iHandy Carpenter 4+

Level, Plumb Bob & Ruler

iHandy

Designed for iPhone

    • #21 in Utilities
    • 3.7 • 76 Ratings
    • £1.79

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Description

The lightest, prettiest and most handy carpenter tool kit in the world, right on your iPhone! Get 5 professional tools in ONE app at only half the price of buying each!

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You can hear from app reviewers and happy users:

"Not only are these tools functional, they're also gorgeous, with woodgrain and lighting effects that makes them seem straight out of Leonardo da Vinci's workshop." - O'Reilly Media, "Best iPhone Apps"

"Father's Day App for Your #1 Dad" - CNN

"Really handy and I like the style of the user experience a lot. I'm a picky user but I have to say these tools are nicely done and worth the price." - our customer

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There are 5 tools in this Carpenter toolkit:
- A plumb bob, the easiest way for you to verify the verticality of lines or walls
- A surface level, the best tool to level any flat surface
- A bubble level bar, exactly as you can see in carpenter tool kit shops, and more beautiful!
- A steel protractor, measuring angles from 0 to 180 degrees.
- A steel ruler, supporting both inches and centimeters. By swiping it left and right, the ruler is capable to measure things much longer than your iPhone!
- Once calibrated, the plumb bob, surface level and level bar can also be used as an inclinometer/clinometer by reading the angles on the screen.

Enjoy!

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A few tips for better use of iHandy Carpenter:

- THE PLUMB BOB, SURFACE LEVEL AND BUBBLE LEVEL BAR
Calibrate it first before any serious usage!

- USE THE PLUMB BOB TO MEASURE THE VERTICALITY OF A WALL
Two ways to test the verticality of a wall:
1. Put your iPhone back-to-back onto the wall you measure (Recommended).
If the shadow of the plumb bob is on X-axis (Y equals zero), it then indicates your wall is perfectly straight and vertical to the ground. Please note that in this way the reading of "X" does NOT have to be zero.
The back of iPhone is not totally flat due to the camera bump. But it's accurate enough just to use the flat part of your 3G iPhone.
2. Put one edge of your iPhone on the wall you measure.
If the shadow of the plumb bob is on Y-axis (X equals zero), it then indicates your wall is perfectly straight and vertical to the ground. Please note that in this way the reading of "Y" does NOT have to be zero.

- HOW TO MEASURE THE SLOPE OF A SURFACE
A few ways to measure the slope of a surface:
1. Use the Surface Level (Recommended).
Put your iPhone onto the inclined surface (The edge of iPhone should be in line with the slope direction of the surface. To verify this, just to check whether the reading of "Y" is around zero).
The reading of "X" is the slope angle of the measured surface.
2. Use the bubble level bar
Put one edge or back of your iPhone stick to the inclined surface (The edge of iPhone should be in line with the slope direction of the surface).
The reading is the slope angle of the measured surface.

If the surface is almost vertical to the ground, we suggest that you use the plumb bob tool to measure the surface instead.


-CALIBRATION INSTRUCTIONS

Please refer to "Help & Instructions" in iHandy Carpenter settings page

What’s New

Version 3.0.1

Celebrate the 10th year of iHandy Carpenter!
In this version, we fixed some bugs and made some improvements.
- Fixed the accuracy of all tools including Ruler.
- Improved to support iOS 6 and above.
- Improved to be compatible with all iPhones, including the new-released iPhone XS, iPhone XR and iPhone XS Max
- Improved the clarity of the background images

iHandy Carpenter, the handiest carpenter tools on the App Store!

Ratings and Reviews

3.7 out of 5
76 Ratings

76 Ratings

AdrianTheFirst ,

Mostly Good but Ruler Bad

I’ve used the plum bob, spirit level and protractor functions for years. But I’ve struggled to work out how to use the ruler.
Finally worked it out at the same time as changing to an iPhone 11. The ruler is not calibrated for the iPhone 11 display, it horrendously under reads.
Please fix this.

Didgeridoddsey ,

Not updated for anything larger than an iPhone 8

I loved this app on my previous iPhones - a 5s and then an 8. But having now upgraded to a 12 Pro, I’ve realised I cannot use the function I used the most, the ruler, as it is not calibrated for the bigger screen. From other reviews, it appears that updates do not seem to have been made to calibrate to the 11 either, which was a couple of years ago now... not exactly adaptable!

PKbagger ,

Nice app, but the ruler is inaccurate

Had this app for a long time, but having just upgraded to v3.0.0 it seemed to me by eye that the ruler measurements looked too big. Checking with a good old-fashioned metal ruler confirmed that 7cm on my screen is actually more than 8cm in reality! (iPod Touch 6)

Please fix!

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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