Comparison

Spool vs MakerPrice

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

Head to head
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

About

MakerPrice

Features
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Stop guessing your prices. MakerPrice is the ultimate cost calculator for 3D printing, UV printing, and additive manufacturing professionals. Whether you are a hobbyist selling on Etsy or a print farm managing dozens of orders, MakerPrice gives you the true cost of every job. Key Features: • Precise Material Tracking: Calculate exact filament usage and cost per gram, or ink consumption per channel for UV printing. • UV Printing Support: Calculate substrate costs, ink consumption (simple blended kit or advanced per-channel CMYK, White, Varnish, and Primer), machine wear, and labor. Supports one-off custom substrates and saved library blanks. • Hidden Costs: Automatically factor in electricity, machine wear-and-tear, and depreciation. • Labor & Post-Processing: Add costs for slicing, painting, dyeing, tumbling, and assembly. • Profit Margins: Set your desired markup and see your final retail price instantly. • Shipping: Select from saved carrier rates with box multiplier support, local delivery, or customer pickup. • Printer & Material Database: Pre-loaded profiles for Bambu Lab, Prusa, Creality, Roland, Mimaki, Epson, and more.

Screenshots

Spool4 screens
MakerPrice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MakerPrice at none against Spool's 3. MakerPrice also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.1). Spool's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price 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. Spool sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MakerPrice asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spool ships an update every 2 weeks, MakerPrice every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spool versus MakerPrice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpoolMakerPrice
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.116.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLucas MeloWright Consulting, LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Spool

Subscriptions2
  • Spool Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Spool Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • +10 Spool Capacity$0.99
None

MakerPrice

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spool free?
Spool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MakerPrice free?
MakerPrice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spool or MakerPrice have ads?
MakerPrice shows ads; Spool does not.
Which is updated more often, Spool or MakerPrice?
Spool ships an update every 2 weeks, and MakerPrice every 3 months. Most recently, Spool was updated on October 10, 2026 and MakerPrice on October 21, 2026.

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