The Woodshop Widget
$1.45About The Woodshop Widget
The Woodshop Widget is a rich collection of wood-related utilities, ranging from board volume calculation to shellac mixing aids, squareness testing and many other goodies. It is useful in woodworking as well as in DIY and construction/contracting projects. It contains a wide range of functionality that handles many tedious tasks simply and clearly, and extensive information on 288 species of wood.
The Widget understands Imperial and Metric. You can change this at any time.
Movement
Shows an estimate of how much a board might grow and shrink under different conditions, based on verified information for over 270 distinct species. You can enter measured or humidity-based water content, board width, and how the board was cut from the tree (anywhere from flat to quartersawn). The amount of change is shown as you edit.
Board Volume
Easily enter the 3 dimensions required for calculating board volume and get an immediate amount. You can also enter a price and quantity of boards for a total price. The local currency is automatically used when entering prices.
Compare
A species comparison tool that lets you walk through information on up to 288 species of wood, comparing hardness, density and movement. It even shows you which species is "better."
Decimal to Fraction
Enter fractions and see the decimal results, or enter decimal values and see fractions calculated, all in one place. Remainders and reduced fractions are automatically shown.
Species
A species data viewer which also includes "other names" for up to 288 species.
Shellac
Mix or dilute shellac in any amounts. Enter a "pound cut" and the measurements are balanced for you. Mix as much or as little as you need, using not only gallons and pounds, but also cups and ounces or liters and milliliters. Dilute from any pound cut that you have on hand to any other concentration, instantly!
Squareness
Test your framing squares, combination squares, carcasses or anything else that needs a perfect right angle for accuracy by measuring lengths. The Widget will show you how far from "right" the angle is.
If you have any problems, please email: uhoh@woodshopwidget.com.
The Widget understands Imperial and Metric. You can change this at any time.
Movement
Shows an estimate of how much a board might grow and shrink under different conditions, based on verified information for over 270 distinct species. You can enter measured or humidity-based water content, board width, and how the board was cut from the tree (anywhere from flat to quartersawn). The amount of change is shown as you edit.
Board Volume
Easily enter the 3 dimensions required for calculating board volume and get an immediate amount. You can also enter a price and quantity of boards for a total price. The local currency is automatically used when entering prices.
Compare
A species comparison tool that lets you walk through information on up to 288 species of wood, comparing hardness, density and movement. It even shows you which species is "better."
Decimal to Fraction
Enter fractions and see the decimal results, or enter decimal values and see fractions calculated, all in one place. Remainders and reduced fractions are automatically shown.
Species
A species data viewer which also includes "other names" for up to 288 species.
Shellac
Mix or dilute shellac in any amounts. Enter a "pound cut" and the measurements are balanced for you. Mix as much or as little as you need, using not only gallons and pounds, but also cups and ounces or liters and milliliters. Dilute from any pound cut that you have on hand to any other concentration, instantly!
Squareness
Test your framing squares, combination squares, carcasses or anything else that needs a perfect right angle for accuracy by measuring lengths. The Widget will show you how far from "right" the angle is.
If you have any problems, please email: uhoh@woodshopwidget.com.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Fixed crashing with "KitKat" and up! Tested on multiple devices. Please let us know if you have further issues.
We strive to support and improve our products constantly. Unfortunately, several personal events caused us to lose touch with The Woodshop Widget. If you have contacted us, or have had any issues with the product, please update and try the new version.
If you gave the app a bad review, please use it for a while and reconsider your rating. Thanks for your patience!
Fixed crashing with "KitKat" and up! Tested on multiple devices. Please let us know if you have further issues.
We strive to support and improve our products constantly. Unfortunately, several personal events caused us to lose touch with The Woodshop Widget. If you have contacted us, or have had any issues with the product, please update and try the new version.
If you gave the app a bad review, please use it for a while and reconsider your rating. Thanks for your patience!
More downloads The Woodshop Widget reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
More downloads The Woodshop Widget reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
Price update Price changed from $1.99 to $1.45.
Version update The Woodshop Widget was updated to version 2.6.1
What are users saying about The Woodshop Widget
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The main screen when you first used it... the text is WAY TOO SMALL
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Awesome
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Installed this app based on a magazine review and it will not run on either my S4 or Nexus 10. I get the "Unfortunately, Woodshop has stopped" message. I have sent in the reports and tried to contact the developer multiple times trying to get a resolution or my money back and no return emails. I would recommend to not buy this app and for Google to take it out of the store. OK. After the updates I can say it runs. I now have a OnePlus One running Lollipop and it is working. Still needs to work on the text size as I can't read any of the text on the opening page as it's way to small.
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Works great, and very useful. Very happy for the fixed update.
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The wood movement calculator is very handy.
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With this latest update, my favorite woodworking application is back. I'm excited to use the shellac calculator.
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Works as advertised handy tool - one suggestion is to make some fonts and search fields larger font
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Awesome app! Lots of tools at your fingertips for research and use in the shop!
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The latest update fixes the crash on launch issue. Now works on my HTC One (M8). Very happy to have a working version in my pocket now!
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Paid for the app because i heard a great review but thr app wont work on galaxy S4 mini
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I was excited when I heard about this, but I can't even open it.
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I can't really say anything else about it.
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Never worked. Just crashing.
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Never worked
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I had downloaded this app and used it often until it no longer ran on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
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Installed this app based on a magazine review and it will not run on either my S4 or Nexus 10. I get the "Unfortunately, Woodshop has stopped" message. I have sent in the reports and tried to contact the developer multiple times trying to get a resolution or my money back and no return emails. I would recommend to not buy this app and for Google to take it out of the store.
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Please integrate this with The Wood Database. I work with 127 species of exotics, and while the numbers for each wood are nice, having all the info in the wood database website built in to this app would be invaluable. A built in calculator with some of the more common formulas we use in wood working would be pretty sweet. The ability to add fractions without reducing them would be good. Something like 3/16 + 27/32 = X.
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Awesome
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Text tiny and unreadable, with no obvious way to magnify it.