Beam vs Cantilever Retaining Wall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beam
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This application is a calculator of fixed end reactions in structural analyzer for educational or prototyping uses. Featured items are load designer by touching and drawer to PDF.
Cantilever Retaining Wall
This app assists in the design and analysis of cantilever retaining walls. It performs stability evaluations for overturning, bearing, and sliding, and designs wall components for bending and shear. Comprehensive reports are generated in PDF and DXF formats.
- Stability evaluation (overturning, bearing, sliding)
- Component design (stem, heel, toe, key)
- Bending and shear calculations
- PDF and DXF report generation
- Graphic display of forces and diagrams
- Reinforcement optimization
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This application includes two major calculation steps and provide you a comprehensive calculation report in PDF and in DXF(Autocad): - Stability evaluation which includes the overturning, bearing, and sliding failure modes. - Designing the different components of Retaining Wall: stem, heel, toe and key, for bending and shear, under the combined factored loads. Results: - Check stability Verticals and Laterals forces. - Graphic display of forces and pressures acting upon the wall. - Establish Stem, Heel, Toe and Key thickness by Verifying shear & moment. - Bearing Capacity Verification. - Graphic plot moment and shear diagrams to optimize reinforcing bars. - Graphic plot for required flexural reinforcement to optimize reinforcing bars. - Complete stability analysis for overturning, sliding, and bearing. - Graphic plot of Nominal Moment. - Graphic plot Stress diagrams. - Graphic plot Neutral axes diagrams. - Graphic plot for wall elevation with Cutoff Location in Tension side. - Concrete design of stem, toe, heel, and key. - Graphic plot for reinforcement distribution - Ability to create a DXF file containing the reinforcement in details - Create a comprehensive calculation report containing all calculation details
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Beam at Free against Cantilever Retaining Wall's $14.99. Beam also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). Cantilever Retaining Wall's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 41 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Beam is free to download; Cantilever Retaining Wall costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beam ships an update every 41 months, Cantilever Retaining Wall every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beam | Cantilever Retaining Wall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 41 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tsutomu Murata | Rab Elias |
In-app purchases
Beam
No in-app purchases
Cantilever Retaining Wall
No in-app purchases
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