Comparison

ToolScanner vs Spool

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

Head to head
About

ToolScanner

Design and generate custom 3D printable storage solutions for any item. Easily create perfect-fit holders, boxes, and baseplates for tools, kitchenware, or craft supplies. Get ready-to-print STL files in seconds.

Highlights
  • Create custom holders for any item
  • Design storage boxes and baseplates
  • Generate STL files for 3D printing
  • Use photos or dimensions for design
  • Preview and adjust designs before printing
  • Organize tools, kitchenware, and supplies
Features
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Transform your workspace, kitchen, or garage with custom Gridfinity storage. Create perfect-fit holders for tools, kitchen utensils, craft supplies, or anything else you need to organize. Just take a picture or set dimensions, and get a ready-to-print STL file in seconds. You can create default Gridfinity boxes, baseplates and custom tool inserts with just a few taps! Features: • Create custom holders for anything • Tools, kitchen utensils, craft supplies • Take a picture or set dimensions • Preview and adjust before printing • Design storage boxes and baseplates • Custom sizes for any space • Perfect for drawers, shelves, or walls • Organize anything from screws to spices • Export and print • Get STL files instantly • Works with any 3D printer • Share your designs

About

Spool

Manage your 3D printing filament inventory with detailed tracking of materials, costs, and stock levels. Log print details, monitor printer maintenance, and gain insights into your printing habits. Integrates with Bambu Lab printers for automatic data logging.

Highlights
  • Filament spool tracking
  • Cost and weight logging
  • Low-stock warnings
  • Print logging and analysis
  • Bambu Lab printer integration
  • Printer maintenance schedules
  • NFC/QR code spool tagging
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You have 40 spools. You're about to start a 12-hour print. How much PETG do you actually have? Spool is precision filament inventory for 3D printing. Know what you have, what it costs, and what's running low. Built by a maker tired of guessing. Now on Mac too. TRACK YOUR COLLECTION Fast spool entry with auto-fill from screenshots and product links. Material, brand, colour, weight, cost, storage. Remaining weight tracked to the gram, with low-stock warnings at the levels you set. THE HUB Tap the centre tab and a glass command centre opens over any screen. Add a spool, log a print, scan a tag, open analytics or your printers, all from one place. IMPORT FROM YOUR SLICER Send a sliced .gcode or .3mf to Spool and the print writes itself up from what the file carries: name, print time, filament weight, material and colour. Spool suggests the matching spool and finds the printer in your Workshop. Not every slicer's files can be read yet. THE PRINT TRAY Imported files wait in the tray with Bambu Cloud prints you have not logged yet. Nothing is recorded until you review it. With iCloud on, logging or discarding on one device clears it on the others. PRINT LOG & PRINT STORY Every print holds its full process settings, filled in for you when the print comes from Bambu Cloud. Rate each one and record why it failed. Tap any print and its story opens full screen: costs, telemetry and spool gauges, with previous attempts on Pro. YOUR INVENTORY AS A SPREADSHEET Choose your columns, sort and resize them, group your spools and total up their count and weight. Save the arrangement as a named view: free, with no limit. Exports to CSV. BAMBU LAB INTEGRATION Connect your Bambu Cloud account and your prints fill the tray ready to log. Free for everyone. AMS multi-material prints split per slot, and Spool remembers your last match. CATEGORIES Built-in categories, plus as many of your own as you like. Spool suggests one per print and learns your overrides. Colour, emoji, auto-tagging and per-category insights are Pro. PRINTER MAINTENANCE Schedules drawn from manufacturer documentation for popular Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Anycubic and Elegoo models, with a standard task set for the rest. A live health score per printer: overdue tasks turn red, completing one lifts it. SPOOLTAG Tap your iPhone to an NFC-tagged spool and everything opens instantly. Every label carries a QR code that scans from the camera. Spool reads and writes filament tags. Label Studio designs labels for thermal rolls, sticker sheets or A4, or exports vector PDF. AR Inventory overlays live data above every tagged spool. ANALYTICS & INTELLIGENCE Dashboards for Pulse, Economics, Energy, Material and Hardware. Add your electricity rate once and prints show material and energy cost together. WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT Shelves, dryers, AMS units and boxes, with humidity and seal date tracking. Shopping list and batch management for multi-packs. START FREE 20 spools, 2 printers, 4 storage locations, 30 days of analytics. Bambu Cloud sync, slicer import, the Print Tray, Saved Views, CSV import, SpoolTag, AR Inventory, widgets and Print Story included. GO PRO Unlimited spools, printers and storage. Lifetime analytics, category insights and print lineage. Label Studio with thermal, sticker sheet and vector PDF exports. Batch printing, category customisation, inventory value totals, maintenance notifications and Live Activities. SUBSCRIPTION & PURCHASE INFO Spool offers a one-time Spool Pack, which permanently adds 10 slots to a free account, and two auto-renewing subscriptions, Spool Pro Monthly and Yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation and renews unless cancelled 24 hours before the period ends. Manage in Account Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lance-studio.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

ToolScanner4 screens
Spool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Spool at 5.0 against ToolScanner's 4.0. Spool also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). ToolScanner's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. ToolScanner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Spool sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spool holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spool has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ToolScanner ships an update every 3 months, Spool every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ToolScanner versus Spool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToolScannerSpool
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJan HalozanLucas Melo

Customer experience

ToolScanner

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spool

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ToolScanner

One-time3
  • 50 Credits$0.99
  • 250 Credits$3.99
  • 1000 Credits$12.99
3 purchases

Spool

Subscriptions2
  • Spool Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Spool Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • +10 Spool Capacity$0.99

Questions

Is ToolScanner free?
ToolScanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spool free?
Spool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ToolScanner or Spool?
Spool is rated higher. ToolScanner averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Spool averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do ToolScanner or Spool have ads?
Neither ToolScanner nor Spool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ToolScanner or Spool?
ToolScanner ships an update every 3 months, and Spool every 2 weeks. Most recently, ToolScanner was updated on October 1, 2026 and Spool on October 10, 2026.

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