Pipe Tools vs Weight calculator for metals
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
Weight calculator for metals
Easily calculate the mass, length, and price of various metal shapes. Supports custom metals and multiple units for length and weight. Offers both length and weight calculation modes for flexibility.
- Calculate mass, length, and price
- Supports custom metals
- Multiple length and weight units
- Length and weight calculation modes
- Diagrams for shape dimensions
- Includes many common metal shapes
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Weight Calculator For Metals is a metal weight calculator that lets you calculate the mass or length and price of many different shapes of metals. You can choose between many metals or add your own. The app can also calculate the total weight if you enter the quantity and it can also calculate the total price if you also enter the price per unit of weight. You can choose between millimeter, centimeter, meter, inch or feet for lengths and you can choose between gram, kilogram and imperial pounds for weight. Each shape has a clear diagram that shows the lengths you have to enter. You can choose between the length or the weight mode. The length mode calculates the weight and requires you to know all lengths of the shape. The weight mode lets you calculate the length of the shape by entering all other lengths and the weight. The following shapes are available in the free version: square bar, bar, round bar, square tubing, pipe, ellipse, T bar, beam, channel, angle, hexagonal bar and sheet. You can upgrade to the pro version to remove the ads and get the following shapes: half circle, half ellipse, triangle, mesh, S bar, U bar, Z bar, V bar, F bar, E bar.
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Verdict
Pipe Tools and Weight calculator for metals both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of Pipe Tools's written reviews are positive against 39% of Weight calculator for metals's. Pipe Tools also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Weight calculator for metals's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 36 months) and ratings volume (263 vs 20). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Pipe Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Weight calculator for metals sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Pipe Tools against 4.1 for Weight calculator for metals. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weight calculator for metals has 263 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Pipe Tools's written reviews are positive against 39% of Weight calculator for metals's.
Pipe Tools ships an update every 36 months, Weight calculator for metals every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipe Tools | Weight calculator for metals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (20 ratings) — better | 4.1 (263 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 39.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 263 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bri-Steel Manufacturing | Electronial |
Customer experience
Pipe Tools
Weight calculator for metals
Bugs and requests
Pipe Tools
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Weight calculator for metals
Reported bugs
53 issues- Metal type section is blank
- App does not support imperial measurements
- App is not working
- Metal description removed after purchase
- App blacks out in dark mode
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- App doesn't work properly
- Selecting types are not seen
- Incorrect weight calculation for steel sheet
- All metal types are blacked out
- Black screen appearing sometimes
- App not working properly
- Pro version not working after payment
- App is not showing materials for selection
- Parameters (material, units, density) cannot be seen
- Material list goes blank or black in night shift mode
- Impossible to pick up any material on iPhone
- All calculations show wrong
- List of metals not visible in iOS 17
- Material is not displayed
- Density is not given for material grade
- Unable to add or view material list in pro version
- App not working on iPhone 14 Pro even after purchase
- App not supporting on iOS for months
- Drop down list for density calculations not visible
- Metal type issues not showing up
- Cannot hide the keyboard
- Wrong calculation for square tube
- Fonts in 'type of metal' not visible in dark mode on iPhone
- Units of measure stop in arbitrary places
- Cannot scroll down far enough due to keyboard or screen not scrolling
- Calculations are incorrect
- Units scrolling not working
- App problem
- Facing a problem for the last couple of days
- Keyboard won't go away once it's up
- App not working properly after updating to iOS 16
- Numeric pad cannot be hidden
- I Beams structure is not correct
- Difficult to see result as it's displayed under the type pad
- Numeric keyboard covers the result
- Won't calculate dimensions
- No return or done options in keyboard
- Adds popup prevent use of app
- Number pad not going back after calculations
- Keypad won't minimize
- Always shows wrong weight
- Keypad needs to be able to move out of the way
- Cannot hide keyboard when input is finished
- Default measurements unit needs to be set every time
- Continually resets all fields to default (metric) settings
- Settings change in unexpected ways
- Calculations are wrong
- Sheet weight is missing
Requested features
15 requests- Option for imperial measurements
- Fix iOS issue for metal selection
- Add density for material grades
- Allow adding and viewing material list in pro version
- Fix bug for new iOS and iPhone 14 Pro
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- Fix bug for keyboard not hiding
- Fix bug for numeric pad not hiding
- Fix bug for keyboard not minimizing
- Option to set default measurement unit
- Remember last selected units
- Allow keyboard to hide
- Improve I Beams structure calculation
- Make keyboard hideable
- Add 'Done' or 'Return' option on keyboard
- Add option to exclude price, only show weight
In-app purchases
Pipe Tools
- Unlock Pro Tools$0.99
Weight calculator for metals
- Pro version$0.99
Questions
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