Master Electrician Ref. Lite vs Conduit Bending
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Master Electrician Ref. Lite
This electronic pocket reference guide provides essential information for electrical professionals. It offers calculations, code tables, and detailed sections on motors, ampacities, grounding, and more, all accessible on your mobile device.
- Motor and wiring information
- Ampacity tables
- Conduit fill and grounding sizes
- Voltage drop calculations
- Conduit bending guide
- Integrated scientific calculator
- NEC code tables
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Master Electrician Reference Lite (or MER Lite for short) is your electronic pocket electrician reference guide. MER Lite is for electrical designers, engineers, installers, contractors, facility managers, inspectors, exam candidates, apprentices, electricians, journeymen, architects, and technicians. MER is for people doing residential, industrial, and commercial work. Simply, if you are a Master Sparky or work with electricity in any way, this reference guide is for you! Have you ever lost pages or had damaged pages in your pocket electricians reference? The solution is here: Use MER Lite to keep the most important information easily accessible on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. MER Lite will even do calculations for you; something your old pocket reference book can't do. MER Lite is divided into the following sections: * Motors and Wiring - Standard motor and motor starter sizes, tables of full-load currents, locked-rotor information, overload units, OCPD, nameplate information, synchronous motor speeds, three-phase STAR and DELTA diagrams, three-wire start-stop diagram, motor frame dimensions, and motor enclosure types. * Ampacities - Ampacities in raceway, cable, earth, and free air, and derating tables. * Conduit Fill table * Grounding Sizes - Equipment grounding conductor (EGC) and grounding electrode conductor (GEC). * Voltage Drop calculations * Conduit Bending - Includes the guide "The Master Bender Way" on how to bend conduit. See the Master Bender app or MasterBender.com website for more information. * Standard Tool List * Safety - Safety manual and first aid. Most pages contain a general scientific calculator. It is expression based: Just enter an expression and evaluate it. It understands trig and power functions, can convert between radians and degrees, and has built-in basic constants like pi and e. MER includes key NEC tables from the National Electrical Code (NEC) 2011. Visit our website at MasterSparky.com for more information. If you like MER Lite, you will love the full MER. It contains much more information. The full MER are available in versions covering the NEC 2011, 2014, and 2017 code years.
Conduit Bending
This app simplifies electrical conduit bending calculations with expert-designed tools. It offers advanced fractional and unit conversion capabilities, supporting a wide range of bend types for precise results. Easily switch between imperial and metric units and choose from predefined benders.
- Advanced fractional calculations
- Imperial and metric unit conversion
- Support for numerous bend types
- Predefined bender selection
- Expert-designed accuracy
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Conduit bending calculator app designed by experts with simplicity and beauty in mind, yet fast and most accurate! Unlike all the other Apps, Conduit Bending comes with advanced built in calculator made by the Creators of Calculator+, so you can easily deal with fractions, convert between cm and inches. Conduit bending support the following bends: - Offset Basic Bend - Offset Bend with 1st Bend Critical - Offset Bend with 2nd Bend Critical - Parallel Adjustment - Rolled Basic Bend - Rolled Bend with 1st Bend Critical - Rolled Bend with 2nd Bend Critical - 3 Saddles Basic Bends - 3 Saddle Bends with Critical distance - 4 Saddle Bends with Critical distance - 90º Basic Bend - 90º Back to Back - 90º Kicked - Corner with Round Obstacle - Corner with Rectangular Obstacle - Corner with Square Obstacle You can easily switch between imperial(inches) or metric(cm) Conduit Bending comes with a large set of predefined benders to choose from. Conduit Bending is one stop solution for fast and accurate bending! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Master Electrician Ref. Lite at none against Conduit Bending's 2. Master Electrician Ref. Lite also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 35%) and ratings volume (2.5K vs 624). Conduit Bending's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Conduit Bending sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Master Electrician Ref. Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Master Electrician Ref. Lite against 4.8 for Conduit Bending. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.5K and 624 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Master Electrician Ref. Lite's written reviews are positive against 35% of Conduit Bending's.
Master Electrician Ref. Lite ships an update every 4 months, Conduit Bending fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Master Electrician Ref. Lite | Conduit Bending |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.5K ratings) | 4.8 (624 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 34.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 624 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PawEng, LLC | xNeat.com |
Customer experience
Master Electrician Ref. Lite
Conduit Bending
In-app purchases
Master Electrician Ref. Lite
No in-app purchases
Conduit Bending
- Conduit Bending3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Conduit Bending7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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