PipeFabAR vs Pipe Offset
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create pipe isometrics
- Organize into projects
- Manage work packages
- Generate spools for fabrication
- Issue for material quotations
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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/
Pipe Offset
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | PipeFabAR | Pipe Offset |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mission Integrated Systmes | Laure Shin |
In-app purchases
PipeFabAR
- PipeFabAR Pro$7.991 Month
Pipe Offset
- Unlock PipeOffset$19.99
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