• Roofing Calculator App is the ultimate roof estimating tool for roofing contractors and salesmen.




• Roofing Calculator will help you quickly estimate roofing size, roofing materials cost and total project price, and provide your customers with an instant roof price!




• Roofing Calculator is available for iPhone & Android phones / tablets for $19.99 with free lifetime updates.

To get the app from your phone or tablet, open App Store or Android Market and search for “Roofing Calculator“. You can also try out this app for FREE before you buy, by downloading Roof Calculator DEMO.

Check out Roofing Calculator running on Samsung Galaxy Note – the best android phone for roofing contractors.

Roofing Calculator app News / Updates:

Update 6/9/2011: Roofing Calculator for iPhone has been released into the App Store! It is now available for download on your favorite iOS device – simply go to App Store on your iPhone, search for “roofing calculator”, and you will find “Roofing Calculator PRO” (App Store does not allow same name apps, so we added PRO to the name). Here is a direct link to Roof Calculator in App Store page where you can see additional info about this great app.

Update 5/25/2011: Roof Calculator for iPhone / iPad is complete and is now going through App Store Review. Once approved, it will be available for download, along with a free demo version. Watch iPhone Roof Calculator App review video below.

Update 5/12/2011: Roofing Calculator for iPhone and iPad is almost ready – check out the preview, including screen shots and video.

Update 5/5/2011: RIM has recently announced compatibility between their new mobile OS and Android apps, and Roofing Calculator for BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be made available in BlackBerry App World, as soon as RIM make the compatibility available to general public (this summer).

Update 2/21/2011: Roofing Calculator app for Android phones and tablets was released over the weekend and is now available on the Android market. Use the QR code to the right to get this application (simply install Google Goggles app or any other QR code reader app on your Android phone and point the camera at the QR image. Optionally you can get this app straight from Android Market website – Roofing Calculator App.

How to get the Roofing Calculator app:

We made this great app to work on the most popular mobile platforms, and you can get the app directly from your phone / tablet, by downloading it from the application source – App Store on iPhone, Market on Android, and soon, App World on BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

To get the app from you phone, open Market app and search for “roofing calculator”. Our app should come up at the top.

To get the Roofing Calculator for Android app straight from Android Market website – Roofing Calculator App.

Application price: $19.99 – Read a complete review of Roof Calculator for Android platform, including video user’s guide and walk-through all the features.

You can try a fully functioning roofing calculator demo version, before you purchase a full version, to see if this is the roof estimating tool for you.

Since the Android version of the app is released, we are now concentrating our efforts on finishing this application for iPhone platform (iPhone / iPad /iPod touch). Please rate the app on the market if you purchase it and leave us your feedback on how we can improve it and what kind of new features you would like to see in it. We already have a few scheduled updates for the calculator that will be released soon.

Roofing Calculator mobile app

Introducing a Roofing Calculator app for iPhone / iPad and Android smart-phones / tablets. Roofing Calculator app, helps roofing contractors to quickly calculate roof size, cost of your materials, cost of labor, and provide your customer with a nearly instant roof quote.

You will no longer have to run to the office to do a take-off or call your suppliers for current pricing. All roofing materials prices and your labor costs will be saved in separate profiles, so all you’ll have to do is plug in roof dimensions, roof pitch and other details and click the “calculate” button – voila, you have your complete roofing quote in front of you, including the cost of your materials.

Roofing Calculator iPhone app introduction video:

Roofing Calculator App features:

Roofing Calculator app will combine the functionality of our main roofing calculator and roofing materials calculator, as well as add a ton of customization options:

