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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Blockpad ## What is Blockpad? Blockpad enables engineers to create professional calculation deliverables in an intuitive and familiar way. The primary interface feels like a word processor, but pressing the equals sign opens up a spreadsheet-style formula that is calculated and presented in math notation. It also features units intelligence, spreadsheet tables, solvers, sketching, matrix math, and more. Because it feels familiar, it's easy to get started and creating calculation documents you're proud to share. ## What is Blockpad used for? [Spreadsheet](https://www.capterra.com/spreadsheet-software/) Overall rating Based on 18 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price $18 Per User, Per Month Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Blockpad?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://blockpad.net&name=Blockpad) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Blockpad 4.4 (18) VS. [### Apache OpenOffice Calc](https://www.capterra.com/p/169719/Apache-OpenOffice-Calc/) [4.4 (50)](https://www.capterra.com/p/169719/Apache-OpenOffice-Calc/reviews/) Starting Price $18 Per User, Per Month Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.6 (18) Ease Of Use 4.2 (50) Value For Money 4.8 (13) Value For Money 4.8 (38) Customer Service 4.7 (13) Customer Service 3.8 (28) ## Blockpad alternatives [ExcelRT](https://www.capterra.com/p/190681/ExcelRT/) [3.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/190681/ExcelRT/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 0% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/190681/ExcelRT/) [Stellar Repair for Excel](https://www.capterra.com/p/177004/Stellar-Phoenix-Excel-Repair/) [3.8 (4)](https://www.capterra.com/p/177004/Stellar-Phoenix-Excel-Repair/#reviews) Starting price $39.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 75% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/177004/Stellar-Phoenix-Excel-Repair/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/208788/Blockpad/alternatives/) ## Pricing Value for money 4.8 (13) Free Trial Free Version Basic $18.00 Per User,Per Month Value for money 4.8 (13) 4.8 Based on 13 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.7 (13) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.7 (13) 4.7 Based on 13 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.4 Based on 18 reviews Filter by rating 5(8) 4(10) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent Keith J B. Professor Higher Education ### "Exceptional Tool" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 5, 2024 I used it first a couple years ago, but dropped it before really understanding it well enough. Now that I dug in a bit deeper it is my first choice when working on problem solutions. Pros The display of the calculations is very good. It rivals MathCad in the quality of its appearance. I am a Mac user & I am now using BlockPsd every day when preparing for lectures. I also really like the ease of building my own functions. Cons I would love some added support for matrix operations to support work with tensors. Switched from [PTC Mathcad](https://www.capterra.com/p/219911/PTC-Mathcad-Prime/) I am a Mac user & the only reason I was running PC shell had been to use MathCad. I am in the process of converting all my MathCad sheets to BlockPad Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Mechanical Engineering Intern Oil & Energy ### "A True Game Changer" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 23, 2022 Genuinely one of the best software experiences I have ever had. It is an invaluable tool with the best customer support in the world. Pros I don't know where to start! You can think of Blockpad as a nearly perfect combination of Word, Excel, and MathCad. I use it for almost everything now.- Units and unit conversions are absolutely simple and intuitive. The upcoming version 1.3 (I was given beta access) even supports custom units and unit conversion factors!- Equations are displayed in a readable math format sort of like a simplified version of LaTeX. It's not perfect yet, but it gets the job done and formats nicely enough 90% of the time.- Style Rules are unbelievably powerful. You just have to try it to understand the amount of time style rules save to battling formatting in MS Word.- There are SO MANY more amazing features that I can't list here. You will have to discover them for yourself! On to my praise of documentation and customer support:- The online deep dive guide is extremely in depth, while still being clear and concise.- Customer support is unmatched. I have reached out several times with questions, suggestions for future features, and occasional bug reports. Without fail, I receive a well-written, thoughtful, and helpful response in under 36 hours, but usually under 12 hours. Blockpad support is THE BEST I have received from any company, of any size, in any industry, ever. Period. Cons Some very small issues that will no doubt be fixed in the near future:- Headers and footers can be difficult to format. Formatting everything else is a breeze though.- About 10% of equations don't seem to display quite right, but they get close at least. It does not affect anything but the appearance of the equation. Some form of LaTeX support or similar could remedy this.- "Blocks" are not intuitive in my opinion.- I have had some minor troubles saving files to the Blockpad cloud, but that very well could be a user error...- Charts/graphs/plots have a LONG way to go, but Blockpad is perfectly compatible with Excel (it even has an Excel plugin) so it is not a big deal to generate plots in Excel, save as an image, and put it back in Blockpad.- I would love to see a symbolic "solver" like MATLAB has. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MS Milena S. EIT Civil Engineering ### "An awesome calculation and presentation software" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 22, 2022 I would recommend blockpad to any practice that uses calculation sheets. If you are coming from mathcad, it's a no brainer. If you are using just excel, I recommend it for the ease of use, organizing information, ability to use excel tables and functions within your sheets, and presentation of informational and calculations. Pros Block pad provides the best of mathcad, microsoft word, and microsoft excel. It is a trifecta of these three programs. We transitioned from using MathCAD to blockpad after PTC stoped supporting MathCAD15. The sheet library we had would take extensive work to convert to PTC Prime, so we decided to make the switch to a program best serving our practice. Between prime and blockpad, we selected blockpad. It is intuitive, easy to use, and provides the results required. Cons The documentation on the software lacks a good user interface/experience. It is all documented just hard to navigate and find information. Switched from [PTC Mathcad](https://www.capterra.com/p/219911/PTC-Mathcad-Prime/) Software no longer supported or serviced by PTC and Prime was not satisfactory. