Android app
Metal Quote
A calculator for metalworkers. Type the size of a tube, bar or plate and see its weight straight away. Add your supplier's price, your work and your profit, and give your customer a clean quote. It takes about a minute, works offline, and the keys are big enough to use with gloves on.
Coming soon to Google Play · free to use, pay once for the Full version · Android 7.0 or newer · no ads, no accounts
What it does
Weight for any metal
Rectangular, square and round tube, flat, round and square bar, plate and sheet. Steel, stainless 304 and 316, aluminium, copper, brass, or any density you type. Metric and imperial, including fractional inches.
Agrees with your supplier
Tube weights include the rounded corners from the European tube standards (EN 10219 and EN 10210), so they match supplier tables. Beams, angles and channels use the kg per metre from your catalogue.
Cost, the way you buy
Price per kg, tonne, metre or piece, with waste for saw cuts and offcuts. Add labour, cutting, welding, painting per m², transport and bought-in parts.
Your profit, your way
Markup, margin, or simply the price you want. The app always shows both percentages, so you know which one you mean. Set a profit per part, give a discount, round the price.
Your own taxes
No rate is preset. Add VAT, GST and PST, sales tax or none, at the rates that apply where you work.
A quote you can send
A clean A4 PDF with your logo, or a message for WhatsApp or email. Rename lines, leave items out, add notes. Your costs and markup never appear on the customer's copy.
How the numbers are worked out
A quote is only useful if you can trust it. Metal Quote is built like accounting software, not like a phone calculator.
- Exact decimal arithmetic, with no floating-point drift. Amounts are rounded to what the quote shows before they are used, so the lines always add up to the total.
- Weights are tested against published weights from European steel tables.
- Weights are nominal, like the ones in your supplier's tables. Real stock varies a little within the mill's tolerances.
- Metal Quote works out weights, costs and prices. It does not do structural or load calculations.
Free to use, pay once for the Full version
The calculator is free, with no time limit. The Full version adds the tools for running quotes as a business.
Free
- Weight of every tube, bar and plate, in any metal
- Material cost, with waste
- A quick quote on screen: materials, work, markup and one tax
- Your recent calculations
- Android backup of your data
Full version
- Save quotes, and send them as a PDF or a message
- Your logo on your quotes and PDFs
- Margin, your own price, profit per part, discounts
- More than one tax
- Edit the quote: rename lines, add lines and notes, choose how much detail the customer sees
- Beams, angles and any shape from your catalogue
- Remembered supplier prices, your own metals and shapes, cut lists and backup files
- One-time purchase through Google Play. No subscription, no ads.
- Restores on a new phone with the same Google account.
Your data is yours
Your prices and your customers are your business. Everything you type into Metal Quote is stored only on your phone, in its own storage. There are no accounts and no servers: we never see your data and keep no copy. Metal Quote does not even ask for internet access, so it cannot send anything anywhere.
- No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.
- Quotes, prices, customers, your workshop details and logo are stored only on your phone. The app shows you what it keeps and how much space it uses.
- Because we hold no copy, a backup is what protects you from a lost phone: your data goes into your phone's own Android backup (one tickbox, on by default) and comes back on a new phone.
- PDFs, messages and files go only where you send them.
Test it early
Metal Quote is in its first version, and we would like fabricators, welders and metalworkers to use it on real jobs before it goes public on Google Play. Email us the Google account (the Gmail address) you use on your Android phone, and we will send you an invitation to the test. Your feedback decides what comes next.
Support
A weight that does not match your supplier, a quote that looks wrong, a shape you need: email support@impossible-labs.io, or tap Send feedback at the bottom of the app's home screen. It adds the app version, so we can usually help without back-and-forth.