Cut Calculator vs Restique
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Restique
Access and manage your Restic backup archives directly from your iOS device. Browse repositories, restore files, view snapshots, and manage backup details securely and privately.
- Secure Restic remote backup access
- Browse and restore files from backups
- View and manage backup snapshots
- Compare snapshot file changes
- View various file formats with syntax highlighting
- Supports multiple backup backends
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Restique brings the power of Restic Backup Solution straight to your iOS device, offering seamless access to your backup archives anytime, anywhere. With this app, you can securely browse your Restic Backup repository, list archives, restore files within specific backups — all with full security and control, right on your device. ## Features - Access restic remote backup securely and directly from your device. - Contacts backup as a snapshot in restic repository. - Time-Based/Counter-Based One-Time Password (TOTP/HOTP) Authenticator backup through iCloud keychain and restic backup as a snapshot. - Restore files from backup to your device. - View the snapshots in a remote backup. - View and search for files within an snapshot. - View details of remote backup repository (e.g., disk usage, total files etc.). - View details of remote backup snapshots (e.g., disk usage, total files etc.). - Snapshot tag management. Add or remove tags from a snapshot. - Rewrite snapshot host name. - Forget a snapshot (without pruning). Swipe to forget a snapshot; pruning can be time-consuming and should be performed on a computer. - Compare two snapshots to see file changes between them. - Text file viewer: View text, markdown, xml, json and source code files with syntax highlighting and line number. - Supports viewing multiple file formats including PDF, Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), images, and more. - Supports liquid glass on iOS 26. - Supports app scheme URL restique:// to add new repository. Supported backends: - SFTP - WebDAV - Rest Server - S3 and S3 compatible - B2 (backblaze) - File Provider: Seamlessly integrates with the Files app, allowing you to import your restic repository from connected USB storage, iCloud, or any online storage provider that supports File Provider. ### URL Schemes The app supports the following URL schemes to add new repositories: restique://repos/new?name=[repo-name]&location=[location-url]&password=[password]&env.key1=value1&env.key2=value2... Quick Setup QR Generator: https://www.flinteger.com/products/restique/#qs ## Terms of Use This app follows the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA), available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Privacy Restique stores all data encrypted and solely on the device, utilizing the operating system's built-in data protection mechanisms NSFileProtectionComplete: . Repository-related data, such as repository URL, password, and env variables, are further encrypted and securely stored in the device's Keychain, ensuring maximum security and privacy. We are fully committed to data security and privacy. High lights about our privacy practice: * We don’t track your usage of the app, there are no cookies, advertisements, analytics. * We design our app to be used anonymously, we do not ask for any email, phone or personal information to use our app. * We do not (and will never) sell or share any of the data submitted directly or indirectly by our users with any person or entity. ## Technical Support If you encounter any issues while using the app, have feedback to share, or wish to request a feature, please contact us via email support within the app. We will respond to your inquiry promptly. PGP mail public key: https://www.flinteger.com/publickey-3062E1ACD5430D78.asc
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Restique at Free against Cut Calculator's $7.99. Restique also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Cut Calculator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (122 vs 6). On ads, 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
Restique is free to download; Cut Calculator costs $7.99 up front. Restique sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cut Calculator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Restique holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cut Calculator has 122 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Cut Calculator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Restique's.
Cut Calculator ships an update every 4 weeks, Restique every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and June 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cut Calculator | Restique |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bugfoot Studios LLC | Flinteger LLC |
Customer experience
Cut Calculator
Restique
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
Restique
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cut Calculator
No in-app purchases
Restique
- Restique Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Restique Pro Yearly14 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Restique Lifetime Pro$12.99









