Comparison

WELDING PRO vs SOLIDWORKS Education

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

Head to head
About

WELDING PRO

This app provides welders with essential tools for cost calculation, parameter optimization, and material selection. It includes databases for filler metals, material compatibility, and equivalents, along with a certificate finder.

Highlights
  • Welding cost calculator
  • Welding parameter optimization
  • Filler metal product search
  • Material to weld compatibility
  • Welding consumable equivalent search
  • Certificate finder
Features
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Welding Pro is intended to help welders and welding technicians getting quick access to daily required information and includes 6 different applications: • Welding Cost calculator calculating the total welding cost in just a few clicks including labor, filler metal and gas cost. Sliders are built in the app to determine the most cost-effective parameters for your welding job by changing the angle of the joint or by changing the current. • Welding parameters Fill in the A height of your filled weld and this app will provide you with the optimum settings for wire speed, volt and travel speed. This parameter app is able to give you the optimum settings for steel, aluminum, stainless steel, for both solid and fluxcored wires and. Just slide the slider until the parameters get green to tell you that they are the optimum settings. • Product search Under this button you will be guided by AWS and or EN ISO standards to find the filler metal that you are looking for, Just select a standard and get free excess to the biggest database the world has to offer. • Material to be Welded Finding the correct filler metal for each basemetal was never that easy, over 50.000 materials are listed in this database to guide you in choosing the filler metal that fits the base metal. This database excepts material names, DIN material numbers, AWS standards, EN ISO standards and much more! • Equivalent search World wide there are many brands that offer welding consumables but now you landed at the filler metal specialist that offers over 2.000 equivalents for almost any brand. Just select the brand you know and the filler metal you currently use and our equivalent will appear. • Certificate finder Certilas was the first company in the world who provided EN 10204 certificates web based, now we have built in a module in this app to get even quicker excess to our quality certificates.

About

SOLIDWORKS Education

Explore the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS CAD software for educational and entrepreneurial use. Discover how it can benefit students, instructors, makers, and businesses, and share your projects with others.

Highlights
  • Discover SOLIDWORKS capabilities
  • For kids, students, and instructors
  • For FabLabs, makers, and entrepreneurs
  • Share with peers
Features
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With SOLIDWORKS EDU app, discover what SOLIDWORKS® propose not only to kids, students and instructors but also to FabLabs, makers and entrepreneurs/incubators and share with your peers.

Screenshots

WELDING PRO4 screens
SOLIDWORKS Education4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WELDING PRO at 67% against SOLIDWORKS Education's 13%. WELDING PRO also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.1) and ads (none vs shown). SOLIDWORKS Education's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WELDING PRO holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SOLIDWORKS Education has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of WELDING PRO's written reviews are positive against 13% of SOLIDWORKS Education's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WELDING PRO ships an update every 7 months, SOLIDWORKS Education every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
WELDING PRO versus SOLIDWORKS Education: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWELDING PROSOLIDWORKS Education
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better2.1 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better12.5% of reviews
Number of ratings214 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.111.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCertilas Nederland BVDASSAULT SYSTEMES

Customer experience

WELDING PRO

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

SOLIDWORKS Education

All ratings14 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

In-app purchases

None

WELDING PRO

No in-app purchases

None

SOLIDWORKS Education

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WELDING PRO free?
WELDING PRO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SOLIDWORKS Education free?
SOLIDWORKS Education is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WELDING PRO or SOLIDWORKS Education?
WELDING PRO is rated higher. WELDING PRO averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while SOLIDWORKS Education averages 2.1 from 14 ratings.
Do WELDING PRO or SOLIDWORKS Education have ads?
SOLIDWORKS Education shows ads; WELDING PRO does not.
Which is updated more often, WELDING PRO or SOLIDWORKS Education?
WELDING PRO ships an update every 7 months, and SOLIDWORKS Education every 10 months. Most recently, WELDING PRO was updated on June 5, 2026 and SOLIDWORKS Education on September 17, 2026.

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