CutOnce - Builder's Calculator

Stairs, Rafters & Fractions

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Free 7-day trial, then one unlock for life. No subscription. Code-checked stair plans, rake wall stud schedules, rafters, arcs, trig, and fraction math. Offline PDFs. The construction calculator that generates stair and rafter PDF plans offline, on your phone. No signal, no account, no subscription. Feet and inches fraction math, code-checked stairs, rake wall stud schedules, roofing, masonry, crown angles, footings, deck, drywall, paint, and board feet, with optional material cost on every estimate. STAIR CALCULATOR • Enter total rise and get a complete stair layout • Code check against IRC R311.7 (riser, tread, throat, total rise, headroom), on screen and on the plan, with every limit editable in Settings • Live, zoomable diagrams: elevation, stringer, detail, and balusters • Flush (deck) mount stringers, plus a landing split when one flight is too tall • Export a detailed PDF with cut dimensions for the shop RAFTER CALCULATOR • Common rafters from span or run • Ridge height, birdsmouth, tail cuts, HAP, overhang, and slope • PDF export with all the cut angles you need HIP & VALLEY RAFTERS • Hip and valley lengths, backing angles, and cheek cuts • King common and jack rafter spacing, with full PDF export RAKE WALL / GABLE FRAMING • Every stud length from pitch, run, base height, and on-center spacing • Top plate bevel and pitch-off-square angles called out • Dimensioned elevation PDF with the full stud schedule for the saw ARC & CURVES • Radius, diameter, arc length, and included angle from a chord and rise • Or work back from diameter and angle, with a live curve to zoom FEET-INCH-FRACTION MATH • Enter measurements naturally: 3' 5-3/16" + 2' 10-1/2" • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide all in fractions • Choose your precision: 1/2" through 1/64" • Five memory registers, M1 through M5, for several running totals at once RIGHT ANGLE & TRIG • Solve any right triangle from two known sides in feet-inches-fractions • Sin, cos, and tan with inverses, in degrees or degrees-minutes-seconds • Perfect for squaring walls, checking layouts, and cutting braces ROOFING MATERIALS • Shingle bundles and squares from roof area or measured surface • Sheathing sheets, underlayment rolls, ridge cap, and lapped drip edge • Live roof diagram and a shop-ready PDF takeoff CONCRETE BLOCKS & BRICK (MASONRY) • Block and brick counts with a fractional course layout • Mortar yield by product and a CMU width selector (4"–12") • Optional grout, rebar, bond-beam steel, and wall weight CROWN MOULDING / COMPOUND MITER • Saw miter and bevel angles for crown on a compound-miter saw • Nested (in-position) cutting mode, angle diagram, and a PDF for the saw MATERIAL TAKEOFFS • Deck: boards, screws, railing posts, and balusters at code gap • Drywall: wall and ceiling sheets, 4x8 to 4x14, openings and waste • Paint: paintable area and gallons by coat, at your can's spread rate • Board feet: run a whole cut list and total it on the tape • Concrete: bags or yards with adjustable waste, plus pad and strip footings • Area, volume, and unit conversion in imperial or metric COST ESTIMATING • Total Cost solves any direction: the total, what a budget buys, or the price to hit • Optional price rows on nearly every material calculator • Material cost prints right on the tape and the PDF BUILT FOR THE JOBSITE • Free 7-day trial of every advanced calculator. Basic calculator always free. • One-time purchase to unlock. No subscriptions, no ads, free updates. • Works on iPhone and iPad, in English and Spanish Framing walls, cutting stringers, laying out rafters, ordering roofing and block: CutOnce gives you accurate answers in the units you actually use.

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    5 Ratings

• New stair baluster layouts. Choose Limit Opening, Fixed End Space, On Center, or Best Fit, pick where your marks are measured from, and CutOnce gives you the running mark for every baluster on the card, on the tape, and in the stair PDF. • New Spacing calculator. Lay out pickets, shelf pins, holes, or anything else evenly along a run, and read cumulative tape marks from the leading edge, center, or trailing edge, with true horizontal clear space on sloped runs. Deck railings can now share one common on center across sections. • Safer stairwell openings and a fuller code check. The minimum stairwell opening now allows for the full tread run and the upper finished floor, and the stair report now checks guard openings, nosing, the 6 inch triangle, and headroom. • New Box and Frame Miter calculator. Building a box, planter, or sloped frame with any number of sides? Enter the sides and the tilt and CutOnce works out the saw table miter and blade tilt for every cut, and warns you when a tilt is past what your saw can do. • Clearer, more accurate hip and valley PDFs. We tightened the jack schedule, plate and datum marks, note rounding, and rafter length wording, and rebuilt the optimized cut map into a clean Qty, Size, Length, and Pieces table. • Birdsmouth warnings on your cut plans. Rafter and hip and valley cut plans now print a graded warning when a birdsmouth cut runs too deep for the rafter, so you catch it before the cut. • Better wall stud lumber lists. The wall stud PDF now calls out the pressure treated bottom plate as its own item instead of pairing it with untreated stock, so the purchase list is one you can actually buy and build. • More in Spanish. Masonry mortar product names and more PDF labels and notes are now available in Spanish. • Smoother purchases and setup. We made restoring a purchase more reliable and streamlined the trial and first run experience.

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Seller
  • Verik Labs LLC
Size
  • 13 MB
Category
  • Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © 2026 Verik Labs LLC