Comparison

QuiltingCalc vs Ranchbot Toolkit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Ranchbot Toolkit

Features
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Keep your devices running smoothly with Ranchbot Toolkit. Update your device firmware, adjust trough height settings, and make sure your liquid level readings stay accurate in MyRanchbot. Log into your MyRanchbot platform and head out to where your devices are installed to connect directly via your phone. Find and manage your devices conveniently from your phone. Features: • Update device firmware from your phone • Adjust trough height settings for accurate readings • Sync those changes directly to MyRanchbot

Screenshots

QuiltingCalc4 screens
Ranchbot Toolkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ranchbot Toolkit at none against QuiltingCalc's shown. QuiltingCalc's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
QuiltingCalc versus Ranchbot Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuiltingCalcRanchbot Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (147 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings147 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHandmade Interactive LLCFarmbot

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

Ranchbot Toolkit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

QuiltingCalc

No in-app purchases

None

Ranchbot Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuiltingCalc free?
QuiltingCalc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ranchbot Toolkit free?
Ranchbot Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QuiltingCalc or Ranchbot Toolkit have ads?
QuiltingCalc shows ads; Ranchbot Toolkit does not.

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