Filament Swatches

Name: Filament Swatches
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Jonas Frey

Manage your 3D print filaments

Free · Designed for iPad

1 Rating
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

Jonas Frey
Language

DE
German
Size

3.4
MB

FilamentSwatches is an app that allows you to manage and store your different 3D Printing filament colors. In addition, you can use the app on iPhones with an NFC chip to read from and write the swatches to NDEF-compliant NFC tags that you can then stick onto your physical printed filament samples. This allows you to form a digital link between your physical samples and information about the filament that was used to print them. The app encodes the filament information as a URL that is saved onto the NFC tag. This way, any NFC reader can be used to view the information saved on the tag. Personally, I use the app together with 25mm NTAG215 black NFC tags that I stick on 3D printed mini filament spools.

Ratings & Reviews

4.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Has potential
01/17/2025

QueenHavok
Not many apps to take inventory of your filament so was happy to find this one. However most of my spools don’t have a tag and I can’t enter it manually. When you try to save a custom under material there’s nothing to pick and won’t let you save. Would be great if it wasn’t just a nfc tag maker and you could scan the qr on most filaments or at least put them in manually. Other then that the app is clean non cluttered and has a lot of potential.

Developer Response
Hi,thank you for your review! You can create a new material type in the „Materials“ tab. After that, the material picker will show it when creating a new filament. I should probably add some info text or create a few default materials to make this more clear.The idea of the app is to create your materials in the app, so you can write the information onto generic NFC tags. You could then stick these NFC tags onto filament samples of the corresponding material. At least that was the original use case I developed it for.If you have more feedback or questions, feel free to reach out to dev@jonasfrey.de.
Has potential
01/17/2025

QueenHavok

Not many apps to take inventory of your filament so was happy to find this one. However most of my spools don’t have a tag and I can’t enter it manually. When you try to save a custom under material there’s nothing to pick and won’t let you save. Would be great if it wasn’t just a nfc tag maker and you could scan the qr on most filaments or at least put them in manually. Other then that the app is clean non cluttered and has a lot of potential.
Developer Response 01/19/2025
Hi,thank you for your review! You can create a new material type in the „Materials“ tab. After that, the material picker will show it when creating a new filament. I should probably add some info text or create a few default materials to make this more clear.The idea of the app is to create your materials in the app, so you can write the information onto generic NFC tags. You could then stick these NFC tags onto filament samples of the corresponding material. At least that was the original use case I developed it for.If you have more feedback or questions, feel free to reach out to dev@jonasfrey.de.