Kerfo: Cut List Optimizer

Kerfo is a cut list optimizer and cutting list app that turns your parts list into a plywood cutting plan in seconds: enter your parts or pick a cabinet, choose your sheets, and get a guillotine cutting diagram to follow at the saw. Real inch fractions, grain direction, numbered cut steps. Works offline. No account. No ads.

WHAT IT DOES

• Sheet cutting optimizer for plywood, MDF, melamine, chipboard / MFC and any sheet material

• 1D mode for linear stock: a lumber cut list for face frames and trim, or pipe, metal bars and tubing

• Imperial fractions (1/16" by default, 1/32" or 1/8" optional) and metric

• Saw kerf, edge trim, grain direction lock and part rotation

• Edge banding on any of a part's four edges, with parts entered at finished size or cut size

• Mix sheet sizes, set limited or unlimited stock, and use up your offcuts first

• Rip or crosscut first, with the total number of cuts

• Yield %, sheets used and waste area, and a note when a layout provably uses the fewest sheets or bars

• Numbered cut steps on screen, one cut at a time

CABINETS IN, CUT LIST OUT

A cabinet parts calculator for frameless (European-style) boxes. Pick a base, wall, tall / wardrobe, sink base, drawer unit or bookcase, enter its outer size, and get its cabinet cut list: sides, top and bottom or rails, back, shelves, a centre divider, overlay doors, drawer fronts, plinth or recessed toe kick.

• Back in a groove, nailed on, inset or none. Thin backs go to a project of their own

• Fractions or mm. Every cabinet has its own size and depth

• Banding on front edges and on all edges of doors and drawer fronts

• Add cabinet after cabinet to one project. Undo, or edit a cabinet later

• Drawer boxes, corner units, face frames and hardware aren't generated: add them as parts

Not a 3D or kitchen design app. The cabinet generator is free. Pro is one payment, no subscription.

BY TRADE

• Woodworking: a plywood cutting calculator and cut list calculator for cabinets, shelves and built-ins, also in MDF, melamine and particle board

• Glass: a glass sheet cutting calculator for rectangular panes, with zero kerf for scored glass and a warning for strips under 1" (25 mm)

• Acrylic (plexiglass), polycarbonate, PVC foam board and aluminum composite panels, with your saw or laser kerf

• Aluminum and steel profiles: window and door extrusions, tube, angle and flat bar. Several profiles per project; 45° miters by long-point length, kerf included

• Rebar: cutting lengths from 20 ft, 40 ft or 12 m bars, zero kerf for shear cutting, several diameters (#3–#8 or metric)

YOUR PROJECTS STAY ON YOUR PHONE

• Unlimited projects, saved automatically and in Android's auto backup

• Export a project file as a backup. Search, duplicate and reuse past projects

BUILT FOR THE SHOP

• Sheet presets for your country (4x8 plywood and 5x5 Baltic birch in the US, 2440 x 1220 mm and more elsewhere), or any size

• Fast entry: type 23 5/8, 23-5/8 or 23.625; Enter jumps to the next field

WHAT'S FREE

Everything above, with no limit on calculations or projects. Watermarked PDF and image export of the layouts and parts list. Copy or share the parts list as text for a spreadsheet or a panel-cutting shop.

PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION

Restore purchase brings it back on a new phone.

• Clean shop PDF: numbered cut sequence, your shop name, no watermark

• Paste your parts list from Excel or Google Sheets, or import a CSV file

• Material cost, edge-banding and weight totals (profiles, rebar)

The price is shown in the app and at checkout.

GOOD TO KNOW

• Guillotine (edge-to-edge) cuts for a table saw, track saw or panel saw

• One sheet material and thickness per project

• Rectangular sheet parts with straight cuts; 45° miters on profiles only. No shaped glass, bending schedules, nesting, CNC or DXF

• Buying Pro takes a one-time internet connection; everything else works offline

Made for woodworkers, DIY builders, cabinet makers, glaziers, sign makers, metal fabricators and rebar crews.