What if you could take the best construction calculator and fix it. That’s right ... you love it, it has served you well, and you stand by it ... but could it do more? Could it be easier to use? After testing by pros from around the world, BuildCalc is ready to give you more - more function and more answers with less complexity, less hassle, and less confusion. MORE FUNCTIONALITY: • Advanced Baluster Function: Complete layout of railing and staircase balusters with less guess work - and with all the flexibility you need for every custom job. • Advanced Stair function: Stair layouts for professional results - including dimensioned drawings of your Stringer, Stringer Installation, and Finished Staircase. And you can email a PDF of these drawings right from BuildCalc so you can print them or share them. • Fence Function: Give BuildCalc a fence row length and it will tell you how many posts, rails, pickets, and or panels you need. • Interactive Functions: The Stair, Baluster, Compound Miter, and Rafter functions are now fully interactive. Want to change input values? Change the Run? Switch between Regular and Irregular Hip Roof analysis? You can do this and your results will be updated automatically - without you needing to remember what key to press. MORE ANSWERS: • You are no longer tied down to: only one brick, block or tile size for the masonry function; a fixed number of drywall sheet sizes; only one footer cross sectional area; or one size of shingles and sheathing. If you don’t see the size you want, you can add as many as you need. And for area input, you can store your custom sizes in Length x Width format, so you won’t have to do mental gymnastics to figure out what was the dimensions for that last size you stored. • Want to cut your hip roof rafter using a miter saw ... or a circular saw using a hand-held protractor? With a tap of a button, BuildCalc will automatically switch between Miter Saw and Protractor results. BuildCalc can do this for Compound Miters, too. • Sheathing Angles, Purlin Angles, Gable Area, Backing Angles, Plan Angles, Rough vs. Finished Stair Layout Dimensions, Stringer Throat, Stringer installation dimensions ... and a lot more not found on other construction calculators. LESS COMPLEXITY AND LESS HASSLE: • Tired of having to press and press and press buttons to get the results of a calculation? BuildCalc puts an end to this. For all advanced functions, you get ALL of your results in list form with just one or two key taps. • And, rather than having to write down those results, all advanced functions allow you to save your results - as many times as you want with a label you choose - so you can recall the complete results at your convenience. Now you can do a calculation today and two days, two weeks or two years later, it is there for you. • Less “quirks”. Have you been annoyed by arcane key stroke sequences on other construction calculators? We are too. BuildCalc 2.1 streamlined the keystrokes to do a better job of giving you less “errors” and more results. Don’t remember what you have to enter before a Hip Rafter or Stair calculation? Well, now you don’t have to. BuildCalc will provide you with a check list of inputs and on-the-spot help to get it right. • Drywall and Masonry “Room Mode”: If you have stored a Length, Width and Height for a room, BuildCalc will give you the Drywall or Masonry required for the walls and the ceiling / floor - with only a tap of the Drywall or Masonry button. No more pondering over complex key sequences ... it just works. NOW WITH ADVANCED STAIRS, BALUSTER, AND HIP/VALLEY FUNCTIONS Get more results than you ever could before - including dimensioned Stringer, Stringer Installation and Finished Staircase Drawings. Drawings can then be emailed to others or printed at your convenience. Email us and we'll send you an example!
Literally the best app on my phone
This actually mite be my first review of an app. I have had this app more than a few years now. I’m in the pipe trades and now work for myself welding and fabrication. I use this app all day and every day and it has not let me down once. This app has paid for itself 10fold. And when I could not figure something out I emailed the creator and they where very prompt and helpful. After talking with them I found that all I had to do was read a little bit and would not even had to reach out in the first place.the app is very well built with very good instructions. I always get asked what app is that. And my response it’s the only one you will ever need. If you are in the building trades save yourself some headaches, it’s a win win.
Better than CM Pro!
Switched to iOS and can no longer use the other companies calculator without paying a subscription. I will not pay for greed, however I will pay for a great product. And this blows the other company out of the water. They kept the same great layout but added the most tasteful features. My favorite is long press for info on that function. Great! No more going through the menu to figure out how to do an irregular calculation! Buy it now! You won’t regret it. Developer, thank you.
Consistently Awesome
I’ve been using this app for years. Love and was so grateful to not carry another calculator in my pouch. I use this more than any other calculator app. After reading reviews it seems like it’s one dude running the show. Even more impressive. Good job bro. Thank you for making my life easier.
Late to rate.
I have had this app on every device. From android to Apple. Across many devices. Worth the money if your in the building trade. Easy to use and exact numbers.
I really like it.
The other construction calc company got greedy and now requires an annual subscription so I switched. This app blows the other construction calc. out of the water. This prints stair cut angles in ready to build blueprint format, Amazing!
Stair stringers
Great app for figuring stair stringers App saves my pre-cut set dimensions like 11 ¼ treads, preferred risers height, tread and riser thickness etc which saves a lot of time. One thing to be careful about is the app doesn’t have a refresh button. So if a change my rise I need to set run to 0 to refresh
Abandoned app
Email and web site is no longer valid. Big shame because this is a great construction calculator.
iPhone Home Bar overlaps [0] [.] and [=] keys, making it sometimes difficult to use those buttons or the Home Bar
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