WELDING PRO vs SOLIDWORKS Education
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Welding cost calculator
- Welding parameter optimization
- Filler metal product search
- Material to weld compatibility
- Welding consumable equivalent search
- Certificate finder
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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.
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.
- Discover SOLIDWORKS capabilities
- For kids, students, and instructors
- For FabLabs, makers, and entrepreneurs
- Share with peers
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | WELDING PRO | SOLIDWORKS Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 2.1 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Certilas Nederland BV | DASSAULT SYSTEMES |
Customer experience
WELDING PRO
SOLIDWORKS Education
In-app purchases
WELDING PRO
No in-app purchases
SOLIDWORKS Education
No in-app purchases






