I made a Filament Management app with some really cool features

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Hello,

Over the last few months, I’ve been working on creating a filament management iOS app, which I recently published, titled Filameter.

As I began printing with a wider variety of materials across my projects (engineering filaments, TPU, different colors, etc) I had all my filament piled into various dry boxes, and finding and managing filament became a real challenge.

This app helps address this with the following features:

  • Sync spool and print data with Bambu printers and AMSs –– automatically updating your filament inventory as you print
  • Tracks and manages filament humidity and drying
  • Organize your spools into different storage locations (AMSs, dry boxes, and other locations)
  • Scan spools with your phone camera to update filament color and remaining filament
  • AI-powered natural language search –– find spools and filter by parameters
  • Thoughtful and intuitive UI and Dashboard

More detail: Filameter — 3D Filament & Spool Manager for iPhone

Download on the App Store: ‎Filameter App - App Store

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It’s free to download and use, with a couple features (spool scanning and natural language search) unlocked through a one-time, $9 purchase.

Feedback and thoughts are greatly appreciated, especially from people who have experience with large-scale print farms. I’ll do my best to respond to comments.

Thanks

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I like your app, but being partly colourblind, I would need filament names to be able to use it effectively. Are names included in the pro version?

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Hi there,

Glad to hear that you found my app!

I recognise that being colour blind could make it more difficult to identify spools in the UI.

When it comes to spool names, each spool does have a tag for the type of plastic it is: PLA, PETG, ABS, etc.

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If you’re looking for more detailed naming for individual spools (“Red PLA Spool number 4”), the app unfortunately isn’t a feature yet, in both the free and pro versions.

If that would be something you’d like, I’d love to consider implementing such a feature in an update to the app. Just let me know!

Thanks

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I imagine print farms will want this thing to have an API, so that their sales website can see what is in stock, and display a color chooser to the customer, to select the colours of a print.

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That’s a reasonable idea.