Blue Ketchep
For civil and structural engineers, mechanical design professionals, and engineering students requiring portable calculation and verification tools.
Deflection
Snapshot
Who is Blue Ketchep?
Providing structural engineering professionals with portable tools for beam, frame, and slab analysis. Enabling precise design calculations through mobile-accessible software.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 9Last updated
Deflection
v11.0.0
1.6y ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Blue Ketchep?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Structural engineering and civil design software
Scale
studio
Target audience
Civil and structural engineers, mechanical design professionals, and engineering students requiring portable calculation and verification tools.
Origin
Founded by engineers with a mission to democratize structural analysis tools through iterative software development.
Signature Patterns
- •Strict focus on structural engineering and reinforced concrete design calculations
- •Clear segmentation between free educational tools and paid professional productivity apps
- •Integration of international engineering standards (BS, AISC) into mobile workflows
- •Emphasis on graphical visualization of stress, shear, and bending moments
Portfolio momentum
With only 1 release in the last 6 months and 5 of 12 apps classified as abandoned, development activity is currently focused on maintaining core productivity tools rather than expanding the broader educational catalog.
Portfolio
What does Blue Ketchep ship?
Apps
12 apps analysed
Permalink export enables viral design sharing among professional teams
- Interactive load-dragging interface reduces time-to-result for structural setups
- Clumsy user interface design makes navigating core application functions difficult for daily users
Distributed across 12 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 2 of 12 apps with localized market data, more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
Americas (3)
- United States2 / 2
- Brazil1 / 2
- Mexico1 / 2
Europe (7)
- France1 / 2
- Germany1 / 2
- Italy1 / 2
- Netherlands1 / 2
- Portugal1 / 2
›+2 more europe markets
- Spain1 / 2
- Sweden1 / 2
Asia-Pacific (2)
- Japan1 / 2
- South Korea1 / 2
Core markets (2/2 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
0
Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
1
Negative apps
10/100
Avg sentiment score
Rivals
Who does Blue Ketchep compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(2)
Targets the same structural analysis audience as Deflection but focuses on code-compliant beam analysis.
Both applications target structural engineers and design professionals, creating a direct overlap in the mobile-accessible engineering tool category.
Contenders(11)
Focuses on reinforced concrete beam design, complementing the steel-focused analysis in Deflection Pro.
Both applications target structural engineering analysis, with Deflection providing professional-grade 2D frame and truss capabilities while Beam HPC focuses on beam-specific diagrams for educational use.
Both apps provide structural analysis tools for engineering and architecture, competing for users who require mobile beam configuration and load analysis. Deflection targets professional workflows with paid tools, while iBeams focuses on undergraduate students through a free, template-based interface.
Both apps target civil and structural engineering professionals and students needing mobile structural analysis, creating direct competition for the same user base.
Expands structural analysis into building design by using AI to scan floor plans and generate layouts.
Acts as a field-screening toolkit that provides similar load combination and capacity checks as Deflection Pro.
Both applications target structural engineering professionals for beam and frame analysis, creating direct competition for mobile structural sanity checks.
Both apps target structural engineers for beam analysis, creating direct competition for preliminary design and verification workflows.
Both applications target structural and civil engineers requiring mobile-accessible design tools, creating direct competition for the same professional user segment.
Both apps target structural engineers performing AISC-compliant capacity checks, creating direct overlap in technical utility for steel design.
Both applications target structural engineers and students for beam analysis, creating direct competition for the same professional and academic user base.
Same space(11)
Targets educational and prototyping users with a focus on FEM-based truss analysis.
Extends structural analysis to wood connections, a domain not covered by the primary steel-focused analysis of Deflection Pro.
Focuses on metal fabrication workflows rather than structural analysis, serving a different technical niche.
Provides a broad suite of engineering reference tools that captures the same professional audience as Deflection Lite.
Adds a specialized diagnostic capability for floor vibration that complements the static analysis in Deflection Pro.
Extends analysis into 3D space-frames and dynamic elastic analysis, exceeding the 2D scope of Deflection.
Provides structural section estimation for wood and steel, aligning with the design needs of Deflection Pro users.
Serves mechanical engineering needs by calculating deflection for tube and roll straighteners.
Serves as a reference library for the same structural engineering audience that uses Deflection Pro for analysis.
Acts as a high-level computational engine that solves complex structural problems through natural language input.
Serves a specialized trade audience by replacing manual formula memorization with an automated geometry engine.
New entrants(1)
Provides preliminary structural analysis using finite element methods for beams and 2D frames.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Blue Ketchep
Bottom line
Blue Ketchep maintains a stable position in the engineering productivity niche by leveraging a high-trust, utility-driven product set. Their long-term viability depends on whether they can successfully convert their educational user base into paid subscribers for their professional-grade design tools.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 12
- With full intel:
- 0
- With overview:
- 12
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- no
