Comparison

Piles Section vs ConcReoEst

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

Head to head
About

Piles Section

Features
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Design Cast-in-situ Bored & CFA piles with: • Easy-to-use interface with minimal learning curve, • Comprehensive features for precise analysis, • Highly customisable to suit various use cases. New Features: • File Manager: Easily manage all your designs with a powerful search function, duplication, import and export capabilities, and thumbnail images for quick visual identification. • Design Labelling: Assign meaningful names to each section design or project, ensuring seamless organisation and easy access. This feature helps you keep a record of all your designs and find them later on easily. Key Features: • Quick Configuration: Quickly configure a cast-in-situ pile section using predefined parameters such as pile diameter, standard steel bar sizes, and custom configurations for main bars (bundling), transverse (stirrup), and ring. • Visualise Section Designs: Preview your design to identify potential issues with concrete cover due to reinforcement congestion, ensuring proper concrete flow between bars. This feature helps you catch errors before moving forward with construction. • Cost Calculation and Breakdown: Calculate cost breakdowns based on user-defined material and workmanship rates, margins (for wastage and markup), and daily piling productivity. Get a clear understanding of your piling expenses and make informed decisions. • Generate Detailed Reports: Automatically generate PDF reports detailing quantity and cost estimation, including a high-resolution section drawing and a pie chart illustrating cost distribution. This helps you communicate with clients and stakeholders effectively. • Multi-Unit Support: Switch between Metric (mm, m, kg) and Imperial (inch, ft, lb) unit systems to cater to your global projects' needs. Rebuilt from the ground up as the next-generation successor to hetGE’s first mobile app, this new version (formerly known as Piles D&C) is now available as a one-time purchase app similar to its predecessor. Terms of Use Apple’s standard End User License Agreement (EULA) applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ hetGE’s Privacy Policy Read our privacy policy here: https://hetge.com/privacy-policy.html

About

ConcReoEst

Features
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Designed for engineers, contractors, and quantity surveyors, the Reinforcing Estimate App offers a robust toolset for quickly quantifying reinforcing across various structural elements. Whether you’re working on pad footings, piles, slabs, or beams/columns, this app provides the flexibility to adjust reinforcing layers within the structural elements effortlessly. The key features are the following: 1) Easily adjust and estimate reinforcing for multiple structural elements. 2) Visual colour alerts to highlight compliance with min reinforcing to AS3600. 3) Reinforcing properties for standard reinforcing, mesh and trench mesh. 4) Print out your results with Project Name, Location of estimate and Name of Estimator as well as your company Logo 5) Detailed instructions for the use of each element.

Screenshots

Piles Section4 screens
ConcReoEst3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ConcReoEst at Free against Piles Section's $99.99. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ConcReoEst is free to download; Piles Section costs $99.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Piles Section versus ConcReoEst: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiles SectionConcReoEst
Price$99.99Free — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperhetGE LLCCRAIG M SINCLAIR

In-app purchases

None

Piles Section

No in-app purchases

None

ConcReoEst

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Piles Section free?
Piles Section costs $99.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ConcReoEst free?
ConcReoEst is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Piles Section or ConcReoEst have ads?
Neither Piles Section nor ConcReoEst shows ads.

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