I.D. Wood

HIGHLIGHTS

The I.D. Wood is now available for $4.99 for both iPhone and iPad owners.The application is supporting English language. It weighs in at only 10MB to download. It is highly advisable to have the latest app version installed so that you don`t miss out on the fresh new features and improvements. The current app version 3.10 has been released on 2014-11-19. For ensuring consistency with the device you should take into account the following app compatibility information: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
Bottom Line: For more information about I.D. Wood check developer Double Dog Studios`s website : http://doubledogstudios.com

Great app Just wish it was easier to use                 4 Stars Rmn678

I m greatly disappointed I wanted a tool that could help me ID a piece of wood in hand If this app isn t worthless from a practical use standpoint then it deserves the low rating simply on poor instruction and functionality For example I performed a search and got 75 hits but the app only lets me see 50 of them Way too many but still why can t I see them all And why can t I narrow my search further If you are looking for a simple wood ID tool this isn t it         Miss named App Brother CS

This is an outstanding reference app for anyone who works with wood or wants to learn about the wood in our lives and worth every cent It would be very cool to be able to take a picture of wood and have the app identify it but that may be next to impossible to do given the complexity in identifying wood This is the next best thing and you get to learn about other similar woods along the way Nicely done and highly recommended                     Wonderful Tool MountainManiac

I thought this app identified woods from a photo taken with my phone This is not the case and if you have no idea what type of wood you re looking at this app isn t going to help Plus there is a lot of searching and scrolling to find information I m annoyed I paid 5 and now I m just going to delete it from my phone because I ll never use it     Totally useless Baxter10987

Great product Tons of reliable info in 1 1 Place Great Pix of wood Very Necessary for Wood ID If only 1 critisim it would be no easy way when looking at wood sample to get back to list ability to order wood differently Otherwise Great                 Handyman G8TKeaper

Tons of information                     Awesome Adam_Wolnski

It s a decent help for a moderate amount of woods The problems would largely be a lack of images for the woods If anything there might be an end grain picture and one other image The addition of a back function a full list of thumbnails without needing to select a letter category first The last update being more than a year ago isn t confidence inspiring either             Moderately useful but not 5 useful Odysseus BF3

A very abridged and and lightweight compendium of wood species Not much specific information over species It s more of a common wood at a glance than a complete ID tool Many species left out or lumped into groups even when they are distinct woods Photos are often not representative or are difficult to identify even with common woods like Douglas fir More complete info available online wood ID sites and in books Probably an ok app for the occasional woodworker or curious Pretty disappointed as a professional As it stands this is a 1 app not 5 Save your money and get a book             Overpriced and incomplete FabianSanchez47

I love the app and all of the features The BF calculator is indispensable the glossary is just what any craftsman needs Developers are very responsive with any help or questions that may arise Thanks                     Great App great developers Hungry764854

Lots of great info find the app very useful Wish navigation allowed you to go back one screen rather than start the search all over As example if you go into the list for use and select turnery and select a wood u have to go back to the list screen rather than just back to turnery                 Love the app navigation could be better J_E_D

Great app It would benefit from from a measure of the strength of woods                 great app Carpodcastman

I m trying to find a good guide for wood identification without carrying a book around This app has good info but it s not functional enough You can add woods to your favorites but then when you go to scroll from one to the next it s back in the main list mixed with African woods for example It seems like it s just a database packaged nicely Needs a back function etc I d like to have a list of common American hardwoods I can quickly browse through Disappointed I spent 5 right now this app is worth 1 or free until it has more function             Good Info Not Intuitive newtowood

There s a lot of great info but the UI is frustrating e g no back button the organization isn t intuitive e g the board foot calculator isn t on the calculator and the glossary is incomplete and some entries are rather brief Not sad I bought it but hopefully it improves Another wish is to include info on woods used in instruments but I can hardly offer that as criticism                 Good but room for improvement illinimdg

I bought the actual book many years ago and I ve had this app from the beginning The app is easier to use than the book and the selection is the same or better But a major problem is with the quality of the photos Sometimes the photo is too close up to get a really good idea of the overall grain pattern But worse is that the colors are not corrected On iPads with their calibrated screens this is disappointing Too often the color is nothing like the actual color of the wood This color can significantly vary even among the same wood species when different examples are given If they could correct the colors that would go a long way towards making this app extremely useful in wood selection Include two photos one of a close up and one of a larger portion and it would be about perfect             Very good but melgross

I m a beginner wood worker and it had been a great tool for me Lots of good information Sometimes a little confusing to navigate around in Would be nice to have more pictures of the wood samples Maybe a a few different views of the grain                     Informative Sager1er

