Comparison

PipeFabAR vs Pipe Offset

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

Head to head
About

PipeFabAR

Design and generate pipe isometric drawings for fabrication or material quotations. Organize your work into projects, work packages, and spools with a few simple clicks.

Highlights
  • Create pipe isometrics
  • Organize into projects
  • Manage work packages
  • Generate spools for fabrication
  • Issue for material quotations
Features
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Easily create pipe isometrics in just a few clicks. Create projects, work packages, and package spools to issue for fabrication or send to vendors for material quotations. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Pipe Offset

Features
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Solve the offset. Read the cut off the drawing. Own it once. Pipe Offset turns rise, roll, and your fitting angle into the one number you actually cut to — the end-of-pipe cut length — and draws it on a labeled isometric that redraws live as you type. There's no calculate button, no login, and no subscription. It works in airplane mode on the jobsite, forever. BUILT FOR THE CUT, NOT JUST THE TRAVEL Most offset apps stop at center-to-center travel. Pipe Offset keeps going: it subtracts each fitting's takeout and folds in thread makeup or Victaulic groove engagement, so the number on screen is where you actually cut the stick. • Simple and rolling offsets — enter rise, roll, and a continuous fitting-angle field (45 / 30 / 22.5 / 11.25 / 60 are one-tap seeds, never the only path) • Welded, threaded NPT, and Victaulic-grooved fitting systems — with user-overridable takeout / makeup, so an un-tabled combo is never a dead end • Every pipe size and schedule — no 42-inch cap • Fractions in the fitter's own notation, inches and mm ACCURACY YOU CAN VERIFY BEFORE YOU PAY The cheap apps are provably wrong — an 8-inch rolling-offset error is real out there. The complete single-offset instrument — correct trig, takeout-to-cut, and the labeled iso — is FREE, so you can cut a real stick and check our math before spending a cent. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S NOT Free, forever: the full single-offset solve (simple + rolling), the continuous angle field, all pipe sizes and fitting systems, the per-solve takeout override, the live labeled isometric, and the end-of-pipe cut. One-time unlock ($19.99): parallel / equal-spread banks (N pipes, spacing, staggered cuts), obstruction mode (type a clearance, get the minimum offset that clears it), save & recall named jobs, and export — labeled iso PNG, cut-sheet PDF, and a re-importable JSON round-trip. That's it. No subscription. No account. Restore Purchases is built in for a new phone or a reinstall. Priced like the $54 wheel on your truck — bought once, not rented by the year. Always confirm against your own layout and cut list. Pipe Offset supports your layout decisions; it is not a substitute for code, spec, or a qualified fitter's judgment.

Screenshots

PipeFabAR4 screens
Pipe Offset4 screens

Verdict

The call

PipeFabAR and Pipe Offset are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. PipeFabAR sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month and Pipe Offset sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PipeFabAR versus Pipe Offset: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPipeFabARPipe Offset
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMission Integrated SystmesLaure Shin

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PipeFabAR

Subscriptions1
  • PipeFabAR Pro$7.991 Month
1 purchases

Pipe Offset

One-time1
  • Unlock PipeOffset$19.99

Questions

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

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