3D print cost calculator apps compared
PrintMate, Spool, 3D Print Cost Calculator, Spoolstock and Printyard, checked on their store listings: what each one costs and what it leaves out.
Printyard ·
A cost calculator on a phone makes sense for one reason: the print is priced at the machine, where the slicer’s grams and hours are on the screen beside you. There are now several apps for it, and they split into two kinds: calculators that remember a little, and trackers that also count the filament. Each one below was checked on its own store listing on the date in the sources.
At a glance
| App | Runs on | Price | Costs a print | Counts filament | Orders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrintMate | iPhone, iPad, Mac | Free to five of each, then paidApp Store | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spool | iPhone | FreeApp Store | Yes | Yes | Not listed |
| 3D Print Cost Calculator | Android | Free, labour and markup paidprintcostcalc.app | Yes | Paid | Not listed |
| Spoolstock | App Store | Free, Maker from $1.99 a monthApp Store | Not listed | Yes | Not listed |
| Printyard | iPhone, browser | Paid (free trial)Printyard pricing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PrintMate
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad, Mac
- Price
- Free to five of each, then $0.99 to $39.99App Store
- Rating
- 4.8 from 18 ratingsApp Store
The closest thing to a whole shop in one app. It costs a print with filament, electricity, printer wear, labour, packaging, delivery and hardware, across several filaments in one print, with printer profiles for power and depreciation. It suggests a price from a target margin or markup, with VAT and percentage fees.App Store
It also keeps a filament inventory that updates when you record a print, customers and orders through quoted, accepted, printed and delivered, PDF quotes and invoices, and sales, expenses and profit by period. It imports Bambu Lab print history and syncs through iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac.App Store
It is free up to five filaments, five prints, five customers and five sales, and a Premium purchase removes the limits. The listing shows subscriptions and lifetime purchases.App Store
Better than Printyard if
You want PDF invoices, Bambu history import or a Mac app, or a one-time purchase under forty dollars matters more than a web app. Its sync is iCloud, so the desk has to be a Mac.
Spool 3D Print Cost Calculator
A full breakdown per project: material, electricity, printer wear, labour, components, packaging, shipping and marketplace fees, then total cost, selling price, profit and margin. Projects can hold several plates, and it keeps a filament inventory, a printer list with power and lifetime, and electricity tariffs by time of day.App Store
There is no sign-up and all data stays on the device, with backup by exporting a file.App Store
Better than Printyard if
Price is what matters, since it costs nothing, or you do not want an account. The trade is that the shop lives on one phone, and its listing does not mention a failure rate or customer orders.
3D Print Cost Calculator
- Runs on
- Android
- Price
- Free, Premium in-appprintcostcalc.app
- Rating
- 4.0 from 175 reviewsGoogle Play
It works offline with no account and keeps data on the device. The free tier covers print costing with electricity and several materials, up to five saved materials, two printer profiles and seven history entries, plus G-code import for a single print.printcostcalc.app
Labour, failure-risk pricing, markup, setup fees and remaining-filament tracking are in Premium, an in-app purchase. On Google Play it has over ten thousand downloads.Google Playprintcostcalc.app
Better than Printyard if
You are on Android, or you want G-code import so the grams and hours are read rather than typed. Printyard has neither.
Spoolstock
- Runs on
- App Store
- Price
- Free, Maker at $1.99 a month or $19.99 a yearApp Store
- Rating
- 4.5 from 119 ratingsApp Store
An inventory app rather than a calculator. It tracks spools with QR and barcode scanning, photos, purchase prices and locations, works out what is left from a database of empty spool weights, deducts filament as prints are logged, prints spool labels and reads custom NFC tags. Data syncs across devices through a Spoolstock account.App Store
Better than Printyard if
You want the cheapest way to know what is on the shelf and no pricing at all. Its listing describes no quote, order or fee.
Printyard
- Runs on
- iPhone, any browser
- Price
- Paid (free trial)Printyard pricing
- Works offline
- On the phone
A quote with every cost on its own line: filament and purge at the roll’s price per gram, electricity at the printer’s draw and your tariff, machine wear over its life and its yearly upkeep, labour, parts, packaging, a failure reserve that skips labour, and the marketplace’s cut on the whole order. The same quote becomes an order, the order moves the roll, and the month shows what was kept after all of it.
It runs on the iPhone and in any browser on one account, and rolls open from a QR sticker or an NFC tag. On the web it costs $9.99 a month, $69.99 a year or $149.99 once, shown in US dollars before checkout converts them, and the iPhone app starts with a free trial.Printyard pricing
What it does not do
No free tier, no Android app, no G-code or slicer import, and no reading of Bambu Lab’s own spool tags. A quote shares as a one-page receipt, but there are no invoices and no export.
Which to pick
If you want a number for one print and nothing else, a free calculator does it, and so does the 3D print cost calculator on this site, with no install. If you only want to know what is on the shelf, Spoolstock is the cheapest. If the grams, the quote, the order and the month have to agree with each other on a phone and on a laptop, that is what Printyard is for.
For the self-hosted option, see Printyard vs Spoolman; for the spreadsheet most of these apps replace, see the cost spreadsheet and its limits.
Work it out for your shop
Type the grams and hours from your slicer. The calculator adds the costs the slicer leaves out, suggests a price at your markup, and shows what is left after the marketplace takes its cut. Open the 3D print cost calculator.
Keep these numbers for every print
Printyard runs this arithmetic on your phone at the machine and on the web: every quote itemised, every roll to the gram, and a month with the fees and the failed prints already taken out.
Sources
- 3D Print Cost: PrintMate · Apple App Store · checked October 30, 2026
- Spool 3D Print Cost Calculator · Apple App Store · checked October 30, 2026
- 3D Print Cost Calculator · Google Play · checked October 30, 2026
- 3D Print Cost Calculator: Real Print Cost, Not Just Filament · 3D Print Cost Calculator · checked October 30, 2026
- Spoolstock - 3D Printing Hub · Apple App Store · checked October 30, 2026
- Pricing · Printyard · checked October 30, 2026