Piping Offset Calculator vs DPC Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piping Offset Calculator
This tool calculates precise dimensions and cut lengths for various piping offset configurations, pipe sizes, and bend angles. It offers a graphical interface for selecting offset types and inputting dimensions, providing detailed fabrication data.
- Calculate precise dimensions and cut lengths
- Support for various piping offset configurations
- Graphical menu for easy offset type selection
- Input any three sides and/or angles
- Detailed graphical representation of offsets
- Calculate miter and roll angles
- Support for 1/4" through 48" pipe sizes
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Piping Offset Calculator provides precise dimensions and cut lengths for different types of piping offset spool configurations, pipe sizes, and bend angles. Piping Offset Calculator is designed to be used by draftsman, designers, engineers, and construction personnel. Piping Offsets have never been easier to calculate. The offset calculator is very intuitive and flexible: the graphical menu is provided to easily select the type of offset you wish to compute. User supplies any three sides and/or angles combination(s). The user is presented with the solved graphical representation of the offset. The complete graphics include multiple solution views which provide clear, graphical, design and fabrication data. All bend angles, tangents, cut lengths, rise, run, hypotenuse, miter angles, roll angles, inside and outside arc lengths of mitered ells, etc are presented. User can select 1/4" through 48" pipe sizes, preset bend or ell radius, or the user can also choose a fixed user input numerical radius for those unusual bend radius requirements. Even though the offset calculator automatically calculates trimmed elbows (per user request), now includes a separate tool to calculate trimmed elbow dimensions. To learn more about this useful tool, browse www.jplanaux.com or go to you tube and search "Piping Offset Calculator".
DPC Tools
This app provides a suite of tools for designing and building projects using PVC pipe. It calculates pipe buoyancy, external load deflection, flow rates, pricing, and truckload capacity. Results can be printed for easy reference.
- Pipe Buoyancy Calculator
- External Load Design
- Flow Calculator
- Pricing Calculator
- Representative Locator
- Truckload Calculator
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Tools to determine Pipe Buoyancy, External Load Design, Flow, Pricing, Rep locator, and Truckload calculator that are utilized to design and build projects using PVC pipe. All applications have an option to print the results once determined. Buoyancy Calculator The Buoyancy Calculator allows the user to determine the buoyancy force of PVC pipe during construction as well as once the pipe is installed and in use. The user chooses the pipe from drop down lists, inputs the Specific Gravity of the fluid around the pipe, the Unit Weight of the backfill material, the Concrete or Flowable Fill unit weight, and the amount of water in the pipe. Output allows the contractor to know the maximum height of each lift of Flowable fill or Concrete placed before floatation occurs, the minimum soil cover in feet with pipe empty to prevent floatation, and the Buoyancy force per foot length of pipe when empty or full of water. External Load Design This application allows the user to estimate the percent of ring deflection in buried flexible pipe utilizing the Modified Iowa Equation. This equation has been used since the late 1950’s to accurately calculate expected maximum deflections. The application follows the latest methods outlined in AWWA M23 and allows the user to choose each of the input variables based upon specific known conditions and also offers the option of selecting inputs from recommended values. Flow Calculator This calculator provides Friction loss (psi), Velocity (ft/second), and Fuel costs in dollars per hour for comparable pipe products under comparable flow conditions. It may be used to compare different diameters or different pipe products to allow the user to choose the best pipe to be used for the design as well as for life cycle costs used in value engineering of projects. Pricing The Pricing calculator allows the user to choose the PVC pipe use whether Agricultural or Utility pipe and input the Block price. The output is in dollars per foot of pipe. Find A Representative The application allows the user to choose the PVC pipe use whether for Agricultural of Utility and then choose the Nation that the pipe representative works in from a drop down list. Once a Postal Code in entered the output shows a picture and contact information for the Diamond Plastics Corporation sales representative in that area. Truckload Calculator The application allows the user to choose the nearest Diamond Plastics Corporation PVC pipe manufacturing facility from a drop down list. The user can then choose from Water, Sewer, or Ag products, the pipe type and input the quantity desired. The output will indicate the percentage of a truckload that the chosen pipe and quantity will occupy for shipment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Piping Offset Calculator at 75% against DPC Tools's 0%. Piping Offset Calculator also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (15 vs 5). DPC Tools's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
DPC Tools is free to download; Piping Offset Calculator costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Piping Offset Calculator holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Piping Offset Calculator's written reviews are positive against 0% of DPC Tools's.
Piping Offset Calculator ships an update every 6 months, DPC Tools every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Piping Offset Calculator | DPC Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Paul Lanaux | Diamond Plastics Corporation |
Customer experience
Piping Offset Calculator
DPC Tools
In-app purchases
Piping Offset Calculator
No in-app purchases
DPC Tools
No in-app purchases
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