Construction Expert A1 PRO vs TrueCut

Replace your $100+ hardware calculator with a smarter one. Construction Expert A1 Pro puts 150+ professional construction calculators in your pocket — feet-inch-fraction math, roofing, rafters, stairs, framing, concrete, material take-offs and more. Works fully offline. Built for general contractors, framers, carpenters, builders, estimators, electricians, plumbers, HVAC pros and serious DIY builders. WHY CONTRACTORS SWITCH - Enter 12' 7-3/16" the way you read it on the tape — no decimal conversion - Live drawings highlight each dimension as you enter it, so you know what every number means - One consistent keypad across every calculator, with a Next key that guides you through each form - Save calculations by project, attach photos, export branded PDF reports for your bid - No signal needed — works on the roof, in the basement or at the back of the lot PROFESSIONAL CONSTRUCTION CALCULATOR - Full feet, inches & fraction math, 1/16 to 1/64 with automatic simplification - Feet, inches, yards, meters, centimeters & millimeters - Percentage, square, cube, square root & reciprocal - Degrees-minutes-seconds and trigonometry (sin, cos, tan) - Expression mode with 12 construction formula templates - Running tape with save, share & print - 3 memory registers plus cumulative memory with count & average ROOFING & RAFTER CALCULATORS - Pitch, rise, run & diagonal — solve right triangles instantly - Common rafter length with plumb and level cut angles - Hip, valley & jack rafters with cheek cuts and on-center increments - Irregular and dual-pitch roofs - Rake wall stud lengths, ascending or descending - Roof area, squares, bundles & 4x8 sheet count - Interactive rafter diagrams STAIR & STRINGER CALCULATOR - Total rise to risers, treads & total run - Riser adjustment - Stringer length and angle, open or closed stringers - Interactive stair diagram with labeled dimensions TRADE CALCULATORS - Electrical: wire sizing (NEC), voltage drop, conduit fill, box fill & service sizing - Plumbing: pipe sizing, DFU, water heater, fitting offsets & drain slope - HVAC: BTU load, duct sizing, CFM & refrigerant charge - Landscaping: mulch, gravel, sod, irrigation, retaining walls & pavers MATERIAL ESTIMATION & TAKE-OFFS - Concrete volume for slabs, footings & columns, plus bag counts and rebar - Board feet, stud spacing & stud counts - Roofing squares, bundles, felt & ridge vent - Drywall, siding, flooring & insulation - Fence, deck, baluster & spindle spacing 57+ AREA & VOLUME SHAPES - Rectangles to L-shaped rooms, gable walls, pipes & toruses - Concrete steps, retaining walls & trenches - Perimeter, area, surface area & volume with labeled interactive diagrams 50+ CONSTRUCTION UNIT CONVERTERS - Length, area, volume, weight, temperature & pressure - Concrete bags, rebar, CMU blocks, board feet & aggregates - Lumber, drywall, roofing, siding, flooring & insulation - Wire gauge, conduit & breakers; PVC, copper & PEX pipe; HVAC tonnage PROJECTS, NOTES & EXPORT - Organize calculations by project and folder, with rich-text notes and photos - Favorites and searchable history - Professional PDF reports with your company branding - 7 PDF generators: rafters, stairs, fences, balusters, miters, materials & estimates - CSV, PNG & plain-text export MADE TO FIT YOUR WORK - Imperial or metric default units; fraction resolution from 1/2 to 1/64 - Dark, light or system theme; home screen widgets; haptic feedback - English, Spanish, French, German & Arabic PRICING Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase with no recurring charges. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://www.binaryandbricks.com/app/privacypolicy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Pro construction calculator. One-time purchase. No subscription. See the cut, not just the number. Every rafter, stair, crown, and baluster answer draws a live, dimensioned diagram, and "Explain this cut" walks you through the layout step by step, in the order you'd mark the stock. Free 14-day full trial, then $24.99 once. Basic feet-inch math and the baluster solver stay free forever. No account, no ads, no analytics. Built for gloves, thumbs, and full sun: a fraction-native keypad (tap 5, then 1/2, done), big keys with a haptic tick on every press, and a one-tap high-contrast Site Mode for the jobsite. THE PLEDGE • One-time purchase. No subscriptions. Ever. • Free 14-day full trial, disclosed up front. No payment info to start. • Basic feet-inch math and the equal-spacing baluster solver stay free forever. • Family Sharing on the Full Unlock. The household owns the tool. RAFTER STUDIO • Common, hip, valley (regular and irregular), and jack rafters with a numbered cut list • Explain this cut: ridge plumb cut, line length, ridge deduction, birdsmouth, tail, and stock length as ordered layout steps • Pitch gauge: lay the phone on the roof or rafter, hold, zero, and write the pitch into the solver • Plumb, level, and cheek angles shown as saw-dial settings • Ridge allowance, overhang, and HAP STAIR STUDIO • Riser and tread solver with a scrollable stringer diagram • Explain this cut: divide the rise, set the gauges, step off the stringer, drop the stringer, check headroom • Reference checks against your configured IRC, IBC, NBC, NCC, or UK Approved Document K limit presets, never a compliance ruling • +1 / −1 riser stepper re-solves live so you trade riser height against run • Headroom and stairwell opening checks; framing-square gauge settings on the cut sheet DECK & BALUSTER STUDIO • Equal-spacing baluster solver: count, center-to-center, and the first mark off the post (free forever) • On-center joist and stud layout at 12, 16, 19.2, 24" or custom • Full fence takeoffs: post bays, rails, pickets or panels, gates, post-hole concrete, and 3-4-5 square-up CROWN & MITER STUDIO • Spring-angle presets (38°, 45°, 52°) plus custom • Compound miter and bevel for any corner angle, drawn as saw dials • Nested vs. flat cutting guidance with a diagram MATERIALS STUDIO • Concrete volume and bag counts, roofing squares, drywall and siding sheets, paint, flooring, tile, blocks, board feet, studs • Arc & Circle card: circumference, area, arc length, and arch layout • Lightweight estimates with waste factor and unit cost that roll up to a total LASER MEASURE • Capture a distance from a supported Bosch GLM or Leica DISTO straight into the keypad and tape, over Bluetooth, on device FULL FEET-INCH-FRACTION MATH • Add, subtract, multiply, divide, powers, and square roots across mixed units • Decimal feet, decimal inches, yards, and full metric (m, cm, mm) • Fraction resolution from 1/2 to 1/64 with smart auto-reduce • Convert in place, memory slots, square-up with angle entry, and a persistent, labeled tape you can restore and edit PROJECTS, WIDGETS, AND SIRI • Save cut sheets, estimates, and tape lines into named projects and share a whole project as one PDF • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your last result; a Control Center button opens the keypad • Siri and Shortcuts open any studio by name SHARE THE CUT Every studio exports a dimensioned Cut Sheet PDF, with an optional layout-steps page. AirDrop or text it to your crew. PRIVACY No analytics, no accounts, no ads. The app makes no network calls of its own. Purchases are handled by Apple. App Privacy label: Data Not Collected. Reference calculation — verify against local code and field conditions before cutting.