Pipe Tools vs Lateral Pipe Calculator
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
Lateral Pipe Calculator
This tool assists pipefitters, welders, and fabricators with complex piping calculations for fishmouth and lateral connections. It provides outputs in both imperial and metric units, as fractions or decimals, and supports various ordinate line calculations for template creation.
- Imperial or Metric calculations
- Fractional and Decimal outputs
- 8, 16, 32, or 64 Ordinate lines
- Concentric and Eccentric fit up
- Saddle In and Saddle on fit up
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The Lateral Pipe Calculator is designed for Pipefitter/ welders/fabricators to eliminate the time it takes to calculate Advanced piping calculations for "Fishmouth and Lateral" Connections. Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/PipefitterCalculator - Imperial or Metric calculations - Outputs values as fractions - Outputs values as Decimal - Choose to calculate 8, 16, 32, or 64 Ordinate lines for making templates - Calculate Concentric and Eccentric fit up - Values for Saddle In and Saddle on fit up - Calculates up to 64 ordinate lines for large pipe - Straight up awesome tool. Message me using the Feedback screen inside the app if you have any questions on how to use the ordinate values generated. I will be more than happy to help. Find Me on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/PipeCalculator Your feedback is always welcome on this app, as we are always improving its functionality. if for any reason your device has an issue on install or functionality please let us know. We will fix it. We want everyone to be able to utilize this tool at work to improve their productivity and value as a pipefitter/Fabricator. http://www.pipefittercalculator.com/lmf/contact Contact us either by: Phone: 207-200-1556 Text: 207-200-1556 email:easypipefitter@gmail.com Web: www.pipefittercalculator.com (our webpage has a comment form. Enter your info and comments there as well as request to receive updates on existing and new products to improve your workflow) We have unveiled out referral program. Click the link to read more about it. http://www.pipefittercalculator.com/referral.php Please note we make no claim or responsibility in the values generated and the user takes sole responsibility when using this application. Thank you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pipe Tools at Free against Lateral Pipe Calculator's $4.99. Pipe Tools also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 6). Lateral Pipe Calculator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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; Lateral Pipe Calculator costs $4.99 up front. Pipe Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lateral Pipe Calculator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lateral Pipe Calculator holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Pipe Tools's written reviews are positive against 75% of Lateral Pipe Calculator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pipe Tools ships an update every 12 months, Lateral Pipe Calculator every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipe Tools | Lateral Pipe Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (19 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #82 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 9.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bri-Steel Manufacturing | LMF.Services |
Customer experience
Pipe Tools
Lateral Pipe Calculator
In-app purchases
Pipe Tools
- Unlock Pro Tools$0.99
Lateral Pipe Calculator
No in-app purchases
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