIM Simulator at 57% against Chemical Engineering Formulate's 0%. DWSIM Simulator also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 8 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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

DWSIM Simulator is free to download; Chemical Engineering Formulate costs $4.99 up front. Chemical Engineering Formulate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DWSIM Simulator sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chemical Engineering Formulate ships an update every 8 months, DWSIM Simulator every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chemical Engineering Formulate versus DWSIM Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChemical Engineering FormulateDWSIM Simulator
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating—4.6 (105 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—105 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHistorycentral.comDaniel Medeiros

Customer experience

Chemical Engineering Formulate

Written reviews7 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

DWSIM Simulator

All ratings105 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chemical Engineering Formulate

One-time1
  • Chemistry Pro$3.99
10 purchases

DWSIM Simulator

One-time10
  • User-Defined Unit Set$1.99
  • Flowsheet Utilities Pack$2.99
  • Unit Operations Pack 1$2.99
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  • Unit Operations Pack 2$2.99
  • Unit Operations Pack 3$2.99
  • Activity Coeff. Model Pack$3.99
  • Equation of State Model Pack$3.99
  • Reactor Models Pack$4.99
  • Unlock All Features$9.99
  • Unlock All Features$39.99

Questions

Is Chemical Engineering Formulate free?
Chemical Engineering Formulate costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is DWSIM Simulator free?
DWSIM Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chemical Engineering Formulate or DWSIM Simulator have ads?
Neither Chemical Engineering Formulate nor DWSIM Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chemical Engineering Formulate or DWSIM Simulator?
Chemical Engineering Formulate ships an update every 8 months, and DWSIM Simulator every 6 weeks. Most recently, Chemical Engineering Formulate was updated on October 6, 2026 and DWSIM Simulator on October 1, 2026.

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