Benchwise: Cut List Optimizer

Open the Bookshelf plan and the plywood is already laid out on its sheets, every part numbered and the saw kerf counted. Start it as your project, change the width of a shelf, and the sheets redraw. Benchwise starts from real projects, not from an empty form.

Lengths go in the way the tape reads them. Type 24 1/2, 2' 3, 610 or 61 cm and Benchwise understands each one, shows it in the other unit underneath and rounds to the nearest sixteenth. The tape calculator adds 24 1/2 and 3/4 to 25 1/4 without a decimal in sight.

For your own builds, list the parts and the stock. Sheets are cut in two directions with straight cuts from edge to edge, the way a table saw or a track saw really works; boards are cut along their length; parts marked for grain are never turned. Every sheet and board is drawn with numbered parts, and the buy list says how many to get and what they cost.

The ten plans are a wall shelf, planter box, birdhouse, picture frame, step stool, bookshelf, garden bench, side table, workbench and raised bed. Each opens in metric or imperial with steps to tick off as you build.

Before a glue-up, check how much a tabletop will move: wood movement is worked out for 30 species between two humidities. The wood guide gives hardness, density, workability, outdoor use and price for the same 30 species, and the other calculators cover board feet, equal spacing, miter and slope angles, screws and pilot holes, sanding grit order and how many pieces a board yields.

Projects stay on your phone and work in a shop without signal. Duplicate one for the next build, keep notes on it and carry everything to a new phone in a backup file. Benchwise speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Polish.

The calculators, the wood guide, all ten plans and projects of up to 20 pieces cost nothing. Benchwise Pro is for bigger jobs: projects of any size, PDF cut sheets to print and CSV files for a spreadsheet. It comes as a yearly subscription that begins with three free days, or as a single lifetime purchase.

The yearly subscription is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm, or when the free trial ends, and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase.

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