Comparison

PipeFabAR vs XPipe Pro

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

XPipe Pro

This app calculates complex pipefitting measurements and generates accurate scale drawings for precise fabrication. It offers a comprehensive library of standards and allows for pattern export to CAD software.

Highlights
  • Twenty specialized pipefitting calculators
  • Scale drawings with dimensions for fabrication
  • Searchable standards library (PN-EN, DIN, ISO, SMS, ASME)
  • DXF and A4 pattern export for CAD and printing
  • Millimeter and inch unit support
  • Scientific calculator with history
Features
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XPipe Pro works out the numbers a pipefitter needs on the bench and draws the part they belong to, so the figure on screen and the shape in your hands agree. Every answer comes with a scale drawing of that exact assembly, dimensioned where you would put a tape on it — not a stock diagram of something similar. 35 CALCULATORS Assembly and layout: • S type — two half elbows in one plane, with or without an insert, solved six ways. • Rolled elbow — a 90° elbow turned about its inlet and a fitting that lays the run flat again, same six ways. • 3D run — a line across X, Y and Z, both angles solved separately, with the box you measure drawn around the pipe. • Elbow cut — an odd angle on an elbow: take-out, heel and throat arcs, chords, heights, and the arcs to mark back from the face you have. • Segmented elbow — a bend from straight pipe: segment lengths, saw angle, and the wave to wrap round the tube to mark the cut. • Branch / fishmouth — one pipe into another, square or skew: length to cut, set-back at up to 24 stations, and the hole in the run. • Eccentric branch — the same joint with axes set apart, each side marked on its own. • Elbow support — a tube cut to stand under a bend, off a torus seat, not a cylinder. • Cone layout — the flat sector for a full or truncated cone, with sheet size, area and volume. • Square-to-round transitions — twelve pieces off one construction, plus a pipe into a pyramid. • Pipe bank — several lines offset together: how far to hold each fitting back so the spacing holds through the slant. Shop and welding: • Dished head — blank diameter and knuckle allowance for hemispherical, elliptical or torispherical heads. • Fillet weld — throat, leg and weld metal for a or z, so a6 and z6 are never mixed up. • Reducer cut, purge gas, slope, pipe mass, pressure test, thermal expansion, cold spring, weld prep, shrinkage, flange studs, support spacing, and a scientific calculator with a full expression parser. WELDER QUALIFICATIONS AND PWHT (NEW IN 2.0) ISO 9606-1 and ASME IX certificates with their range worked out, renewal dates, reminders and a photo. PWHT under ASME B31.3: whether a weld needs it, the temperature and time, and which condition is missing to skip it. PIPE ISOMETRICS Draw a line as you set it out: a direction, a length, the next direction. Elbows and tees place themselves; add valves, flanges, reducers and supports. ISO 6412 symbols, elevations and centre-to-centre dimensions, a bill of materials, and a cut list that flags a take-out it does not know rather than guess it. Out as an A4 or A3 PDF, or as a link another fitter opens. A STANDARDS LIBRARY SEARCHED BY SIZE Type a dimension on its own — 53 — and the library returns every standard that tabulates it, saying why: "in the table · DN 50 · Ø53 × 1.5". A drawing quoting a superseded code like DIN 2463 finds the ISO 1127 that replaced it. 98 standards across PN-EN, DIN, ISO, SMS and ASME — pipe and flange tables among them — plus 239 isometric and drawing symbols from ISO 6412, ISO 4067, ISA-5.1 and related standards. FROM SCREEN TO STEEL Cone, transition, branch and segmented-elbow patterns export at 1:1 — as DXF a plasma table opens directly, or as A4 sheets with a printed ruler, catching a rescaled page before the steel does. MADE FOR THE JOB • A spirit level built in, for when the real one is in the van • Work sorted into jobs — one button makes a finished job a PDF sheet • One backup file for the whole history — no account, no server of ours • Millimetres or inches everywhere, at the precision you choose • 22 languages, switchable without restarting, right-to-left Urdu included • iPhone and iPad NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. XPipe Pro contains no network code at all. Nothing is collected or uploaded, and it works in flight mode at the bottom of a tank. XPipe Pro is a calculating aid, not a substitute for judgement or the drawings and standards a job is built to. Always check a figure on the steel.

Screenshots

PipeFabAR4 screens
XPipe Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PipeFabAR at Free against XPipe Pro's $19.99. XPipe Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

PipeFabAR is free to download; XPipe Pro costs $19.99 up front. PipeFabAR sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. XPipe Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PipeFabAR ships an update every 3 months, XPipe Pro every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PipeFabAR versus XPipe Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPipeFabARXPipe Pro
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMission Integrated SystmesJakub Trytek

Customer experience

PipeFabAR

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

XPipe Pro

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PipeFabAR

Subscriptions1
  • PipeFabAR Pro$7.991 Month
None

XPipe Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PipeFabAR free?
PipeFabAR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is XPipe Pro free?
XPipe Pro costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do PipeFabAR or XPipe Pro have ads?
Neither PipeFabAR nor XPipe Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PipeFabAR or XPipe Pro?
PipeFabAR ships an update every 3 months, and XPipe Pro every 3 days. Most recently, PipeFabAR was updated on October 8, 2026 and XPipe Pro on October 11, 2026.

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