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Lever Gear Toolcard Review: Sometimes, the best tool is the one at hand

  • Ron 

Tools. There are tools you carry on your bike, tools that you use in your home shop and tools that you keep in the garage when you’re working on the car. But if you’re just out walking around, you probably don’t have tools right at hand. If you’re like me, you’ve probably used a penny for a screwdriver or a paper clip for a light duty wrench, or, a house key to open a package. Maybe even a porch railing to pop open a beer bottle.

Sometimes you just have to improvise, but the new Toolcard from Lever Gear is aiming to eliminate the made up tool.

What is the Toolcard? It’s a thin, credit card sized stainless steel multi-tool that packs 40 functions into a very small package. It can fit right into your wallet, or even become your wallet if you use the included money clip.

Lever Gear Toolcard
With the included money clip, the Toolcard can eliminate your wallet.

I’ve been carrying it around in my wallet for a couple of months now without really looking at Lever Gear’s website, so I’m still discovering new ways to use it, but just a few of the functions include:

  • Flat head and Phillips screwdrivers
  • Can opener
  • Cord cutter
  • Protractor
  • Speed Square
  • Metric and standard wrenches
  • Ruler, compass, straightedge
  • The all important bottle opener
  • … and more

I’m not one of those guys that walks around with an inch and a half thick wallet. I use a card sleeve that reaches half an inch thick if I’m carrying paper money or a few receipts, so I was a little reluctant to add the Toolcard to my wallet. But after I did, I barely noticed it. And it was nice to have it there: I used it to open packages, tighten screws, pry out a loose nail and more. Definitely handy and a nice ‘there when you need it’ item.

It should be mentioned that the Toolcard ships with an integrated money clip. If you so desire, you can slide your bills and cards in the clip and make the Toolcard your wallet, but to me, that minimizes its usefulness.

Now, you might have seen similar products to the Toolcard on Facebook. Those are chromed plate steel (not stainless) and really don’t compare to the Toolcard at all. The toolcard is both thicker and stiffer and the laser etched graphics are more durable and easier to read.

After watching Lever Gear’s video about the Toolcard, I was even more amazed at all of the ways it can be used.

It took me a while to get there, but the Toolcard will stay in my wallet.

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