Kreg Tool vs ARES Tool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kreg Tool
Discover a wide range of woodworking tools and accessories for cutting, measuring, joining, clamping, and routing. Explore innovative solutions for woodworkers to create projects with ease and precision.
- Cutting and Measuring tools
- Joining solutions (Kreg Jig)
- Clamping devices
- Routing systems
- Pocket-hole technology
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Kreg Tool Cutting and Measuring – Saw Attachments, Saw Accessories, Measuring and marking, Track Components Joining – Kreg Jig, Kreg jig Screws, Kreg Jig Plugs, Kreg Jig Accessories, Deck Jig and Accessories, Pocket Hole Machinery Clamping – Face Clamps, Bench Klamps, Automaxx Bar Clamps, Corner Clamps, Klamp Tables Routing – Router Table system, Routing Accessories, Beaded Face Frame systems Great product ideas emerged when two disciplines, woodworking and metalworking, collided. In 1986, Craig Sommerfeld was in the process of building his home and needed to find a way to attach his doweled face frames to his kitchen cabinet carcass members. Although he was a tool and die-maker by trade, and woodworker out of necessity, Craig had a problem. Not wanting to nail the face frames on and then fill them with putty, he designed and built “Craig’s Jig”, which was a single-hole pocket hole jig crafted from steel and aluminum. Craig’s Jig allowed him to attach the face frames from the cabinet’s interior, where the joint could be hidden from view. Encouraged by friends and coworkers, Craig built a few more jigs and set out to show them to the public at local woodworking shows. At these shows Craig met an audience who had no knowledge of the joinery method he was promoting, yet they were very interested in learning about a new way to build projects with wood. Week after week, month after month, year after year, Craig continued to build his products and promote them at weekend woodworking shows. Hundreds of trade shows and thousands of demonstrations later, Kreg Tool Company has emerged as the leader in pocket-hole technology. From Kreg Jigs® to fully-automatic machines, Kreg offers simple solutions that have changed the way thousands of woodworkers join wood. In addition, Kreg offers other innovative tools for clamping, joining, routing, cutting and measuring, and more.
ARES Tool
Access your preferred tool shopping destinations through a single, user-friendly application. Browse and discover a wide range of tools with convenience.
- Access favorite tool shops
- Convenient app interface
- Browse tool selections
- Discover new tools
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Conveniently access all of your favorite tool shopping with the ease of an app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ARES Tool at 100% against Kreg Tool's 0%. ARES Tool also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.1). Kreg Tool's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ARES Tool holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kreg Tool has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Kreg Tool's written reviews are positive against 100% of ARES Tool's.
| Parameter | Kreg Tool | ARES Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.1 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lee's Tools | MJD Industries, LLC |
Customer experience
Kreg Tool
ARES Tool
In-app purchases
Kreg Tool
No in-app purchases
ARES Tool
No in-app purchases
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