Mulch Calculator: Soil, Gravel

Mulch calculator for a whole job, with gravel, topsoil and pavers: measure beds and paths on the satellite map or on foot with GPS, and get the order in cubic yards, bags, big bags, truckloads or tons. Retaining walls, edging and concrete slabs too, with your prices and your suppliers.

▬ ONE PROJECT, EVERY ZONE
• A project holds every area of a job: the mulch bed, the gravel path, the paver patio, the retaining wall, the shed slab.
• Each zone takes its size from a saved measurement, or from an area or a length you type.
• The same material across zones adds up to one line: three beds of bark mulch become a single order.
• No project? Quick calc takes one material and one area and gives the answer at the counter, in volume and in bags. Add it to a project if the job grows.

▬ MEASURE THE AREA
• Draw it: tap the corners on the satellite view, drag them under a magnifier, undo any step. See the imagery date, or pick an older year.
• Under trees, where the imagery hides the edge, walk it: follow the outline with GPS, or stop at each corner for an averaged point. Accuracy is shown as a ± figure: a good estimate, not a legal survey.
• Leave out what is not covered: a pond, the house, a patio, drawn as holes. The project's other zones show on the map in the color of their material.

▬ HARDSCAPE, NOT JUST MULCH
• Loose materials: mulch, gravel, topsoil, compost, river rock, decomposed granite, sand and crushed stone base, at the depth you choose.
• Pavers and slabs: size, joint width and waste allowance give the piece count, plus bedding sand, joint sand and the crushed stone base.
• Retaining wall: blocks per course and courses for the height, caps, drainage gravel, drain pipe and the base trench.
• Edging by the foot or the meter, or in pieces. Concrete slabs in cubic yards or cubic meters, with their base.

▬ BAGS, BIG BAGS, TRUCKLOADS
• Every bulk line converts to tons from its density, to bags by volume or by weight, to big bags and to truckloads. A truck is full when its bed or its payload is, whichever comes first.
• Densities and pack sizes are presets you can change to match your supplier.
• Choose how you buy each material, your price per unit and the supplier.

▬ YOUR SUPPLIERS AND A PDF ORDER
• Keep your yards and nurseries in a supplier book with their phone number, and call one in a tap.
• Set your default price, pack size and supplier for each material once: every new project starts from them. The app never invents a price.
• One PDF with the zones, then one table per supplier: quantity, unit price, cost and subtotal, with totals by supplier and for the whole job. Send it to the yard or hand it to your client.

▬ YARDS OR METERS
Square feet or square meters, acres or hectares, inches or centimeters, cubic yards or cubic meters, tons or tonnes: the app follows your phone or your settings.

▬ ON SITE
• A GPS walk survives a locked screen, a phone call, even the app being closed.
• No signal? Calculations, projects and PDFs work without one. Only the map needs a connection, and it keeps the areas you have already viewed.
• A PDF report of any measurement with the map to scale, and GPX, KML, CSV or GeoJSON exports.

▬ WHAT IT WILL NEVER DO
• No account, no sign-up.
• No subscription. A single purchase removes ads for good.
• Your measurements and projects stay on your phone unless you export them.

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