Spray foam estimating for iPhone and Android

Know your sets, your cost and your profit before the bid goes out.

FoamCalc takes a spray foam job from measurements to a proposal for the customer, with the sets to order and the money worked out on the way.

On Google Play now. The iPhone app is not in the App Store yet.

Free board foot calculator. Pro takes the job to a bid. Sold in the United States and Canada.

The proposal FoamCalc writes: Dunmarrow Spray Foam Co., a pole barn shop and office for Ollerwick Farm, three zones with R-values

FoamCalc step 6, Price: Bid Pricing for this job $18,666, job price $18,700, your profit at this price $5,634, a 30.1 percent margin

FoamCalc Pro

See your profit before you bid. Your customer sees one price.

The same job, two views. Yours carries the cost, the markup and the margin. The proposal carries your business name, the scope by zone with R-values, one price, your exclusions and terms, and a place to sign. None of your costs, rates or margin go on it.

What you seeStep 6, Price

Job price $18,700. Your profit at this price: $5,634, a 30.1 percent margin.

Bid Pricing works a price from the job's totals, with markup and margin side by side. The price is yours: type it, or take the one Bid Pricing worked out. Your profit at that price shows under it.

What your customer getsThe proposal

The proposal's price, exclusions, terms and signature lines: total price $18,700.00, customer and contractor signature with date

One total, your exclusions and terms, and a place to sign, under your business name. The proposal is a PDF you send from the phone.

A job in seven steps

From the customer's name to a bid, in the app's own order. Any step can be reopened.

1Job and customerThe job's name, the customer and the address.
2Zones and measurementsAttic, walls, rim joist, crawlspace or metal building, each with its own area, product and thickness.
3Job conditionsTemperature, humidity, equipment and trim, which take the yield off the drum label.
4MaterialsWhole sets to order by product, and the foam the job uses against the foam you order.
5CostMaterial, labor and overhead in dollars, from your own crew rate, hours, overhead and set costs.
6PriceMarkup and margin side by side, and your profit at the price you set.
7FinishMark the job Draft, Sent, Won or Lost, and hand off the proposal, the order sheet and the crew sheet.

FoamCalc step 4, Materials: foam this job uses $7,423, foam you order $9,250 in whole sets; closed cell 2 lb needs 3.60 sets, order 4; open cell 0.5 lb needs 0.35 sets, order 1 — Step 4, Materials: sets to order by product.

Three documents from one job

Each one goes to a different person, and each one shows only what that person should see.

Hold the pointer over a document to see it at full size, or click to keep it open.

Tap a document to see it at full size. Tap again to close it.

For the customer

The proposal

Your business, the scope by zone with R-values, one price, your exclusions and terms, and a place to sign. None of your costs, rates or margin.

For your supplier

The order sheet

Whole sets to order by product, with your set costs. The same step sends your supplier an order list of the sets alone. Neither is the document the customer sees.

For the crew

The crew sheet

Each zone with its product, thickness and passes, the sets to load, and total board feet. No prices on it.

The drum label is where the yield starts

Cold substrate, humidity and technique take part of the rated yield away. FoamCalc adjusts for the job's conditions, then its yield log keeps what actually happened and suggests a default from your own jobs, which you accept or decline.

Every figure here is one of FoamCalc's starting defaults, and yours to change.

4,000 bf FoamCalc's default rated yield for a closed-cell set

3,200 bf The same set at FoamCalc's default job conditions, 20 percent under the label

$1,900 FoamCalc's starting set cost, the price of one set you did not budget

Also in Pro

The rest of the toolkit, each one a screen of its own.

Saved jobsEvery bid in one place, marked Draft, Sent, Won or Lost.

Set inventoryUnopened sets and partial drums, each one free or committed to a saved job.

R-value solverInches for a target R-value, with the 2021 IECC prescriptive table for reference and its edition on screen.

Flash and battFoam plus batt to reach the R-value the job needs.

Pass plannerPasses from the max lift in Reference data. The product datasheet governs.

Production estimatorBoard feet a day into days on site.

Job templatesUnlimited templates, with attic, crawlspace, metal building, rim joist and new walls to start from.

ExportPDF, CSV and the share sheet, from the phone.

Free and Pro

The calculator is free for good. Pro is the job, the money and the documents.

Free The calculator

✓ Board-foot calculator: area times thickness, closed cell or open cell.
✓ Sets at the drum-label yield, as whole sets and board feet left over.
✓ Up to five saved calculations.
✓ Edit every reference figure the app uses, in the Reference tab.
✓ See your calculation as the bid document a customer would get.
✓ No account, no ads.

The free board-foot calculator: 1,500 sq ft at 3 in is 4,500 board feet, 1.13 sets at the nominal 4,000 bf per set

Pro The job

✓ Everything in Free.
✓ A job from customer to bid in seven steps, with zones for attic, walls, rim joist, crawlspace and metal building.
✓ Whole sets to order by product, and the foam the job uses against the foam you order.
✓ Job cost in dollars, markup and margin side by side, and your profit at the price you set.
✓ The proposal for the customer, the order sheet for your supplier and the crew sheet with no prices on it.
✓ Saved jobs marked Draft, Sent, Won or Lost.
✓ Real-yield adjustment for the job's conditions, and a yield log that learns from your own jobs.
✓ Set inventory, R-value solver, flash and batt, pass planner and production estimator.
✓ Unlimited job templates, and PDF, CSV and share-sheet export.

Pro pricing

One Pro, two ways to pay. Cancel any time in your App Store or Google Play account.

Monthly

$29.99

per month

Month to month. Stop when the work does.

Annual

$179.99

per year

14-day free trial

The trial is on the annual plan, for new subscribers. Cancel before it ends and you are not charged.

US dollar prices. Your local currency and any tax are set by the App Store or Google Play at checkout, and the store's price governs. Billed by Apple or Google; FoamCalc never sees your payment details. Restore purchases from the app's upgrade screen.

Nothing you enter leaves the phone unless you send it

No account, no adsNothing to sign up for and nothing to watch. Open it and start.

Your jobs stay on the phoneJobs, products, inventory and the yield log are stored on the phone. FoamCalc sends nothing anywhere and has no analytics.

A backup file you holdSave one from About and Settings, send it where you like, and restore it on any phone.

Every number is yours to changeThe R-values and set yields are widely published rules of thumb, the rest are FoamCalc's own defaults, and your own job history will beat them all.

What FoamCalc deliberately doesn't do: no code-compliance verdicts anywhere in the app. It gives you inches for a target R-value, never a pass or fail. No vapor retarder determination, no ignition or thermal barrier lookup, no re-entry timing, no chemistry troubleshooting and no homeowner energy-savings claims. The R-value reference screen is labeled with its code edition, 2021 IECC prescriptive minimums, and always tells you to verify with your local building department.

Bid your next job in FoamCalc.

On Google Play now. The iPhone app is not in the App Store yet.

iPhone and Android. United States and Canada.