All tools
Every tool currently live on PracticalBench, grouped by category. Planned tools that aren't built yet don't appear here.
Build
Material, measurement and project tools for construction and DIY.
Block quantity calculator
How many concrete blocks you need for a wall from its area.
Brick quantity calculator
How many bricks you need for a wall, with a reverse mode for a fixed brick count.
Includes reverse mode
Concrete bag calculator
Convert a concrete volume into the number of pre-mixed bags to buy.
Concrete volume calculator
How much concrete you need for a slab, footing or base, with a reverse mode.
Includes reverse mode
Flooring quantity calculator
How many packs of laminate, engineered or vinyl flooring to buy for a room.
Insulation calculator
How many rolls of loft or wall insulation you need for an area.
Paint coverage calculator
How many litres of paint to buy for a wall, ceiling or room.
Patio slab calculator
How many paving slabs you need for a patio, with an allowance for edge cuts.
Plaster/plasterboard estimator
Plasterboard sheets and skim plaster needed to board and finish a wall or ceiling.
Roof pitch calculator
A roof's pitch in degrees and as a ratio, from its rise and run.
Screed calculator
Volume of sand-cement screed needed for a floor, plus an approximate bag count.
Tile quantity calculator
How many tiles to buy for a floor or wall, with a cutting-waste allowance.
Cook
Cooking and baking conversion tools.
Cake tin & baking pan size converter
Swap round, square and rectangular tins by baking area and see how much to scale the recipe.
Includes reverse mode
Cups to grams (and grams to cups) by ingredient
Convert US cups to grams, or grams to cups, for flour, sugar, butter, rice and honey.
Includes reverse mode
ml to cups converter
Convert millilitres to US cups.
Includes reverse mode
Ounces to grams converter
Convert ounces to grams for cooking and baking.
Includes reverse mode
Oven temperature converter (°C, °F, fan and gas mark)
Convert °C to °F with the fan-oven equivalent, or a UK gas mark to °C and °F.
Includes reverse mode
Recipe scaler
Scale a recipe to a different number of servings, with a reverse mode for a fixed ingredient amount.
Includes reverse mode
Serving-size calculator
How much each serving gets from a total amount and the number of servings.
Includes reverse mode
Tablespoons/teaspoons converter
Convert between tablespoons and teaspoons.
Includes reverse mode
Dev
Developer checks for dates, YAML, URLs, regular expressions and configuration portability.
Date String Portability Checker
Checks whether a date/time string is unambiguous and portable across runtimes.
Differential Privacy Epsilon Budget Calculator
Project Differential Privacy epsilon spend and remaining budget using basic sequential composition.
.env Portability Preflight
Finds .env values that behave differently across Node/Docker/shell/Python.
eBPF Probe Overhead Budget
Estimate CPU core use from eBPF event rate, probe count and measured per-probe overhead.
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance Cost & Sizing Estimator
Estimate user-scoped CRA engineering, governance, assessment and ongoing security costs; not a compliance determination.
Graviton vs x86 Migration Payback Estimator
Estimate equivalent Graviton compute spend, monthly savings and simple payback from user-supplied benchmark data.
Kubernetes GPU Autoscaler Replica Planner
Estimate desired replicas and GPU devices from measured per-replica throughput and target utilization.
LLM Context-Window Token Cost & Latency Sizer
Estimate token cost, prefill/decode latency and KV cache memory for concurrent LLM sequences.
ML-DSA Certificate-Chain Byte Budget
Estimate ML-DSA public-key and signature bytes in a certificate chain against a user-defined byte budget.
On-Device NPU Bottleneck Calculator
Compare compute-bound and memory-bound inference throughput from user-supplied NPU and model measurements.
Regex Portability Checker
Checks whether a regular expression will work the same way in another language or engine.
SQL Identifier Portability Checker
Checks a table/column name against reserved words and quoting rules across databases.
URL Parser Differential Checker
Shows how different URL parsers interpret unusual or ambiguous URLs.
Package Version Format Translator
Translates and checks compatibility between version-string formats (SemVer, PEP 440, and more).
YAML Cross-Runtime Preflight
Checks whether YAML will behave consistently across CI, Docker Compose, Kubernetes and more.