• Roofing Materials Profiles – you can save your roofing materials prices (including cost of roofing shingles, felt, I&W, roofing nails, ridge vent, drip edge, etc.) as profiles.
• Chimney and Skylight Flashing – Set price to flash chimneys / skylights.
• Waste factor – Set waste factor for Hip and Gable roofs, which we currently estimate at 7.5% for hip roofs and 5% for gable roofs.
• Roof Slope – roofing calculator will automatically calculate geometrical roof pitch, based on the pitch value you enter, and will provide the length of your gables / roof run.
• Roof tear-off cost – you can set the cost to tear-off 1, 2 or 3 layers of old roofing materials.
• Number of stories / floors – you can set a certain amount of up-charge for each additional floor in the house, as it costs you more to install a roof on a triple-decker vs. a cape house.
• Total cost to install the roof you can set up your price per roofing square (your base labor price), and the calculator will add your cost per square for materials, chimney and skylight flashing cost, as well as other additional costs.
• Roof Type – you can choose between different roof types (currently Hip and Gable roof) and the calculator will automatically estimate all your sizes and lengths for hips, eaves, rakes, ridge, etc., and apply the waste factor for a chosen roof type.
• Roof Difficulty – Not every roof is the same, and it is much easier to install a roof on a straight-forward ranch roof, vs. a really cut-up roof with dormers, valleys, side-wall flashing, etc. You can set-up 3 different levels of difficulty: simple, medium and cut-up roof, and save in settings, how much to add per sq. for each difficulty level.
• New plywood – If you have to install new roof deck sheeting / plywood, you can set-up prices for 1/2″, 5/8″ or 3/4″ (really? ) CDX plywood or OSB sheeting.
• Landscape and Portrait mode – whether you prefer to hold you mobile device in one hand or with two hands, the calculator will automatically scale to fit the horizontal / vertical orientation of your phone

Roof Calculator pricing and future updates:

Pricing – The roofing calculator is priced at $19.99 for both Android and iPhone platforms. Roof Calc app comes with free updates.

Updates – We are working on many updates. We are considering to either have separate versions of the calculator for flat roofs and metal roofing shingles and standing seam roof panels, or combining them into a single application with extended functionality.

All updates will be posted online in App Store and Android Market and you will be able to update your app for free (even if we add / extend functionality of the app).

Adding more features – we will work on adding more features to the calculator as time goes by. For example, one of the major features update we are working out right now is for the app to be able to calculate cut-up roofs with multiple valleys and dormers. However these features will not be available in the release version of the calculator, as there are some technical / logistical and lay-out difficulties in implementing them on a small screen of an iPhone / Android phone.

Why did we create Roofing Calculator App?

It seems that the roof calculator turned out to be a very useful and popular tool for homeowners to calculate roofing materials and installation prices, when they are shopping for a new roof. At the same time, we have been using our roofing calculator when we are estimating a roof. As an active iPhone user, I can do it while I’m estimating a roof, but right now it is only available as a web-based application, which is rather inconvenient, since I have to use a browser, go to RoofingCalculator.org, zoom in and out, switch from one input field to another, with the keyboard popping up all the time, etc. The bottom line is the calculator is a pain to use on a mobile device such as an iPhone or an Android phone, though it is still much easier than doing it all manually – calculating roof pitch, roof size, and roofing prices, on paper.

Here is an example of what our website looks like on my iPhone:

Additionally, the original roofing calculator was created for homeowners – not for roofing contractors. Also the prices are set and will not work in every market. We’ve created this Roofing Calculator app for our own use, so that we could use it when we run our roof estimates. We searched Apple’s App Store and Google Android Market for something similar, but all available apps that we have found are completely useless for our purposes – the best you can get is an app that calculates how many bundles of roofing shingles you needed for a simple gable roof. We needed full functionality and customization option on the go, without 3G access, and the one that could save roofing materials prices as profiles, so that we did not need to do all our calculations by hand.

Then we thought that this app can be useful for other roofing contractors, especially that more and more roofers are switching to smart-phones based on iOS and Android. So now we are making it available for other roofing contractors – we really hope you like it!

Roofing Calculator app “history”

Below you can see how it all began – the Roof Calculator original photos, showing the early “alpha / beta” version:

Well, we think it looks so much better now and does so much more to help roofing contractors improve / simplify their roof estimating process, and to enable you to quickly provide your customers with a thorough roofing estimate!

We need your feedback!

As we are working on this roofing calculator app, we can only consider things that we think are important. However, each roofing contractor / estimator will need some special set of features – that is where we need to rely on you to let us know what you would want to see in this roofing calculator.

Leave us your feedback in the comments section below, or join this roofing calculator discussion on roofing.com forum.

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