Pipe Tools vs Pipedata
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipe Tools
This app provides a comprehensive steel pipe handbook with charts for wall thickness, mass, and pressure calculations. It facilitates quick conversions and cost comparisons, allowing users to prepare and send customized PDF quotes for pipe sales.
- Steel pipe charts (wall thickness, mass)
- Unit conversions (feet, meters, pounds, kg)
- Pipe cost comparison
- Customizable PDF quote generation
- Mechanical and hardness conversions
- Pressure and wall thickness calculations
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Steel Pipe Handbook that fits in your pocket! Great tool for pipe purchasers & sales, pipe manufacturers, pipe yard inspectors, fabricators, oilfield workers, NDE techs, truck operators, designers, heat treaters, and engineers. Steel pipe charts for wall thickness (inch & mm) and pipe mass (lb/ft and kg/m) from ASME B36.10M, and casing and tubing charts from API 5CT. Quick conversion between feet, metres, pounds, kilograms, CWT, net tons, metric tonnes for any pipe size. Compare pipe costs $/ft, $/m, $/lb, $/kg, $/CWT, $/net ton, $/metric tonne for your pipe size. Prepare quotes for pipe sales and send customized pdf to your customers - all from within the app! Info from various pipe specs (ASTM, CSA, API, NACE) Mechanical conversions (for strength & toughness). Calculator for Carbon Equivalents. Hardness conversions (scales include HRBW, HRC, HV, HBW, UTS) Calculate the weight of a truckload of steel pipe. Check typical AISI alloy content. Calculate the weight & buoyancy of pipe including its coatings and contents. Calculate ASME B31.3 maximum pressures and minimum wall thicknesses. www.bri-steel.com sales@bri-steel.com 2020 Bri-Steel Manufacturing, All Rights Reserved
Pipedata
Access comprehensive dimensional and weight data for over 160 piping components, including flanges, valves, and fittings. Features design aids like safe spans and pipe flexibility, with a color-coded interface for clarity. Supports metric and imperial units.
- Piping component dimensions and weights
- Flange, valve, and fitting data
- Design aids (safe spans, flexibility)
- Metric and U.S. Customary Units
- Color-coded component interface
- ASME and DIN standard compliance
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Pipedata-Plus has dimensional and weight information for over 160 common piping components with the addition of specialities such as strainers, weldoflanges etc. Pipedata-Plus also includes design aids, safe spans, pipe flexibility, spacing and more. The interface is enhanced with colour coded components and parameters. Based on the latest ASME piping dimensional specifications it shows Metric, U.S. Customary Units and Inch Fractions, NPS and DN pipe sizes and includes audited valve weights, flange and pipe weights and all piping component weights. DATA SUMMARY Pipedata-Plus Provides Piping Dimensions and Weights Flange Dimensions and Weights Valve Dimensions and Weights Piping Fittings Dimensions and Weights for the following components: FLANGES ASME B16.5 Flanges WeldNeck Flange Slip On Flange Blind Flange Threaded Flange SocketWelded FlangeLapped Flange Long Welding Neck Flange ASME B16.47 Series A Flanges WeldNeck Flange Blind Flange ASME B16.47 Series B Flanges WeldNeck Flange Blind Flange Orifice Flanges ASME B16.36 WeldNeck Slip On Threaded API-6A Flanges API Type 6B Weldneck Threaded Flange Blind API Type 6BX WeldNeck Blind and Test Flange Reducing Flanges AMSE B16.5 Threaded Slip-On ASME Compact Flanges Standard Swivel Blind Hub and Clamp Hub-Clamp Pipe Connector Din Flanges EN1092-1:2013 Blind Flange Threaded Flange Flat Flange Weldneck Flange Lapped Flange BS 10 Flanges TABLES A,D,E,F,H,J,K.R & S PIPE FITTINGS ASME B16.9 Butt Welded Pipe Fittings ASME B16.11 Threaded Pipe Fittings ASME B16.11 Socket Welded Pipe Fittings VALVES ASME B16.10 Flanged Valves Gate Valve Globe Valve Ball Valve Control Valve (for layout) Swing Check Wafer Check Wafer type Butterfly Lug type Butterfly Buttwelded Valves Gate Globe Ball Valve Check Threaded Valves Gate Globe Horizontal Check Vertical Check Socketwelded Valves Gate Globe Horizontal Check Vertical Check BLINDS AND SPACERS ASME B16.48 Spectacle Blind Line Spade and Spacer RTJ Male Type Reversible Spade RTJ Male Type Line Spade WELDED BRANCHES Olets ButtWelded Threaded SocketWelded Weldoflange Elbowflange Latroflange Nipoflange Pipets ButtWelded Threaded SocketWelded Flanged GASKETS None Metallic Flat Ring for ASME B16.5 Flanges None Metallic Flat Ring for ASME B16.47 Series A Flanges None Metallic Flat Ring for ASME B16.47 Series B Flanges Spiral wound for ASME B16.5 Flanges Spiral wound for ASME B16.47 Series A Flanges Spiral wound for ASME B16.47 Series B Flanges RTJ soft iron ring type R - ASME B16.21 RTJ soft iron ring type RX - ASME B16.21 RTJ soft iron ring type BX - ASME B16.21 PIPE ASME B16.10M/19M Pipe By Schedule Pipe By Wall Thickness NUTS ISO Nuts UNC Nuts DESIGN AIDS ASME Composite Dimensions Pipe Flexibility Pipe Leg Pipe Loop Safe spans Safe rack spans Safe Pipe Spacing Safe Pipe Spacing with Insulation Safe Flanged Pipe Spacing Safe Flanged Pipe Spacing With Insulation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pipe Tools at Free against Pipedata's $12.99. Pipe Tools also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 3) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). Pipedata's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Pipe Tools is free to download; Pipedata costs $12.99 up front. Pipe Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pipedata asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pipedata holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pipe Tools has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Pipe Tools's written reviews are positive against 90% of Pipedata's.
Pipe Tools ships an update every 12 months, Pipedata weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipe Tools | Pipedata |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (19 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 90.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bri-Steel Manufacturing | John Bennett |
Customer experience
Pipe Tools
Pipedata
In-app purchases
Pipe Tools
- Unlock Pro Tools$0.99
Pipedata
No in-app purchases