YAML Semantic Difference Checker
Shows how the same YAML means something different under YAML 1.1 vs YAML 1.2 rules.
Drive
Vehicle costs, EV charging, fuel and journey tools.
Annual mileage cost
Turns a per-mile running cost into a yearly and monthly budget figure.
Battery energy to range reverse estimator
How far you can go from the battery energy you have left.
Includes reverse mode
Diesel journey cost
The fuel cost of a diesel journey, from distance, fuel economy and pump price.
EV charging cost calculator
What an EV charge will cost, from battery size, charge range and electricity price.
Includes reverse mode
EV charging time calculator
How long an EV charge will take, from battery size, charge range and charger power.
EV cost per mile
Your EV's running cost per mile, from its efficiency and electricity price.
EV vs petrol running-cost comparison
Compares the running cost of covering the same distance by EV versus petrol.
Miles to km converter
Converts a distance between miles and kilometres.
Includes reverse mode
MPG to L/100km converter
Converts UK mpg fuel economy figures to litres-per-100km.
Includes reverse mode
Petrol journey cost
The fuel cost of a petrol journey, from distance, fuel economy and pump price.
Energy
Energy and appliance running-cost tools.
Air-conditioner cost calculator
How much it costs to run a portable or window air-conditioning unit.
Appliance running-cost calculator
How much it costs to run any electrical appliance from its power rating and usage.
Battery runtime calculator
Estimates how long a battery will power a device from its capacity and the device's power draw.
Dehumidifier running-cost calculator
How much it costs to run a dehumidifier.
Dishwasher cost calculator
How much it costs to run a dishwasher per cycle and per year.
Electric-heater cost calculator
How much it costs to run an electric heater from its power rating and usage.
EV Fleet Charging Peak-Demand & Transformer Sizer
Estimate coincident fleet charging demand, transformer kVA, charging-window feasibility and user-input demand charges.
Industrial heat pump COP and savings calculator
Estimates an industrial heat pump's COP from process and source temperatures and compares its running cost with a gas boiler.
kWh cost calculator
Turns a known kWh usage figure into a cost using your electricity price.
LED lighting cost calculator
How much it costs to run a set of LED bulbs from their wattage, count and daily use.
Tumble-dryer cost calculator
How much it costs to run a tumble dryer per cycle and per year.
V2G profit and break-even calculator
Estimates whether vehicle-to-grid export earns more than the charging cost and battery wear it causes, and the export price needed to break even.
Washing-machine cost calculator
How much it costs to run a washing machine per cycle and per year.
Watts to kWh calculator
Converts a power rating and run time into energy used in kWh.
Includes reverse mode
Events
Event and party planning tools.
Cake servings calculator
Looks up how many party servings a round cake gives, by diameter.
Includes reverse mode
Catering portions estimator
Estimates total food weight to cater, accounting for plated vs buffet style.
Chair quantity calculator
Works out how many chairs to hire or set out for an event.
Event-duration planner
Adds up an event's total running time from its planned activities.
Includes reverse mode
Food portions estimator
Works out roughly how much food to prepare or order for an event.
Ice quantity estimator
Works out how much ice to order for an event.
Invitation-count planner
Works out how many invitations to send to reach a target guest count.
Pizza quantity estimator
Works out how many pizzas to order for a party.
Room-capacity estimator
Estimates how many guests a room can hold for a given layout style.
Includes reverse mode
Table quantity calculator
Works out how many tables you need to seat your guests, with a reverse mode.
Includes reverse mode
Files
Browser-side checks for email, Markdown and text-file portability.
EML/MIME Import Doctor
Checks a raw .eml (RFC 822 / MIME) email file for constructs that behave differently across mail clients and importers.
Markdown Portability Preflight
Checks Markdown source for constructs that render differently across GitHub-Flavored Markdown, strict CommonMark and stripped-down renderers.
MIME Attachment Filename Doctor
Checks attachment filenames declared inside a raw .eml/MIME message for portability problems when saved to disk across Windows, macOS and Linux.
Text File Portability Preflight
Checks a plain text file for encoding/line-ending/whitespace issues that cause it to behave differently across operating systems, editors and tools.
Garden
Garden and landscaping material tools.
Compost calculator
How much compost you need to mulch or improve a bed or border.
Decking calculator
How many deck boards you need for a deck area.
