Cut Calculator vs LiteTimer
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
LiteTimer
This minimalist timer app helps you stay focused and boost productivity with timely reminders. Its elegant design and intuitive sliding interactions make it easy to use for both life and work.
- Minimalist and realistic design
- Elegant sliding interactions
- Timely reminders
- Focus and productivity boost
- Reliable companion for life and work
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Key Features: - Minimalist and realistic design. - Elegant sliding interactions for effortless operation. - Timely reminders to keep you on track. LiteTimer is here to help you stay focused, boost productivity, and become your reliable companion in both life and work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LiteTimer at Free against Cut Calculator's $1.99. LiteTimer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Cut Calculator's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 1). 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
LiteTimer is free to download; Cut Calculator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LiteTimer 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 1, 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 LiteTimer's.
| Parameter | Cut Calculator | LiteTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bugfoot Studios LLC | 博 杨 |
Customer experience
Cut Calculator
LiteTimer
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
LiteTimer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cut Calculator
No in-app purchases
LiteTimer
No in-app purchases









