Comparison

Smart Tools! vs InchWise

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

Head to head
About

Smart Tools!

Features
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Smart Tools brings the measurement and construction utilities you reach for on a job site into one clean, easy-to-use app. Whether you are hanging a picture, checking a surface, estimating materials, or reading sensor levels, Smart Tools helps you get accurate results without switching between multiple apps. Built for contractors, tradespeople, DIY homeowners, and anyone who works with their hands, Smart Tools combines leveling, outdoor navigation, measurement, construction math, and sensor tools in a single toolkit you can carry in your pocket. What you can do with Smart Tools • Level surfaces with a responsive bubble level and angle readout • Find direction with a digital compass and declination support • View GPS coordinates, altitude, and speed for outdoor work • Measure with an on-screen ruler in metric and imperial units • Estimate real-world distance and height using AR surface detection • Check angles with a sensor-based and camera protractor • Convert length, area, volume, mass, pressure, and speed units • Calculate paint, tile, flooring, concrete, and pipe quantities • Read sound levels, light intensity, magnetic fields, and vibration • Save favorites and search tools quickly from the home screen • Switch between light, dark, and system appearance • Calibrate sensor tools and reset calibration when needed Designed for real-world use Smart Tools is made for practical tasks: leveling a shelf, checking a wall angle, confirming coordinates on site, estimating how much paint or tile you need, or taking a quick sound or light reading. Tools are organized by category so you can open what you need in seconds. AR measurement tools use your device camera to detect surfaces and estimate distance and height in the environment around you. Sensor tools use your phone’s built-in hardware to display live readings on screen. Construction calculators help you plan material quantities with clear inputs and useful results you can share. Privacy and your data No account is required. Measurements, calculator entries, favorites, and settings are stored locally on your device. Smart Tools requests camera, location, microphone, and motion permissions only when a specific tool needs them. You can manage permissions anytime in iOS Settings. Smart Tools is free to download and supported by ads. We do not require you to create a profile or sign in to use the app. Download Smart Tools today and keep leveling, measuring, calculating, and sensing tools ready whenever you need them.

About

InchWise

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InchWise is the feet-and-inches calculator that stops being rented. Add 14' 3-5/8" to 9' 11-3/4", divide the result by 16" on centre, convert it to millimetres, and keep every step on a tape you can scroll back through, label and correct. That is arithmetic a builder does all day, and an ordinary calculator cannot do it at all. WHAT IT SOLVES • Roof and right angle - rise, run, diagonal, pitch in rise-per-foot and in degrees, common rafter, hip and valley • Stair layout - riser count, exact riser height, tread depth, total run, stringer length • Area and volume - rooms, walls with openings, slabs, footings, columns, circles and arcs • Materials - concrete in yards, metres and bags, studs at your spacing, drywall sheets, tile with waste, paint from a coverage rate you enter, decking, roofing squares A TAPE, NOT A SINGLE NUMBER Every entry stays on screen with its operator and the running result beside it. Label a line "back wall", fix a typo three lines up, and everything below it recomputes in front of you. This is the part a handheld with one display line has never done. EXACT, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Feet, inches and fractions down to 1/64 are held exactly, never as a rounded decimal, and every result carries a line restating the measurements it came from. A stair of 111" over 15 risers is 7.400" per riser, and InchWise says so - then tells you that 7-3/8" risers would leave you 3/8" short at the top. A wrong length gets cut into a real board, so nothing here is rounded quietly. YOUR LIMITS, NOT OURS The stair solver asks you for your own maximum riser and minimum tread. InchWise ships none of its own, and no tables of any kind, because rules differ from place to place and change over time, and a stale number inside an offline app is worse than no number at all. NO MONEY, ANYWHERE There is no currency field in InchWise and no totals in money. It measures and it counts; what those quantities are worth is your business, not the app's. EXPORT IS FREE. ALWAYS. Save your work as a named job, then export it as a printable PDF or a CSV, any time, behind no purchase. With no cloud in this version, that is also how you keep a copy. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Jobs, tapes and material lists are stored only on this iPhone. No account, no sign-in, no cloud and no server - so it works in a basement, on a roof, and in a van with no bars. FREE, WITH ADS - AND A WAY OUT InchWise is free and supported by Google AdMob. A banner sits on the jobs and settings screens, and a single full-screen ad can appear after an export file has already been saved. No ad ever appears on the calculator, on the tape, on the roof or stair solver, or while a result is on screen. One optional purchase removes all advertising forever and unlocks nothing, because nothing is locked. GOOD TO KNOW • iPhone, iOS 17 or later • Imperial and metric, mixed freely in the same expression • Fraction display from 1/2 to 1/64, your choice • Light and dark, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver supported • A sample job on first run, so you can see it working before typing anything • This version has no cloud sync, no iPad or Watch app, no camera and no money features

Screenshots

Smart Tools!4 screens
InchWise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart Tools! at none against InchWise's 1. Smart Tools! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). InchWise's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price 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. InchWise sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Smart Tools! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Tools! ships an update weekly, InchWise every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 1 level
Smart Tools! versus InchWise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Tools!InchWise
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVENUSAPPS PRIVATE LIMITEDorlando florez

In-app purchases

None

Smart Tools!

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

InchWise

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Smart Tools! free?
Smart Tools! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is InchWise free?
InchWise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smart Tools! or InchWise have ads?
InchWise shows ads; Smart Tools! does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Tools! or InchWise?
Smart Tools! ships an update weekly, and InchWise every 3 days. Most recently, Smart Tools! was updated on October 2, 2026 and InchWise on October 10, 2026.

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