Last year I redid my girlfriend's bathroom. New floor tile, new wall tile, the whole thing. Before I bought a single box I wanted to know exactly what I needed — how many tiles, where the cuts would fall, whether the pattern I picked would actually look right in a narrow room.
So I went looking for a tool that could show me the layout. Not just "you need X square feet of tile" — I wanted to see it. Tile by tile, row by row, the way it would look if I dry laid the whole floor before committing to a single cut.
That tool didn't exist.
Every calculator I tried was the same formula: room area divided by tile size, add 10% for waste, done. None of them cared about pattern. None of them showed where cuts land. None of them handled the L-shape where her vanity bumps out. The only way to know what the finished floor would look like was to get on my hands and knees and lay it out dry — which is exactly what I was trying to avoid.
So I built the tool myself. It started with a straight-lay pattern in a simple rectangle. Then I needed brick offset. Then herringbone. Then custom room shapes. Every time I thought it was done, another real problem pulled it forward.
That's TilePro. Every feature came from a real project — either one I hit during that bathroom, or one a contractor told me about after I put it online. No focus groups, no feature roadmap dreamed up in a conference room. Just real problems that needed solving.
If you've ever stood in a tile aisle wondering whether you're about to buy too much or not enough, this was built for you.