iHandy Carpenter 4+

Level, Plumb Bob & Ruler

iHandy

Designed for iPhone

    • #41 in Utilities
    • 4.4 • 656 Ratings
    • $1.99

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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 like what you see in a woodworking shop but more attractive.
- 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 the 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 iPhone.

2. Put one edge of your iPhone on the wall you measure.
If the shadow of the plumb bob is on the 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

4.4 out of 5
656 Ratings

656 Ratings

cYo47 ,

Great app - But, ruler needs fixed

I’ve used this app for years and it’s been really useful. However, I’ve experienced the same issue as other reviewers. In later updates, the ruler is now wildly inaccurate and the recalibration button seems inoperable. If that issue could be fixed, this is definitely a five-star app.

Guillblu ,

Great idea, wrong scale for iPhone 6-11

The following is what I wrote when I got iPhone 6. As far as I remember they fixed it somewhere in the past, but when phones grew bigger, the app remained the same. Using iPhone 11 now and the ruler is way off. Can’t they fix it? //iPhone 6 review// The app is great. Gives me what I want when I don't have my tools with me. However, using iPhone 6 it's ruler accuracy is totally off. The scale stretches to the screen size rather than adding to the ruler, so any measure is wrong. Expecting a fix.
since it’s such an old comment from many users, that no one bothers to answer, not to mention introduce a fix - I will start looking for other apps. Guess the developers are too busy w/ their day job

Jimf420 ,

Horrible instructions for how ruler works

Every tool in this is intuitive, except the ruler. No idea how to use it. Found the help section and it shows and illustration for calibration. Has arrow for swiping finger? I don’t get any feedback from the app so no idea if I am doing things correctly. And actually, I have no idea how to use the ruler. I literally just stare at it and have no idea how it works. Do you point the phone at an end point? Swipe as you go? Maybe it just doesn’t work so I have no feedback like the other tools, which you see it working and quickly understand how to use. With that said, the fact that the ruler doesn’t work I give it 1 star.

App Privacy

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

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

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