Cut list optimizer
Cut smarter.
Waste less.
Type in your parts. SawKit works out how to cut them from full sheets of plywood, MDF or melamine with the least waste, tells you the order to make the cuts in, and prints the plan for the shop.
Native on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Works with no signal at all.
Coming autumn 2026
Not on the App Store yet. There is nothing to sign up for — no list, no account, no email required.
What it does
Least waste across as many sheets as it takes
SawKit runs twelve packing strategies over your list and keeps whichever one wastes least. Parts that will not fit come back as a list, not as a silent omission.
Speaks fractional inches
Type sizes the way you say them: 15 3/16, 3/4", 4' 6". Millimetres if that is your shop. A unit written on a number always wins, so a metric project can take imported hardware without arithmetic.
Respects the grain
Say which way the grain runs on the sheet and on the part. Parts that must follow it are turned to match, rather than guessed at from whichever number you typed first.
Accounts for the blade
Kerf and edge trim are part of the calculation, not a margin you add afterwards. The plan you get is the plan the saw can cut.
Gives you the cut order
Every pass runs edge to edge across the piece in your hands, numbered in the order to make them — which is what a panel saw or a track saw can physically do.
Prints for the shop
A page per sheet plus a shopping list with prices and a total, in black and white that survives a workshop printer.
How good is the layout?
SawKit matches the leading free web optimiser on all eight projects we tested.
That is the whole claim, and it is the one we can show our working for. Eight reference projects were run through both, with the same parts, the same sheets and the same kerf, and the sheet counts came out level on every one. SawKit has not shipped yet, so it has no ratings, no reviews and no download count — you will not find any of those invented on this page.
One payment, not a subscription
The calculation runs on your device. There is no server behind SawKit, so there is no rent for us to charge you.
Free
$0
The whole calculation and the layout on screen, plus the shop calculators. Limited to up to 10 parts, 3 projects and one kind of stock.
Pro
$24.99
one payment, not a subscription. Unlimited parts, projects and stock; PDF export and printing; the cut order; your own stock list with prices; your projects on every device you own.
$19.99 for the first two weeks after release.
Nothing is collected
No account, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no crash reporter, and no server of ours anywhere. Your cut lists, your stock prices and your projects stay on your own devices. SawKit contains no third-party code at all.
The same goes for this website: no cookies, no analytics, and nothing loaded from anyone else's domain.
Questions before release?
Email support@sawkit.app — it reaches the developer directly. The support page answers the common ones.