Know how long your tools really last.
Track usage, remaining life, cost and performance for every cutting tool in your workshop.
Amana 51402 — 1/4″ Single-Flute O-Flute
#004 · TH-000428
2h 18m remaining
Cost/hour
$4.82
Jobs
23
Machine
Shapeoko 5 Pro
Stop guessing when tools need replacing
Cutters die mid-job — not on a maintenance schedule. Most shops replace tools on a hunch, or run them until they fail and ruin a part. Nobody actually knows how much life a given tool has left, because nobody is tracking it.
- 01
Scan
Scan the QR label on the physical tool with your phone before you chuck it up.
- 02
Track
Start a timer, run the job, stop it. Cutting time, jobs and cost accrue automatically.
- 03
Replace
Get an alert as the tool approaches its expected life — before it fails mid-cut.
Every physical tool gets its own history
A Tool Definition describes a catalog item — the make, model and expected life of an Amana 51402, for instance. Each physical bit you buy is a separate instance of that definition, with its own serial, its own hours, its own inspections and sharpenings, and its own cost history — even though they're nominally the same tool.
That's how you find out that #002 dies twice as fast as #004 in the same material, on the same machine.
Amana 51402 — 1/4″ Single-Flute O-Flute
4 instances in service
- #001Retired
- #002Needs Sharpening
- #003Dulling
- #004Active
AMANA 51402
1/4″ SINGLE FLUTE #004
TH-000428
Scan. Start. Stop.
Every tool wears a QR label with its own asset code. Point your phone at it to open the tool, start a timer for the job, and stop it when you're done. No spreadsheets, no end-of-day guesswork about which bit did the work.
Print labels directly from your phone
The ToolHours Android app pairs with a Brother PT-P710BT label printer over Bluetooth. Batch-create a run of new tools, then print all their labels in one pass — no laptop, no separate label software.
10 labels printed in one batch
Know the real cost of every cutter
A $54 bit that cuts for 11.2 hours before retirement costs $4.82 an hour to run. Sharpen it once for $18 and it might give you 19.4 hours total — dropping the true cost to $3.71 an hour. ToolHours does that math for every tool, automatically.
| Amana 51402 #004 | No sharpening | With sharpening |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase price | $54.00 | $54.00 |
| Sharpening cost | — | $18.00 |
| Lifetime cutting time | 11.2h | 19.4h |
| Cost per hour | $4.82 | $3.71 |
Catch worn tools before they ruin a job
ToolHours raises life alerts at 75%, 90% and 100% of expected life, and tracks condition through inspections — new, dulling, poor, needs sharpening. You'll see a worn tool coming before it wrecks a part.
1/4″ Compression — #012
93% of expected life consumed
60° V-Bit — #007
Condition: Dulling
1/8″ Ball Nose — #003
Inspection overdue
Built for the workshop
Machines, jobs and materials tie every hour of usage to real context — not just a number ticking up. And it's built for gloves-off reality: fast scan-to-action on a cracked phone screen, not a form to fill out at a desk.
From one CNC to an entire shop
Workspaces scale from a single hobby router to a multi-machine production shop, with roles for Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer. Every scan, sharpening and retirement is attributed to the person who did it.