Milling Calcs vs CNC Setup Sheet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Milling Calcs
This app provides machinists and CNC operators with quick and reliable cutting speed and feed rate calculations. It helps reduce guesswork by offering practical starting points and allows users to save, reload, and refine setups for efficient shop floor work.
- Fast speeds and feeds calculator
- RPM, feed rate, and surface speed calculation
- Support for end mills and drills
- Material-aware defaults
- Save and reload reusable jobs
- One-tap share for setup communication
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Thank you for using Milling Calcs. Your skill and attention to detail make good machining possible, and we appreciate a place in your working day. From a quick spindle speed check to a customer tool trial, keep the numbers and notes you need close at hand. Milling Calcs brings CNC milling calculators, shop reference tables, job planning, and cutting-tool sales records together on iPhone and iPad. Use it at the machine, in the office, or during a customer visit. CALCULATE YOUR NEXT CUT • Find spindle RPM, cutting speed, feed rate, and chip load per tooth. • Calculate feed per revolution and estimate plunge feed. • Work with Imperial and Metric inputs where supported. • Plan milling jobs using material, cutter size, flute count, and cutting speed. • Check material removal rate for a proposed cut. • Estimate cutting force and tool deflection with the Cut Optimizer. • Explore depth and width of cut against an advisory deflection limit. • Share calculation results and return to saved milling jobs. KEEP SHOP MATH WITHIN REACH • Look up tap drills and work through thread engagement choices. • Calculate true position, sine bar height, arc length, and chord length. • Work out offsets, conduit bends, and shrinkage compensation. • Convert common shop measurements. • Browse drill sizes, pipe threads, material machinability, and tooling references. • Find G-code and M-code reference information without opening a browser. MAKE TOOL TRIALS EASIER TO EXPLAIN A promising cutter needs a useful comparison. Record the customer's current process, enter a proposed setup, and keep the evidence with the trial. • Compare baseline and proposed tooling costs. • Include tool life, cycle time, labor, setup time, and customer rates. • Review estimated cost per part and annual savings. • Record trial runs, observations, and photos. • Keep product specifications and price history together. • Carry price sources and effective dates into your comparisons. • Create and share PDF trial reports for the next customer discussion. STAY ON TOP OF THE NEXT CONVERSATION • Keep customer sites, applications, and local contacts organized. • Mark decision-makers and save sales notes. • Import selected iOS contacts, refresh linked details, or export contacts when you choose. • Track trials from baseline and scheduling through review, quote, won, or lost. • Record next actions, due dates, quote revisions, and first orders. • Open active trials, follow-ups, and quoted work from Today. • Set local reminders for follow-ups. • Estimate stock coverage and reorder timing from production, tool life, quantity, and supplier lead time. Reorder dates and savings are forecasts based on your entries, giving you a starting point for a conversation with the customer. KEEP USEFUL WORK FOR THE NEXT JOB • Search saved calculation, shop, and sales records from one Records workspace. • Organize tools, machines, materials, setup jobs, shop notes, and wear logs. • Review dated shop activity in Calendar. • Prepare setup sheets with the details needed for a repeat job. • Use available PDF, JSON, and QR sharing options. • Export sales summaries and transfer sales projects with photos and reports. • Preview imports before merging records. • Bring in product lists and customer price sheets from CSV files. Core calculators, reference data, and local records work without an account or network connection. Keep the details available when reception on the shop floor is limited. For monthly subscriptions: Monthly Pro is a 1-month auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ The app provides planning values and calculations, not a substitute for machining judgment. Confirm final cutting data against the tooling manufacturer's recommendations, machine limits, workholding, coolant, material condition, and the actual cut.
CNC Setup Sheet
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The setup sheet, done in 30 seconds. Enter your material and tools — CNC Setup Sheet computes spindle speed, feed rate, surface speed and chip load, then lays everything out as a clean, printable shop-floor setup sheet you can hand to the machine. BUY ONCE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The Pro upgrade is a single one-time purchase. No monthly fees, no account, no cloud. The app works fully offline — on the shop floor, in the garage, anywhere. YOU OWN THE NUMBERS. Every computed value is a starting point, not a verdict. Override RPM, feed, SFM or chip load before you export — the sheet prints what you decide. WHAT'S INSIDE • Feeds & Speeds — RPM, feed rate, SFM and chip load for milling, from material + cutter + flutes. Spindle-limit aware. • Drilling — speeds and feeds for twist drills, with peck guidance. • Tapping — tap drill sizes (UNC/UNF and metric) and rigid-tapping feed synced to thread lead. • Converter — SFM ↔ m/min, inch ↔ mm, feed units. • Setup Sheet — job header (part, machine, workholding, WCS, coolant), tooling & cut data table, operation sequence and setup notes, exported as a US-Letter PDF you can print, share or email. BUILT FOR CNC machinists, job-shop programmers, home-shop and garage machinists, makers running desktop mills. MATERIALS Aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, mild steel, alloy steel, tool steel, stainless, cast iron, titanium, plastics — with conservative starting SFM and chip-load values compiled from common shop references. FREE VS PRO Free: every calculator and the full setup-sheet editor. Exported PDFs carry a SAMPLE watermark. Pro (one-time purchase): removes the watermark — clean, print-ready setup sheets. Cut data are reference starting values. Always verify against your tooling manufacturer's data and machine limits before cutting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CNC Setup Sheet at 15.0 against Milling Calcs's 17.6. On price, ads, 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. Milling Calcs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CNC Setup Sheet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Milling Calcs | CNC Setup Sheet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Verosocial Studio | Moeki Kozawa |
In-app purchases
Milling Calcs
- Milling pro monthly$1.991 Month
- Lifetime Pro Unlock$14.99
CNC Setup Sheet
- CNC Setup Sheet Pro$9.99
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