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AL Alex L. Structural Engineer Civil Engineering ### "Good Product in development" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 December 20, 2022 I use blockpad to solve for loads in structures primarily. It is very nice to not have to keep track of units because it is done for me Pros It is very easy to use and intuitive to learn. Cons There are a handful of bugs that still need flushed out that can be a bit annoying at times. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. GS Gustave S. Engineer Civil Engineering ### "Money Saver" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 December 20, 2022 Overall the product has been great. We engineer custom products, and making templates for those products with Blockpad is a real time saver when compared to the competition. Pros The ease of using spreadsheets in templates is a real time saver. I would recommend this product to anyone cant be at this price point. Cons When the work books get large they can take awhile to solve, and remembering to hit the F5 to make sure everything solves key can be annoying. Alternatives considered [PTC Mathcad](https://www.capterra.com/p/219911/PTC-Mathcad-Prime/) Reasons for choosing Blockpad Price and Mathcad seems to be going backwards with functionality. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Albert S. Senior Engineer, President Design ### "Blockpad For Consulting Engineers" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 19, 2022 We have already written some complex files with multiple sheets. One feature we have taken advantage of is to use one of the sheets to record the revisions to the sheet. As this page does not have to be printed, we have a simple record for internal purposes of controlling the calculations.Also with multiple sheets we can add to the complexity with calculations on different sheets and have the option to print for our records only if required.The variable naming convention is also very good in that the formulas may be placed anywhere on the work sheet and they are understood. They deed not be sequential, that is the main formula which may rely on other formulas can be at the top of the page and all others later on the sheet. Pros The ease of integration of spreadsheets and the method of handling variables and formulas. Cons At the early stages of deployment there was some confusion due to the difference with other similar software. There were also some frustrating editing bugs most of which were dealt with promptly. Switched from [PTC Mathcad](https://www.capterra.com/p/219911/PTC-Mathcad-Prime/) The pricing and control of distribution. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JA Jose A. College Student Civil Engineering ### "My experience using blockpad" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 1, 2021 It seems to me that like all new software it will improve over time and I am dying to see it in a few years since now it serves me a lot. Pros The ease with which you can create and design a fully editable spreadsheet ready to print and present, very easy to use and intuitive, and also that it has a guide with which you can answer any questions. Cons I liked almost everything, except that the procedures for more complicated mathematical operations cannot be seen, other than the tables that you can integrate in the sheet cannot be centered properly. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RR Robert R. Project Engineer Civil Engineering ### "Great Software for Engineers" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 30, 2021 I love it and use it when I need to show calculations not used very often or that we haven't already made spreadsheets for. Pros Being able to make Templates and Reusable Documents. Printing to pdf. The ability to show/hide full equations. Cons More training videos would be great addition to this. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. PY Patrick Y. Design Engineer Civil Engineering ### "Blockpad Review" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 September 30, 2021 Been very happy so far, eager to see how the program continues to evolve. Pros The integration between being a light word processor and typing in formulas and preforming calculations is incredibly convenient. Has made making calculation packages a breeze. Makes making calculations much more readable versus formulas being hidden in cells in a typical spreadsheet program. Report management on the left column makes handling packages with many components easy. Good documentation online. Cons Overall some lack of polish here and there. Some things aren't always clear on how to handle. Unsure if there have been recent updates, perhaps prompting the user with a changelog on update would be nice. Finer control over when formulas are broken into separate lines; when there is normal text earlier on the line and a formula wraps around to the next line, no way for formula text to stay justified with the part of the formula on the prior line. Just minor formatting nit picks like that. Occasional slowdown on reports where lots of calculations are being done. Overall lightness of the built in spreadsheet editor. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Principal Civil Engineering ### "An engineering notebook" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 September 30, 2021 Pros Blockpad provides an easy way to do ordinary calculations with automatic updating and units. This is the most common thing we need as a structural engineering design office: a better way to do free-form calcs than pen and paper, and Blockpad provides that. Cons We're waiting for the native Mac app. Using the web app is okay but has the usual annoyances of web apps, like not being able to use keyboard shortcuts properly. Switched from [PTC Mathcad](https://www.capterra.com/p/219911/PTC-Mathcad-Prime/) Lower cost, fewer extraneous features. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/208788/Blockpad/reviews/) ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. 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