Fence panel calculator
How many fence panels and posts you need for a fence run.
Grass seed calculator
How much grass seed you need to sow or overseed a lawn.
Gravel calculator
How much gravel you need for a path or driveway, in tonnes and bags.
Hedge plant calculator
How many hedging plants you need for a single-row hedge.
Mulch calculator
How much bark or wood-chip mulch you need for a bed, with a reverse mode for a fixed bag count.
Includes reverse mode
Plant-spacing calculator
How many bedding plants fit into a bed on a regular grid.
Pond volume calculator
Estimates a pond's water volume from its length, width and average depth.
Raised-bed soil calculator
How much soil mix you need to fill a raised bed, with a reverse mode for a fixed amount of mix.
Includes reverse mode
Topsoil calculator
How much topsoil you need for a bed, border or levelling job, in cubic metres and bags.
Turf calculator
How many turf rolls you need to lay a new lawn.
Home
Property and home-project budgeting tools.
Extension rough-cost estimator
A very rough single-storey extension budget from the floor area and a cost rate.
Flooring budget estimator
Full supply-and-fit budget for new flooring — materials and labour.
Home maintenance budget planner
Build an annual home-maintenance budget scenario from property value and a percentage you choose.
Loft conversion budget estimator
A rough loft conversion budget by conversion type — rooflight, dormer or hip-to-gable.
Moving-cost planner
Build a moving-cost scenario from a local quote or your own base estimate, distance charges and a packing allowance.
Painting budget estimator
Full supply-and-fit budget for painting a room — materials and a decorator's labour.
Renovation budget estimator
A rough renovation budget from the area being worked on and a cost-per-square-metre rate.
Solar payback estimator (with explicit assumptions)
Roughly how many years a home solar PV system takes to pay for itself.
Image, printing and dimension tools.
Aspect-ratio calculator
Works out the simplified aspect ratio from any width and height.
DPI calculator
Works out the DPI an image will print at, from its pixel width and print size.
Image-resize dimensions
Works out the correct height for a resized image to keep its proportions.
Includes reverse mode
Paper-size converter
Looks up standard paper size dimensions in mm and inches.
Photo print-size calculator
Works out the pixel dimensions needed to print cleanly at a target photo size.
Pixels to inches & centimetres
Convert pixels to inches and centimetres at a chosen print resolution.
Poster-dimension helper
Works out the largest poster size from an image at a minimum quality.
Print-size calculator
Works out the largest size you can print an image at a chosen quality.
Screen-dimension calculator
Works out a screen's actual width and height from its diagonal and aspect ratio.
Tech
Data, internet and technology tools.
Audio file-size estimator
Estimates an audio file's size from its bitrate and duration.
Bitrate calculator
Works out the bitrate needed to hit a target file size for a given duration.
Data-usage calculator
Projects daily data usage forward to a weekly and monthly total.
Includes reverse mode
Download-time calculator
Estimates how long a download will take from the file size and connection speed.
File-transfer-time calculator
Estimates how long a local file transfer (USB, drive-to-drive) will take.
GB/MB/TB converter
Converts a data amount between megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes.
Mbps to MB/s converter
Converts a connection speed from megabits to megabytes per second.
Includes reverse mode
Screen & image PPI calculator
Work out pixel density (PPI) from a resolution and diagonal size, for screens or an image at a given size.
Upload-time calculator
Estimates how long an upload will take from the file size and upload speed.
Video file-size estimator
Estimates a video file's size from its bitrate and duration.
Time
Time and scheduling tools.
Add/subtract days
Adds or subtracts a number of days from a date.
Break-time calculator
Adds up how much time daily work breaks total over a week and a year.
Business days between dates
Works out how many working days (Mon–Fri) are between two dates.
Countdown calculator
Counts down the days remaining until a target date.
Days (and weeks) between dates
Count the days between two dates, also shown in weeks and weeks-plus-days.
Hours between times
Works out the number of hours between two times of day, including overnight spans.
Meeting overlap helper
Finds the overlapping time window between two people's availability.
Months between dates
Works out how many complete calendar months are between two dates.
Shift-length calculator
Works out the paid length of a work shift, minus an unpaid break.
Working-hours calculator
Works out total working hours per week and per year from daily hours and holiday allowance.