WOODWORKER'S TOOLBOX - PRESS KIT
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Last updated: August 3, 2026 (edit this script's heredoc when regenerating)


QUICK FACTS
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Developer:      Jeff Paquette
Platform:       iOS (iPhone)
Category:       Utilities
Requires:       iOS 18.0 or later
Price:          $9.99, one-time purchase - no subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases
Bulk/education: Available via Apple School Manager (Volume Purchase Program) at a
                reduced education price for 20+ licenses
App Store:      https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758488541
Press contact:  help@franklinwoodcrafts.com


ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION
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Workshop calculations. Instantly accurate.


SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Woodworker's Toolbox brings 11 precision tools - board feet, fractions, drill bits,
Janka hardness, wood movement, and more - to your iPhone. Offline, private, and
yours forever with a single $9.99 purchase.


OVERVIEW
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Woodworker's Toolbox is an iOS app that puts 11 precision calculators and reference
tools in one place for woodworkers: board feet, fractions, drill bits, Janka
hardness, wood movement, a pocket hole guide, a 280-species wood database, a
shrinkage chart, and more - in both imperial and metric units. Everything runs
on-device, so it works fully offline in the shop, at the lumber yard, or on a job
site with no signal.

The app is a one-time $9.99 purchase with no subscription, no in-app purchases, and
no ads - a deliberate response to woodworkers' preference for owning their tools
outright rather than renting software. That purchase includes all future updates.


KEY FEATURES
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- Board Feet Calculator
- Fraction Calculator
- Drill Bit Finder
- Drill Index
- Pilot Hole & Screw Guide
- Unit Converter (Imperial / Metric)
- Janka Hardness Chart
- Wood Movement Calculator
- Wood Species Database (280 species)
- Shrinkage Chart
- Pocket Hole Guide


ACCESSIBILITY & DESIGN
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- Full Dark Mode support
- VoiceOver accessible
- Dynamic Type support
- Haptic feedback


WHAT'S NEW IN V1.4 (released July 2026)
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- Full metric support - every calculator and reference tool now has a metric
  mode, with a global imperial/metric preference.
- Wood species database expanded to 280 species, adding European, East
  African, and East Asian woods that were previously missing.
- New Pocket Hole Screw Guide, which - unlike Kreg's own charts - accounts
  for two different workpiece thicknesses instead of assuming they match.
- ISO metric screw sizes (M3-M12) added to the Screw Size Guide and Pilot
  Hole Size Chart.
- Plywood added as a substrate option in the Pilot Hole Size Chart.


FOR SCHOOLS & INSTITUTIONS
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Woodworker's Toolbox is available for bulk purchase through Apple School Manager,
Apple's volume purchasing program for education, at a reduced education price.
Eligible K-12 and accredited higher-education institutions can buy 20 or more
licenses at once and assign them to shop-class devices through their MDM.


ABOUT JEFF PAQUETTE
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Jeff Paquette is a professional software developer with over 30 years of
experience who builds focused, no-nonsense software for people who work with their
hands. Woodworker's Toolbox is his flagship app.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpaquette


WOOD DATA & SOURCING
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Janka hardness and shrinkage figures for North American and imported-to-the-US
species come directly from the USDA Forest Products Laboratory Wood Handbook
(FPL-GTR-282) and its companion volume, Tropical Timbers of the World -
public-domain US federal government publications.

Every species' CITES status (Appendix I - trade banned, Appendix II - permit
required, or not listed) is matched directly against the official species list
published by the CITES Secretariat at cites.org.

Where USDA data doesn't reach - European, East African, and East Asian species
outside the US import trade - supplementary hardness figures are gathered from
The Wood Database. Where a species is only documented on a Brinell or Monnin
hardness scale rather than Janka, the app shows the native value and labels any
Janka figure clearly as an approximation.

Sustainability ratings reflect species-level regulatory data and are not a
substitute for verifying your supplier's documentation.


MEDIA CONTACT
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help@franklinwoodcrafts.com


USAGE
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The icon and screenshots in this zip are free to use in coverage of Woodworker's
Toolbox - a link back to the app is appreciated but not required. Please use the
icon as provided rather than recoloring, distorting, or adding your own effects,
and don't redraw or recreate it from the screenshots.


WHAT'S IN THIS ZIP
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wwtoolbox-icon.png   - app icon
screenshots/         - raw screenshots, light and dark mode
framed/              - device-framed screenshots for select screens
