QuiltingCalc vs Hexagon Grid Generator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuiltingCalc
This app offers eight essential quilting calculators to simplify fabric calculations. It helps with conversions, determining fabric needs for backing, borders, and binding, and calculating piece cuts from larger fabric pieces. It also includes specialized calculators for common quilting blocks and triangles.
- Fabric measurement conversion (yards/inches, meters/cm)
- Backing and batting yardage calculation
- Piece cutting from larger fabric
- Binding fabric calculation
- Border fabric calculation
- Square-in-a-square block dimensions
- Triangle calculations for blocks
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Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Quilter's Paradise have joined forces to bring you a collection of eight essential quilting calculators. With these calculators you'll be able to quickly convert between yards and inches, meters and centimeters; learn how much fabric you need for backing, batting and borders; and determine how many rectangular pieces can be cut from a larger piece. There are even calculators for square-in-a-square, set-in and corner triangles. Here's a brief description of each calculator: Fabric Measurement Converter: Converts between inches and yards in decimal form, and yards in fractional form. (With metric equivalents.) Backing and Batting Calculator: Determines how much material from a bolt of fabric is needed to make the backing for a quilt. Piece Count Calculator: Shows the number of fixed-sized pieces of fabric that can be cut from a larger piece. Pieces to Area Calculator: Indicates how much fabric is needed in order to cut a given number of fixed-sized pieces. Binding Calculator: Tells you the amount of fabric required to bind your quilt, based on the quilt’s dimensions and the binding strip width. Border Calculator: Shows the amount of fabric required to create borders, based on a quilt’s dimensions and the width of the borders. Square-in-a-Square Calculator: Works out the key dimensions of a square-in-a-square block. Set-in and Corner Triangle Calculator: Determines the size of the square piece you’ll need to cut in order to create both unfinished set-in triangles and unfinished corner triangles.
Hexagon Grid Generator
Create and customize hexagonal grids for various uses. Save your generated grids directly to your device's photo library. Ideal for design projects and visual planning.
- Customizable hexagonal grid generation
- Save grids to photo library
- Versatile design tool
- User-friendly interface
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A hexagonal grid generator. Use this to draw highly customizable hexagonal grids and save them to your photo library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: QuiltingCalc at 4.2 against Hexagon Grid Generator's 3.0. QuiltingCalc also leads on ratings volume (125 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Hexagon Grid Generator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
QuiltingCalc holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuiltingCalc has 125 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuiltingCalc | Hexagon Grid Generator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (125 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Handmade Interactive LLC | Martin Grider |
Customer experience
QuiltingCalc
Hexagon Grid Generator
Bugs and requests
QuiltingCalc
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes on startup or during use
- Freezes on title/loading screen indefinitely
- Black screen errors when exiting app
- Back button ('<') doesn't function
- Cannot return to previous screens to modify inputs
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- Binding calculator hangs after width selection
- Square-in-square calculator doesn't allow navigation back
- Fabric width validation errors with numbers already entered
- Border 3 validation errors appearing incorrectly
- Inconsistent yardage calculations for same inputs
- App won't open - shows blank screen with spinning wheel
- Incompatibility with iPad 2 and older iOS versions
- Recent update broke previously working functionality
- Two-digit number input not accepted in pieces-to-yardage calculation
Requested features
12 requests- Metric to imperial conversion tool
- Landscape mode and full iPad support
- Default settings for binding strip width (2.5") and border type
- Wide-backing fabric support (108 inch)
- Quilt size templates (baby, lap, throw sizes)
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- Sashing calculation feature
- Backing fabric piecing diagrams with instructions
- Ability to calculate multiple quilts without exiting app
- Inches to centimeters converter
- Ability to enter dimensions larger than fabric width
- Save/store previous calculations
- Tutorial or help documentation within app
Hexagon Grid Generator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
QuiltingCalc
No in-app purchases
Hexagon Grid Generator
No in-app purchases
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