MakerCalc 3D Print Calculator

MakerCalc – Pricing & Operations Calculator for Workshop & Manufacturing

No more Excel chaos, gut-feeling prices, or losing track of your inventory.

MakerCalc is the app 3D-printing studios, laser-engraving workshops, CNC shops, and small manufacturing businesses need to go from "what does this actually cost?" to a professional, print-ready quote in minutes instead of hours.

Whether you're printing in your garage on the side or running a small production workshop:

MakerCalc does the math for you – accurate, transparent, traceable.

🧮 The Calculator: Live pricing instead of mental math

Pick a machine, enter material and weight, log the time – the price is calculated live. No hidden black box: every single cost component is visible.

- Machine depreciation, electricity, and maintenance calculated automatically per machine

- Material, disposal, and storage costs

- CAD design time, setup time, post-processing – all tracked individually

- Per-order discounts, "private project" (excluded from revenue stats, material usage still tracked)

- Custom price option for friend discounts, independent of the calculation

- Clear pie chart breaking down exactly what makes up the price

- One click saves the calculation to a quote, history, or a combined line item

📦 Inventory management that actually thinks ahead

No more "how much PLA do I even have left?"

- Materials grouped by category (Filament, Carbon, Electronics, Wood, LED, Small Parts – fully customizable)

- Automatic stock value calculation, low-stock and sold-out warnings

- Sheet materials (carbon, wood, etc.) correctly handled with area, thickness, and cutting logic

- Item numbering system with automatic category prefixes (Filament, Resin, Wood, Carbon, Electronics, Metal, Plastic...)

- Batch/lot numbers for traceability, storage location, barcode field, image upload

- Full-text search across name, variant, brand, note, and item number

📝 Quotes & invoices that look the part

- Professional PDF quotes with your company logo, generated straight from the app

- Email the customer, generate a delivery note or invoice in one click

- Search and add articles from inventory directly into a quote

- Duplicate a quote, mark it completed, or cancel it – everything tracked

- Overall discount per quote, delivery date, validity date

📅 Delivery dates, always in view

A dedicated calendar shows every quote with a delivery date on its day – including the ability to mark public holidays and workshop closures, so delivery dates never accidentally land on a closed day.

📊 Real numbers instead of gut feeling

- Revenue, profit, and machine time at a glance

- Revenue and runtime compared across machines

- Best-sellers list: which material/color performs best

- Year-over-year comparison

- Machine health tracking, inventory balance history, and a gallery of completed projects

🌍 Ready for an international market

- 6 languages built in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese – additional languages can be added via template

- Freely selectable currency with custom symbol, symbol position, and decimal separator (independent of the interface language)

- VAT quick-select for Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, UK, USA, Singapore, Canada, Australia – or your own rate

- Metric or imperial (g/mm or oz/in) – calculations stay accurate in either system

🏆 Built-in motivation: achievement badges

Over 40 achievements across multiple categories – machine runtime milestones, machine park diversity, and more. A small but genuinely motivating touch for the daily workshop grind.

🔒 Runs entirely on your own device – your data stays yours

- Full desktop app for Mac (Apple Silicon) and Windows, plus an Android app

- No cloud required: all data stays local on your device

- Optional WLAN sync between your own devices (e.g. your workshop Mac and your phone on the go) – changes on both sides are merged intelligently, nothing gets lost

- Optional PIN protection if multiple people share a device

- Dark and light theme

Who is MakerCalc for?

- 3D-printing service providers (FDM, resin) and print communities

- Laser engraving and laser cutting workshops

- CNC and small milling operations

- Hobbyists turning their hobby into side income

- Small manufacturing businesses ready to leave spreadsheets behind

Why MakerCalc?

Because your hourly rate shouldn't be a guess. Because "I think it costs about..." isn't a calculation. MakerCalc computes in seconds what would otherwise take a spreadsheet full of formulas – and turns it into a quote you can send your customer without a second thought.

Buy once, use on up to 3 devices. No subscription trap, no monthly fees.

*System requirements: macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows 10/11, Linux, or Android 8+. Both devices must be on the same network for WLAN sync.*