Comparison

Spool vs Klipperdock

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

Klipperdock

Features
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KlipperDock — Moonraker & Klipper, nativ auf dem iPhone, iPad & AppleTV KlipperDock ist der mobile Begleiter für deine Klipper-Drucker: schnell, übersichtlich und für mehrere Drucker gleichzeitig gebaut. Ob im Heimnetz, über VPN oder hinter einem Reverse Proxy — du behältst Status, Steuerung und Überblick, ohne am Drucker zu stehen. Mehrere Drucker, ein Dashboard Verwalte deine gesamte Drucker-Farm in einer klaren Liste. Filter nach Online, Druck, Offline oder Deaktiviert, Suche nach Namen und Tags, Favoriten und Farm-Übersicht mit Fortschritt auf einen Blick. Drucker lassen sich deaktivieren, wenn sie gerade nicht überwacht werden sollen. Verbinden leicht gemacht Der Verbindungs-Assistent erkennt Host, Port, HTTPS und Pfad automatisch — auch mit OctoEverywhere- oder Obico-URLs. Reverse-Proxy-Anmeldung (HTTP Basic Auth) ist integriert. API-Tokens landen sicher in der Keychain, nicht in der Cloud. Live-Monitoring Moonraker-WebSocket für Echtzeit-Updates, mit robuster HTTP-Fallback-Logik bei schwierigen Verbindungen. Dashboard mit Fortschrittsring, Schicht, ETA, Filament, Flow und Temperatur-Gauges. Temperaturverläufe als Charts, Diagnose-Infos und Status-Logs zum Teilen oder an den Support. Druck steuern — von überall Pause, Fortsetzen, Abbrechen. Makros mit Favoriten, Suche und Sicherheitsabfragen bei kritischen Befehlen. Power-Devices schalten, Objekte während des Drucks ausschließen, Material-Presets (PLA, PETG, eigene Profile) und G-Code direkt starten — optional mit Vorheizen. Dateien & Historie G-Code-Dateien durchsuchen, sortieren, Vorschau ansehen, umbenennen, löschen und drucken. Lokale Druckhistorie mit Filter, Reprint, Export und konfigurierbarer Aufbewahrung. Spoolman & Happy Hare MMU Spools verwalten und aktivieren — Filamentgewicht wird über Moonraker/Spoolman mitgeführt. Happy-Hare-MMU mit farbigen Gates, aktivem Spool und Spoolman-Integration direkt im Dashboard. Webcam & Spaghetti-Wächter Zwei Kamera-Slots pro Drucker, Live-Stream und Snapshots — auch mit Proxy-Authentifizierung. Der Spaghetti-Wächter vergleicht während des Drucks Bilder und kann warnen oder pausieren (Heuristik, kein Cloud-Dienst). Benachrichtigungen, die Sinn ergeben Lokal auf dem Gerät: Druckstart, Pause, Abschluss, Fehler, Filament-Runout, Temperatur, Verbindungsverlust und Spaghetti — pro Drucker einstellbar, mit Cooldown gegen Spam. Statistiken & Einblicke Erfolgsquote, Fehlerkategorien und Aktivität der letzten 7 und 30 Tage — aus Moonraker und lokaler Historie, visualisiert mit Charts. Apple-Ökosystem Widgets für Home Screen: Status, Dateiname, Fortschritt, Restzeit Live Activity & Dynamic Island während des Drucks Apple Watch: Restzeit, Schicht, Druckdauer Apple TV: Dashboard mit Kamera und Live-Status Deep Links direkt zum Drucker-Dashboard Einstellungen & Datenschutz iCloud-Sync für Druckerprofile und Einstellungen (API-Keys bleiben gerätegebunden). Hell/Dunkel/System, Deutsch & Englisch, Diagnose- und Support-Berichte per E-Mail. KlipperDock richtet sich an Maker, die Klipper ernst nehmen — und eine App wollen, die sich anfühlt wie Teil von iOS, nicht wie ein nachgebautes Web-Interface. Testet on Anycubic Kobra3V2. Should work with any 3DPrinter with Moonraker Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://pixel-project.de/klipperdock/support.html Datenschutzerklärung / Privacy Policy: https://pixel-project.de/klipperdock/privacy.html

Screenshots

Spool4 screens
Klipperdock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Klipperdock at 17.0 against Spool's 26.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Klipperdock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Spool versus Klipperdock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpoolKlipperdock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLucas MeloNorman Hennige

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
2 purchases

Klipperdock

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Yearly$8.991 Year

Questions

Is Spool free?
Spool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Klipperdock free?
Klipperdock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spool or Klipperdock have ads?
Neither Spool nor Klipperdock shows ads.

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