Comparison

Flat Pattern Bend Calculators vs WeldUp Pocket

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

Head to head
About

Flat Pattern Bend Calculators

Calculate flat pattern dimensions for complex fabricated components like bends, elbows, tees, and cones. This tool simplifies layouts for challenging shapes using triangulation methods, saving time and ensuring precision in fabrication work.

Highlights
  • Flat pattern calculations for bends, tees, elbows, cones
  • Handles advanced shapes like truncated cones and pyramids
  • Includes transition layouts (round-to-square, etc.)
  • Uses triangulation methods for complex layouts
  • Streamlines sheet metal calculations
Features
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Quickly and accurately calculate the flat pattern dimensions for various fabricated components including lobsterback bends, elbows, tee pieces, frustum cones, truncated pipes, cones with accessible vertices, and complex transitions like round-to-square or square-to-round. This app uses triangulation methods to simplify layouts for even the most challenging shapes like screw flights, truncated pyramids, and angled pipe cuts. Key Features: - Supports flat pattern calculations for bends, tees, elbows, cones, and pipe intersections - Handles advanced shapes like truncated cones, pyramids, and screw flights - Includes transition layouts: round to square, square to round, and rectangle to round Designed for professionals in: - Pressure vessel fabrication - Piping and ducting - Welding and insulation - Storage tanks, heat exchangers, agitators - Mechanical and process equipment - Structural and industrial fabrication Download now and streamline your sheet metal calculations today! Whether you're on the shop floor or in the field, this tool will save you time and ensure precision in your fabrication work. In app purchase included : Monthly for 3.99$ Yearly for 5.99$ Life time for 9.99$ Privacy policy : https://privacypolicy50.wordpress.com/privacy-policy-subscription/ Terms and condition :https://privacypolicy50.wordpress.com/terms-and-condition/

About

WeldUp Pocket

This app provides a comprehensive suite of tools for pipefitters, welders, and fabricators. It offers calculations for offsets, tube bending, welding settings, and material specifications, all accessible offline. Designed for practical use in the field, it helps streamline complex calculations and job management.

Highlights
  • Offline functionality
  • Pipefitting calculations (offset, bending, templates)
  • Welding settings and distortion analysis
  • Fabrication development tools
  • Material specification and traceability
  • Job management and export
  • Customizable interface for gloved hands
Features
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Pipefitting, welding and fabrication calculator. Works fully offline. WeldUp Pocket gathers what a pipefitter, a welder and a fabricator have always worked out in their head or on a scrap of cardboard: the offset, the flat pattern, the saddle, the machine settings. Fifty tools, one entry, one answer. Nothing to look up, nothing to wait for. EVERYTHING WORKS OFFLINE Under a vessel, in a trench, up in the steel: the app never asks for a signal. No account, no ads, no data leaving the phone. PIPEFITTER • Offsets — one menu for every shape: offset, rolling offset (3D), single elbow, cut elbows • Tube bending — where to mark, how much to cut, what the wall takes • Pipe branch template, elbow branch template, swept tee — the saddle wrap, printed at full scale • Iso sketch — draw the run first, dimension it after, get the pipe takeoff and the spool pieces, and export the drawing as a PDF • My ISO plans — save a drawing under a name, reopen it and keep editing • Pipe bank & flag — several lines on one route, the cut list line by line • Custom elbow — the take-out of an elbow cut to an angle the catalog does not carry • Custom reducer — where to cut a stock reducer for the size you are missing • Accessory library — a valve's face-to-face measured once, dropped onto the drawing in one tap • Hydrostatic test, test records — test pressure, the gauge to use, a log of tests with photos • Line weight — pipe, water, insulation • Level — slope and plumb, two full-screen vials, zeroed on the spot WELDER • Amperage settings — process, material, thickness, joint and position: a 10 A window to dial into the machine • Weld shrinkage — shrinkage, angular pull, the gap to build in before you weld instead of fighting it after • Gas selection — mix, ISO 14175 class, cylinder color • Flow and purge — flow rate, time, chamber volume • Weld spacing — intermittent welds laid out ahead • Weld traceability — a record for every weld, filed by job • Metallurgical compatibility and weld defect diagnostics • Torch components — TIG and MIG diagrams, tap any part FABRICATOR • Bend, cone, shell course and hopper development — the profile drawn bend by bend, the drawing as a PDF • Frame drawing, cutting optimisation — sketched with a finger, miter angles, bars and sheets with the least waste • Bump bending, element lines, trigonometry — press, layout, squaring • Neutral axis, joint allowances, weight, check circumference • Drilling and tapping — speed, feed, pilot hole, and the drill to pick for any M size REFERENCES • Material specification — which diameter, which wall, which grade for which job, with the loads to put a number on it • Material traceability — the camera reads the pipe marking (grade, heat number, lot) and files it under the open job • Flange gasket — start from the fluid, not the gasket: first choice, fallbacks, the traps that cost • Flange bolting — how many bolts, what diameter, what length, what wrench: EN 1092-1 and ASME B16.5 • Section weight — square tube, angle, flat, round • Grades, weld and piping symbols, polarity, fitting dimensions, unit converter BUILT AROUND THE JOB Open a job: everything calculated after that hangs off it. History reopens each tool with its values, and a whole job goes out in a single message — text, mail, chat. MADE FOR WORKING HANDS A keypad sized for a gloved finger, with the fraction bar. Light theme readable in full sun, dark in the shop. Imperial or metric: inches to the sixteenth, a dimension types as "3 1/2", the way it reads on the print. IN SIX LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS The values are indicative. They replace neither the applicable codes (ASME, AWS) nor a qualified WPS — they save the ten minutes between the question and the answer. And every result shows where its number comes from. Made by a welder, for the people who set the steel.

Screenshots

Flat Pattern Bend Calculators4 screens
WeldUp Pocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WeldUp Pocket at 100% against Flat Pattern Bend Calculators's 0%. WeldUp Pocket also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Flat Pattern Bend Calculators's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Flat Pattern Bend Calculators sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. WeldUp Pocket asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Flat Pattern Bend Calculators versus WeldUp Pocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlat Pattern Bend CalculatorsWeldUp Pocket
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShital GorasiyaLison Robin

Customer experience

Flat Pattern Bend Calculators

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

WeldUp Pocket

Written reviews13 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flat Pattern Bend Calculators

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Purchase$69.99
None

WeldUp Pocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flat Pattern Bend Calculators free?
Flat Pattern Bend Calculators is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WeldUp Pocket free?
WeldUp Pocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flat Pattern Bend Calculators or WeldUp Pocket have ads?
Neither Flat Pattern Bend Calculators nor WeldUp Pocket shows ads.

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