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5 min read· May 14, 2026

A modern alternative to CivilTech AllPile

Match AllPile's all-in-one breadth — lateral, axial, groups, shafts, footings — with a 2026 UI, transparent methods, and shareable projects.


CivilTech AllPile has a loyal following for one good reason: breadth. Where the Ensoft world makes you buy LPILE, GROUP, APILE and SHAFT separately, AllPile bundles lateral, axial, settlement, groups, drilled shafts and footings into a single program. That all-in-one philosophy is exactly right. The execution — a Windows-only interface that hasn't meaningfully changed in years — is what we set out to modernize.

Same breadth, one browser tab

PileCalc covers the same ground AllPile is known for, on the same published methods:

CapabilityBasis
Laterally loaded pilesFHWA COM624P / Reese p-y
Axial capacity & settlementNAVFAC DM-7.02 · Vesić (1977)
Pile groupsBlock efficiency · p-multiplier shadowing
Drilled shaftsFHWA-IF-99-025 (O'Neill & Reese)
Shallow footingsDas / Vesić bearing, settlement, sliding
Uplift plates & anchorsBreakout & grouted-anchor adhesion

The differences that matter day to day

  • It runs anywhere. AllPile is Windows-only with a USB key or online desktop activation. PileCalc runs in any browser on any operating system.
  • The UI is from this decade. Generous spacing, real data visualization, dark mode — not gray tabbed numeric forms.
  • Nothing is a black box. Every input has an info button explaining what it means and why it matters; every result shows the governing method and the full response.
  • Projects are shareable. Analyses live in the cloud, tied to your account — not trapped in a file on one laptop.

On validation — be skeptical of everyone, including us

AllPile's documentation states its lateral engine is “comparable to COM624/LPILE.” That's a reasonable claim, but it's a vendor self-statement. We hold ourselves to a higher bar: PileCalc's engine is benchmarked against two independent commercial codes — LPILE and RSPile — plus closed-form solutions, and we publish the comparison. Matching two independent implementations, not one, is how you know a solver isn't quietly reproducing a single program's quirks.

A fair word

AllPile is inexpensive, perpetually licensed, and battle-tested on real projects for years. If a one-time desktop license fits how you work, it's a legitimate choice. PileCalc is for engineers who want that same breadth without the install, with a UI that respects their time, and with every assumption made visible. Open the app and run one of your AllPile models — the breadth is all there.

See it for yourself

Run a laterally loaded pile in your browser — with the deflected shape, moment diagram, and every input explained.

Launch the app