Cut List Optimizer vs Cutbench

SawKit works out how to cut your parts from sheets of plywood, MDF or melamine — and timber, battens and tube from the lengths you buy — with the least waste. Then it walks you through the cuts at the saw, one at a time. Type your cut list the way you'd say it. 15 3/16. 3/4". 4' 6". Millimetres if that's your shop. A unit written on a number always wins, so imported hardware drops into a metric project without doing sums. WHAT IT DOES • Lays out sheets. It tries twelve packing strategies on your list and keeps the best, across as many sheets as it takes — and says how many sheets to buy, or how many more you need. • Lays out lengths. Rails, legs and battens are cut from your bar lengths, with the offcut shown on each bar. • Respects the grain. Give a part a material with grain and it follows that grain on its own. Set it by hand wherever you want. • Accounts for the blade. Kerf and edge trim are part of the calculation, and you can change them right in the project. • Takes you to the saw. One cut at a time, both sides of the blade in big figures, each cut ticked off and grayed on the drawing. The screen stays on. • Cuts the way a saw cuts. Every cut runs edge to edge across the piece in your hands — never one that stops halfway. • Prints. A page per sheet and per set of bars, plus a shopping list with prices and a total — to mark off as you work. • Runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. On the iPhone it works on its side too. • Works with no signal at all. Workshops are usually the worst room in the building for that. FREE The whole calculation, the drawings for sheets and bars, the saw screen and the shop calculators. Up to 25 parts, three projects, one kind of sheet and one kind of bar. PRO (one payment, no subscription) Unlimited parts, projects and stock, with several materials in one project. PDF export and printing. The cut order on the drawing. Edge banding edge by edge: parts cut to size, banding counted and priced. Offcuts kept in your library and used first next time. Your own stock list with prices. Your projects on every device you own through iCloud, kept in step as you work. SHOP CALCULATORS — always free Board feet with cost. Purchase allowance, done properly: waste comes out of what you buy, not what you need, so 15% waste means buying about 18% more — not 15%. Project cost with markup. PRIVACY Nothing is collected. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your cut lists stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Cutbench turns your parts list into the most material-efficient cutting plan for the plywood and lumber you actually have — then walks you through every single cut at the saw. START IN ONE TAP Pick a template — base cabinet, bookshelf, workbench or drawer boxes — and every part and sheet is filled in for you. Change any dimension to fit your build. STOP WASTING SHEETS Laying out cabinet parts on plywood by hand is slow, and getting it wrong costs you an extra sheet, an extra trip to the lumber yard, and a ruined afternoon. Cutbench computes an optimized layout in under a second — accounting for saw kerf, grain direction, and the stock you actually own. KNOW WHAT TO BUY Every plan comes with a material list: how many sheets and boards you need, with cost totals when you enter prices. Share it straight to your phone's notes or messages before you head to the lumber yard. CUT-ALONG MODE Every other cut-list app stops at a diagram. Cutbench keeps going: a full-screen, one-cut-at-a-time guide that tells you exactly where to cut next, in order, with giant fraction-native measurements you can read from across the shop. Tap "Done" after each cut and move to the next. REMEMBERS YOUR SCRAP Leftover plywood from a finished project gets saved to your offcut bin. Next time you optimize a new project, Cutbench checks your offcuts first — before it tells you to open a fresh sheet. SHARE YOUR PLAN Send your cutting plan as an image to a client, a helper or a woodworking forum. BUILT FOR THE SHOP, NOT A SPREADSHEET • Fraction-native input — type 24 3/8", not 24.375 • Grain-direction locking so parts are never rotated the wrong way • Edge-banding allowance tracking • Sheet goods (plywood, MDF) and linear stock (boards, trim) in one project • Printable cut plans and part labels (PDF export) • Material presets: 4x8 and 4x10 plywood, 5x5 Baltic birch, and more • Inches, decimals or metric • iPad support PRIVACY BY DESIGN Cutbench doesn't need an account, doesn't need the internet, and doesn't collect your project data. Everything lives on your device. PRICING Try it free — unlimited optimizations, one saved project. Cutbench Pro unlocks unlimited projects, unlimited parts, Cut-Along mode, PDF export, and the offcut bin, starting at $24.99/year or $49.99 once, forever. Terms of Use: https://cutbench.info/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://cutbench.info/privacy.html