Comparison

Cut Calculator vs Printer Friendly for Safari

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

Head to head
About

Cut Calculator

This app helps you plan cuts for various materials to minimize waste and save money. It accommodates different units of measurement and material sizes, factoring in saw blade width for optimal planning. Save, print, and export your cutting plans.

Highlights
  • Minimizes material waste
  • Supports various units (feet, inches, cm, mm)
  • Accommodates multiple material sizes
  • Accounts for saw blade width (kerf)
  • Optimizes sheet goods cuts (with/without grain)
  • Save, load, and print cutting plans
  • Export shopping lists
Features
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*** Winner of This Old House's Top 100: Best New Home Products *** "Enter the lengths of lumber, sheet goods, crown molding, pipe, and other materials for a project and this app produces a cutting plan that gets the most out of your stock, minimizing waste. Invaluable. " - This Old House Magazine Ever get to the end of a project and you don't have a piece big enough to finish the job? Guess what, you didn't plan the cut combinations and now you're heading back to the home improvement store to buy more material. Not any more with Cut Calculator! Don't get caught with wrong material estimates again. Cut Calculator will help minimize the amount of material you need to buy, accommodating all of your cut sizes. Perfect for linear cuts such as baseboard molding, crown molding, pipe, lumber AND area cuts such as plywood or drywall. Cut Calculator will plan your cuts to save you money! Cut Calculator is a contractor's, a carpenter's and do-it-yourself'ers must have!! FEATURES: * Add all of your cuts in feet, inches, centimeters, and millimeters. You can use fractions or decimal. Even mix between imperial and metric * Add multiple available material sizes. Cut Calculator is going to figure out how to minimize waste with any combination * Add your saw blade width (kerf) and Cut Calculator is smart enough to know that a 3 ft. cut and a 7 ft. cut will no longer work on the same 10 ft. board * For sheet goods, Cut Calculator allows you to factor in wood grain or ignore it, all while optimizing your cut plan * Save your Plans for later, load up old Plans is fast and easy * View and print a PDF of your plan design * Export your shopping list to email, iMessage, or copy into any App Avoid one mishap using this App, and Cut Calculator has paid for itself, and then some!! Don't just take our word for it: "Some people have a hard time visualizing the best way to utilize materials, and Cut Calculator creates a picture illustration of your materials and your cuts to help you best utilize what you have" - MacNewsWorld, June 2013 Featured by Apple as a New and Noteworthy App - Utilities

About

Printer Friendly for Safari

This utility extension helps you clean up webpages before printing, saving paper, ink, and money. You can remove unwanted elements like ads, images, and videos, or even edit text directly. It's available across your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Remove ads and junk content
  • Edit webpage text
  • Remove images and videos
  • Apply grayscale theme
  • Save paper, ink, and money
  • Available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
Features
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• Available on all your devices: iPhone, iPad and Mac • Printer Friendly for Safari is a handy extension, just a tap away, ready to use whenever you want to change the content of a webpage before printing. Save paper, ink and money before sending the page to the printer. FEATURES • Save paper, ink and money by editing the content of your webpages before printing • Print View: turn any article into a clean page, with your choice of font, text and image size • Update content, remove ads, comments, related articles, navigation or useless junk • Tap to remove any element on the page • Edit any text in the article before sending it to the printer • Remove images, background images & colors • Remove videos, iframes and fixed bars • Apply a grayscale theme (make the content black, white and gray) • Black or draft text, compact layout, smaller images and no borders • Print only the part of the page you select • Undo any change or restore the original page • Save as PDF, or tap Share › Print to preview and print the page SUPPORT We read your support emails every day, day by day. Write with confidence any question, feedback, or complaint, and you will receive an answer in a very short period of time.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

Cut Calculator and Printer Friendly for Safari both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Cut Calculator's written reviews are positive against 43% of Printer Friendly for Safari's. Cut Calculator also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (124 vs 12). Printer Friendly for Safari's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Cut Calculator costs $1.99 and Printer Friendly for Safari $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Cut Calculator against 4.3 for Printer Friendly for Safari. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cut Calculator has 124 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Cut Calculator's written reviews are positive against 43% of Printer Friendly for Safari's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cut Calculator ships an update every 4 weeks, Printer Friendly for Safari every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cut Calculator versus Printer Friendly for Safari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCut CalculatorPrinter Friendly for Safari
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.3 (124 ratings) — better4.3 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBugfoot Studios LLCDenk Alexandru

Customer experience

Cut Calculator

All ratings122 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral6.6%
Negative9.0%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative13.3%

Printer Friendly for Safari

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%

Bugs and requests

Cut Calculator

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Print function crashes and produces blank pages
  • Export file function crashes app
  • App incompatible with iOS 14 and later
  • Calculator UI elements disappear after entering first dimensions
  • No auto-save functionality
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  • App crashes when switching grain direction
  • PDF creation produces blank output
  • Kerf width setting doesn't actually affect calculations
  • Dimension input validation issues with metric/imperial mixing

Requested features

18 requests
  • Support for multiple material thicknesses in single project
  • Ability to manually rearrange and snap pieces to grid
  • iPhone/Universal app version
  • Edit descriptions and quantities without deleting entries
  • Batch delete functionality for cuts
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  • Ability to input existing inventory/scrap material
  • Cost per board foot calculations
  • Pricing optimization based on material availability
  • Parametric parts with quantity adjustments
  • Default auto-rotate setting option
  • Color-coded cut pieces for clarity
  • Improved help documentation and training videos
  • Better optimization for table saw cutting patterns
  • Support for angled cuts
  • Ability to handle pieces longer than available material
  • Larger, more readable printed output with wider layout
  • Mac/macOS version
  • Better kerf width integration in calculations

Printer Friendly for Safari

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cut Calculator

No in-app purchases

None

Printer Friendly for Safari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cut Calculator free?
Cut Calculator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Printer Friendly for Safari free?
Printer Friendly for Safari costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cut Calculator or Printer Friendly for Safari?
Cut Calculator is rated higher. Cut Calculator averages 4.3 out of 5 from 124 ratings, while Printer Friendly for Safari averages 4.3 from 12 ratings.
Do Cut Calculator or Printer Friendly for Safari have ads?
Neither Cut Calculator nor Printer Friendly for Safari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cut Calculator or Printer Friendly for Safari?
Cut Calculator ships an update every 4 weeks, and Printer Friendly for Safari every 6 months. Most recently, Cut Calculator was updated on October 23, 2026 and Printer Friendly for Safari on October 30, 2026.

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