Pool chemical & volume calculator: test strip photo in, exact dose out. No ads.
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PoolDose is a salt water pool calculator and pool chemical calculator for the person who owns the pool, not the lab. Snap a photo of a wet test strip or type in your readings, and PoolDose works out the exact amount to add — in cups, ounces and pounds, sized to your gallons and your chlorine type.
No ads. Not one.
▶ READ THE TEST STRIP FROM A PHOTO
✓ Reads standard 6-in-1 and 7-in-1 pool test strips — not tied to one brand
✓ Free chlorine, total chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid and salt
✓ A confidence score on every pad, so you can fix a misread before it reaches the math
✓ Rather type the numbers? Manual entry works any time, and the calculator needs no account
▶ SALT WATER POOL CALCULATOR
✓ Enter your salt reading and get the pounds of pool salt to add
✓ Salt pools get their own free chlorine and stabilizer targets
✓ Tells you when to turn up your salt chlorinator's output
✓ Liquid chlorine, chlorine tabs or cal-hypo pool instead? Same app
▶ POOL CHEMICAL CALCULATOR: THE EXACT DOSE, NOT A RANGE
✓ Liquid chlorine 12.5%, cal-hypo 65%, dichlor 56%
✓ Soda ash to raise pH, muriatic acid to bring it down
✓ Baking soda for total alkalinity
✓ Calcium chloride for calcium hardness
✓ Stabilizer (cyanuric acid) when the sun is eating your chlorine
✓ Every level shown LOW, OK or HIGH against its target range
▶ POOL SHOCK CALCULATOR
✓ Combined chlorine worked out from your free and total chlorine
✓ A shock dose when combined chlorine reaches 0.5 ppm or free chlorine hits zero
✓ Cloudy or green water? You get the shock amount for your gallons in one number
▶ IN THE RIGHT ORDER
✓ Doses sequenced, with the wait time before the next chemical
✓ When nothing can bring a level down (stabilizer, calcium), PoolDose tells you what share of the water to drain and refill
▶ POOL VOLUME CALCULATOR
✓ Don't know your gallons? The pool volume calculator takes length, width and average depth for a rectangular-pool estimate
✓ Gallons or liters — units follow your phone's region, and you can switch any time in Settings
▶ TRENDS AND DRIFT ALERTS
✓ Every reading saved and charted over 7 days, 30 days or the whole season
✓ Drift alerts like "pH is rising and should pass 7.6 in about 4 days"
✓ Fix the cause once instead of re-dosing the same thing every Saturday
▶ OPEN AND CLOSE THE POOL
✓ Spring opening checklist, in the order the chemistry wants
✓ Winter closing checklist, so nothing is forgotten in October
▶ BUILT FOR THE POOL DECK
✓ Readings save offline and sync later
✓ A weekly test reminder on the day and time you choose
✓ "Chemicals so far": an approximate running total of what your saved doses cost
✓ In-app languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Lithuanian
▶ FREE AND PREMIUM
Free, no account: the calculator — enter readings, get doses.
Free account: 1 pool, your last 7 readings and 3 photo test strip scans.
Premium: unlimited pools, full history, trends and drift alerts, seasonal checklists and up to 20 photo scans a day.
WHO IT'S FOR
Owners of inground and above-ground pools — salt water, liquid chlorine, tabs or cal-hypo — who are tired of guessing. If you have ever stood over a bucket wondering whether that was two cups or three, this is the app.
PoolDose does the chemistry math. It does not replace the instructions on your chemicals: always read the label, never mix products in the same container, and always add chemical to water — never water to chemical.
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