The descriptions of wood listed is pretty good but many of the woods that I used for turning are not listed i e cocobolo olive wood etc would like go see an update that would add many of these woods             Good but EarlT2

This is a great app Great for helping clients to understand properties of the different species of wood                     RD Custom Carpentry 3R3D3

This is a great app Great for helping clients to understand properties of the different species of wood                     RD Custom Carpentry 3R3D3

I use this to explore alternatives to planned species for a project I don t need the expertise of the salesman to confirm wood traits                     Great app at the lumber yard John of Ohio

A little short on some species especially domestic Navigation takes some getting used to Overall though a handy pocket sized tool Good for showing a customer what wood choices actually look like                     Nice The Wood Turtle

Average info on basic woods Doesn t cover enough         Cabinet maker Flamboso

I purchased this because I need a tool to identify common native American woods It is mediocre at that task The resolution is good but not excellent There isn t much narrative that helps identify wood species for example the size of the rays can help you distinguish between whit oak and red oak The image in the app store show an end grain image but I didn t find any end grain images in all the woods I looked at The app has several tools that are probably useful but they aren t useful to me It will probably be enhanced over time but for now it is too immature for my needs Wish I could get my money back             Disappointed Rvo1

Full of useful information Would be nice to have pictures of actual tree to identify the lumber you could harvest                     Great pocket reference GLaster

Has an abundance of wood types and good descriptions uses and wood properties with a simple interface                     Great resource Eric Opperman

Really good quick reference Love the board ft calculator                     Excellent ken47kay

Helped me a lot                     Great app vadipaola

If you want a list of a bunch of different kinds of woods with a picture or two then this reference is fine However if you are really trying to identify a type of wood you ll come up short with this app as I did There are not enough pictures or detailed descriptions of the wood to really tell because the photos shown look very similar for varieties For example by looking at the pictures I really couldn t differentiate between say black walnut from cherry I was trying to identify the wood on pocket doors in an old Victorian house and this was no help To do an adequate job identifying wood you need some close up shots some pics of a large piece to show variation some with different finishes some quarter sawn etc Different pieces will have a different look and one or two small sample shots really won t do the trick I ended up just doing a Google search for images and found a plethora of examples for free I was disappointed I spent money for such a limited view here Somehow I thought the description said you could take a picture of wood and it would help you identify it That was why I bought the app If really this is a feature somewhere I have yet to find it         OK as a very basic reference Old House Girl

Very thorough great reference                 Good app Mr. B737

There seem to be more common North American woods missing from the database than in it Box elder hard pine varieties among many others While potentially useful it s clumsy to navigate and is missing far too many common varieties to be of much help         Lacking Orkloss

No Alder Can t believe this wood is missing I was also expecting functionality to take picture of wood sample and have the ap provide possible matches Should have researched more closely before I bought it         Marginally acceptable R2R2R-runner

The wood samples are slow to navigate After 2hours of trying to locate the calcular sample on the add I still can t find it false advertising If you want to calculate nails lb as shown in add its not here     False addvertisment waste of memory Fiddle mark

Really helpful My clients love knowing about the kind of wood their project is made out of I use it all the time                     Great App Woodworker Girl

This app does not include one of the most economically important species groups hard pines long leaf slash shortleaf loblolly     No hard pines BrQWR3

So many categories and ways to search with fantastic photos and extra tools                     Perfect CultDoctor

I use alot of veneers and my clients really appreciate the photos and info on the different species It does not replace a sample veneer catalogue but to have this on hand even in my phone has been a great help                     Love it harold morantz

I ve had this app for over a year now So far I m pretty disappointed in the wood selection As a luthier I would like to see different grades of tone wood Maybe even the ability for users to upload project photos that used particular woods The navigation in this app is completely abhorrent Trying to navigate it makes me want to go out and just buy a book Not enough woods in this     Needs update PLAINCLOTHES

Good app                 ID Wood Aztec 9078

All the data compiled about the wood is great Although agree with many folks seems as though the developer is slow to include more species However I find the app very easy to navigate especially given the amount of data and reference material provided I look forward to seeing more updates                 Tons of very useful info tools Thebytedoc

Lots of great information about hundreds of wood species Only thing that occurs to me to improve is the search engine The search function produces results do infrequently I ve learned NOT to use it which makes finding info more challenging                 Super useful for new woodworkers Timo70

Great info for everyday common woodworkers                     Great goble 37

Very limited data base Only 1 sample pic per species I work with a lot of exotics and extremely limited there     Technician Tommy 12steps