Comparison

Pipe Weight Pro vs Pipe Craftsmen

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

Head to head
About

Pipe Weight Pro

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Effortless Pipe Calculations at Your Fingertips! Say goodbye to manual calculations and hello to efficiency with our Pipe Weight Calculator app. Whether you're in the field or at the office, our app simplifies the process by instantly providing accurate results based on length, diameter, and thickness input.

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Pipe Craftsmen

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Pipe Craftsmen is the pipefitter's toolbox: the numbers you work to, in the tape's own language, with every dimension copied from the published standards and every drawing showing where the number actually runs on the steel. THE CALCULATOR Feet, inches and fractions natively - 5'-6" + 3'-9" reads back 9'-3". Metric keys, angle mode with decimal and DMS entry, store and recall shared across every keypad in the app, session history, and your starred measurements one tap from the display. Every answer is ready to copy, store, or feed the next sum. THE FITTINGS REFERENCE Every dimension of every fitting, from the published tables: - Butt weld (ASME B16.9): all sixteen types - Socket weld (ASME B16.11): classes 3000/6000/9000, measured to the socket bottom, your pull-back applied - Threaded (ASME B16.11): all ten types including street elbows, plugs and bushings - the make-on subtracts, because a thread makes the pipe longer - Flanges (ASME B16.5): all six kinds, classes 150-2500, raised-face rule built in - Grooved (Victaulic): elbows, tees and crosses, with the groove specification itself - gasket seat, width, diameter, and the lightest wall that may be roll or cut grooved Every page draws its fitting in section with the selected takeoff dimensioned on the steel. Set your root gap, socket pull-back, thread make-on and grooved separation once; every takeoff in the app follows. THE TOOLS - Pipe Offset: solve the triangle from any two facts, then get the fitting each end needs, the pipe between, and its weight - Equal Spread: parallel lines turning together - the advance that keeps the spread equal through the corner - Rolled Offset: roll, set and advance into one travel, with the bend angle and the roll angle told apart - Miter Joints: cut angle, cutback, and the blank drawn flat on the bench, marked for cutting - Fitting Cutdown: a 90 cut to any angle, with the three arcs to mark - Rolled Olet: set a roll angle with a tape measure - Tube Bending: the four lines of a bend, worked out from the drawing's centerline, with the gain falling out of them - Tube Bending Run: tube, bends, tube - every line to mark and the length to cut, for the whole run at once - Pipe Information: bore, wall, circumference, and the weights you rig by - empty, full of water, and per foot THE FITTING FINDER Search the whole reference set without leaving the calculator. It opens on the size and connection you work in, keeps a shelf of the fittings you starred, and a click on any result opens everything that fitting measures - inside to end, outside to end, the with-gap variants, the bend - ready to drop straight into your sum. IN YOUR POCKET Built for a phone held one-handed on a rack: big keys, answers that read at arm's length, and everything reachable without a signal. On an iPad the pages open out - the drawing beside the numbers rather than above them. BUILT FOR THE TRADE Answers read the way a tape does. Drawings are to the steel's own proportions. Arrange the menus your way, star what you use, and it all persists. Some tools are part of Pro. The calculator, the fittings reference and pipe information are free to use. Terms of Use: https://pipe-craftsmen.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://pipe-craftsmen.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Pipe Weight Pro3 screens
Pipe Craftsmen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pipe Craftsmen at Free against Pipe Weight Pro's $1.99. Pipe Weight Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Pipe Craftsmen is free to download; Pipe Weight Pro costs $1.99 up front. Pipe Craftsmen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Pipe Weight Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Pipe Weight Pro versus Pipe Craftsmen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPipe Weight ProPipe Craftsmen
Price$1.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size26 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAgustin AguileraVICTOR DIGITAL TOOLS LLC

In-app purchases

None

Pipe Weight Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pipe Craftsmen

Subscriptions2
  • Pipe Craftsmen Pro Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Pipe Craftsmen Pro Annual1 Month trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Pipe Weight Pro free?
Pipe Weight Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pipe Craftsmen free?
Pipe Craftsmen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pipe Weight Pro or Pipe Craftsmen have ads?
Neither Pipe Weight Pro nor Pipe Craftsmen shows ads.

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