Pipe Tools vs Pipefitter_Pro
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
Pipefitter_Pro
This app is a pipe calculation tool that helps determine offsets, angles, and pipe segments. It offers a visual representation of angles and a slider for quick offset dimensioning, with dynamic angle updates. Future updates aim to include 3D angle calculations.
- Calculate pipe offsets
- Determine angles
- Calculate pipe segments
- Visual angle representation
- Slider for offset dimensioning
- Dynamic angle updates
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Pipefitter Pro is a calculator for pipefitters. It calculates offsets, elbow angles and spool lengths, and draws what it works out. Choose a case from the menu, enter the pipe diameter and elbow radius on the workshop keypad, then read the available results: angles, the spool between elbows, elbow takeout, arc lengths and caliper dimensions. CASES AND VIEWS • BACK TO BACK — two elbows, with either the angle or the offset unknown. • S TYPE — offset, travel or a fixed 45° option. • TEE OFFSET — calculations that include the branch diameter. • CALCULATOR — one elbow cut out of a 90°. • 3D — two elbows in space, set using the A, B and C dimensions of a box. • SLIDER / SLIDER S TYPE / SLIDER TEE — change the angle and watch the offset change. • 3D SLIDER — set the elbow orientation in a spatial model and read the angles, the insert and the live box dimensions. The box is a visual reference, not a cut length. Depending on the case, results appear on the Angle, Dimensions and Elbow tabs; selected cases add a 3D view you can rotate and zoom. UNITS AND INPUT Lengths in millimeters, centimeters and inches. Feet-and-inches notation and decimal or fractional inches are also supported. Choose 1/16 or 1/32 precision for inch fractions. Angles are given in decimal degrees. The workshop keypad and fraction picker help you enter dimensions; add frequently used cases to favorites. PIPE AND ELBOW DIMENSIONS The DIMENSIONS tile opens the built-in NPS/DN table. It contains outside diameters and centerline radii for long-radius and short-radius elbows. Add and edit dimensions, then use them in calculations. Save a list backup to a file and restore the list from a backup. BEFORE YOU CUT Pipefitter Pro supports the preparation of workshop work. Check the dimensions against your technical documentation and your shop procedures before cutting and welding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pipe Tools at Free against Pipefitter_Pro's $10.99. Pipe Tools also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (79% vs 50%). Pipefitter_Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#146 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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; Pipefitter_Pro costs $10.99 up front. Pipe Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pipefitter_Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pipe Tools holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pipe Tools has 20 ratings behind it against 2, 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 50% of Pipefitter_Pro's.
Pipe Tools ships an update every 36 months, Pipefitter_Pro every 47 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipe Tools | Pipefitter_Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $10.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (20 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months — better | Every 47 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #146 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bri-Steel Manufacturing | Tomasz Szymanski |
Customer experience
Pipe Tools
Pipefitter_Pro
In-app purchases
Pipe Tools
- Unlock Pro Tools$0.99
Pipefitter_Pro
No in-app purchases
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